OEFS Project List

Student projects are listed by year and category.

Spring 2022 Semester

urban sprawl
Selu Adams	Examine the Change in Vegetation and Land Cover Change in an Area of Lumpkin County, Georgia
Matthew Duyst	Studying the Effect of Converting Paddied Rice to Urban Land on Atmospheric Methane Concentration Along the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in China
Wyatt Nabatoffh	Analyzing the Effects of Rapid Urbanization in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
Shelby Warrington	Assess the Effect of Urban Expansion in Houston on High Flood Risk Area
Blake Weyerhaeuser	Effect of Urban Expansion Around Lake Minnetonka and the Surrounding Bodies

urban heat
Adriana Maciel Metal	Map Seasonal Distribution of Urban Green Space in Bay Area, CA

soil moisture
Urmila Mallick	Examining Landscape Characteristics and Soil Properties in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Landscape

method development
Teddy Horangic	Classified Map Using a Combination of Drone Footage and Satellite Imagery
Jonathan Rigby	Examining Wildfire Detection Through GOES 16 and 17 Imagery

land use change
Jon Michel	Quantify the Land-Use Change of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems in Central Wyoming
Camilla Ledezma	Quantify Land-Use/Cover Changes (LUCC) in an Area of the Venezuelan Llanos

glacier melting
Megan Grimes	Quantify Glacial Retreat, Grey Glacier

foresst
Riley Wadehra	Mapping the Extent of Savanna Ecosystems Over Time in Kruger National Park, South Africa and Surrounding Area
Katy Sun	Analyzing the Rapid Rate of Deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia from 2001-2011
Aranzazu Soto	Link Petroleum Extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon to Deforestation and Reduced Vegetated Area
Marco Alvarez	Compare Northern Florida Plantation Pine Stands in the Panhandle Region to Pine Stands in Preserves in Maine

environmental risk assessment
Brianna Fernandez	Comparison Between Before and After the 2016 Flash Flood in Greenbrier, West Virginia

ecology
Yiheng Zhou	Monitoring Emperor Penguin Colonies at Cape Washington from 2013-2021 Using Landsat 8 Imagery
Richard Sturtevant	Wetland Restoration in Eel River Headwater Restoration
Ella Lubin	Compare NDVI before, during, and after 2019 extreme drought in Australia
Derek Fucich	Mapping Gopher Tortoise Habitat Through RSPF Application
Anna de Hostos	Harmful Algal Blooms in Alameda County during the 2011-2017 California Drought

agriculture
Meredith Ryan	Land Use Classification of an Area in Nebraska and Comparing NDVI Values of Three Different Crops
Maggie Hart	Examing the Agricultural Impact in Northern Afghanistan Following Taliban Occupation

 

Spring 2021 Semester

land cover change
Sebastian Baez	Land Use Change in Nassau County, NY, 1988-2016
Jacqueline Buonfiglio	Investigating Changes in Human Impact Outside Protected Area in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Michela Catena	Evaluation Land Cover Change in Central Vietnam to Inform Flood Hazard Analysis
Jeamme Chia	Understanding Land Cover Change in Sepaku District, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia (2000-2009)
Melissa Halstead	Fracking Pipeline Landscape Change
Erin Lippitt	Land Use Change Detection in the Southeastern Adirondacks
forests
Yihong Zhu	Forest Cover Change UnderUrbanization Background from 2000 to 2020 in Fuzhou, Southern China
Eudora Miao	Characterizing the Change in Forested Area Around Noggang Village from 1990-2020
astronomy
Annie Polish	Multi-Instrument Observation of a Glacial Feature on Mars
Urban
Carlos Carrillo-Gallegos	Urbanization of Conservation Area in Southern Mexico City
agriculture and vegetation
Raymond Zhao	Utility-Scale Solar Farm Development and Its Impact on Land Use, NDVI, and Land Surface Temperature in California’s Imperial Valley
Benjamin W. Stern	Pittsburgh’s Changing Vegetation Cover: Estimates & Inferences Using Satellite Imagery
Carolyn Savoldelli	Quinnipiac River Marsh Vegetation Succession
Rachael Ross	Using Remote Sensing to Analyze Smallholder Farmland Expansion in Loibor Siret, Northern Tanzania
Nora Hardy	Monitoring Vegetation Regrowth at Dam Removal Sites Using Remote Sensing Techniques: Two Approaches for Large-Scale Sites

 

Spring 2020 Semester

land cover change
Sangam Paudel	Forest fires and land cover change in Nepal
Amelia Han	Land cover change in Newtown, CT
Sherry Xu	Using remote sensing to study desert “superblooms” in California
Minnie Min Ying Li	Urban change detection in New Haven, CT using declassified imagery
Anya Lomsadze	Change analysis surrounding the Merowe Dam, Sudan
Colin Baciocco	Assessing changes in perennial ice cover on Baranof Island, Alaska
Forests
Xiyao Fu	Reforestation in the Phillipines
Isa Del Toro Mijares	Examining the deforestation effects of Plan Colombia’s glyposate campaigns
Jacob Payne	Reforestation of the Icelandic landscape
Mary Yap	Land use change and undocumented deforestation and urbanization
Air Quality
Ningjing Wang	A comparative study of coronavirus’ impact on air quality
Victoria Dombrowik	Modeling emissions and preliminary conditions of the 2018 Camp Fire
Drones
David Bruce	Analysis of high resolution drone imagery of Horse Island
Agriculture
Katrina Starbird	Detection of agricultural production in Saudi Arabia
Keer Zhang	Mapping irrigated area in California
Water
Sarah Esenther	Water quality in Long Island Sound

 

