Principal Investigators

LCLUC Almaty Meeting, 2009.

The LCLUC Science Team consists of NASA P.I.'s undertaking land-use and land-cover change research, currently funded by the LCLUC program directly, or through other NASA funding opportunities. As the different aspects of land-cover and land-use change research cut across the NASA programs, the P.I.'s are funded through different programs and research announcements e.g. Carbon Cycle, Water Cycle, Data Systems and Applications.

Alphabetical Directory of Active LCLUC Principal Investigators

See also the LCLUC alumni directory.

Jump to last name: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | XYZ

Principal Investigator	Funded Projects
A
Vladimir B. Aizen Research Professor Department of Geography University of Idaho McClure Hall 203 P.O.Box 443021 Moscow, ID 83844-3021 USA Phone: (208) 885-5888 Fax: (208) 885-2855 aizen@uidaho.edu Web Address: http://www.scihome.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=93330	Collaborative Research: Diagnosis ff Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin 2008 - 2011
B
Daniel G. Brown Professor, Associate Dean for Research & Director School of Natural Resources & Environment & Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory University of Michigan 440 Church St., 3505 Dana Building Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1041 USA Phone: (734) 763-5803 Fax: (734) 936-2195 danbrown@umich.edu Web Address: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/	Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau 2009 - 2012
C
Gyanesh Chander Lead Systems Engineer SGT, Inc., Contractor to the USGS EROS Mundt Federal Building 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 USA Phone: (605) 594-2554 Fax: (605) 594-6940 gchander@usgs.gov Web Address: http://calval.cr.usgs.gov/satellite.php	Cross-Calibration of the Current Landsat Sensors with Foreign Landsat-Class Sensors for Long-Term Monitoring of Land Surface Processes 2008 - 2011
Jiquan Chen Professor Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Science (LEES) & Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences (EEES) University of Toledo Bowman-Oddy Laboratories, Mail Stop 604 Toledo, OH 43606-3390 USA Phone: (419) 530-2664 Fax: (419) 530-4421 jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu Web Address: http://research.eeescience.utoledo.edu/lees/jchen/	Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation 2009 - 2012
Susan G. Conard National Program Leader Vegetation Management & Protection Research USDA Forest Service 1601 N. Kent Street 201 14th Street SW Arlington/Washington, VA 2209/DC 20250-1561 USA Phone: (703) 605-5255 Fax: (703) 605-5133 sconard@fs.fed.us	The Influence of Changing Forestry Practices on the Effects of Wildfire and on Interactions Between Fire and Changing Climate in Central Siberia 2009 - 2012
D
Eric A. Davidson Senior Scientist Woods Hole Research Center 149 Woods Hole Road Falmouth, MA 02540-1644 USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 x 132 Fax: (508) 540-9700 edavidson@whrc.org Web Address: http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_who/CV/edavidson.htm	Interactions of Edaphic and Land Use Factors on Water Budgets in Cerrado and Semi-Arid Caatinga Region of Brazil 2006 - 2009
Bruce Davis Senior Scientist Project Integration Office NASA Stennis Space Center Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 USA Phone: (228) 688-1921 Bruce.A.Davis@nasa.gov	Comparison of the Advanced Wide Field Sensor to Landsat for Supplying General Land Cover Land Use Change Detection Products Needed for NASA LCLUC Program Science 2008 - 2011
Kirsten De Beurs Assistant Professor Geography Department Virginia Tech 107 Major Williams Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA Phone: (540) 231-1642 Fax: (540) 231-2089 kdebeurs@vt.edu Web Address: http://www.geography.vt.edu/PEOPLE/Kirsten%20D.htm	Land Abandonment in Russia: Understanding Recent Trends and Assessing Future Vulnerability and Adaptation to Changing Climate and Population Dynamics 2009 - 2012
E
Keith N. Eshleman Professor Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland 301 Braddock Road Frostburg, MD 21532 USA Phone: (301) 689-7170 Fax: (301) 689-7200 eshleman@al.umces.edu Web Address: http://www.al.umces.edu/people/faculty/keitheshleman.htm	Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study 2006 - 2009
F
Peilei Fan Assistant Professor School of Planning, Design and Construction Michigan State University 102A Human Ecology Building East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Phone: (517) 432-0704 fanpeile@msu.edu Web Address: https://www.msu.edu/~fanpeile/	China's Urbanization and Its SustainabilityUnder Future Climate Change 2009 - 2012
Jefferson M. Fox Coordinator & Senior Fellow East-West Center University of Hawaii 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96848 USA Phone: (808) 944-7248 Fax: (808) 944-7298 FoxJ@EastWestCenter.org Web Address: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-ewc/directory/?class_call=view&staff_ID=41&mode=view	The Expansion of Rubber and its Implications for Water and Carbon Dynamics in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia 2008 - 2011
G
Chandra Giri Principal Scientist USGS EROS Mundt Federal Building 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198 USA Phone: (605) 594-2835 Fax: (605) 594-6529 cgiri@usgs.gov Web Address: http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/mangrove/	Tropical Mangrove Forests: Global Distributions and Dynamics (1990-2005) 2008 - 2011
