The public is invited to a free talk entitled “Climate and Wildfires in the 21st Century” with Douglas Morton in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 11:30 a.m. EDT.

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In the upcoming months, Landsat 8 product options will be available to all users via the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) On Demand Interface (http://espa.cr.usgs.gov/). These include top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance, surface reflectance (SR), and spectral indices. Landsat 8 surface reflectance data will also be available from EarthExplorer (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov).

In September, two events caused the Landsat 7 satellite to suspend data acquisitions. On September 9, 2014, the satellite performed a delta-inclination (delta-i) maneuver to maintain the satellite's mean local crossing time. This maneuver required a suspension of acquisitions from 9:30 CT (14:30 UTC) to 9:00 CT (14:00 UTC) September 10, 2014 .

IIASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the Institute’s research programs under the guidance of IIASA scientific staff. Funding is provided through IIASA's National Member Organizations.

Le Quéré, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R. M., Peters, G. P., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Jones, S. D., Sitch, S., Tans, P., Arneth, A., Boden, T. A., Bopp, L., Bozec, Y., Canadell, J. G., Chevallier, F., Cosca, C. E., Harris, I., Hoppema, M., Houghton, R. A., House, J. I., Jain, A., Johannessen, T., Kato, E., Keeling, R. F., Kitidis, V., Klein Goldewijk, K., Koven, C., Landa, C. S., Landschützer, P., Lenton, A., Lima, I. D., Marland, G., Mathis, J. T., Metzl, N., Nojiri, Y., Olsen, A., Ono, T., Peters, W., Pfeil, B., Poulter, B., Raupach, M.

The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, found that streams draining oil palm plantations can be up to 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer and have up to 550 times higher sediment concentrations than streams draining intact forests.