Dr. Joshua B. Fisher

jbfisher@jpl.nasa.gov

(323) 540-4569

Water & Carbon Cycles Group

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

 

 

CURRENT POSITION

• Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CalTech)

• Visiting Assistant Researcher, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

 

Education

• Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford, UK (2006 – 2008)

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography & Environment

I. Global modelling of atmosphere-vegetation-soil interactions; II. Nutrient dynamics in cloudforests and rainforests in the Peruvian Andes

Supervisor: Yadvinder S. Malhi

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, USA (2001 – 2006)

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

I. The land-atmosphere water flux across plant, ecosystem, global and social scales; II. GIS and spatial analysis for environmental justice and wildlife

Dissertation co-chairs: Dennis Baldocchi & Greg Biging; Committee members: Todd Dawson & Louise Fortmann

• B.S., University of California, Berkeley, USA (1997 – 2001)

College of Natural Resources: Environmental Sciences

Evapotranspiration methods compared on a Sierra Nevada forest ecosystem

Thesis advisor: Ye Qi

 

GRANTS/projects

• Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission (2010 – current)

Algorithm Development Team Member

• NASA Venture-class Airborne Earth Observation Science Mission (2010 – current)

Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE); 27.9M/5y

Scientist

• NASA Carbon Monitoring System Pilot Study (2010 – current)

Surface Carbon Fluxes; 1.7M/2.5y

Co-Investigator

• NASA Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) (2010 – current)

Estimation and Attribution of Global CO2 Surface Fluxes Using Satellite Observations of CO2 and CO from TES, GOSAT, and MOPITT; 1.4M/3y

Co-Investigator

• NASA Earth System Data Records (ESDR) Uncertainty Analysis (2011 – current)

Estimating, Validating and Conveying Measurement Differences Between Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Products From NASA’s EOS Sensors; 1.2M/3y

Co-Investigator

• NSF Ecosystem Science (2012 – current)

A Belowground Framework for Predicting How Plant-Microbe Interactions Couple Carbon and Nutrient Economies of Forests; 400K/2y

Co-Investigator

• JPL Strategic Initiative Research & Technology Development (2010 – current)

A Multi-disciplinary Evaluation of Earth System Models with Satellite Observations; 4.7M/3y

Co-Investigator

• JPL Research & Technology Development Topic Area (2010)

Climate Model Physics

Scientist

 

PUBLICATIONS

• Fisher, J.B., Badgley, G., Blyth, E., in review. Global nutrient limitation in terrestrial vegetation: insights from remote sensing. Submitted to: Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Torres, I.C., Metcalfe, D.B., van de Weg, M., Meir, P., Espejo, J.E.S., Huaraca, W., in review. Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3000 m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes. Submitted to: Oecologia.

• Badgley, G., Fisher, J.B., Jimιnez, C., Tu, K.P., Vinukollu, R., in review. On uncertainty in global evapotranspiration estimates from choice of input forcing datasets. Submitted to: Geophysical Research Letters.

• Polhamus, A.M., Fisher, J.B., Tu, K.P., in review. What controls the error structure in evapotranspiration models? Submitted to: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

• Armanios, D., Fisher, J.B., in review. Measuring water availability with limited ground data: An entirely remote sensing-based hydrologic budget model of the Rufiji Basin, Tanzania using TRMM, GRACE, MODIS, SRB and AIRS. Submitted to: Hydrological Processes.

• Boroon, M.H.R., Fisher, J.B., in review. Linking groundwater quality and quantity: an assessment of satellite-based groundwater storage anomalies from GRACE against ground measurements of contaminants in California. Submitted to: Water Resources Research.

• Lee, J.-H., Biging, G.S., Radke, J.D., Fisher, J.B., in review. An improved topographic mapping technique from airborne LiDAR: application in a forested hillside. Submitted to: International Journal of Remote Sensing.

• Gadsden, M.A.J., Killeen, T.J., Guerra, A., Soria, L., Fisher, J.B., in review. A reassessment of cloud forest bird habitat in the Tropical Andes and Guyana Shield. Submitted to: Conservation Biology.

• Vinya, R., Malhi, Y., Brown, N., Aragγo, L.E.O.C., Fisher, J.B., Brodribb, T., in review. Cavitation vulnerability influences tree species habitat preference in miombo woodlands. Submitted to: Plant, Cell & Environment.

• Lee, J.-E., Frankenberg, C., van der Tol, C., Guanter, L., Boyce, C.K., Fisher, J.B., Morrow, E., Berry, J.A., Worden, J., Asefi, S., Badgley, G., Saatchi, S., in review. Satellite observations of fluorescence capture the response of Amazonian productivity to water stress. Submitted to: PNAS.

• Lee, J.-E., Lintner, B.R., Neelin, J.D., Jiang, X., Boyce, C.K., Fisher, J.B., Perron, J.T., Kubar, T.L., Pierrehumbert, R.T., Lee, J., Worden, J., in review. Reduction of precipitation variability by transpiration from plants. Submitted to: Geophysical Research Letters.

• Kelley, D., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S., Wang, H., Simard, M., Fisher, J.B., Willis, K., in review. A comprehensive benchmarking system for evaluating global vegetation models. Submitted to: Global Change Biology.

• Luo, Y.Q., Randerson, J., Abramowitz, G., Bacour, C., Blyth, E., Carvalhais, N., Ciais, P., Dalmonech, D., Fisher, J., et al., in review. A framework of benchmarking land models. Submitted to: Biogeosciences.

• Silva-Espejo, J.E., Girardin, C.A.J., Doughty, C., Huaraca-Huasco, W., Metcalfe, D.B., Galiano-Cabrera, D.F., Durand-Baca, L., Aragγo, L.E.O.C., Marthews, T.R., Huaraca-Quispe, L.P., Alzamora-Taype, I., Eguiluz-Mora, L., Farfan, W., Cabrera, K.G., Halladay, K., Fisher, J.B., Silman, M., Meir, P., Salinas, N., Malhi, Y., in review. Productivity and carbon allocation in a high elevation tropical mountain cloud forest of the Peruvian Andes. Submitted to: Plant Ecology & Diversity.

