Introduction to Population Grids and their Integration with Remote Sensing Data for Sustainable Development and Disaster Mgmt. Two -part series, March 30 and April 6, 2021.

The North American Carbon Program (NACP) is a multidisciplinary research program designed to improve understanding of North America's carbon sources, sinks, and stocks.

Dr. Anthony Walker installing an automated dendrometer on a Shagbark Hickory at ORNL. These devices take high frequency measurements of stem shrink and swell, providing data on wood growth and water transport through the tree. Credit: Dr. Jeff Warren.

Logo of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative. 

A regional view of Daymet V4 daily total precipitation over 2 days during the time period that Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August of 2017.

Dr. Peter Thornton studies the interactions of land ecosystems with other components of the Earth's climate system including biogeochemical and physical land-atmosphere feedbacks, and interactions with human systems. 

North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) attribution type layer illustrating the type of change event where all events from 1986-2010 were combined. Source: Schleeweis et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1799

Four variables for the same 3-hour timestep, December 8, 2015, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM, a) precipitation flux (kg m-2 s-1) b) air temperature (K) c) shortwave radiation flux (W m-2) d) specific humidity. Source: western_USA_precipitation_3hr_2015-12.nc4

Forested land in the western conterminous United States classified by priority for preservation to mitigate climate change, based on the spatial co-occurrence of vulnerability to drought and fire and potential carbon sequestration. Source: Buotte et al. 2020

A white spruce tree is instrumented with a hemispherical and field-stop photochemical reflectance index (PRI) sensor and point dendrometer at a northern treeline site along the Dalton Highway, Brooks Range, Alaska. Source: Eitel et al., 2020