Scott J. Goetz Senior Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Geography Woods Hole Research Center & University of Maryland 149 Woods Hole Road LeFrak 1165 Falmouth, MA 02540-1644 USA Phone: (508) 540-9900 x 130 Fax: (508) 540-9700 sgoetz@whrc.org Web Address: http://www.whrc.org/about_us/whos_sho/CV/sgoetz.htm	Modeling Strategies for Adaptation to Linked Climate and Land Use Change in the United States 2009 - 2012
H
Matthew C. Hansen Senior Scientist & Co-Director Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence South Dakota State University 1021 Medary Ave., Wecota Hall Box 506B Brookings, SD 57007 USA Phone: (605) 688-6848 Fax: (605) 688-5227 Matthew.Hansen@sdstate.edu Web Address: http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/people.php?name=hansen	Producing Composite Imagery and Forest Cover and Change Characterizations for the Humid Tropics - A Contribution to the MDGLS Activity 2008 - 2011
Malcolm Hughes Professor School of Natural Resources University of Arizona 325 Biosciences East Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Phone: (520) 621-6470 Fax: (520) 621-8801 mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu Web Address: http://www.snr.arizona.edu/people/hughes	Response of Forest Growth to Climate Variability and Change: Remotely-Sensed and in situ Data for European Russia 2009 - 2012
J
Atul Jain Associate Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 105 South Gregory Street Urbana, IL 61801 USA Phone: (217) 333-2128 Fax: (217) 244-4393 jain@atmos.uiuc.edu Web Address: http://climate.atmos.uiuc.edu/atuljain/	Land Cover and Land Use Change and its Effects on Carbon Dynamics in Monsoon Asian Region 2008 - 2011
K
Yuri Knyazikhin Professor Department of Geography Boston University 675 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 USA Phone: (617) 353-8843 Fax: (617) 353-8399 jknjazi@bu.edu Web Address: http://cliveg.bu.edu/people/jknjazi.html	Remote Sensing Of Forest Structure Across Multiple Scales From Leaves To Canopies And Stands 2009 - 2012
Olga N. Krankina Assistant Professor Department of Forest Science Oregon State University 202 Richardson Hall Corvallis, OR 97331 USA Phone: (541) 737-1780 Fax: (541) 737-1393 Olga.Krankina@oregonstate.edu Web Address: http://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cof/fs/people/faculty/krankina.php	Contribution to Studies of LCLUC in Northern Eurasia 2009 - 2012
L
Gregory Leptoukh Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 610.2 Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA Phone: (301) 614-5253 Fax: (301) 614-5268 Gregory.G.Leptoukh@nasa.gov	NASA Data and Services Supporting Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study in Eastern Asia 2009 - 2012
Dennis P. Lettenmaier Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington 202D Wilson Ceramic Lab Box 352700 Seattle, WA 98195-2700 USA Phone: (206) 543-2532 Fax: (206) 616-6274 dennisl@u.washington.edu Web Address: http://www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/bios/lettenmaier_d.html	Assimilation of Tower and Satellite-Based Methane Observations for Improved Estimation of Methane Fluxes Over Northern Eurasia 2009 - 2012
Jianguo Jack Liu Rachel Carson Chair & University Distinguished Professor Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability & Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University 13 Natural Resources Building East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Phone: (517) 355-1810 Fax: (517) 432-1699 jliu@panda.msu.edu Web Address: http://www.csis.msu.edu/personnel/liu_jianguo.htm	Interactive Effects of Conservation and Development Policies on Land Cover and Panda Habitat in the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuary (China) 2008 - 2011
Shuguang Liu Senior Scientist EROS Data Center Raytheon Systems Company 47914 252nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57198 USA Phone: (605) 594-6168 Fax: (605) 594-6529 sliu@usgs.gov	Impact of Rapid Land-Use Change in the Northern Great Plains: Integrated Modeling of Land-Use Patterns, Biophysical Responses, Sustainability, and Economic and Environmental Consequences 2008 - 2011
M
Emilio F. Moran Professor, Director & Co-Director Department of Anthropology, Environmental Sciences, Geography Indiana University Student Building 331 701 E. Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7100 USA Phone: (812) 855-6182 Fax: (812) 855-4358 moran@indiana.edu Web Address: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/moran.html	Human and Physical Dimensions of LCLUC in Amazonia 2006 - 2009
O
Michael O'Neal Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Delaware 227 Pearson Hall Newark, DE 19716 USA Phone: (302) 831-8273 michael@udel.edu Web Address: http://sde.geog.udel.edu/ONEAL/Home.html	Integrating Field and Remotely Sensed Data for Improved Characterization of Permafrost Landscapes in the Russian Arctic 2009 - 2012
Mutlu Ozdogan Assistant Professor Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment University of Wisconsin-Madison 1710 University Avenue Room 285 Madison, WI 53726 USA Phone: (608) 890-0336 ozdogan@wisc.edu Web Address: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/ozdogan/ozdogan.html	Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future 2008 - 2011 Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change, Hydrologic Cycle, and Climate in Semi-Arid Central Asia 2009 - 2012
R