• Vinya, R., Malhi, Y., Brown, N., Fisher, J.B., in press. Functional coordination between branch hydraulic properties and leaf functional traits in miombo woodlands: Implications for water stress management and species habitat preference. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.

• Marthews, T.R., Malhi, Y., Girardin, C.A.J., Silva Espejo, J.E., Aragγo, L.E.O.C., Metcalfe, D.B., Rapp, J.M., Mercado, L.M., Fisher, R.A., Galbraith, D.R., Fisher, J.B., Salinas-Revilla, N., Friend, A.D., Restrepo-Coupe, N., in press. Simulating forest productivity along a neotropical elevational transect: temperature variation and carbon use efficiency. Global Change Biology.

• Magagi, R., Berg, A., Goοta, K., Belair, S., Jackson, T., Toth, B., Walker, A., McNairn, H., O’Neill, P., Moghaddam, M., Gherboudj, I., Colliander, A., Cosh, M., Belanger, J., Burgin, M., Fisher, J.B., et al., in press. Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEX-SM10): Overview and preliminary results. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

• Moore, S., Fisher, J.B., 2012. Challenges and opportunities in GRACE-based groundwater storage assessment and management: an example from Yemen. Water Resources Management 26: 1425-1453.

• Morel, A., Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., 2012. Evaluating the potential to monitor aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm in Sabah, Malaysia, for 2000-2008 with Landsat ETM+ and ALOS-PALSAR. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33(11): 3614-3639.

• Papale, D., Agarwal, D.A., Baldocchi, D., Cook, R.B., Fisher, J.B., van Ingen, C., 2012. Database maintenance, data sharing policy, collaboration. In: Aubinet, M., Vesala, T., Papale, D. (eds) Eddy Covariance: A Practical Guide to Measurement and Data Analysis, pp. 299-424, Springer, New York.

• Fisher, J.B., Whittaker, R., Malhi, Y., 2011.  ET Come Home: Potential evapotranspiration in geographical ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 1-18.

• Frankenberg, C., Fisher, J.B., Worden, J., Badgley, G., Saatchi, S.S., Lee, J.-E., Toon, G.C., Butz, A., Kuze, A., Yokota, T., 2011. New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity. Geophysical Research Letters 38: L17706, doi:10.1029/2011GL048738.

• Attua, E.M., Fisher, J.B., 2011. Historical and future land cover change in a municipality of Ghana. Earth Interactions 15(9): 1-26.

• Krishnamurthy, P.K., Fisher, J.B., Johnson, C., 2011. Mainstreaming local perceptions of hurricane risk into policymaking: A case study of community-based vulnerability GIS in Mexico. Global Environmental Change 21: 143-153.

• Simard, M., Pinto, N., Fisher, J.B., Baccini, A., 2011. Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne LiDAR. Journal of Geophysical Research–Biogeosciences 116: G04021, doi:10.1029/2011JG001708. (Research Spotlight in Eos)

• Osti, M., Coad, L., Fisher, J.B., Bomhard, B., Hutton, J.M., 2011. Oil and gas development and the World Heritage network and wider protected area network in sub-Saharan Africa. Biodiversity & Conservation 20(9): 1863-1877.

• Vinukollu, R.K., Wood, E.F., Ferguson, C.R., Fisher, J.B., 2011. Global estimates of evapotranspiration for climate studies using multi-sensor remote sensing data: Evaluation of three process-based approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment 115: 801-823.

• Thomas, M.V., Malhi, Y., Fenn, K.M., Fisher, J.B., Morecroft, M.D., Lloyd, C.R., Taylor, M.E., McNeil, D.D., 2011. Carbon dioxide fluxes over an ancient broadleaved deciduous woodland in southern England. Biogeosciences 8: 1595-1613.

• Zelazowski, P., Malhi, Y., Huntingford, C., Sitch, S., Fisher, J.B., 2011. Changes in the potential distribution of humid tropical forests on a warmer planet. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A – Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences 369: 137-160.

• Macdonald, E.A., Collins, M., Clayton, L.M., Malhi, Y., Fisher, J.B., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Macdonald, D.W., 2011. Wildlife Conservation and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in a case study of Nantu Wildlife Reserve, Sulawesi: 1. The effectiveness of forest protection - many measures, one goal. Environmental Science & Policy 14(6): 697-708.

• Mueller, B., Seneviratne, S.I., Jimιnez, C., Corti, T., Hirschi, M., Balsamo, G., Ciais, P., Dirmeyer, P., Fisher, J.B., Guo, Z., Jung, M., Maignan, F., McCabe, M.F., Reichle, R., Reichstein, M., Rodell, M., Sheffield, J., Teuling, A.J., Wang, K., Wood, E.F., Zhang, Y., 2011. Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters 38: L06402, doi:10.1029/2010GL046230.

• Jimιnez, C., Prigent, C., Mueller, B., Seneviratne, S.I., McCabe, M.F., Wood, E.F., Rossow, W.B., Balsamo, G., Betts, A.K., Dirmeyer, P.A., Fisher, J.B., Jung, M., Kanamitsu, M., Reichle, R.H., Reichstein, M., Rodell, M., Sheffield, J., Tu, K., Wang, K., 2011. Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: D02102, doi:10.1029/2010JD014545.

• Fisher, J.B., Sitch, S., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Huntingford, C., Tan, S.-Y., 2010. Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally-applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation and fixation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 24: GB1014, doi:10.1029/2009GB003621.

• Fisher, J.B., Fortmann, L.P., 2010. Governing the data commons: Policy, practice, and the advancement of science. Information & Management 47: 237-245.

