NASA Jet Propulsion Lab SURP grant received

PhD student Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi was recently awarded a 1-year award from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!  These grants provide up to $100,000 for cutting edge earth science research conducted by JPL scientists and their chosen collaborators at one of JPL’s 12 partnering universities.

For this project, Cynthia will be collaborating with David Thompson from JPL. They plan to combine QuikSCAT active microwave remote sensing data with the AVIRIS Next Generation data over California to advance remote sensing of tree canopy water, improving our ability to map ecophysiology, water stress, drought response, and fire risk.