Spring 2019 Semester

land cover change
Britta Dosch	M&E verification of silvopastoral capacity building programs in Panama using 4 vegetation indices
Naoya Orita	Leakage from REDD+ Project: Case study within the Madre de Dios region of Peru
Aidan Mock	Palm oil-linked deforestation and forest degradation in Sabah, Malaysia
Rahul Nagvekar	Land use change in Zimbabwe’s Shangani River Valley during the Gukuranhundi Massacres
Mingmin Feng	Regional development assessment after connection to the highway in Motuo County, China
Mads O’Brien	Vegetation and mineral alteration near Mammoth Geothermal Complex, Mono County, CA
Drought
Zach Gold	Change detection during a historic drought in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Charlotte Stanley	Drought impact on crops in the Cape Winelands
hurricanes & floods
Daniel Monteagudo	Observing vegetation loss in Cuba due to Hurricane Michael using Sentinel-2 imagery
Daniel Losos	Multi-temporal analysis of inland flooding following Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas
Devon Ericksen	Remote sensing of April 2018 Kauai floods
Glaciers
Trina White	Mapping ice cover on the Cordillera Blanca mountain range in Western Peru
Nadia Grisaru	The effects of black carbon from wildfires on glacier surface albedo and ablation
Atmosphere
Ulla Heede	Outgoing longwave radiation and tropical clouds
Hoon Pyo (Tim) Jeon	Estimating ground-level NO2 concentrations over the Korean Peninsula using Sentinel-5P data
urban
Alan Fairbank	Then and now: Documenting urbanization of Surket Valley from 1976-2018
Chengcheng Qiu	Vegetation coverage around Hutong and modern residential neighborhoods in Beijing
Lauren Stoneburner	Detecting urban tree canopy cover change in Portland, OR
Yihao Xie	Urbanization in Lanzhou New Area, China
Water
Sally Goodman	Mapping water features and wildlife in Laikipia County, Kenya
Zhi Yi Yeo	Understanding coral reef stressors on urban reefs along the southern shores of Singapore
Hazards
Zhi Li	The influences of fire severity on forest regeneration in the West
Will Strauch	Detection of cumulative spruce budworm defoliation using Landsat imagery

 

Spring 2018 Semester

Agriculture
Jaclyn Kachelmeyer	Detecting Agricultural Changes in Finney, Gray, and Haskell Counties, Kansas
Bowen Fang	Studying the Agriculture Change in a Northwest China Artificial Oasis
Dylan Cicero	A Satellite Remote Sensing Analysis of Cover Cropping Practices in Champaign County, Illinois
Alberto Tordesillas Torres	Crop pattern changes in La Mancha region, Spain
Drought
Rachel McMonagle	Assessing the vegetation effects of the 2006 drought and subsequent conflict in Syria
Alexandra Savino	2016 Drought Impact on Reservoirs and Large Lakes in New Jersey
Sharada Vadlamani	Before and After the Drought - Analysis of Changes in Nebraska’s Agricultural Productivity from 2010-2016
Natural Hazards
Sushant Banjara	Detection and Interpretation of Land Cover Changes Caused by Koshi Flood, 2008
Cori Grainger	Determining flooding impact in Almora, India from 2008 – 2018 using MODIS NDVI data
Tina Huang	Damage and Recovery Assessment in Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria
Grace Reville	Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Irma on Barbuda Land Cover Using Sentinel 2 Imagery
Theo Kuhn	Volcanic Hazard Assessment of Mount Sundoro, Java, Indonesia
Atmosphere
Maddie Shankle	Cloud Phase Properties and Structure in the Indian Monsoon
Maggie Yao	Assessing Temporal and Spatial Variations in Dust Storms in Northeastern China
Astronomy
Helen Siegel	Process for Mineral Identification in the Mawrth Vallis, Mars
Landscape Change Detection
Indra Acharja	Land Use Change and urbanization in Punatsangchu Valley, Bhutan
Younten Phuntsho	Study on the impacts of ban on shifting cultivation through landcover change analysis
Andry Rajaoberison	Mangrove Cover and Land Use Change in Coastal Environments
Nicholas Fields	Assessing land cover change on a Caribbean small island state: Barbados, 2002 to 2017
Jack Singer	Forest Type Change in the Roaring Fork Watershed, Colorado
Yookyung Kim	Time Series Analysis of the Grand Canyon National Park Region

 

Spring 2017 Semester

Forest Issues
Brian Lee	Monitoring deforestation in the Moskitia Corridor between Honduras and Nicaragua
Holden Leslie-Bole	Deforestation Patterns in the Lowlands of Eastern Bolivia
Benjamin Rifkin	Changes in Vegetation Cover over 14 Years in Southwestern Madagascar
Aaron Lefland	Detecting Connecticut’s 2016 Gypsy Moth Defoliation Event Using Landsat Imager
Mitchell Weldon	Investigation of Sentinel-2 Data for Distinguishing Conifer Species in the Catlins
Human Impacts
Kathryn McConnell	New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme and Land Use Patterns: Exploring the Forest to Dairy Conversion Hypothesis
Rose Sulentic	Urbanization in Cluj-Napoca: Examining Expansion After Joining the EU
Epidemiology
Alyssa Parpia	Kawasaki Disease and Dust Storms in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Exploratory Analysis using Meteosat and MODIS
Habitat
Adam Eichenwald	Seasonal Distributions of Predators and Prey: Mapping Presence of Falcons and Grouse with Maximum Entropy Modeling
Luke Menard	Identifying Grazing Halos from a Series of Depth-Corrected Satellite Images
Juliana Hanle	Remote sensing to track Thick-billed Murre habitat change on Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut
Qiying Kuang	Explore Changes of Panda Habitat Over Time
Ecology
Rachel Renne	Relating Climate Zones and Vegetation in the Sagebrush Region of the United States
William Koh	NDVI Growing Season Analysis: Currant Creek Ranch
TC Chakraborty	Investigating associations between air temperature and surface temperature over North America
Climate
Dimitri Diagne	Lac de Guiers, 1987 and 2016: Interannual and Seasonal Surface Area Change in a Sahelian Lake
Khalid Cannon	The Impact of Climate Change on the Coastline of Newtok, Alaska
Hannah Walchak	Drought and Recovery at Lake Oroville, California Exploration of Planet Labs Image Capabilities, Processing & Analysis Methods
Ajit Rajiva	Observing Vegetation-Temperature Relationships in Western India
Agriculture
Nina Lagpacan	Detecting Grassland to Cropland Conversion in Southeastern Montana
Sophie Ruehr	The Spatial Effects of the Moroccan Green Plan: Using ENVI to detect change in agricultural technology near Agadir
Landscape Change Detection
Samantha Garvin	Development and Degazzetement: land cover change over time in northern Botswana
Joanne Choly	Change in Vegetation and Land Cover/Land Use in the Mount Monadnock Area of Cheshire County, NH
Genora Givens	Land Cover Change in Apia, Samoa
RS Techniques
Andrew Wilcox	Integrating High Resolution Imagery with Satellite Data
Qingyang Chen	Texture-based Land Cover Classification
Cameron Yick	Day & Night: Combining High-Resolution Night Photography with LANDSAT to Understand Land Use in Dubai