• Gibbon, A., Silman, M.R., Malhi, Y., Fisher, J.B., Meir, P., Zimmermann, M., Dargie, G.C., Farfan, W., Cabrera, K.G., 2010. Ecosystem carbon storage across the grassland-forest transition in the high Andes of Manu National Park, Peru. Ecosystems 13: 1097-1111.

• Phillips, O.L., van der Heijden, G., Lσpez-Gonzαlez, G., Aragγo, L.E.O.C., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd, J.J., Malhi, Y., Monteaugudo, A., Almeida, S., Dαvila, E.A., Amaral, I., Andelman, S., Andrade, A., Arroyo, L., Aymard, G., Baker, T.R., Blanc, L., Bonal, D., de Oliveira, A.C.A., Chao, K.-J., Cardozo, N.D., da Costa, L., Feldpausch, T.R., Fisher, J.B., et al., 2010. Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests. New Phytologist 187: 631-646.

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., de Araϊjo, A.C., Bonal, D., Gamo, M., Goulden, M.L., Hirano, T., Huete, A.R., Kondo, H., Kumagai, T., Loescher, H., Miller, S., Nobre, A.D., Nouvellon, Y., Oberbauer, S.F., Panuthai, S., von Randow, C., da Rocha, H.R., Roupsard, O., Saleska, S., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, N., Tu, K.P., 2009.  The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics. Global Change Biology 15: 2694-2714. (Cover article).

• Fisher, J.B., 2009. Canopy nitrogen and albedo from remote sensing: What exactly are we seeing? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(7): E16.

• Fisher, J.B., 2009. Book review of “Quantifying and Understanding Plant Nitrogen Uptake for Systems Modeling” edited by Ma et al. Experimental Agriculture 45(3): 377.

• Phillips, O.L., Aragγo, L., Lewis, S.L., Fisher, J.B., et al., 2009.  Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science 323(5919): 1344-1347.

• Ostle, N.J., Smith, P., Fisher, R., Woodward, F.I., Fisher, J.B., Smith, J.U., Galbraith, D., Levy, P., Meir, P., McNamara, N.P., Bardgett, R.D., 2009. Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon models. Journal of Ecology 97: 851-863.

• Fisher, J.B., Tu, K.P., Baldocchi, D.D., 2008. Global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites. Remote Sensing of Environment 112(3): 901-919.

• Fisher, J.B., Nawaz, R., Fauzi, R., Nawaz, F., Sadek, E., Latif, Z., Blackett, M., 2008. Balancing water, religion and tourism on Redang Island, Malaysia. Environmental Research Letters 3(2): 1-6.

• Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D.D., Misson, L., Dawson, T., Goldstein, A.H., 2007. What the towers don’t see at night: Nocturnal sap flow in trees and shrubs at two AmeriFlux sites in California. Tree Physiology 27(4): 597-610.

• Fisher, J.B., Trulio, L.A., Biging, G., Chromczak, D., 2007. An analysis of spatial clustering and implications for wildlife management: A burrowing owl example. Environmental Management 39(3): 403-411.  (Cover article).

• Dawson, T.E., Burgess, S.S.O., Tu, K.P., Oliveira, R.S., Santiago, L.S., Fisher, J.B., Simonin, K.S., Ambrose, A.R., 2007. Nighttime transpiration in woody plants from contrasting ecosystems. Tree Physiology 27(4): 561-575.

• Fisher, J.B., Kelly, N.M., Romm, J., 2006. Scales of environmental justice: Combining GIS and spatial analysis for air toxics in West Oakland, California. Health & Place 12(4): 701-714.

• Fisher, J.B., DeBiase, T.A., Qi, Y., Xu, M., Goldstein, A.H., 2005. Evapotranspiration models compared on a Sierra Nevada forest ecosystem. Environmental Modelling & Software 20(6): 783-796.

 

PUBLICATIONS, NON-PRIMARY LITERATURE

• Fisher, J.B., in press. Remote sensing of land-atmosphere interactions: Evapotranspiration. Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing.

• Attua, E.M., Fisher, J.B., 2010. Land suitability assessment for pineapple production in the Akwapim South District, Ghana: a GIS approach. Ghana Journal of Geography 2: 47-83.

• Fisher, J.B., 2010. Early-career scientist (ECS) page interview. iLEAPS Newsletter 10: 40.

• Fisher, J.B., Zardin, E., Bocquet, F., Swann, A., Rόdiger, C., Kyrφ, E.-M., Gunthe, S.S., 2010. The new generation of ‘land-atmosphere exchange’ scientists. iLEAPS Newsletter 9: 47-49.

• Fisher, J.B., 2009. Evapotranspiration from tropical vegetation. iLEAPS Newsletter 7: 18.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Fisher, J.B., Mu, Q., Mallick, K., Wood, E., Tu, K., Badgley, G., Polhamus, A., Vinukollu, R., Jimιnez, J., 2012. Global terrestrial evapotranspiration from remote sensing: overview of approaches, algorithms, and products. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle, Kona, Hawaii, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Mu, Q., Mallick, K., Wood, E., Tu, K., Badgley, G., Polhamus, A., Vinukollu, R., Jimιnez, J., 2012. Global terrestrial evapotranspiration from remote sensing: overview of approaches, algorithms, and products. American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

• Boland, S., Bowman, K., Crisp, D., Duren, R., Eldering, A., Fisher, J., Frankenberg, C., Gunson, M., Menemenlis, D., Miller, C., 2012. The scientific contributions expected from OCO-3 if installed on the International Space Station. 1st Annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Mallick, K., Fisher, J.B., Guillaume, A., Ryu, Y., Stephens, G., 2011. Global net radiation for evapotranspiration at 1 km2: production and uncertainty assessment. 2011 Western States Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Workshop. Boise, Idaho, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Polhamus, A., Bowman, K., Collatz, G.J., Potter, C., Lee, M., Liu, J., Jung, M., Reichstein, M., 2011. Evaluation of NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Flux Pilot: Terrestrial CO2 Fluxes. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Boroon, M.H.R., Fisher, J.B., 2011. Linking groundwater quality and quantity: An assessment of satellite-based groundwater storage anomalies from GRACE against ground measurements of contaminants in California. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Frankenberg, C., Fisher, J.B., Lee, J.-E., Guanter, L., van der Tol, C., Toon, G.C., Kuze, A., Yokota, T., Badgley, G., Butz, A., Jung, M., Saatchi, S., Worden, J., 2011. New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

