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The ACT-America team on the tarmac with the B-200 King Air and C-130 Hercules NASA aircraft in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Investigators collected field data and inventoried plots for vegetation species and growth in 2018 at a post-burn site. (Image Credit: Laura Bourgeau-Chavez)

Predicted spatially contiguous solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) across the United States for August 1 - 16, 2015. Areas of high SIF are in red, and areas of low SIF are in blue. Agricultural areas, like the U.S. Midwestern corn belt, often have a high rate of photosynthetic production which results in high SIF.

Active layer thaw depth was recorded each year during the late summer from 2014 - 2018 at sites including the Farmer's Loop Transect 2 near Fairbanks. (Image Credit: Tom Douglas)