 

Spring 2016 Semester

Human Impacts
Sabrina Szeto	The Fate of Burned Lands in Riau, Indonesia
Shaadee Ahmadnia	Global Policies, Substitution, and the Rise of Palm Oil in Kalimantan
Ariege Besson	Poverty across Indonesia measured through access to electricity
Chendan Yan	Observing Change in Urban Heat Island Effects and Vegetation in Shanghai
Stephanie Ng	Examining the Urban Heat Island effects in Singapore
Kate Farley	Recovery of Mountain Top Removal sites in eastern Kentucky over time
Landscape Change Detection
Rachel Gulbraa	Land use change on Easter Island
Martin Becker	Land use change in the Araucarias Biosphere Reserve in Chile
Chelsea Judy	Land use change and forest degradation in Ethiopia
Serena Lau	Land cover change in California’s Central Valley
Rachel Lowenthal	Study the Farmington River watershed
Ana Lambert	Change detection in Lake Chapala
Aisha Pasha	Changes in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
Shu Tao	Pripyat - Changes 30 years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Epidemiology
Kara Fikrig	Rat habitat for studying Leptospirosis in Salvador, Brazil
Rachel Arnesen	Predicting schistosomiasis risk in Zimbabwe using remote sensing data
Archaeology
Olivia Walker	Detecting Land Use Patterns in Archeological Sites in the Tao River Valley
Oceans & Atmosphere
Melissa Castera	Algal Blooms In the Gulf of Mexico
Bart DiFiore	Grazing halos around coral reefs
John McNamara	Air Pollution Effects on the Radiative Properties of Clouds in West Africa
Christine Tsai	Cloud Phase Discrimination using MODIS Imagery
Drought
Annie Bui	NDVI study of drought conditions in California
Lily Hahn	Impact of 2012 Colorado Drought on Fire Risk Factors
Ecology
Nicholas Brown	Elevation and vegetation Relationship in the Peruvian Central Highlands
Maria Pozimski	Effects on Treeline Classification on Landsat Imagery
Grace Stonecipher	Using change detection to identify wildfire areas in Alaska
Climate
Chenyu Ma	Surface Melt of Central and Western Chugach Mountains
Weijing Soh	El Niño Impacts on the Stress Response of Forests and Palm Plantations
Rain Tsong	Vegetation response to El Niño in Southern California
Wenjun Wang	Large scale monitoring of snow cover change in Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau

Spring 2015 Semester

Forest Issues
Simeon Max	Mapping Forest in SE Asia using Data from the Google Earth Engine
Maya Midzik	Factors Affecting Vegetative Growth in the Gunnison National Forest
Alex Todorovic-Jones	Forest mapping of Uttarakhand, India
Steven Patriarco	Evaluating Forest Change in the Greater Gunung Palung Region of West Kalimantan, Indonesia from 2007-2014
Agriculture
Katie Weber	Crops and Conflict: Irrigation along the Euphrates River in Syria and Iraq
Eric Fein	Libya Desert Irrigation and Water Consumption
Matheus Couto	Brazilian Soy Moratorium Impacts on Productive Area and Deforestation
Urban Issues
Phil Esterman	Using Satellite Night Lights to Monitor Urban Expansion in India
Landscape Change Detection
Paige Breen	The Effects of Overgrazing and Attempts at Restoration in Chacabuco Valley
David Gonzalez	Land-Use Change and Development in Madre de Dios, Peru
Vinh Lang	Change Within and Around Sinharaja Man Biosphere Reserve, Sri Lanka
Nitsan Shakked	Monitoring Water Level Changes of the Aral Sea Between 1985 and 2014
Water & Drought
Chris Bowman	Remote Sensing of Wetland Hydrology in South Florida
Ross Bernet	Snowpack and Glaciation in California’s Eastern Sierras
Gabriela Baeza-Castaneda	Observing Drought Effects Adjacent to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
Matt Goldklang	Using MODIS NDVI Timeseries to Study Drought
Ben Hayes	Forest Drought Stress in Northwest Oregon
Geology
XinXin Xu	Mesoproterozoic Geology of the Sinclair Group
Climate
Pamela Soto	Sea Level Rise and Wetland Loss in Coastal Louisiana
Jiani Yang	Monitoring Norway Spruce Migration in the Scandinavia Peninsula
Energy Balance
Ethan Kyzivat	Remotely Sensing Soil Moisture: Spectrometry and Heat Budget Analysis

 