• Brix, H., Menemenlis, D., Gregg, W., Bowman, K., Dutkiewicz, S., Fisher, J.B., Follows, M., Hill, C., Jahn, O., Lee, M., Liu, J., Ott, L., Wang, D., 2011. Air-sea CO2 flux estimates from two data-constrained ocean models for the NASA Carbon Monitoring Study Flux Pilot Project and their impact on atmospheric CO2 concentration variability. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Bowman, K.W., Liu, J., Lee, M., Pawson, S., Ott, L.E., Menemenlis, D., Fisher, J.B., Collatz, G.J., Potter, C.S., Gregg, W.W., Brix, H., Zhu, Z., Hill, C.N., Dutkiewicz, S., Follows, M.J., Henze, D.K., Nassar, R., Jones, D.B.A., Kulawik, S.S., Gunson, M.R., Jucks, K.W., 2011. Preliminary estimates of carbon emissions constrained by GOSAT from the NASA Carbon Monitoring Study Flux Pilot Project. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Ott, L., Pawson, S., Zhu, Z., Brix, H., Collatz, G.J., Gregg, W., Hill, C., Menemenlis, D., Potter, C., Bowman, K., Dutkiewicz, S., Eldering, A., Fisher, J.B., Follows, M., Gunson, M., Jucks, K., Kawa, R., Liu, J., Lee, M., 2011. Using GEOS-5 atmospheric transport simulations to test the consistency of land- and ocean-carbon fluxes with CO2 observations. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Block, G., Guillaume, A., Stephens, G., Miller, C., Lee, J.-E., Sitch, S., Ciais, P., Wang, Y., 2011. Ensemble land surface modeling at JPL. NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Sitch, S., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Huntingford, C., Tan, S.-Y., 2011. Global modeling of plant N uptake and C allocation. Ecological Society of America, Austin, Texas, USA. (Invited)

• Fisher, J.B., Badgley, G., Jimιnez, C., Tu, K.P., Vinukollu, R., 2011. Uncertainty in global evapotranspiration estimates from choice of input forcing datasets. NASA/USDA Workshop on “Evapotranspiration: An Essential Observation for Climate Understanding and Efficient Water Management”, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

• Zelazowski, P., Malhi, Y., Huntingford, C., Sitch, S., Fisher, J.B., 2011. Changes in the potential distribution of humid tropical forests on a warmer planet. British Ecological Society Annual Symposium: Forests and Global Change. Cambridge, UK.

• Fisher, J.B., 2011. Evapotranspiration. International Land Model Benchmarking Project Meeting, Irvine, California, USA. (Invited)

• Simard, M., Pinto, N., Baccini, A., Fisher, J.B., 2011. Global forest height from ICESat, MODIS and environmental variables. AmeriFlux Science Meeting & 3rd NACP All-Investigators Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

• Frankenberg, C., Butz, A., Fisher, J.B., Toon, G., Kuze, A., Yokota, T., Badgley, G., Worden, J., 2011. Global remote sensing of chlorophyll fluorescence using high-resolution O2 A-band spectra recorded by the GOSAT satellite. The 7th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space, Edinburgh, UK.

• Bowman, K., Lee, M., Henze, D., Nassar, R., Pawson, S., Menemenlis, D., Fisher, J., Hill, C., Potter, C., Gregg, W., Collatz, J., Brix, H., Ott, L., Zhu, Z., Dutkiewicz, S., Follows, M., Kulawik, S., Worden, J., Osterman, G., Jones, D., Weidner, R., Gunson, M., Jucks, K., 2011. Preliminary estimates of carbon emissions constrained by GOSAT and TES from the NASA Carbon Monitoring Study Flux Pilot Project. The 7th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space, Edinburgh, UK.

• Pawson, S., Ott, L., Zhu, Z., Bowman, K., Brix, H., Collatz, J., Dutkiewicz, S., Fisher, J., Gregg, W., Hill, C., Menemenlis, D., Potter, C., Gunson, M., Jucks, K., 2011. Forward modeling of atmospheric carbon dioxide in GEOS-5: Uncertainties related to surface fluxes and sub-grid transport. The 7th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space, Edinburgh, UK.

• Fisher, J.B., Badgley, G., Blyth, E., 2010. Global nutrient limitation in terrestrial vegetation from remote sensing. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Frankenberg, C., Butz, A., Fisher, J.B., Toon, G., Kuze, A., Yokota, T., 2010. Global remote sensing of chlorophyll fluorescence using high-resolution spectra recorded by the Japanese GOSAT satellite. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Torres, I.C., Metcalfe, D.B., van de Weg, M., Meir, P., Espejo, J.E.S., Huaraca, W., 2010. Nutrient limitation in cloud forests and rainforests along a 3000 m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes. Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (Invited)

• Fisher, J.B., Njoku, E.G., Entekhabi, D., 2010. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP): NASA’s Earth observation mission to measure soil moisture and freeze/thaw state globally, and provide improved estimates of net ecosystem exchange. Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Mueller, B., Seneviratne, S.I., Hirschi, M., Corti, T., Jimenez, C., Balsamo, G., Fisher, J.B., Jung, M., Reichstein, M., Sheffield, J., Teuling, A.J., Wang, K., Wood, E., 2010. First results from LandFlux-EVAL intercomparison project: Analysis of multi-year datasets. European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria.

