2020 NASA LCLUC Annual Science Team Meeting

Virtual

Meeting Date:

10/19/2020 to 10/21/2020

Venue:

Virtual

Agenda File:

LCLUC STM 2020 Agenda_Oct15.pdf

Meeting Report:

LCLUC_STM2020.pdf

Meeting Photos Link:

Meeting Photos

Meeting Focus:

The LCLUC 2020 Science Team Meeting consists of three parts:

• Day 1(MusLI): Introduction from HQ and LCLUC Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) Projects updates.

• Day 2 (SARI): Presentations from national Space Agencies in Asia, two overviews of NASA South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SARI) achievements and a panel discussion.

• Day 3 Early Career Scientists: Project introductions from the recent selections of the Early Career Scientists (ECS) 2019 LCLUC round followed by a discussion on LCLUC program future directions.

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Overview: South Asia LCLUC overview, trends and ongoing issues	Ruth DeFries	Columbia University
Introduction and Welcome to the Program	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
Mapping and modeling desertification and its impact on aeolian dust and human health in Central Asia	Xin Xi	Michigan Technological University
Evaluating land use change and livelihood responses to large investments for high-value agriculture: managing risks in the era of the Green Morocco Plan	Zhenong Jin	University of Minnesota
Understanding the socioeconomic drivers of agricultural land abandonment and associated fire risk in Greece	Aaron Sparks	University of Idaho
Evaluating the drivers of international migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America and its implications for land systems in the region	Nicholas Cuba	Auburn University
Comparing the effectiveness of conservation strategies in the Colombian Andes biodiversity hotspot	Christoph Nolte	Boston University
Policy, market, and climate change impacts on maize production in Mexico	Meha Jain	University of Michigan
Impacts of global markets and national policies on forest carbon trajectories and social outcomes in the Guiana Shield Ecoregion	Carlos Munoz Brenes	Global Solutions, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science Conservation International
Soybean Expansion in South America: Quantifying Historical Land-Use Change, Modeling Socioeconomic Drivers and Projecting Future Trajectories	Xiao-Peng Song	University of Maryland, College Park