This page contains links to known projects or groups of projects which are
currently working on or have recently worked on issues relating to land in
Eurasia. The projects listed include issues such as land use, land cover,
carbon, climate change impacts, human dimensions, modeling and others. For
search purposes, the projects are listed below grouped into broad categories
although many projects may span 2 or more categories. Contact details for the
project Principal Investigator are given, as is affiliation to any Network.
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Project Title |
Land Use Change in China |
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Principal Investigator |
Xue-zheng Shi and Dong-Sheng Yu , (Institute of
Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing) |
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Sponsor |
Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use and
Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States |
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Principal Investigator |
Charles Vorosmarty (University of New Hampshire) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Boreal Zone Forest Type and Structure From EOS Data Sets
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Principal Investigator |
Jon Ranson
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Co-Investigators |
Guoqing Sun (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
Slava Kharuk (Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyark, Russia),
Daniel S. Kimes (NASA GSFC Code 923) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
NASA Earth Science Data Support System and Services for the
Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative |
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Principal Investigator |
Gregory Leptoukh (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Role of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Hydrology of Eurasian
Pan-Artic |
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Principal Investigator |
Charles Vorosmarty (University of New Hampshire) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Evaluating the Effects of Institutional Change on Regional
Hydrometeorology |
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Principal Investigator |
Geoffrey Henebry (South Dakota State University) |
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Sponsor |
NASA NEWS |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Webpage |
http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/eurasia-LSP/ |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Kazakhstan Land Cover Dynamics Project - KZ LCDP |
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Principal Investigator |
Geoffrey Henebry (South Dakota State University) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Webpage |
http://calmit.unl.edu/kz/ |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Finished |
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Project Title |
Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land- and
Water Use in the Region Khorezm |
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Principal Investigator |
Dr Paul Vlek/Dr Christopher Martius (University of Bonn) |
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Webpage |
http://www.zef.de/364.0.html |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
NELDA: Monitoring and Validating the Distribution and
Change in Land Cover across Northern Eurasia |
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Principal Investigator |
Olga N. Krankina (Oregon State University) |
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Co-Investigators |
J. Masek (GSFC), M. Friedl (BU), C. Woodcock (BU), I.
Csiszar (UMD), G. Sun (UMD), J. Morisette (GSFC) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Network |
NEESPI and
NERIN |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems:
Eastern Russia and Northeastern China |
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Principal Investigator |
Dr Guoqing Sun |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Soil Organic Carbon Storage of China Estimation Based on the National
1:1,000,000 Soil Database |
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Principal Investigator |
Dr
Xue-Zheng Shi and Dr Dong-Sheng Yu, (Institute of
Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing) |
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Abstract |
Click
here |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics for Common Cultivated Soils of China |
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Principal Investigator |
Xue-Zheng Shi and Dong-Sheng Yu, (Institute of
Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing) |
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Abstract |
Click
here |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in
the Black Sea Region |
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Principal Investigator
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Curtis Woodcock, (Boston University) |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Northern Eurasian C-land use-climate interactions in the semi-arid
regions |
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Principal Investigator |
Dennis Ojima |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Quantifying
CO2 fluxes of boreal forests in Northern Eurasia through
integrated analyses of in-situ flux tower, remote sensing and
biogeochemical modeling |
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Principal Investigator |
Dr Changsheng Li |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Application of space-based technologies and models to address
land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia |
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Principal Investigator |
Donald Walker |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Power Point Presentation |
Click here (N.B. this is a big file!) |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Bird Flu and Agriculture in Thailand and China
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Principal Investigator |
Xiangming Xiao |
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Sponsor |
FAO |
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Status |
Approved |
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Project Title |
Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic
forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios |
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Principal Investigator |
Volker Radeloff |
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Sponsor |
NASA |
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Network |
NEESPI |
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Status |
Ongoing |
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Project Title |
Siberian Earth System Science Cluster - SIB-ESS-C
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Principal Investigator |
Christiane Schmullius
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Abstract |
Click here |
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Website |
http://www.sibessc.uni-jena.de |
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Status |
Ongoing |
