This session will provide a forum for researchers from both North and South countries (developing and emerging countries) to present their research on the impact of landuse and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in developing countries. Urbanisation, industrialisation and the intensification of agriculture are bringing about change in tropical ecosystems at an alarming rate and the consequences of this change are still not fully understood.

http://cce.nasa.gov/meeting_2015/index.html

The Future Earth program, initiated by ICSU and ISSC, is now established, and researchers around the world are working with stakeholders on the development of the trans-disciplinary research needed to resolve some of the key challenges for global sustainability. A significant aspect of Future Earth is that it is building on the global environmental change programs that have successfully promoted international collaboration for some decades.

NEESPI scientists are invited to participate in a special NEESPI Session (Global Change Session ID 1604) Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System to be held in the framework of the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 15-19, 2014. Deadline for abstract submission is August 6, 2014. Session description is available at http://neespi.org/news/upcoming.html

New research from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and Stanford University shows that freshwater stream ecosystems are highly vulnerable to oil palm plantation expansion. The three-year study compared streams draining watersheds dominated by four land uses — intact forest, manually logged forest, community agroforest and oil palm plantation — in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, which is ground zero for palm oil production. Kimberly Carlson, an IonE postdoctoral scholar and lead author on the study, says the research yielded some unexpected findings.

Carlson, K. M., L. M. Curran, A. G. Ponette-González, D. Ratnasari, Ruspita, N. Lisnawati, Y. Purwanto, K. A. Brauman, and P. A. Raymond (2014), Influence of watershed-climate interactions on stream temperature, sediment yield, and metabolism along a land use intensity gradient in Indonesian Borneo, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 119, doi:10.1002/

The document contains instructions on how to access suites of sample Landsat data products for which USGS is seeking your comments and feedback. Specifically these include:

?ISC Kosmotras successfully launched a cluster of small spacecraft by the RS-20 rocket (Dnepr) on 20 June 2014. The first Russian private Earth remote sensing satellite of SPUTNIX Company, named TabletSat-Aurora also was set into its target orbit. It is planned to receive the data from the microsatellite to a SCANEX ground network UniScanTM, with the data to be used in commercial, scientific, educational and environmental projects. “It is an important event for us, — says Alexander Serkin, ISC Kosmotras CEO.

A study of greenness in Mato Grosso, Brazil: Forestland remains green all year cropland turns green only as crops ripen. A NASA satelite can detect those changes, allowing researchers to analyze land use over the years.