Funded Research Projects
Near-term Forecasts of Global Plant Distribution, Community Structure, and Ecosystem Function
This project guides the development of near-term forecasts of plant species and biodiversity for improving predictions of how plant species have and will respond to climate change.
Dates: 09/2019 - 08/2020
Collaborators: Brian Enquist (PI), Nirav Merchant (University of Arizona); Cory Meerow, Manos Anagnostou, Efthymios Nikolopoulos (UCONN); Laura Duncanson (University of Maryland)
Funding Source: NSF HDR (Harnessing the Data Revolution)
Past Projects
Collaborative Leading Operational Unmanned Systems Development for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (CLOUD-MAP)
Dates: 08/2015 - 07/2019
Collaborators: OSU; OU; UNL; UKY
Funding Source: NSF EPSCoR Track-2 FEC
Description: This project developed the sensors, systems, and science for using unmanned aircraft systems to improve severe weather detection and monitoring.
Data Complexity and Spatial Scaling: Prediction Accuracy and Implications for Emerging Landscape Paradigms
Dates: 06/2016 - 11/2019
Collaborators: Peter Kedron
Funding Source: NSF-GSS and NSF-MMS
Description: This project investigated the impacts of heterogeneity and data loss on scaling across geographic contexts. .
Identifying and Quantifying Urban Change with Remote Sensing and GIS
Dates: 03/2016-09/2016
Collaborators: Adam Mathews (PI: OSU); Son Nghiem (NASA-JPL)
Funding Source: NASA/Oklahoma EPSCoR
Description: The funding for this project supported collaboration with partners at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) to examine how urban areas are changing, particularly how and where built-up area is increasing, using various 3D data sources (e.g., lidar, digital surface models, etc.).
Hyperspectral Vegetation Monitoring of Second-Generation Biofuel Crops
Dates: 07/2015 - 06/2016
Funding Source: Oklahoma State University Dean's Incentive Grant
Development of Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices for Monitoring Second-Generation Biofuel Crops
Dates: 07/2014 - 06/2015
Funding Source: Oklahoma State University Dean's Incentive Grant
DDRI: Overcoming Scale Disparities using Sub-Pixel Remote Sensing and Landscape Metrics
Dates: 06/2013 - 08/2015
Funding Source: NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences
