GC11H:
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in the Americas Posters


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Session ID#: 50230

Session Description:
A growing population coupled with increased weather and climate variability are increasing the complexity of resource allocation and other environmental decision-making in the Americas. Major challenges facing the region are particularly acute in the realms of food security and agriculture, water resources management, disaster risk reduction, and rapidly changing land use and ecosystems. This session focuses on basic and applied research, and capacity building efforts in the Americas that incorporate Earth observations to generate tools, products, and services that support environmental decision-making by governmental institutions, non-governmental agencies, and the general public. Submissions are welcome from researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers focused on addressing these societal challenges for the Americas.
Primary Convener:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Betzy E E. Hernández Sandoval, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States and Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States and Alyssa K Whitcraft, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Betzy E E. Hernández Sandoval, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A spatial pattern analysis of gold mining-related forest change in the Madre de Dios region, Peru (355797)
Andrea Puzzi Nicolau, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Robert Griffin, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Assessing Threats to River Water Quality and Mangrove Health Based on Watershed Land Use on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica (438242)
Suravi Shrestha1, Marie Bouffard1, John Langstaff1, Candice Lee1, Emily Pauline1 and Sam Tingle2, (1)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (2)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, University of Georgia, Athen, GA, United States
Monitoring of landscape level changes in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor: c.1980-2018 (454604)
Betzy E E. Hernández Sandoval1, Robert Griffin2, Emil A. Cherrington1 and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
SAR-CBC: A Capacity Building Center for the Use of SAR in Decision Making (428982)
Franz Josef Meyer1, Eric Ross Anderson2, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson3, Emil A Cherrington3, Robert Griffin4, Paul Alan Rosen5, Susan E Owen6, Scott A Arko7, Gustavo Adolfo Galindo Garcia8, Tannia Margarita Mayorga Torres9 and Aracely Lima10, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)IDEAM, Bogotá, Colombia, (9)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (10)Instituto Nacional de Investigación Geológico Minero Metalúrgico, Quito, Ecuador
The Pole-to-Pole Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) of the Americas: Building a Regional Community of Practice for Understanding and Conserving Life in the Ocean (398699)
Enrique Montes, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Gabrielle Canonico, NOAA U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, United States, Maria T Kavanaugh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Antonio Carlos Marques, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociencias, São Paulo, Brazil, Benjamin Best, EcoQuants, Santa Barbara, United States, Omar Defeo, Universidad de la Republica, Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, Angelica L. Gutierrez, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ NESDIS International and Interagency Affairs Division (IIAD), Silver Spring, MD, United States, James Emmett Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, The Tenenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States, Elva G Escobar-Briones, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad DE Armería, EM, Mexico, Patricia Miloslavich, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark, DE, United States, Eduardo Klein, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, Gregorio Bigatti, Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos (IBIOMAR), Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Augusto Flores, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha, São Sebastião, Brazil, Maria Del Pilar Cornejo, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Facultad de Ingeniería Marítima, Ciencias Biológicas, Oceánicas y Recursos Naturales, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Carlos Cardenas, Universidad de Magallanes, Centro de Investigación Gaia-Antártica, Punta Arenas, Chile, Julian Pizarro, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras “José Benito Vives de Andréis”, Santa Marta, Colombia, Alejandro Henao, Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, Parque Nacional Natural Corales de Profundidad, Cartagena, Colombia, Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada, National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Ciudad DE México, Mexico, Sennai Habtes, University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, Daniel Brooks Otis, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, United States
Winter crops coverage’s classification in the Southeast of the Buenos Aires province, Argentina. (Invited) (369956)
Esteban Julian Copati1, Michael Laurence Humber2, Estefania Puricelli3, Antonio Sanchez4, Ritvik Sahajpal5, Inbal Becker-Reshef6 and Dan O'Neill4, (1)Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States

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