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David Schimel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology; leading research focused on interactions between
climate and ecosystems, combining models and observations. His team is working
on satellite missions that involve spectroscopic detection of carbon cycle dynamics
and biodiversity on Earth.
Fabian Schneider is a postdoc at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in remote sensing of plant functional traits, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning to improve our understanding
of the interactions between plant communities and global change.
Franziska Schrodt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, University
of Nottingham (UK). She combines ecological data on (functional, phylogenetic,
and taxonomic) biodiversity and geodiversity with novel data sources (e.g., remotely
sensed) and analysis techniques (e.g., machine learning) to further develop our
understanding of ecosystem dynamics and potential impacts on human well-being.
Karsten Schulz is Professor of Hydrology and Integrated Water Management at
the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. By integrating information from various remote sensing platforms, his research aims to improve
the prediction and understanding of water, energy, and solute fluxes in the soilplant-atmosphere continuum at different spatial scales.
Anna K. Schweiger is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institut de recherche en
biologie végétale, Université de Montréal. Anna is currently particularly interested
in developing theory and methods for using spectra of plants and spectral diversity
of landscapes to study plant community composition and the ecosystem benefits of
biodiversity.
Shawn P. Serbin is a Scientist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences
Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York. Shawn’s
research aims to improve the understanding of the processes driving the fluxes and
pools of carbon, water, and energy in terrestrial ecosystems and utilizes a range of
tools including remote sensing to develop novel scaling methods and model-data
synthesis approaches.
Philip Townsend is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Forest and
Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses
include physiological remote sensing, imaging spectroscopy, forest ecosystem ecology, and watershed hydrology.
Woody Turner has spent a career promoting the use of satellite imagery to answer
questions about the distribution and abundance of life on Earth and providing natural resource managers with remote sensing solutions to their day-to-day
challenges.
About the Authors
David Schimel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology; leading research focused on interactions between
climate and ecosystems, combining models and observations. His team is working
on satellite missions that involve spectroscopic detection of carbon cycle dynamics
and biodiversity on Earth.
Fabian Schneider is a postdoc at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in remote sensing of plant functional traits, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning to improve our understanding
of the interactions between plant communities and global change.
Franziska Schrodt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, University
of Nottingham (UK). She combines ecological data on (functional, phylogenetic,
and taxonomic) biodiversity and geodiversity with novel data sources (e.g., remotely
sensed) and analysis techniques (e.g., machine learning) to further develop our
understanding of ecosystem dynamics and potential impacts on human well-being.
Karsten Schulz is Professor of Hydrology and Integrated Water Management at
the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. By integrating information from various remote sensing platforms, his research aims to improve
the prediction and understanding of water, energy, and solute fluxes in the soilplant-atmosphere continuum at different spatial scales.
Anna K. Schweiger is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institut de recherche en
biologie végétale, Université de Montréal. Anna is currently particularly interested
in developing theory and methods for using spectra of plants and spectral diversity
of landscapes to study plant community composition and the ecosystem benefits of
biodiversity.
Shawn P. Serbin is a Scientist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences
Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York. Shawn’s
research aims to improve the understanding of the processes driving the fluxes and
pools of carbon, water, and energy in terrestrial ecosystems and utilizes a range of
tools including remote sensing to develop novel scaling methods and model-data
synthesis approaches.
Philip Townsend is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Forest and
Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses
include physiological remote sensing, imaging spectroscopy, forest ecosystem ecology, and watershed hydrology.
Woody Turner has spent a career promoting the use of satellite imagery to answer
questions about the distribution and abundance of life on Earth and providing natural resource managers with remote sensing solutions to their day-to-day
challenges.
About the Authors