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With a focus east of the Mississippi River, our research staff applies expertise in geography, remote sensing, geology, biology, and computer science to understand status and trends in land cover change, land cover dynamics and environmental processes, and partner-driven decision support tools for investigating land cover change and hazards-related risk and vulnerabilities.

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Locations and Descriptions

 bullet Chesapeake Bay Watershed
    Why? The Chesapeake Bay is listed as an impaired water body under the Clean Water Act due to poor water-quality conditions because of low dissolved oxygen levels and poor water-clarity conditions related to nutrient and sediment pollution.
    What? The U.S. Geological Survey and the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program are developing the Chesapeake Online Adaptive Support Tool Kit (COAST), a Web-based framework of tools and information to help meet the needs of CBP partners by applying adaptive management principles to decision making.

 bullet Clarksburg, MD
    Why? Land use change and development alters surface water flow patterns and affects landscape water quality, quantity, and timing, impacting area streams and downstream estuaries and ecosystems.
    What? Study specific structures and actions that are designed to mitigate the negative environmental effects of land use change.

 bullet Shenandoah National Park
    Why? Establish meteorological, land surface, and land cover tracking capabilities that form a foundation for an ecosystem monitoring network.
    What? Examine whether climate-change related signals in Shenandoah National Park canopy phenology are detectable in satellite imagery and explore the implications of any detected signal(s) for watershed hydrology in the region.

 bullet South Florida
    Why? Provide restoration-critical information regarding past and current land surface characteristics of the Greater Everglades.
    What? Use remote sensing and geospatial analysis for improved landscape scale modeling and restoration monitoring.

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