• Fisher, J.B., Armanios, D., Tu, K.P., 2009. Global evapotranspiration from remote sensing driven by SRB, AIRS and MODIS, validated at 36 FLUXNET sites. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Sitch, S., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Huntingford, C., Tan, S.-Y., 2009. What principles govern plant nitrogen uptake responses to changes in CO2, climate and nitrogen deposition? American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Tu, K., Armanios, D., 2009. Global evapotranspiration from remote sensing. Joint 6th International GEWEX and 2nd iLEAPS Science Conference; iLEAPS ECSW Meeting; LandFlux Meeting. Melbourne, Australia.

• Morel, A., Fisher, J.B., 2009. Where has the carbon gone? Monitoring biomass and emissions from conversion of rainforest to oil palm in Sabah, Malaysia. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference, Leicester, UK.

• Sitch, S., Clark, D., Cox, P., Fisher, J.B., Fisher, R., Harrison, S., Huntingford, C., Jones, C., Mercado, L., Pacifico, F., 2009. Advances in terrestrial ecosystem processes. QUEST Annual Science Meeting, Swindon, UK.

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Tan, S.-Y., Sitch, S., Huntingford, C., 2008. A globally applicable, mechanistic model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation and fixation. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., de Araϊjo, A.C., Bonal, D., Gamo, M., Goulden, M.L., Hirano, T., Huete, A.R., Kondo, H., Kumagai, T., Loescher, H., Miller, S., Nobre, A.D., Nouvellon, Y., Oberbauer, S.F., Panuthai, S., von Randow, C., da Rocha, H.R., Roupsard, O., Saleska, S., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, N., Tu, K.P., 2007, 2008.  The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics. LBA-ECO 11th Science Team Meeting, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. iLEAPS Science Conference: Current understanding of how integrated land ecosystem atmosphere processes influence climate dynamics, Hyθres, France.

• Fisher, J.B., 2008. QUERCC: Quantifying and Understanding Ecosystem Roles in the Carbon Cycle.  QUEST Annual Science Meeting, Winchester, UK. (Invited)

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., de Araϊjo, A.C., Bonal, D., da Rocha, H.R., Goulden, M.L., Hirano, T., Kumagai, T., Loescher, H., Miller, S., Nobre, A.D., Oberbauer, S., Saleska, S., von Randow, C., Tu, K.P., 2007.  The tropical land-atmosphere water flux: Measurements, models and controls for evapotranspiration in the Amazon.  LBA-ECO 11th Science Team Meeting, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

• Fisher, J.B., Tu, K.P., 2007.  Global trends in potential and actual evapotranspiration based on 20 years of satellite observations.  American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y.S., 2006, 2007.  Modelling plant nitrogen: fixation, uptake and allocation.  QUEST, QUERCC Fall meeting, Edinburgh, UK.  First JULES Science Meeting, Exeter, UK.

• Tu, K.P., Fisher, J.B., 2006.  Remote sensing of the land-atmosphere water flux: Global validation using FLUXNET data.  AmeriFlux meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., 2006.  Summary of past, present and future research.  International Networking of Young Scientists on Imaging Techniques and GIS: Applications in Environmental and Natural Resources Management.  British Council, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Fisher, J.B., Trulio, L.A., Biging, G., Chromczak, D., 2006.  Use of GIS and spatial analysis for wildlife management measures.  American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Reno, Nevada, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Misson, L., Goldstein, A.H., 2006.  Sap flow measurements for ponderosa pine, manzanita and ceanothus at Blodgett Forest, California.  Blodgett Forest Research Workshop, Georgetown, California, USA.

• Tu, K.P., Fisher, J.B., 2006.  Remote sensing of the land-atmosphere water flux: Global validation using FLUXNET data.  Proceedings of the 1st iLEAPS Science Conference, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Tu, K., 2005.  New global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux: A fully remote sensing driven, flux site-validated ecophysiological model of evapotranspiration.  The 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, Beijing, China. 

• Dawson, T., Tu, K., Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D., 2004.  Partitioning Evaporation and Transpiration Using 18-0 of Water.  Biosphere Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network Meeting, Point Reyes, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., 2004.  Estimation of Evapotranspiration Across Multiple Scales: Sap Flow, Flux Measurement, Remote Sensing, and Sociology.  NASA Earth System Science Network Symposium, Washington, D.C., USA.

• Fisher, J.B., Tu, K., 2004.  Validation of MODIS-Derived Parameters with FLUXNET Measurements: Surface Temperature, Air Temperature, Fraction of Photosynthetically Absorbed Radiation, and Albedo.  Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group’s MODIS Vegetation Workshop II, Missoula, Montana, USA.

• Tu, K.P., Fisher, J.B., 2004.  Remote sensing of plant transpiration and soil evaporation using MODIS data.  Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group’s MODIS Vegetation Workshop II, Missoula, Montana, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., 2003.  Environmental Justice / Air Toxics analysis for West Oakland: Combining GIS and spatial data analysis.  American Public Health Association (Awarded 1st Place in the Environment Section Student Award Poster Session), San Francisco, California, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., 2003.  Environmental Justice / Air Toxics analysis for West Oakland: Combining GIS and spatial data analysis.  GIS Day – Public Interest GIS, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

• Fisher, J.B., DeBiase, T.A., Qi, Y., Xu, M., Goldstein, A., 2001.  Evapotranspiration methods compared on a Sierra Nevada forest ecosystem.  American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• DeBiase, T.A., Qi, Y., Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D., Goldstein, A., Xu, M., Liang, X., 2001.  Comparison of potential evapotranspiration methods based on results from FLUXNET sites in the United States.  American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA.

• DeBiase, T.A., Fisher, J.B., Qi, Y., Goldstein, A., 1999.  Evapotranspiration revisited: Linking soil moisture and canopy resistance.  International Symposium on Integrated Water Resource Management, University of California, Davis, USA.

 

MEDIA

• Canopy Height Product, 2012

-  Interviewed on radio for: The Blue Dot Report, Northstate Public Radio, 2012.