Volker C. Radeloff Associate Professor Department of Forest Ecology and Management University of Wisconsin-Madison 1630 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Phone: (608) 263-4349 Fax: (608) 262-9922 radeloff@facstaff.wisc.edu Web Address: http://www.silvis.forest.wisc.edu/people/radeloff.asp	Land Use Change, Protected Areas, and Biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains 2009 - 2012
S
Sassan S. Saatchi Senior Scientist California Institute of Technology & Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mail Stop 300-319 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 USA Phone: (818) 354-1051 Fax: (818) 393-6943 saatchi@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov Web Address: http://www-mist.jpl.nasa.gov/about/team/saatchi.html	Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin 2009 - 2012
Annemarie Schneider Assistant Professor Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment University of Wisconsin-Madison 1710 University Avenue Room 264 Madison, WI 53726 USA Phone: (608) 890-0557 Fax: (608) 265-4113 aschneider4@wisc.edu Web Address: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/aschneider4/web/index.html	Monitoring and Modeling Urbanization in China: A Mixed Methods and Multi-Scale Approach 2008 - 2011
Alexander Shiklomanov Research Scientist Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space University of New Hampshire 208 Morse Hall 39 College Road Durham, NH 03824 USA Phone: (603) 862-4387 Fax: (603) 862-0587 sasha@eos.sr.unh.edu Web Address: http://www.wsag.unh.edu/PDFs/Shiklomanov_CV.pdf	Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use 2008 - 2011
David L. Skole Professor Department of Forestry Michigan State University 101 Manly Miles Building East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Phone: (517) 355-1778 Fax: (517) 355-0186 skole@msu.edu Web Address: http://www.for.msu.edu/pages/faculty/skole_d.html	Enhancing Global Observations and Information on Tropical Forest Change Using Landsat Global Data 2008 - 2011
Jane Southworth Associate Professor Department of Geography University of Florida 3141 Turlington Hall PO Box 117315 Gainesville, FL 32611-7315 USA Phone: (352) 392-0494 Fax: (352) 392-8855 jsouthwo@geog.ufl.edu Web Address: http://www.geog.ufl.edu/faculty/southworth.html	Understanding and Predicting the Impact of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Land Use and Land Cover Change Via Socio-Economic Institutions in Southern Africa 2009 - 2012
T
Hanqin Tian Alumni Professor School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Auburn University SFWS Building 602 Duncan Drive Auburn, IL 36849-5418 USA Phone: (334) 844-1059 Fax: (334) 844-1084 tianhan@auburn.edu Web Address: http://www.sfws.auburn.edu/tian/	Land Use-Ecosystem-Climate Interactions in Monsoon Asia 2008 - 2011
John R. G. Townshend Professor Department of Geography University of Maryland 2181 Lefrak Hall College Park, MD 20742-8225 USA Phone: (301) 405-4051 Fax: (301) 314-9299 jtownshe@geog.umd.edu Web Address: http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Townshend.html	Three Decades of Forest Cover Change in the Americas Evaluated Using the Geocover and MDGLS Data Sets 2008 - 2011
W
Donald Skip Walker Director & Professor Alaska Geobotany Center & Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska 311 Irving PO Box 757000 Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA Phone: (907) 474-2459 Fax: (907) 474-6967 ffdaw@uaf.edu Web Address: http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/userpages/swalker	Adaptation to Rapid Land-Use and Climate Changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Remote Sensing and Models for Analyzing Cumulative Effects 2009 - 2012
Robert T. Walker Professor Department of Geography Michigan State University 234 Geography Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 USA Phone: (517) 432-7058 Fax: (517) 432-1671 rwalker@msu.edu Web Address: http://www.geo.msu.edu/faculty/walker.html	Spatially Specific Land Cover Econmetrics and Integration with Climate Prediction: Scenarios of Future Landscapes and Land-Climate Interactions 2006 - 2009
Stephen J. Walsh Professor Carolina Population Center & Department of Geography University of North Carolina 308-D University Square West, 123 W. Franklin Street 310 Saunders Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997 USA Phone: (919) 962-3867 Fax: (919) 962-1537 swalsh@email.unc.edu Web Address: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=walsh	Multi-Agent Models of LCLUC Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon 2006 - 2009
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Xiangming Xiao Department of Botany and Microbiology & Center for Spatial Analysis University of Oklahoma Stephenson Research and Technology Center 101 David L. Boren Blvd. Norman, OK 73019-5300 USA Phone: 405-3258941 Fax: 405-3253442 xiangming.xiao@ou.edu Web Address: http://remotesensing.unh.edu	Developing Land Cover Classification Products in Monsoon Asia Over the Period of 2004-2007 Through Integration of Landsat and ALOS/PALSAR Images 2008 - 2011
Z
Qianlai Zhuang Assistant Professor Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University 550 Stadium Mall Dr West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA Phone: (765) 494-3258 Fax: (765) 496-1210 qzhuang@purdue.edu Web Address: http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/zhuang.html	Changes of Land Cover and Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales 2009 - 2012