Spring 2014 Semester

Forest Issues
Celine Lim	Change of Peat Swamp Forests and Palm Oil in Kalimantan
Kristin Dreiling	Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle: Small Insects Making a Big Impact Colorado Forests
Sarah Tolbert	Measure Forest Changes Over Time in the Burhiniyi Community Forest
Epidemiology
Wan Nurul Naszeerah	Eco-epidemiology of malaria at Bhutan-India Border
Agriculture
Carlin Rosengarten	Observing Land Cover Transformations in Vietnam’s Coffee-Growing Highlands
Colin Brown	Change Detection and Land Cover of Almond Orchards in California’s San Joaquin Valley
Gabriel Chait	Shifting Agriculture and Forest Land Uses in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula
Julia Anderson	Detecting Greenhouse Agricultural Expansion in China using Landsat Imagery
Sophie Young	Intensification of Cotton Cultivation in Xinjiang Province, China since 1990
Urban Issues
Alexander Shiarella	Tracking Urban Expansion and Change in Warsaw, Poland
Avishesh Neupane	Urbanization and Land Use Change in Kathmandu Valley
Ijeamaka Anyene	Evaluating Urban Expansion and Land Cover Change in Nairobi, Kenya
Peter Hirsch	Informal Settlement Mapping of Mumbai, India
Vivienne Zhang	Measuring the Accelerated Population Growth and Urbanization of the Tibet Autonomous Region
Human Impacts
Catherine Kuhn	Climate Change Vulnerability in the Powder River Basin, WY
Joseph Calamia	Determining the Growth of the Jharia Coalfield Fire
Marjorie Hirs	Oil Slick Monitoring
RS Techniques
Jamie O’Connell	Can salt marsh community vegetation be identified based on spectral signatures?
Jill Kelly	Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Remote Sensing Pixel Resolution
Cryosphere
Parker Liautaud	Change Detection Study of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
Water
Colby Tucker	Effect of Drought on Soil Moisture and NDVI in Relation to Water Origin in Northern Ca
Julie Carson	Flood Impact in Sept 2013 in Boulder & Estes Park Region
Simon Gore	Flood Plain Classification for Hydrology Friction Modeling
Uma Bhandaram	Urbanization and Implications on Wetland Areas in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Yiyuan Qin	Exploring RS Applications in Assessing Water Quality in Belgrade Lakes Region, ME
Astronomy
Jan Kolmas	Seasonal Changes in Martian Polar Regions

 

Spring 2013 Semester

Forest Issues
Hanna Mershman	Forest Succession & the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan, Willamette Nat. Forest, OR
Jin Yin	Change Detection of Landuse in Leishan County, China
Abigail Eurich	Analysis of Mountain Pine Beetle Damage Extent in Colorado and Wyoming
Carlos Gould	A Study of Deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil
Ambika Khadka	Forest cover changes in Xinjiang River sub-watershed in Jiangxi Province, China
Jonathan Sullivan	Estimating aboveground tree biomass at Yale-Myers Forest
Lexi Tuddenham	Analysis of Haiti reforestation
Peter Umunay	Detecting Land Cover Change in the Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo
Epidemiology
Kimberly Lay	Classification of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: Implications for Urban Slum Health
Nicole West	Mapping malaria vector habitat in Sarpang province of Bhutan
Landscape Change Detection
Matt Bare	Measure land use change in the Colombian Amazon
Emanuel Feld	Land cover change in the Rufiji River and Delta region
Molly Roske	Quantify land cover change over time in the southeastern Azuero Peninsula of Panama
Sumana Serchan	Detecting land use land cover in the northern region of Lake Champlain Basin
David Tan	Tracking Changes in Vegetation Cover in Tropical Lowland Singapore
Lucia Woo	Change detection analysis in the western coastal areas of Aceh, Indonesia
Landscape Modeling
Henry Glick	A Modeling Cougar Habitat in the Northeast
Beth Tellman	Land Cover/Land Use Change for Rainfall-Run-off Modeling in El Salvador
Urban Issues
Meredith Azevedo	Effects of Urban Expansion on Agricultural Lands: A Delhi, India Case Study
Ben Friedman	Observing Population Growth in Douglas County, Colorado
Esther Rojas-Garcia	Observation of land-use change of the top megacity worldwide: Delhi, India
Kellie Stokes	Quantifying Urban Extent and Urban Greenspace Changes in Tianjin China
Human Impacts
Thomas Rokholt	Exploration of pollution & human activity on vegetation in Sognefjord region of Norway
Anna Wade	Environmental changes caused by Mountaintop Mining
Madeline Yozwiak	Quantify the impact of shale gas infrastructure on the Pennsylvania landscape
Oceans & Atmosphere
Sarah Ditchek	Remote Sensing of SST, Chlorophyll A, and NDVI off the Coast of Peru
Allegra Gordon	Seasonal change in Arctic Sea Ice
Azusa Takeishi	Inter-annual variability of wintertime precipitation over the Rocky Mountain
Johanna Press	Comparison of Dust Identification Methods in the Middle East Region
Water & Drought
Jenna Hessert	Environmental Change in Etosha, Namibia
Sonam Choden	Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas: in The Punatsang Chhu River Basin, Bhutan
Israel Kositsky	Observing the Decreasing Water Levels in the Dead Sea
Ellen Arnstein	Measuring Water Level Changes in Lake Titicaca
Yiqi Zheng	Examining the Responses of Different Land Types to Drought
Xiangying Shi	What caused the Forest Degradation? Differentiating Droughts and Deforestation
Luke Cartwright	Examination of the 2012 heatwave and drought in the UK
Agriculture
Emily Farr	Trends in Agriculture in the Po River Valley
Frieda Fein	Expansion of irrigated agriculture in the Western Nile Delta
Michael Nestler	Center Pivot Irrigation Agriculture in the Arabian Desert
Philippa Stoddard	Identification of pre-colonial Andean agricultural terraces
Fire
Beata Fiszer	Wallow Fire: Burn Scar characteristics
Kandice Harper	Impact of Fire on Albedo and Land Surface Temperature in the Alaskan Boreal Forest
Heat Budget
Natalie Schultz	Surface heat budget analysis of deforestation in Indonesia
Ryan Laemel	Surface Albedo Measurements of New Haven
RS Techniques
Lindsi Seegmiller	High Resolution vs Low Resolution: A comparative study of satellite imagery analysis

 