-   AllVoices: http://www.allvoices.com/news/11553310-nasa-creates-unique-map-showing-height-of-earths-forests

-   Arabs Today: http://www.arabstoday.net/en/2012022192934/nasa-map-reveals-the-heights-of-the-worlds-forests.html

-   Asbury Park (NJ) Press: http://blogs.app.com/enviroguy/2012/02/20/earths-forests-mapped-by-nasa-and-others/

-   Bespecific.com: http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/029581.html

-   Carbon Based Climate Change Adaptation: http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2012/02/nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-new-light.html

-   Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery: http://cacm.acm.org/news/146205-nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-a-new-light/fulltext

-   CORDIS News: http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=34318

-   Dalje: http://dalje.com/en-world/satellite-map-gives-new-view-of-forests/418474

-   Democratic Underground: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11277192

-   Directions Magazine: http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-a-new-light/233520

-   Disaster News Network: http://www.disasternews.net/news/article.php?articleid=4469

-   Discovery: http://news.discovery.com/earth/new-forest-height-map-120221.html

-   Ecorazzi: http://www.ecorazzi.com/2012/02/22/nasa-creates-high-res-tree-map-to-understand-climate-change/

-   Forests.org: http://forests.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=269664

-   Forest Carbon Asia: http://www.forestcarbonasia.org/in-the-media/satellite-map-gives-new-view-of-forests/

-   GIS User: http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/25929/2/

-   Humanitarian News: http://humanitariannews.org/20120220/nasa-map-reveals-heights-worlds-forests

-   I4U News: http://www.i4u.com/2012/02/earth-planet/nasa-creates-unique-map-showing-height-earths-forests-0

-   IBTimes: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/301230/20120220/nasa-earths-forests-area-map-carbon-measurement.htm

-   LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f24_1329517508

-   MenaFN: http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId={ee046ac0-fd83-4f16-86a9-60be2556c2ff}&src=MWHEAD

-   Mongabay: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0220-hance_nasa_forestheight.html

-   Moon and Back: http://moonandback.com/2012/02/17/nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-a-new-light/

-   Nano Patents and Innovations: http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2012/02/nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-new-light.html

-   NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/forest20120217.html

-   NetMassimo: http://english.netmassimo.com/2012/02/18/a-new-map-of-the-earths-forests/

-   Outcome Magazine: http://outcomemag.com/science/2012/02/20/satellite-map-gives-new-view-of-forests/

-   Physorg: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-nasa-earth-trees.html

-   Politics in the Zeros: http://polizeros.com/2012/02/20/new-nasa-map-measures-trees-in-the-forest/

-   Rainforest Portal: http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=269664

-   Rappler: http://www.rappler.com/24-world/1702-scientists-map-forest-heights-from-space?utm_source=RapTwitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=SMTrack

-   Red Orbit: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112477835/nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-a-new-light/

-   Silobreaker: http://www.silobreaker.com/earths-forests-mapped-by-nasa-and-others-5_2265498169494208732

-   Softpedia: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Height-of-Earth-s-Forests-Mapped-253672.shtml

-   Space Daily: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Map_Sees_Earth_Trees_In_A_New_Light_999.html

-   SpaceRef: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=36147

-   SpatialSource: http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/02/21/article/NASA-releases-free-online-global-forests-map/OTYTZVAAAN.html

-   Spatial Sustain: http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/nasa-releases-new-global-forest-height-map.html

-   The Cryptozoology Society: http://www.cryptozoologicalsociety.com/2012/02/20/cryptozoology/nasa-map-reveals-the-heights-of-the-worlds-forests/

-   Topix.com: http://www.topix.com/colleges/university-of-maryland-college-park/2012/02/nasa-map-sees-earths-trees-in-a-new-light

-   UPI: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/20/Satellite-map-gives-new-view-of-forests/UPI-75691329781332/

• Interviewed in: HydroRisk website—http://www.hydrorisk.com/index.php/blog/11

• Featured in: Hambly, Vivienne, 2009. Into the Amazon’s Heart. Sublime (October): 12-20.

 

INVITED TALKS (NON-CONFERENCE)

• League of Women Voters: When It Rains It Doesn’t Pour: Climate Change and Water: A Primer for Voters (2012)

Pasadena, California, USA

“Climate ∆”

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Earth Week Earth Science Talks: What’s New in JPL Earth Science? (2012)

Pasadena, California, USA

“What JPL is Doing to Observe and Predict Changes in Earth’s Terrestrial Ecosystems and Water Cycle”

• Pasadena Community College: Environmental Studies (2012)

Pasadena, California, USA

“NASA Earth Science”

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Climate Change Symposium (2011)

Pasadena, California, USA

“CHANGE: Carbon, Hydrology And Nitrogen for Global Evaluation”

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory: SIRI & USRP Speaker Series (2011)

Pasadena, California, USA

“CHANGE: Carbon, Hydrology And Nitrogen for Global Evaluation”

• Occidental College: Physical Geology (2011)

Eagle Rock, California, USA

“NASA Earth Science”

• California Institute of Technology: Yuk Lunch Seminar, Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences (2011)

Pasadena, California, USA

“CHANGE: Carbon, Hydrology And Nitrogen for Global Evaluation”

• IEEE: Los Angeles Metro Section (2010)

Monterey Park, California, USA

“CHANGE: Carbon, Hydrology And Nitrogen for Global Evaluation”

• Occidental College: The Remsen Bird Lecture for Geology, Biology and Chemistry (2010)

Eagle Rock, California, USA

“CHANGE: Carbon, Hydrology And Nitrogen for Global Evaluation”

• Yale University: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2010)

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

“Remote Sensing of the Hydrological Cycle”

• European Science Foundation (2008)

Porquerolles, France

“QUEST: The State of UK Climate Modelling”

• Korea University: Division of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering (2008)

Seoul, South Korea

“QUEST: The State of UK Climate Modelling”

• University of Oxford: Biodiversity Research Seminar, School of Geography and the Environment (2008)

Oxford, UK

“Evapotranspiration is a proxy for biodiversity, but how accurate are these estimates?”

