Meeting Focus
The 2013 LCLUC Annual Spring Science Team meeting had a focus on Wetlands. Presentations at the meeting included project status updates, including methods being adopted for wetland studies and analysis. LCLUC scientists reaching their third year of funding cycle provided a summary of their project findings. PI’s from newly funded projects presented posters of their planned research including Early Career Scientist (ECS) and Inter-disciplinary (IDS) projects. An exciting update on the LDCM Mission that launched in February 2013 and a show casing of the use of high resolution data for LCLUC studies. The meeting completed with a discussion of programmatic issues and the emerging science directions and a discussion on forming a South Asia Initiative.
Meeting Presentations
| Title | Presenter | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| An Evaluation of the Impact of Conservation Strategies on LCLUC at a Transboundary Site in Mesoamerica | Kelly W. Jones | Colorado State University |
| 250 years of land use history in the Carpathian Region | Catalina Munteanu | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 3D reconstruction of abandoned landscape | Premysl Štych | Charles University |
| 4-D Modeling of the Regional Carbon Cycle in & Around Urban Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study to Advance Observational & Modeling Foundations | Mark Friedl | Boston University |
| A Satellite Supported Inverse Biophysical Modeling Approach for the Detection of Irrigated Agricultural Land and the Determination of the Amount of Irrigation in Arid and Semi Arid Regions. | Lahouari Bounoua | NASA GSFC |
| A simple and robust automated approach to map rubber plantations from PALSAR, Landsat and MODIS | Jinwei Dong | University of Oklahoma |
| Agricultural susceptibility to climate variability: Insight from two Indian agro-ecoregions | Pinki Mondal | University of Delaware |
| An evaluation of the impact of conservation strategies on land cover/land use change at a transboundary site in Mesoamerica | Kelly W. Jones | Colorado State University |
| Assessment of Mangrove Vulnerability in the Americas | Marc Simard | Caltech/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Beyond precipitation: Physiographic thresholds dictate the relative importance of environmental drivers on savanna vegetation | Jane Southworth | University of Florida |