Spring 2012 Semester

Forest Issues
Julia Osterman	Examining forest cover in northern Madagascar
Kayanna Warren	How well can Landsat Determine Stand Age after Harvest?
Tina Schneider	Forest cover change detection on the Thai-Lao border
Epidemiology
Natalie Price	Classifying Greater Cairo to determine high risk areas for avian flu transmission
Landscape Change Detection
Sharon Smith	Land-Use change in the Boa-Esperança corridor, Bahia, Brazil
Daniel Hoshizaki	Change detection on the Mattole River watershed
Christopher Dutton	Land Cover Change in and around the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Frances Liu	Agricultural changes in central Crete, Greece
Kanchan Shrestha	Describing the Changes in Koshi River Basin using Landsat
Meredith Martin	Land-use change around Jenaro Herrera in Loreto, Peru from 1985-2011
Landcover Mapping
Jennifer Kasbohm	A Geological Classification of the Sinclair Group, Namibia
Rafael Lefkowitz	Remote Sensing of the Dead Sea Region
Rachel Kramer	Mapping the forest-agricultural boundary along a National Park in Madagascar
Nikki Grigg	A Seasonal Comparison of Vegetation and Elevation in Chaco Canyon
Urban Issues
Denise Soesilo	Monitor vegetative growth against population and density in Berlin, Germany
Paulo Quadri Barba	Land Use and Temperature Variations across Eastern Mexico City Valley
Climate
Catherine Chen	The Effect of Drought on Mongolia
Atmosphere
Rebecca Schultz	Interpreting Atmospheric Aerosols with Remote Satellite Imagery
Rick Russotto	Saharan dust and the DOMEX project
Environmental Issues
Erin Raboin	Assessing biomass across a mixed-use landscape in Panama
Ankur Garg	Identify potential for energy generation from non-wood based biomass
Matthew Long	An Examination of Turbidity in the upper Chesapeake Bay
Sebastian Ramirez	Vegetation response to summer monsoon, elevation and aspect in Mexico
Judith Ament	Effects of the 1997/1998 El Nino events on the water levels of Lake Kyoga, Uganda
Archeology
Andrew Womack	Detecting Degradation in Archaeological Sites Over Time in the Chengdu Plain
RS Techniques
Danielle Rappaport	Land cover classification with a focus on cloud and cloud shadow removal

 

Spring 2011 Semester

Forest Issues
Nathan Rutenbeck	Estimating Land Cover Type on Parcels of Conservation Value
Jason Lawhon	Mapping Pine Beetle Mortality in Wyoming Mixed Conifer Forest
Selin Devranoglu	Remote Sensing of Forest Health: Case of Insect Damage Hatila Valley, Turkey
Campbell Moore	Fire and Forest Degradation in Niumi District, The Gambia
Landscape Change Detection
Lily Zeng	Land cover change in Xishuangbanna, China
Rita Effah	Land use land cover changes in a high forest zone in southwest Ghana
Man-Yu Yang	Kingmen Taiwan Post-war land use change
Yan He	Landscape Change in Xin Jiang Province, China, 1989-2010
Yao Fu	Visualizing the Aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami through Change Detection
Amy Higgins	Land Cover Classification & Change Detection in Ladakh, India using ASTER Imagery
Jeffrey Chow	Vegetation change in El salvador
Epidemiology
Mohammed Salim	Effect of land use on the incidence of Lyme disease on Block Island, Rhode Island
Urban Issues
Yang Tian	Radiative forcing at local to national level associated with urbanization in China
Nedal Nassar	Estimating Changes in Urban Metal Stocks via Nighttime lights
Raul Lamas-Bregante	Growth of Lima city: Trends and implications
Landcover Mapping
Jennifer Miller	Land Cover Classification ofPanna Tiger Reserve, India
Lauren Brooks	Detection of Mountain Top Removal Sites in Southern West Virginia using Image Enhancement Indices
Angela Orthmeyer	Ecosystem Services in the Natchaug Watershed, CT
David Ross	Identification of pasture lands in the Sao Felix do Xingu, Brazil
Anobha Gurung	Land cover and surface temperature for Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Aitong Li	RS_Final_Presentation: The Case of Mt Everest Natural Reserve, Tibet
Kristofer Covey	Predicting optimal backcountry skiing habitat in the dankness of Vermont: A remote sensing and GIS approach

 

Spring 2010 Semester

Forest Issues
Ben Blom	Forest loss along a political gradient: Change in the border region of Hispaniola
Eli Mitchell-Larson	Building an objective case for uniqueness of the Perucica Forest Reserve
Elaine Hooper	Utilization of remotely sensed data to characterize tropical forest fragmentation
Lucy Dunnington	Northern Russia Boreal Forest
Roopa Krithivasan	Forest cover change in south India
Landscape Change Detection
Eliot Logan-Hines	Land-use change in Coto Brus, Costa Rica 1987-2001
Pablo Reed	Deforestation and urbanization patterns around Lago Agrio Sucumbios, Ecuador
Giancarlo Raschio	Deforestation and land degradation detection using Landsat TM images
Troy Hill	Salt marsh vegetation change at Sherwood Island State Park: 1974-present
Epidemiology
Eliza Little	Detectng environmental drivers of 2 important Dengue Fever vectors
Dan Summers	Characterize the dengue vector in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil using several ASTER images
Fleur Porter	Urban expansion of Dhaka, Bangladesh, with implications for disease ecology and health management
Tyler Griswold	Examining the ecologic determinants of risk for yellow fever and dengue in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Human Impacts on the Environment
Ian Starr	Using ASTER and LandSat to detect small illegal road networks within the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Reserve
Alexandra Andrews	Rabbit Creek Gold Mine: a study of land use change in Winnemucca, NV
Manuel Mavila	Infiltration and runoff processes across three main land uses in the Peruvian Andean Amazon
Pam Labib	Egypt land cover changes that impact ecosystem primary productivity
Urban Issues
Chris Mackey	Evaluating Chicago’s Urban Heat Island policy with remote sensing
Ziyan Chu	Urbanization and land cover in Connecticut
Climate
Eric Fournier	Changes in urban areas of California expecting significant precipitation shortages
Kirsty Escalante	Exploring the effects of the 1997-1998 El Niño on the Moche Valley in Peru
Matt Ramlow	Evaluating the effects of thermokarst lakes on climate in the Bering Land Bridge
Chelsea Willett	Investigation of elevation and topography’s influence on N. Patagonian Ice Sheet
Archeology
Wade Campbell	Remote sensing for archaeological prospecting in the Méma, Mali
Atmosphere
Diana Connett	Using satellite data to estimate ground-level CO2 emissions
Astronomy
Michele Dufault	Characterizing seasonal change in Russell Crater Dune System
Bio-geography
Sarah Bahan	Characterization of the oilbird habitat near Cueva del Guácharo, Venezuela