• TippingPoint Climate Art Programme: Climate Change: Scientific Briefing Day for Artists (2007)

Oxford, UK

“Earth Observation”

• University of Oxford: Oriel College, Forum on the Environment (2007)

Oxford, UK

“From Leaf Measurements to Satellite Remote Sensing: Methods in the Environmental Sciences”

• Korea University: Division of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering (2005)

Seoul, South Korea

“The land-atmosphere water flux: the individual plant, ecosystem fluxes, global patterns, and the sociological advancement of science”

• University of California, Berkeley: Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (2005)

Berkeley, California, USA

“Spatial dimensions of environmental justice: GIS and spatial analysis in West Oakland”

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

• MsTMIP Mini-Grant, NASA, Terrestrial Ecology (2011)

• New Phytologist Trust, Travel Award to 96th ESA Annual Meeting (2011)

• JPL Team Award, SMAP Science Cal/Val (2010)

• Junior Research Fellowship, Linacre College, Oxford University (2009)

• Cape Farewell, Designated Scientist to Andes Expedition (2009)

• Oxford University, School of Geography and the Environment, ECI Divisional Merit Award (2008)

• Royal Society, Conference Grant (2008)

• European Science Foundation Conference Travel Award (2008)

• iLEAPS Conference Travel Award (2008)

• Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia Travel Award (2007)

• Oxford University ECI Small Grants for Postgraduate Research (2007)

• British Council International Networking for Young Scientists (2006)

• University of California, Berkeley Faculty Research Grant (2004 – 2006)

• G. Fitzgarrald Martin Scholarship (2005)

• NASA Earth System Science Fellowship (2002 – 2005)

• American Public Health Association Environment Section Student Award Poster Session (1st Place) (2003)

• US EPA, Region 9 Air Division Certificate of Appreciation (2001)

• The National Dean’s List Award (2001)

• Association of California Water Agencies (2000)

• Los Angeles Audubon Society Urban Wildlife Award (1993)

 

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• Presider, Biogeochemistry: New Paradigms in Biogeochemical Cycling 1; and, Judge, Bell-Braun Student Presentations, Ecological Society of America (2011)

• Co-chair, New and Emerging Satellite Missions for Remote Sensing Hydrology I, American Geophysical Union (2010)

• iLEAPS Scientific Organizing Committee, Early Career Scientist Workshop (2010-2011)

• TES/AIRMOSS Hiring Committee Member, NASA JPL, CalTech (2010)

• External Reviewer, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010)

• Member, Oxford University Supreme Governing Body (Congregation) (2009-2010)

• Ecosystems Group Representative, ECI Management Team, University of Oxford (2008-2010)

• Member, ECI MSc Core Teaching Team, University of Oxford (2008-2010)

• Coach, Oxford University Men’s Basketball Team (Blues) (2006)

• Contributing Sports Journalist, Cherwell 24 Newspaper and The Oxford Student (2006)

• Departmental Liaison, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly (2005-2006)

• Member, Graduate Programs Committee, UC Berkeley Dept. ESPM (2004-2005)

• Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student Admissions, UC Berkeley Dept. ESPM (2004-2005)

• Member, Judicial Committee, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly (2004-2005)

• Departmental Delegate, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly (2002-2005)

• Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee, UC Berkeley Dept. ESPM (2004)

• Chair, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly’s Committee on Affirmative Action (2004)

• President, UC Berkeley Environmental Sciences Students Association (2001)

• Member, UC Berkeley Hapa Issues Forum (1998-2001)

• Student advisor to the dean, UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources (1997)

• President, Taft High School Ecology Club (1997)

 

REVIEWER

• Advances in Water Resources

• Agricultural & Forest Meteorology

• American Public Health Association

• Annals of Botany

• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

• Biotropica

• Climate Research

• Climatic Change

• Ecological Engineering

• Ecological Modelling

• Ecology

• Ecosystems

• Environmental Science & Policy

• EOS

• Geophysical Research Letters

• Geoscience & Remote Sensing Letters

• Geoscientific Model Development

• Global Change Biology

• Global Change Biology – Bioenergy

• Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Health & Place

• Hydrogeology Journal

• Hydrological Processes

• Hydrological Sciences Journal

• Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)

• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing

• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

• Journal of the American Water Resources Association

• Journal of Biogeography

• Journal of Geography & Regional Planning

• Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres

• Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences

• Journal of Hydrology

• Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations & Remote Sensing

• Journal of Wildlife Management

• JPL Strategic University Research Partnership (SURP)

• Land Use Policy

• Landscape and Urban Planning

• Nature

• Nature Geoscience

• New Phytologist

• Oecologia

• Progress in Physical Geography

• Remote Sensing of Environment

• Tree Physiology

• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

• US Department of Energy (DOE)

• US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• US National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Water Resources Research

 

TEACHING

• Introduction to Remote Sensing, GIS & Modelling (2007 – 2009)

University of Oxford, UK, Environmental Change Institute and School of Geography and the Environment

MSc in Environmental Change & Management

MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management

MSc in Water Science, Policy & Management

• Earth Observation: Ecological Applications (2006 – 2009)

University of Oxford, UK, School of Geography and the Environment

• Land-Surface Climatology (2007)

University of Oxford, UK, School of Geography and the Environment

• Evapotranspiration: Sap Flow, Isotopes, Eddy Flux, Modelling & Remote Sensing (2006)

University of Oxford, UK, Centre for the Environment – Water Science, Policy & Management MSc

• Senior Research Seminar in Environmental Sciences (2005 – 2006)

University of California, Berkeley, USA, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management

• Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity & the Environment (2004)

University of California, Berkeley, USA, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management

• Natural Resource Sampling & Assessment (2002)

University of California, Berkeley, USA, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management

 

STUDENTS

Graduated 2011

• Tsao, Nicholas, MSC in Environmental Change and Management 2010-2011

Can vegetation water content be observed globally from satellite remote sensing? An assessment of six products using a combination of radar, microwave and optical data, and implications for water and carbon cycles

