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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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Category:


Land Use

 
Project Title Land Use Change in China

Principal Investigator

Xue-zheng Shi and Dong-Sheng Yu , (Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing)
Sponsor Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abstract Click here
Status Ongoing

 

Project Title Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States
Principal Investigator Charles Vorosmarty (University of New Hampshire)
Sponsor NASA
Network NEESPI
Status Ongoing

 

Land Cover

 

Project Title

Boreal Zone Forest Type and Structure From EOS Data Sets

Principal Investigator

Jon Ranson

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)

Sponsor

NASA

Abstract

Click here

Network

NEESPI

Status

Ongoing

 

Project Title

NASA Earth Science Data Support System and Services for the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative

Principal Investigator

Gregory Leptoukh (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)

Sponsor

NASA

Network

NEESPI

Status

Ongoing

 

Project Title

Role of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Artic
Principal Investigator Charles Vorosmarty (University of New Hampshire)
Sponsor NASA
Network NEESPI
Status Ongoing

 

Project Title Evaluating the Effects of Institutional Change on Regional Hydrometeorology
Principal Investigator Geoffrey Henebry (South Dakota State University)
Sponsor NASA NEWS
Abstract Click here
Webpage http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/eurasia-LSP/
Network NEESPI
Status Ongoing

 

Project Title Kazakhstan Land Cover Dynamics Project - KZ LCDP
Principal Investigator Geoffrey Henebry (South Dakota State University)
Sponsor NASA
Abstract Click here
Webpage http://calmit.unl.edu/kz/
Network NEESPI
Status Finished

 

Project Title Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land- and Water Use in the Region Khorezm
Principal Investigator Dr Paul Vlek/Dr Christopher Martius (University of Bonn)
Webpage http://www.zef.de/364.0.html
Status Ongoing

 

Project Title NELDA: Monitoring and Validating the Distribution and
Change in Land Cover across Northern Eurasia
Principal Investigator Olga N. Krankina (Oregon State University)
Co-Investigators J. Masek (GSFC), M. Friedl (BU), C. Woodcock (BU), I.
Csiszar (UMD), G. Sun (UMD), J. Morisette (GSFC)
Sponsor NASA
Abstract Click here
Network NEESPI and NERIN
Status

 

Ongoing

Carbon

 

 

Project Title Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China
Principal Investigator Dr Guoqing Sun
Abstract Click here
Status Ongoing

 

Project Title Soil Organic Carbon Storage of China Estimation Based on the National 1:1,000,000 Soil Database

Principal Investigator

Dr Xue-Zheng Shi and Dr Dong-Sheng Yu, (Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing)
Abstract Click here
Status

 

Ongoing
Project Title Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics for Common Cultivated Soils of China

Principal Investigator

Xue-Zheng Shi and Dong-Sheng Yu, (Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing)
Abstract Click here
Status Ongoing

 

Project Title Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region

Principal Investigator

Curtis Woodcock, (Boston University)
Sponsor NASA
Network NEESPI
Status

 

Ongoing
Project Title Northern Eurasian C-land use-climate interactions in the semi-arid regions
Principal Investigator Dennis Ojima
Sponsor NASA
Abstract Click here
Network NEESPI
Status

 

Ongoing
Project Title Quantifying CO2 fluxes of boreal forests in Northern Eurasia through integrated analyses of in-situ flux tower, remote sensing and biogeochemical modeling
Principal Investigator Dr Changsheng Li
Sponsor NASA
Abstract Click here
Network NEESPI
Status

 

Ongoing

Climate Change Impacts

 

 

 

Project Title Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia
Principal Investigator Donald Walker
Sponsor NASA
Power Point Presentation Click here (N.B. this is a big file!)
Network NEESPI
Status

 

Ongoing

Human Dimensions

Project Title

 

Bird Flu and Agriculture in Thailand and China

Principal Investigator

Xiangming Xiao
Sponsor FAO
Status Approved

 

Project Title Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios
Principal Investigator Volker Radeloff
Sponsor NASA
Network NEESPI
Status Ongoing

 

Earth System Science

Project Title

 

Siberian Earth System Science Cluster - SIB-ESS-C

Principal Investigator

Christiane Schmullius

Abstract

Click here
Website http://www.sibessc.uni-jena.de
Status Ongoing
 

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