2013 Spring Science Team Meeting

Rockville, Maryland

Meeting Date:

04/02/2013 to 04/04/2013

Agenda Title:

Meeting Overview

Agenda File:

Meeting Report:

2013_Rockville_meeting.pdf

Meeting photos:

Rockville, Maryland 2013

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.

Attendees List

Alexander Krylov

Alexander Shiklomanov

Alexandra Moulden

Alexandra Tyukavina

Alyssa Whitcraft

Belinda Margono

Carlos Ramirez Reyes

Catalina Munteanu

Catherine Nakalembe

Charlene DiMiceli

Chengquan Huang

Christopher Justice

Christopher Neigh

Christopher Small

Cristina Milesi

Dalia Kirschbaum

Daniel Slayback

Edoardo Pasolli

Eric Brown de Colstoun

Eugenia Bragina

Geoffrey Henebry

George Grekousis

Gillian Galford

Giovana Espindola

Inbal Becker-Reshef

Jackie Phillips

Jane Southworth

Jessica McCarty

Josefino Comiso

Jyoteshwar Nagol

Kathleen Bergen

Katie McGaughey

Kirsten de Beurs

Krishna Vadrevu

Kristofer Lasko

Lahouari Bounoua

Luigi Boschetti

Luis Villanueva

Melanie Rosenberg

Michael Falkowski

Michael Rawlins

Pontus Olofsson

Prasad Thenkabail

Stephanie Spera

Stephen Berrick

Svetlana Turubanova

Volker Radeloff

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Rates and Drivers of Land Use Land Cover Change in the Agricultural Frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil	John Mustard	Brown University
Remote Sensing of Inland Valley Wetlands of Africa their Pivotal Role in Africa’s Green and Blue Revolution	Prasad Thenkabail	USGS (attn.: Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail)
Status of Landsat Data Continuity Mission	James Irons	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model	Herman Shugart	University of Virginia
Synthesis of studies on institutional change and LCLUC effects on carbon, biodiversity, and agriculture after the collapse of the Soviet Union	Volker Radeloff	University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Impact of Disappearing Tropical Andean Glaciers on Pastoral Agriculture: A Few Surprises	Daniel Slayback	SSAI
Threatened River Delta Systems: Connections between continental land mass and ocean	Kyle McDonald	The City College of New York
Vulnerability and Adaptive Management of Tropical Coastal Wetlands in the context of Land Use and climate Changes	Mei Yu	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies
Water Institutions and Agricultural Land–Use Change in the Western U.S.	Kelly Cobourn	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Increased Accessibility, Landscape Changes, Rural Transformations, and UrbanizationImpacts of the East-West Economic Corridor from Da Nang, Vietnam to Khon Kaen, Thailand	Stephen Leisz	Colorado State University
Social drivers of land cover change around African transboundary Peace Parks	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
Linking land-use change to economic drivers and the biophysical limits of agricultural expansion in the Cerrado	Marcia Macedo	Woods Hole Research Center
Using Time Series Remote Sensing Datasets for Mapping Indonesia Forests	Belinda Margono	University of Maryland, College Park
The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania	Jessica McCarty	Miami University
Linking Atmospheric Carbon, Surface Water, and Water Storage using Multiple Satellite Remote Sensing Datasets	Kyle McDonald	The City College of New York
Validation of Landsat Fractional Vegetation Cover Estimates from a Standardized Spectral Mixture Model	Cristina Milesi	NASA Ames Research Center
Agricultural susceptibility to climate variability: Insight from two Indian agro-ecoregions	Pinki Mondal	University of Delaware
250 years of land use history in the Carpathian Region	Catalina Munteanu	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Understanding Impacts of Desert Urbanization on Climate and Surrounding Environments to Foster Sustainable Cities Using Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling	Soe Myint	Arizona State University