 

Spring 2009 Semester

Forest Issues
Jacob Berv	Investigation of the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation in British Columbia, Canada
Ian Cummins	Deforestation in Santa Barbara Honduras
Christine Trac	Forest Change in China: are China’s forestry statistics supported by remote sensing data?
Desert Environment
Peter Coutros	The Timbuktu Expedition Project
Lauren Adams	Detecting water use in the desert
Landscape Change Detection
Dana Graef	Land use change around Havana, Cuba 1985-2000
Christa Anderson	Land use change on Kuku Ranch, Kajiado District, Kenya
Jacob Munger	Land use in Bangalore, India
Esteban Rossi	Land cover change in the tamed frontier: Iquitos, Peruvian Amazon
Cica Viana	Land cover changes in a region of eastern Brazilian Amazon
Techniques
Jennifer Hoyle	Exploring MODIS snow cover products
Marissa Matsler	Calculating index variables using remote sensing techniques
Bjorn Fredrickson	Developing a tea index for the Upper Assam
Xin Zhang	Detecting landcover type and surface flux through remote sensing in Minn
Tim Kramer	PALSAR/ALOS vs. Landsat TM: A classification comparison
Atmosphere
Michele Trickey	Evaluation of the use of MODIS emissive bands to detect low-level tropospheric inversions over Antofagasta, Chile
Angel Hsu	Blue-skies Beijing? Deriving aerosol information from MODIS to assess air quality in Beijing
Sarah Dewey	Cloud lines off of Cape Hatteras
Epidemiology
Meagan Fitzpatrick	Characterize Aedes mosquito habitat
Sarah Guagliardo	Characterization of mangroves in Cajigal Municipality, Sucre State, Venezuela
Vasso Pappa	Comparison of landcover change detection techniques
Molly Rosenberg	Landscape characterization of risk for Lyme Disease on Block Island: New techniques for creating risk maps in small island settings
Brian Seavey	The potential use of Landsat TM imagery to create an “Early Warning” Praziquantel supply system to improve Schistosomiasis control
Urban Issues
Peter Christensen	Examining agriculture-urban land conversion in the Rio Bravo Watershed
Norio Takaki	Characterizing urban expansion around Brasilia
Tianming Chen	Influences of urbanization on local climate in Beijing
Climate
Dea Doklestic	Examining the 2009 drought effects in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aaron Judah	Measuring changes in feedback mechanisms responsible for exacerbating heatwaves and droughts from space observations
Tamara Machac	Surface heat budgets and land-cover in Northern Wyoming
Nicole Thom	The recent flood of the Red River in North Dakota

 

Fall 2007 Semester

Forest Issues
Mila Dunbar-Irwin	Deforestation in the Palembang Area, Indonesia
Sam Price	A proof-of-concept forest stand type map for Armenia from Landsat TM imagery
Archeology
Carlos Chiriboga	Identification of archaeological site locations in the northwestern area of the Petén, Guatemala
Will Gardner	Remote sensing survey of prehistoric land cultivation In the Yampa and White River Drainage Basins
Chris Milan	Examine regional differecnes within the Lurin Valley, Peru
Landscape Change Detection
Madeline Blount	Climate change in the Tibetan Plateau
Kyle Meister	Detecting cover change and areas of vegetated refugia in the border region between Brazil and Paraguay
Yong Zhao	Land uUse change of Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve from 1980’s to 2006
Sara Enders	Changes in vegetation and hydrology of subwatersheds of the Mississippi River Basin
Time Series
Noel Aloysius	Land cover classification based on enhanced vegetation index time series for the Northern Great Plains
Mercedes Bravo	Drought/precipitation pattern assessment in the Gila Wilderness Area of New Mexico
Spectral Analysis
Abby Fraeman	Mineral identification in the Nili Fossae Trough region of Mars
Maung Moe Myint	Analyze spectral changes during leaf desiccation
Epidemiology
Ryan Carney	Using remotely-sensed satellite data to predict the Peridomestic West Nile Virus Avian host populations in Sacramento County, California
David Davis-Boozer	Using remote sensing to model robin distribution in Connecticut
Keita Ebisu	Association between residential landuse and asthma severity
Meteorology
Nat Wilson	Using Landsat imagery to characterize snow metamorphosis over alpine topography
Andrew Delman	Sea surface temperatures and precipitation patterns in the Galápagos Islands Area, Pacific Ocean

 

