Current and Recent Projects:
Arctic:
- Training in autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for Arctic research, 2022-2025, NSF Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) and Partnerships for Innovation, with Chris Richards at University of Louisville
- CyberTraining on AI-analytics for next generation Arctic scientist, 2023-2026, NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, with Wenwen Li at Arizona State and Anna Liljedahl at Woodwell Climate Research Center
- Understanding the Changing Natural-Built Landscape in an Arctic Community: An Integrated Sensor Network in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2021-2025, NSF Navigating the New Arctic (collaborative with SEAS, ARCH, and Data Science at UVA)
- Environmental and biological controls on carbon uptake phenology in permafrost affected boreal forests, 2020-2023, NSF Office of Polar Programs, with Xi Yang and Jenny Watts
- Vulnerability of the taiga-tundra ecotone: Predicting the magnitude, variability, and rate of change at the intersection of arctic and boreal ecosystems, 2019-2022, NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), with Amanda Armstrong
- Patterns, dynamics, and vulnerability of Arctic polygonal ecosystems: From ice-wedge polygons to pan-Arctic landscapes. 2018-2021. National Science Foundation – Arctic System Sciences
- Ecosystem functional diversity of the circumpolar Arctic tundra. 2018-2022. NASA GEO-BON Work Programme, Biodiversity and Applied Science, with Domingo Alcaraz
Virginia Forests and Grasslands at Blandy Experimental Farm:
- Assessing the ability to detect invasive plant species using drone-based leaf-scale visible and near-infrared imaging spectroscopy, 2020-2022, Virginia Space Grant Consortium
- Disturbance and Resources Across Global Grasslands (DRAGNet), 2020-present
- Nutrient cycling through secondary succession, 2016-2022
Other:
- Climate science: Bridging global and community scales, 2022-2027, UVA Prominence to Preeminence , with UVA Environmental Resilience Institute
- Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge - Remote sensing of invasive species, 2021-2022, with UT Rio Grande Valley and Xi Yang
- UVA-Oyate partnership for rangeland ecology research and education, 2018-2022. Jefferson Trust, with David Edmunds
- Assessing ecosystem function based on satellite observation of vegetation quantitative parameters retrieved in high spatial and temporal resolution, 2019-2022, INTER-ACTION Czech Republic, with Lucie Kupkova and Jana Albrechtova at Charles University