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The NASA Lab

The NASA Lab centers around the science of remote sensing and land system science/land change science using Earth observations for interdisciplinary research focused on global environmental change and human-environment interactions. Dr. Southworth’s NASA lab consists of undergraduate, master’s students, doctoral students and post-docs. The lab is run by Dr. Jane Southworth, Professor and Chair of […]

Urban vegetation loss and ecosystem services: The influence on climate regulation and noise and air pollution

DE CARVALHO – Urban vegetation loss and ecosystem services: The influence on climate regulation and noise and air pollution Roberta Mendonça De Carvalho and Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein Article first published online: 5 NOV 2018 Environmental Pollution DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.10.114 ABSTRACT: Ecosystem services are present everywhere, green vegetation coverage (or green areas) is one of the primary […]

Park isolation in anthropogenic landscapes: land change and livelihoods at park boundaries in the African Albertine Rift

DOWHANIUK, GOLDMAN, RYAN – Park isolation in anthropogenic landscapes: land change and livelihoods at park boundaries in the African Albertine Rift Jonathan Salerno, Colin A. Chapman, Jeremy E. Diem, Nicholas Dowhaniuk, Abraham Goldman, Catrina A. MacKenzie, Patrick Aria Omeja, Michael W. Palace, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Sadie J. Ryan, Joel Hartter Article first published online: 14 NOV 2017 Regional […]

University of Florida and University of Michigan awarded funding to study “land-grab” impacts

The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $1.6 million to  study the impacts of land transactions and investments on agricultural production, ecosystem services, and food-energy security in Ethiopia. Dr. Jane Southworth, chair of the Department of Geography at the University of […]