Land Use Category
List of Active NEESPI Projects: Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis. Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (Alex.Shiklomanov@unh.edu),
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia. Principal Investigator: David Atkinson (datkinson@iarc.uaf.edu ), International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C. Principal Investigators: Christiane Schmullius (c.schmullius@uni-jena.de) and Roman Gerlach (roman.gerlach@uni-jena.de), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity. Principal Investigator: Patrick Hostert
(patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt Universität Berlin,
Germany Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Principal Investigator: Donald Walker
(ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands. Principal Investigator: Irina Sokolik
(isokolik@eas.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs. Principal Investigator: Anatoly Gitelson
(gitelson@calmit.unl.edu), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic. Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty
(Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham,
NH, USA Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger. Principal Investigator: Tatijana Loboda
(tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu ), University of Maryland, Department
of Geography, USA Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States. Principal Investigator:
Charles Vörösmarty (charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu), Institute
for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire,
USA Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land
Use Change: A Comparative Study. Principal Investigator: Keith Eshleman,
(eshleman@al.umces.edu), University of Maryland, USA Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional
hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid
grain belt. Principal Investigator: Geoff Henebry
(Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookings,
South Dakota, USA Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water:
An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics
for Addressing Water Vulnerability. Principal Investigator:
Marc Imhoff (Marc.L.Imhoff@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
USA Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia:
Drivers and Trajectories. Principal Investigator: Roland Geerken
(roland.geerken@yale.edu), Yale University, USA Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance
of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia. Principal Investigator:
Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, USA Optimization of forest management methods in preparation to the climate change. Principal Investigator:
Sandor Szalai, (szalai.s@met.hu), Hungarian Meteorological Service
(OMSZ), Hungary Principal Investigator: Guoqing Sun (guoqing@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov),
University of Maryland, USA Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI. Principal Investigator: Francesco Tubiello
(tubiello@iiasa.ac.at), Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia
University, USA Northern Eurasian C-land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions.
Principal Investigator: Dennis Ojima (dennis@nrel.colostate.edu),
Colorado State University, USA Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region. Principal Investigator: Curtis Woodcock
(curtis@bu.edu), Boston University, USA Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences. Principal Investigator: Jiaguo Qi (qi@msu.edu),
Michigan State University, USA Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios. Principal Investigator: Volker C. Radeloff
(radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Lin Zheng, Jiangxi Normal University, China Drs. Qingdong Shi and Xiaoling Pan, Xinjiang University, China Drs. Yanhua Bao and Zhigang Li, Heilongjiang Bureau of Survey and Mapping, China Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China Zhongdong Feng, Lanzhou University, China Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia. Principal Investigator: Nancy G. Maynard,
(Nancy.G.Maynard@nasa.gov) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains. Principal Investigators: Libor Jansky (Jansky@hq.unu.edu), Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and
Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks
Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability
Member of SIRS Mega-project.
Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia
Member of SIRS Mega-project.
Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan. Co-Investigators: Christopher Martius, (c.martius@uni-bonn.de, project coordinator in Bonn), The Center for Development Research (ZEF), The University of Bonn, Germany John Lamers (j.lamers@zef.uzpak.uz; project coordinator in Uzbekistan), ZEF/UNESCO project at the State University of Urgench, Uzbekistan Peter Mollinga, Bernhard Tischbein, and Ahmad Mossadegh-Manschadi, ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany Gerd Rücker, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Collaborators: Umid Abdullaev and Gulchehra Khazankhanova, Uzbek State Uzgipromeliovodkhoz Institute (UZGIP), Tashkent, Uzbekistan Ruzumboy Eshchanov, Hayot Ibrakhimov, and Asia Khamzina, State University of Urgench, Urgench, Uzbekistan Victor Dukhovny, Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC-ICWC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan Nazar Ibragimov, Uzbek Cotton Research Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Khokhimdjon Khomidov, Uzbek Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Alim Pulatov, Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Mechanization (TIIM), Uzbekistan Ken Sayre, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batan, Mexico Yulia Shirokova, SANIIRI (Irrigation Institute), Tashkent, Uzbekistan Reiner Wassmann, Institute for Research on the Atmosphere (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany Estimation of seasonal dynamics of desert pasture productivity in Turkmenistan using NOAA/AVHRR data. Co-Investigators: Felix Kogan (Felix.Kogan@noaa.gov), NOAA/NESDIS Environmental Monitoring Branch, Washington D.C., USA Batyr Mamedov, Turkmenistan Desert Research Institute, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Lev Spivak, Remote Sensing Center, Space Research Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region. Co-Investigators: Jiyuan Liu, Yunfeng Hu, Xuelin Liu, and Yunjie Wei, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Ochirbat Batkhishig, Dechingungaa Dorjgotov and Adiya S. Shiirev, Institute of Geography of Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Bator, Mongolia Yuhai Bao, Inner Mogolian Normal University, Hohhot, China
Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure. Paul Kopp (Paul.Kopp@cnes.fr), Centre National d'Etudes spatiales, Tolouse, France Natalia Kussul (inform@ikd.kiev.ua), Space Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Evgeny Loupian (evgeny@d902.iki.rssi.ru),Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia.
Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use. Co-Investigators: Charles Vorosmary, Richard Lammers, and Xiangming Xiao, all at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA Nikolai Shiklomanov, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA Collaborators: Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Igor Shiklomanov, Nina Speranskaya, Oleg Anisimov, and Mikhail Markov, all at the State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Mikhail Tretiakov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Sergey Myagkov, National Institute of Hydrometeorology (NIGMI), Tashkent, Uzbekistan Natalia Agaltsova, National Hydrometeorological Service, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Lyubov Lebed, Kazakh Research Institute of Ecology and Climate (KazNIIEK), of the Ministry of Environment Protection, Almaty, Kazakhstan Grigory Chekan, Hydrometeorological Center of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future. Co-Investigators: Volker Radeloff and David J. Lewis, both at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA Collaborators: Alexander Maslov, Institute of Forest Science, Moscow, Russia and Dmitry Aksenov, "Transparent World", Moscow, Russia
Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia. Collaborators:Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA Renchin Tsolmon (tsolmon@num.edu.mn), National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Principal Investigator: Kirsten de Beurs (kdebeurs@ou.edu), University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA Co-Investigators: Geoffrey Henebry (Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookins, South Dakota, USA Grigory Ioffe (gioffe@radford.edu), Radford University, Radford, Virginia, USA Collaborator: Tatyana Nefedova, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia Principal Investigator: Susan Conard (SGConard@aol.com), US Forest Service, Washington, DC, USA Co-Investigators: Nadezhda Tchebakova (ncheby@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Amber Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov), National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia, USA Wei Min Hao (whao@fs.fed.us), USDA Forest Service, Missoula, Montana, USA Elena Parfenova (lyeti@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Galina Ivanova (GAIvanova@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Douglas McRae (dmcrae@nrcan.gc.ca), Natural Resources Canada, Great Lakes Forest Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada Anatoly Sukhinin (boss@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Land use change, protected areas, and biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains.
Co-Investigators: Daniel Muller (d.mueller@geo.hu-berlin.de), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Berlin, Germany Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Tobias Kuemmerle (tobias.kuemmerle@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Leonid Baskin (baskin@orc.ru), Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Principal Investigator: Daniel Brown (danbrown@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA Co-Investigators: Arun Agrawal (arunagra@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA Yichun Xie (yxie@emich.edu), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA Kathleen Bergen (kbergen@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA Collaborators: Yongfei Bai, The Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China and William Welsh, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA Principal Investigator: Mutlu Ozdogan (ozdogan@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Collaborators: Chen Xi, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China Alishir Kurban, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Co-Investigators:Uma Bhatt (bhatt@gi.alaska.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Howard Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Josefino Comiso (josefino.c.comiso@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Collaborators: Pavel Orekhov (orekhov.eci@gmail.com), Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia Bruce Forbes (bforbes@ulapland.fi), Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Martha Raynolds, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Natalya Moskakenko, Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia Hilmar Maier, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Marina Leibman, Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA Co-Investigators: Shiqiang Wan (swan@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Lin Zhen (zhenl@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Ochirbat Batkhishig (batkhishig@gmail.com), Institute of Geography of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Togtohyn Chuluun (chuluun@nrel.colostate.edu), National University of Mongolia and the Global Change National Committee, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Collaborators: Ge Sun (Ge_Sun@ncsu.edu) and Steven McNulty (steve_mcnulty@ncsu.edu) both USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Jian Ni (jni@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Ranjeet John (ranjeet.john@utoledo.edu) and Burkhard Wilske (Burkhard.Wilske@utoledo.edu), both at University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA Ke Guo (guoke@ibcas.ac.cn) and Linghao Li, both at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Dennis Ojima (ojima@heinzctr.org), John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC, USA Xiangzheng Deng (dengxz.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Dechingunga Dorjgotov (o_batkhishig@yahoo.com), (batkhishig@gmail.com), Institute of Geography of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.
Co-Investigator: Dara Entekhabi (darae@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts , USA Collaborators: Sergey Dobrolyubov (science@geogr.msu.ru), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Herman Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Hamid Ghaffarzadeh (hamid.ghaffarzadeh@undp.org), UNDP, Caspian Sea Environment Program, Geneva, Switzerland Serik Akhmetov (serik.akhmetov@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, National Academy of Science, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan A. Babak Hedjazi (hedjazi@archi.unige.ch), Central Asia-Caucasus Forum Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland More collaborators will be invited to secure deliverables of this project. Principal Investigator: Martin Kappas(mkappas@gwdg.de), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany Co-Investigator: Pavel Propastin (ppropas@uni-goettingen.de), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany Collaborator: Nadiya Muratova, Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, Kazakh Academy of Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan 200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin.
Co-Investigators: Éva Konkoly-Gyuró (egyuro@emk.nyme.hu) and Géza Kiraly, both at Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary Jacek Kozak (jkozak@gis.geo.uj.edu.pl), Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Tobias Kuemmerle (kummerle@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Lubos Halada (lubos.halada@savba.sk),Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences Branch Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia Daniel Müller (mueller@iamo.de), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany Urs Gimmi (urs.gimmi@wsl.ch), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, and Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Department of Geography, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Berlin, Germany The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania. Principal Investigator: Jessica L. McCarty (mccarty@mtu.edu), Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.Co-Investigators: Peter Potapov (potapov@umd.edu), University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA and Alexander Prishchepov (prishchepov@iamo.de), IAMO, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe;Halle, Germany Collaborators:: Svetlana Turubanova (sveta@umd.edu), and Matthew C. Hansen (mhansen@umd.edu) both at University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA; Dmitry Rukhovich (landmap@yandex.ru) and Polina Koroleva (soilmap@yandex.ru), both at V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Institute, Moscow, Russia; Maxim Dubinin (maxim.dubinin@nextgis.org), NEXTGIS, Moscow, Russia. |