 

Graduated 2010

• Badgley, Grayson, MSC in Environmental Change and Management 2009-2010

Nutrients from space: Remote sensing nutrient limitation in terrestrial vegetation

Awarded Distinction and Overall Distinction (Coursework, Dissertation and Exams)

• Garonna, Irene, MSC in Environmental Change and Management 2009-2010

Land surface temperature model intercomparison and validation with FLUXNET and MODIS data

Awarded Distinction

• Moore, Scott, MSC in Environmental Change and Management 2009-2010

Charting the subterranean sea: The promise of groundwater storage change assessment from satellite observations and the persistent challenges of water management in Yemen

Awarded Overall Distinction (Coursework, Dissertation and Exams)

• Polhamus, Aaron, MSC in Environmental Change and Management 2009-2010

Sources of bias in latent heat of evaporation model predictions: Should parameterizing resistances be a priority?

Awarded Distinction

 

Graduated 2009

• Armanios, Daniel, MSc in Water Science, Policy & Management 2008-2009

A remote sensing framework to gauge sustainability of community water practices: A quantitative diagnostic for integrated water resource management decision support models

• Gadsden, Martin, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management 2008-2009

Maximising biodiversity conservation benefits of REDD strategies in Peru

Awarded Distinction

• Krishnamurthy, Krishna, MSc in Environmental Change and Management 2008-2009

Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development strategies

Awarded Distinction and Best Overall Performance, ECM 2008-2009 (Coursework, Dissertation and Exams)

• Massey, Ashley, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management 2008-2009    

Dragons prevent deforestation? The protection and governance of Kiang West National Park in the Gambia, West Africa

Awarded Distinction and Best Overall Performance, BCM 2008-2009 (Coursework, Dissertation and Exams)

• Plotnykova, Hanna, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management 2008-2009

GIS-based conservation management for the Ukraine

• Thomas, Matt, MSc in Environmental Change and Management 2008-2009

Impacts of climate change on an ancient woodland

Awarded Distinction

• Wong, Chun (John) Yuen, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management 2008-2009

Climate change impacts on polar migratory bird routes

 

Graduated 2008

• Gibbon, Adam, MSc in Environmental Change & Management, Oxford University 2007-2008

Carbon stocks of the high elevation Andes Mountains: Puna grasslands and upper tropical cloud forests of Manu National Park, Peru

Awarded Distinction and Best Overall Performance, ECM 2007-2008 (Coursework, Dissertation and Exams)

• MacDonald, Ewan, MSc in Environmental Change & Management, Oxford University 2007-2008

Evaluating measures of conservation success: The case study of Nantu Nature Reserve, Sulawesi

Awarded Distinction

• Tan, Su-Yin, MSc in Environmental Change & Management, Oxford University 2007-2008

Modelling nitrogen uptake in temperate and tropical forests

Awarded Best Presentation, Dissertation Proposal

 

Graduated 2007

• Blandford, Rebecca, MSc in Environmental Change & Management, Oxford University 2006-2007

An investigation of the temporal dynamics of self-organised vegetation patterns in a semi-arid ecosystem

Awarded Distinction and Best Overall Dissertation, ECM 2006-2007

 

professional EXPERIENCE

• Scientist (2010 – current)

Water & Carbon Cycles Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CalTech)

Visiting Assistant Researcher of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

• Departmental Lecturer & Research Fellow (2008 – 2009)

University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography & Environment

• GIS Consultant (2003 – 2005)

NASA Ames Research Center, Office of Safety, Environmental and Mission Assurance
San Jose State University, Department of Environmental Studies

• Environmental Protection Specialist (2003)

NASA Ames Research Center, Office of Safety, Environmental and Mission Assurance

• Environmental Protection Specialist (2001 – 2002)

United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Region 9: Air Division

 

RELEVANT SKILLS

• Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS; AutoCAD); Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PCI Geomatica; IDRISI; Erdas Imagine; ImageJ)

• Ecosystem and Global Modeling (MATLAB; Simile, STELLA; Fortran)

• Statistical, Spatial, and Time Series Analysis (SPLUS; SAS; JMP; StatView; CrimeStat)

• Ecology: Plant Physiology, Ecosystem, Population and Community

• Biometeorology; Biodiversity; Biology; Forest and Terrestrial Hydrology

• Stable Isotope Methods and Mass Spectrometry; Civil & Env. Engineering

• Environmental Economics; Forest Management and Economics

• Linear Algebra & Differential Equations; Analytic Geometry & Calculus; Physics

• Chemistry: General, Organic, and Atmospheric

• Sociology; Environmental Justice; Social Science Research Methods

• Intermediate Spanish; Elementary Mandarin Chinese

• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere; iMovie, iWeb, GarageBand; html, web design/development

 

REFERENCES

• Dr. Eni G. Njoku, Supervisor of Water & Carbon Cycles Group

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 300-329

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

E-mail: eni.g.njoku@jpl.nasa.gov

Phone: (818) 354-3693

• Professor Dennis D. Baldocchi, Division Chair of Ecosystem Science

University of California at Berkeley

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

137 Mulford Hall #3114

Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

E-mail:  baldocchi@nature.berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 642-2874

• Professor Yadvinder S. Malhi, Program Leader of Ecosystem Dynamics

University of Oxford

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography & Environment

South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK

E-mail: yadvinder.malhi@ouce.ox.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1865 285188

• Dr. Sassan S. Saatchi

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 300-319

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

E-mail: sasan.s.saatchi@jpl.nasa.gov

Phone: (818) 394-1051

• Dr. Michael Gunson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 301-320

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

E-mail: michael.r.gunson@jpl.nasa.gov

Phone: (818) 354-2124

• Professor Louise P. Fortmann, Division Chair of Society & Environment

University of California at Berkeley

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

121 Giannini Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

E-mail: fortmann@nature.berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 642-7018