Science Team Meeting - August 2021
| August 2021 ECOSTRESS Science Team Meeting | |
| 17 - 19 August 2021 | |
| Virtual Meeting 9:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time) | |
| AGENDA | |
| Tuesday, 17 Aug 2021 | |
| Time | Title - Speaker |
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9:00 AM |
Welcome and Introduction to ECOSTRESS - Simon Hook, JPL |
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9:10 AM |
NASA Headquarters Perspective - Woody Turner, Keith Gaddis, Mike Obland - NASA HQ  |
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9:20 AM |
Overview of ECOSTRESS Science and Applications - Simon Hook, JPL |
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9:30 AM |
Project Manager Overview and Build 7 Notes - Dana Freeborn, JPL |
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9:40 AM |
LP DAAC Updates - Tom Maiersperger, LP DAAC |
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9:50 AM |
L1 Calibration and Geolocation - Tom Logan, JPL |
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10:00 AM |
L2 Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity + Cloud Mask - Glynn Hulley, JPL |
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10:10 AM |
L3/4 Evapotranspiration, Evaporative Stress Index and Water-Use Efficiency - Gregory Halverson, JPL |
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10:20 AM |
L3/4 (USDA) Evapotranspiration and Evaporative Stress Index - Martha Anderson, USDA |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | Evaluating a CONUS-Wide disALEXI Evapotranspiration product - Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, JPL |
| 10:55 AM | A physics-based surface energy balance model for estimating evapotranspiration in selected agro-ecosystems using high resolution thermal infrared observations from ECOSTRESS, Devansh Desai, Department of Physics, Gujarat University |
| 11:05 AM | Evaluation of a terrestrial biosphere model with ECOSTRESS land surface temperature - Miriam Johnston, Harvard University |
| 11:15 AM | Using thermal imaging to evaluate an urban heat island mitigation project in Los Angeles - Greg Spotts, Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles City |
| 11:25 AM | Monitoring forest restoration progress, and assessing the ecosystem service of diurnal thermal buffering and ET change using ECOSTRESS - Jonas Hamberg, University of Toronto |
| 11:35 AM | Wildfire assessment including ECOSTRESS - Lee Miller, Andre Coleman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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11:45 AM |
Using ECOSTRESS to explore diurnal evolution of city-scale tree temperature - Thuy Trang Vo, University of Alabama in Huntsville |
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11:55 AM |
Discussion - Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, JPL |
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12:10 AM |
LP DAAC Office Hours - ask any questions or troubleshoot data access or handling - LP DAAC Team |
| 2:10 PM | Close for the day |
| Wednesday, 18 Aug 2021 | |
| Time | Title - Speaker |
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9:00 AM |
Meeting Open - Simon Hook, JPL |
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9:05 AM |
ECOSTRESS and IrriWatch - Wim Bastiaanssen, Irriwatch |
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9:20 AM |
Developing Spatial Real-Time Forecasts of Mosquito-Borne Diseases - Nicholas DeFelice, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount_Sinai |
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9:35 AM |
Managing vegetation to reduce urban heat impacts: an evidence-based approach for the City of Phoenix - Soe Myint, Arizona State University |
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9:50 AM |
Evaluating the Potential of ECOSTRESS for Predicting Wildfire Effects on Plant Community Structure and Water Relations in an Arizona Sky Island Pine-Oak Forest - Helen Poulos, Wesleyan University |
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10:05 AM |
Merging ECOSTRESS with Field Data in the Highest Uncertainty Water Use Efficiency Regions in the World - Christopher Doughty, Northern Arizona University |
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10:20 AM |
Exploiting Diurnal Cycles to Evaluate Vegetation Responses to Heat and Drought Stress - Christian Frankenberg, Yi Yin, CalTech, JPL |
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10:35 AM |
Break |
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10:50 AM |
New Estimates of Terrestrial Carbon and Water Fluxes by Combining the Carbonyl Sulfide Stomatal Conductance Tracer Framework and High Resolution Surface Data - Mary Whelan, Rutgers University |
| 11:05 AM | Understanding Diurnal Cycles of Plant Water Use and Carbon Uptake with Existing and New Products Based on ECOSTRESS, MODIS, and FLUXNET - Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire |
| 11:20 AM | How Much Water is Evaporated Across California?: An Assessment Using a MesoNetwork of Eddy Covariance Sites, a Biophysical Model Forced with Satellite Remote Sensing and ECOSTRESS Data - Dennis Baldocchi, University California, Berkeley |
| 11:35 AM | GRACE-FO and ECOSTRESS synergies constrain human impacts on the water balance , Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell , JPL |
| 11:50 AM | Water conservation is a way of life: how can ECOSTRESS help? - Dan Carney, Eastern Municipal Water District/ Christine Lee, JPL |
| 12:05 PM | NASA Headquarters Earth Science: the ISS, ECOSTRESS and the community - Jamie Wicks, NASA HQ |
| 12:20 PM | Discussion - Simon Hook, JPL |
| 12:45 PM |
Close for the day |
| Thursday, 19 Aug 2021 | |
| Time | Title - Speaker |
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9:00 AM |
ECOSTRESS Day 3 Opening - Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, JPL |
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9:05 AM |
TRISHNA - Simon Hook,JPL |
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9:15 AM |
LSTM - Ben Koetz, ESA |
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9:25 AM |
Surface Biology and Geology - Chip Miller, JPL |
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9:45 AM |
Headquarters Q&A and Impact Discussion - Simon Hook, JPL |
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10:05 AM |
Break |
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10:20 AM |
Investigating Dynamic Thermal Processes to Optimize Geothermal Hotspot Detection - Agnieszka Soszynska, Christoph Hecker, University of Twente |
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10:35 AM |
ECOSTRESS Surface Temperature over Inland Waters for Aquatic Ecosystem Applications - Christine Lee, JPL |
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10:50 AM |
Examining the Relation Between Biodiversity and Surface Temperature Regimes in Localized Coastal Upwelling Zones Using ECOSTRESS - Daniel Otis, University of South Florida |
| 11:05 AM | Heat and Desiccation Risk Prediction in Intertidal Shellfisheries - David Wethey, University of South Carolina |
| 11:20 AM | Thermal Stress in South Florida Estuaries: A Multi-Sensor Assessment - Chuanmin Hu, University of South Florida |
| 11:35 AM | Diurnal Vegetation Water Stress Over a Semiarid Mixed Conifer Forest - Mostafa Javadian , University of Arizona |
| 11:45 AM | Discussion - Christine Lee, JPL |
| 12:00 PM | Closing Remarks and End of 2021 SATM |