Spring 2007 Semester

Forest Issues
Alark Saxena	Using Landsat imagery to locate coconut plantations on the Island of Dominica
Daniel Peerless	Exploring methods to age-classify recent fire scars in the boreal forests of Denali National Park
Xuemei Han	Comparing the effectiveness of different image types in classifying multiple forest characteristics in northeastern China
Innocent Liengola	Remote sensing as a tool to detect Sericostachys scandens distribution in the Grauer’s gorilla habitats
Laura Robertson	Spectral assessment of forest damage in the High-Peaks region of the Adirondack Forest
Nathan Reagle	Identification and spread of Mountain Pine Beetle in British Columbia
Ecosystems
Christopher McManus	Measuring sources of wild food in Nkandla, South Africa
Kimberly Lau	Studying primate habitat canopy density changes Near Lake Nakuru, Kenya
Alex DeWire	Examining post-Katrina wetlands recovery
Paula Randler	The salt marsh at Sherwood Island State Park from 1974 to 2005
Chris Yuan-Farrell	Change detection in a salt marsh community along the Quinnipiac River
Punit Lalbhai	Predicting bird abundances and composition using satellite imagery
Landscape Change Detection
Abigail Letzter	Urban expansion of Chicago from 1989 to 2001
Brenna Vredeveld	Land cover change in and around Quito, Ecuador
John Nixon	Comparing land change over ~14 years in the northern and southern study areas of the BOREAS research project
Laura Frye-Levine	Modeling land-cover change in a Honduran national park
Lei Lei	Examining wetlands changes around Lake Powell from 1991 to 2000
Natalie Ceperley	Land-cover change in riparian corridors of the Central Oueme Basin
Lynda Odofin	Observing the Niger Delta from Space: The effects of oil exploration
Tom James	Vegetation change assessment in the Darhad Valley, Mongolia
Geology
Tara Mayeau	Vertical uplift and normal fault identification in Western Crete from InSAR and ASTER
Oceans
Karen Stamieszkin	Pacific Ocean SST and chlorophyll concentrations in normal and El Niño years
Micah Ziegler	Studying the changing sediment loads in the Chesapeake Bay
Atmosphere
Bridgid Curry	Characterizing the smoke plume generated by a Canadian forest fire
Xiaoyue Du	Using MODIS data to study sand and dust storms in eastern China
Melanie Parker	Investigating cloud properties off the coast of Southern California
Kasia Wegrzyn	The change in maximum sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea, 2000 to 2006
Meteorology
Kevin Currey	Examining high-latitude mountain meteorology on Mt. McKinley
Matt Grant	Studying mountain micro-climates in Glacier National Park

 

Spring 2006 Semester

Forest Issues
Wendy Francesconi	Reforestation in Esparza, Costa Rica. Landscape changes as a consequence of improved agricultural practices
Jennifer Adler	Mapping Blue Gum Eucalyptus in coastal California
Perrine Punwani	Deforestation around refugee camps in southern Guinea
Jessica Albietz	Tracking trends in deforestation in the Antongil Bay watersheds, 1996 - 2001
Erin Cushing	Deforestation and land cover change in SE Madagascar
Caroline Simmonds	Comparing spatial deforestation patterns over time
Human Impacts on the Environment
Ross Geredien	Mountaintop removal coal mining in southern West Virginia
Ikuko Matsumoto	Mining impacts on vegetation in the Philippines
Jessica Darling	Identifying marginal agricultural lands in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Climate
Kanvaly Bamba	Comparing the recent drought to the climate of prior years
Anthony Didlake	Examining the influence of terrain and precipitation on the seasonal variability of vegetation in northern CA
Urban Issues
Shawn Walker	Exploring diurnal temperature fluctuation in and around two metropolitan regions
Jayoung Koo	Detecting landcover change influenced by development in Cheju Island, 1990 - 2000
Joel Creswell	Classifying impervious surface cover in New Haven County watersheds
Water Quality
Shani Harmon	Remote sensing productivity in the Chesapeake Bay
Rhead Enion	Measuring sedimentation rates in the Chesapeake Bay through satellite imaging
David Griffith	The impacts of land use on total suspended solid and chloryphyll a concentrations
Kate Woodruff	The impact of water diversion projects on land use in the lower Mekong River region
Snow, Ice and Glaciers
Steven Brady	Predicting marbled salamander distribution based on surface ice cover
Fox Kral	Detecting glacial change on Mt. Kilamanjaro
Denise Levitan	Assessing change in the extent of glaciers in Glacier N.P.
Critter Thompson	Changing snowpack & changing climate in the Puget Sound - Georgia Basin region
Kasia Wegrzyn	Seasonal ice pack and change over time of the size of the Ross Ice Shelf
Na Xu	Investigating glaciers and landcover change in the Chile - Argentina border
Storms and other Natural Events
Jenna Bourne	Evolution of Hurricane Katrina
Kara DiFrancesco	Wetland loss after Hurricane Katrina
Devin McPhillips	Identification of dust storm source regions using MODIS imagery
Beth Feingold	Characterize the Augustine Volcano eruption of January 2006
Emily Hicks	Indirect effects of the Indian Ocean Tsunami - Assessing changes in inland forest cover
Catherine Schloegel	Examining fire scar patterns in the Mesa Verde Plateau
Landscape Change Detection
Avery Anderson	Impact of land use change in the Upper Green River Valley, WY on large carnivore populations
Mohamad Chakaki	Landcover classification and change detection in Damascus, Syria
Manisha Gangopadhyay	Tracking temporal changes of two rivers in Bangladesh
Anil Pokhrel	Land use changes along the Koshi River Basin of E. Nepal
Markelle Smith	Changing landuse patterns in the Grand Traverse Bay watershed
Elizabeth Ra’cz	Changes in vegetation and water on Pine Ridge Reservation, 1979 - 2000
Emily Goble	Vegetation difference in the Tugen Hills/Lake Baringo area of Kenya
Laura Jeanty	Studying land cover change in MA using MODIS imagery
Techniques and Issues of Scale
Kristen Welsh	Masking clouds in satellite imagery: effectiveness in land cover classification
Amany von Oehsen	Comparing MODIS and Landsat scenes in the State of Mato Grosso
Yue Wang	Vegetation mapping and spatial interpolation in the southwest of China
Kevin Lauterbach	Identifying waterbodies at different spatial resolutions
Rebecca Sanborn	Developing conservation monitoring techniques using Landsat and ASTER images
Jason Nesbitt	Using ASTER to study archaeological landscapes in the Huanuco region of Peru
Liza Lutzker	Examining deciduous forest fragmentation at two levels of resolution