Principal Investigators

Alphabetical Directory of Active LCLUC Principal Investigators

Principal Investigator

Funded Projects

A

Vladimir B. Aizen

Research Professor

Department of Geography

University of Idaho

B

Daniel G. Brown

Professor, Associate Dean for Research & Director

School of Natural Resources & Environment & Environmental Spatial Analysis Laboratory

University of Michigan

C

Gyanesh Chander

Lead Systems Engineer

SGT, Inc.,

Contractor to the USGS EROS

Jiquan Chen

Professor

Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Science (LEES) & Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences (EEES)

University of Toledo

Susan G. Conard

National Program Leader

Vegetation Management & Protection Research

USDA Forest Service

D

Eric A. Davidson

Senior Scientist

Woods Hole Research Center

Bruce Davis

Senior Scientist

Project Integration Office

NASA Stennis Space Center

Kirsten De Beurs

Assistant Professor

Geography Department

Virginia Tech

E

Keith N. Eshleman

Professor

Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory

University of Maryland

F

Peilei Fan

Assistant Professor

School of Planning, Design and Construction

Michigan State University

Jefferson M. Fox

Coordinator & Senior Fellow

East-West Center

University of Hawaii

G

Chandra Giri

Principal Scientist

USGS EROS

Scott J. Goetz

Senior Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Geography

Woods Hole Research Center & University of Maryland

H

Matthew C. Hansen

Senior Scientist & Co-Director

Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence

South Dakota State University

Malcolm Hughes

Professor

School of Natural Resources

University of Arizona

J

Atul Jain

Associate Professor

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

K

Yuri Knyazikhin

Professor

Department of Geography

Boston University