GC029-06
The ECOSTRESS Science and Applications Team: Synergies Across Land, Air, and Sea
Tuesday, 8 December 2020: 05:50
Virtual
Joshua B Fisher1, Christine M Lee2, Kerry-Anne Cawse-Nicholson1, Glynn C Hulley1, Richard G. Allen3, Martha B. Anderson4, Dennis D Baldocchi5, Nicholas DeFelice6, Chris Doughty7, Christian Frankenberg1, Andrew N French8, Christopher Hain9, Christoph Hecker10, Chuanmin Hu11, Soe Win Myint12, Daniel Brooks Otis13, Helen Poulos14, David S Wethey15, Mary Whelan16, Eric F Wood17, Jingfeng Xiao18 and Simon J Hook19, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Univ. of Wyoming - Dept 3295, Laramie, WY, United States, (4)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (7)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (8)USDA-ARS, U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ, United States, (9)National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (11)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Optical Oceanography, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (12)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, (13)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (14)Wesleyan University, College of the Environment, Middletown, United States, (15)University of South Carolina, Biological Sciences, Columbia, SC, United States, (16)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (17)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (18)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (19)LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Abstract:
NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS), launched in June 2018, was selected with a primary science focus on terrestrial ecosystem water use and stress. ECOSTRESS provides the highest repeat frequency (1-5 days) high spatial resolution (70 m) thermal infrared data from space, with unique capabilities of diurnal sampling. These data provide myriad opportunities of science and applications beyond the primary science focus. As such, a diverse Science and Applications Team was selected by NASA in 2019, encompassing activities ranging across: fire ecology, carbon cycle links (including fluorescence and carbonyl sulfide), coastal biodiversity, urban heat, mosquito forecasts, geothermal anomaly detection, and the management of water, agriculture, and aquaculture, in addition to expansion of activities related to terrestrial ecosystem water use and stress. These projects form a core team that connect to ever growing ECOSTRESS-enabled activities throughout the larger science and applications communities of practice. While seemingly disparate in discipline, these activities are unified by an interconnectedness of measurement, analysis, and question. Here, we describe the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of ECOSTRESS, and how these projects combine to form an integrated understanding of the Earth System and its relationship to human society.