 

Fall 2004 Semester

Forest Issues
Jim Cronan	Forest succession stages after wild fires in Alaska
Andrew Niccolai	Evaluation of forest cover estimation approaches derived from remotely sensed imagery for the Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area, Louisiana
Rafael Bernardi	Assessing the current situation and evolution of fragments of coastal sand forests in Uruguay
Dan Braden	Quantifying forest cover change in the Western Area forest of Sierra Leone
Luisa Fernanda Lema V?lez	Assessing mangrove restoration in the Ci?naga Grande De Santa Marta
Vincent Medjibe	Examining changes in the Dzanga - Sangha region of the Central African Republic from 1986 to 2001
Rolando Mendez-Treneman	Development of a remote sensing procedure to identify wetlands
Human Impacts on the Environment
Laura Cuoco	Studying the expansion of shrimp farms in the Chone River estuary of Ecuador
Melissa Andersen	Land use cChange in southeastern Iraq: An analysis of pre- and post-Gulf War marshlands
Rebecca Barnes	Nitrogen export from the Quinnipiac watershed
Linda Kramme	Evaluating landcover and landuse changes near Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Kathryn Dana	Irrigation and tourism impacts on the Segura River region of Spain
Wei-Chien Lai	Investigating the impact of economic development on the coastal environment of Taiwan
Climate
Brandon Berkeley	Exploring seasonal and long-term changes in vegetation cover in the Sahel region of western Africa
Miriam Clinton	An investigation of the relationship between climate change and patterns on Native American reservations in South Dakota
Urban Issues
Victoria Thompson	Urban sprawl in Austin, TX between 1987 and 2001
Jocelyn Hittle	Investigating landcover change in the Seattle metropolitan region between 1990 and 2000
Stephanie Horn	Landcover change detection of Huntsville, AL between 1991 and 2001
Iona Hawken	Urban Jungle: Urbanization, land-cover change, and urban-rural dynamics in a development frontier of Amaz?nia
Public Health
Katherine Hansen	Habitat characterization of the Lone Star Tick Amblyomma americanum
Erika Schielke	Predicting locust plagues in western Australia using NDVI
Industrial Impacts
Laura Evans	Heavy industry decline and the return of vegetation to Allegheny
Andrea Johnson	Monitoring gas and oil pipelines with remote sensing in a tropical forest
Russell Schimmer	Identifying copper mine tailings using remote sensing
Anthropology
Yukiko Tonoike	Exploring how snow cover and vegetation nomadic populations in NW Iran

 

Spring 2004 Semester

Forest Issues
Liz Petruska	Examining changing forestry practices in the industrial and Non- industrial forested landscapes of Maine
Erik Hayward	Using Landsat and DEM data to detect landcover change in northwestern Maine
Trent Malcolm	Estimating deforestation rates on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia
Ken Shono	Deforestation and land use change in northern Thailand between 1985 and 1996
Megan Mattox	An analysis of forest fragmentation on the Thames River watershed
Leigh Baker	Vegetative classification of Grand Teton National Park using satellite imagery
Urban Issues
Ying Qiu	Application of principle components analysis and entropy to urban sprawl in Beijing, China
Sharon Gulick	Urban sprawl in Tucson
Michael Ritger	Landcover change analysis of Albuquerque, NM and the New York Philadelphia metro areas
Climate
Jessica Barnes	Interannual variability in the agricultural land cover of the Khabour River Basin, 2000-2003
Charlie Liu	Using NDVI to compare changes in deciduous leaf out in the US between 1989 and 1995
Public Health
Heidi Brown	Classification of urban areas to facilitate prediction of mosquito density
Laura Krueger	Urban and suburban growth into tick and mosquito areas leading to risk predictions
Lee Cohnstaedt	Abiotic factors influencing mosquito distribution and disease risk in Sardinia
Annie Gatewood	Characterization of deciduous forest phenology in the northeastern US using MODIS
Landscape Change Detection
Kristin Anderson	Marsh subsidence on the Mississippi Delta
Robin Barr	Classifying the forests of Mt Kenya for use in change analysis 1986-2000
Christopher Riely	Land use and cover change in and around the Yale Meyer’s forest between 1985 and 2001
Alexandra Ponette	Landuse/Landcover classification of Central Veracruz, Mexico
Julie Velásquez Runk	Landcover change in Wounaan Village of eastern Panama between 1985 and 2003
Nadia Khan	Change analyzes east of Aleppo and near Lake Assad, Syria (1984 -1999)
Rosemarie Mannik	Studying changing agricultural practices in the Middle East
Atmosphere
John Williams	Radiative characteristics of a super typhoon
Yanping Li	Studying clouds in the Great Plains using MODIS
Katherine Lin	Asian dust storms
Brett Galimidi	Using MODIS to differentiate between clouds and particulate matter in the Himalaya
Geology
Peter Isaacson	Mineral identification and hydrothermal alteration mapping at Cuprite-Goldfield, Nevada, using Landsat ETM+, ASTER, and AVIRIS data
Examining Environmental Events
Nell Larson	Examining the 1998 ice storm damage to the northern Adirondacks
Ali Macalady	Europe’s 2003 heat wave from space – A look at changes in vegetation
Geri Kantor	Using Landsat imagery to evaluate vegetation cover change in Vietnam following defoliation with Agent Orange
Elevation Imapcts on Vegetation
Martha Bell	Land classification and elevation change in the Central Andes
Jeremy Goetz	Exploring vegetation changes over topographic gradients in the Congo Basin
Ecosystem Mapping
Elena Traister	An investigation into whether alkalinity export varies with land use over time
Jonathan Cox	Desert landscape changes in the American Southwest
Deborah Fillis	Examining landcover adjacent to salt marsh ecosystems
Sparsh Khandeshi	Vegetation variations between alpine meadows