Air Quality Data and Transportation-related emissions: Changes over time and COVID-related trends in the Denver, CO region

Vehicle transportation contributes to air pollution, poor air quality, greenhouse gases, health concerns, and impacts to...

Methane Flux Dynamics in the Prairie Pothole Wetlands

Our planet is experiencing climate warming at an unprecedented rate that can be attributed to increasing atmospheric gre...

Climate Scenarios for Managing Grassland Ecosystems in the Northern Great Plains in Support of the USGS NCCASC

This summer, our group has utilized Python and Google Colab to analyze historical data from various points in the Great ...

Reflectance July 2021

Quick Updates, Data Science, Fire and Media

Sweating the Little Things

The Importance of Consistency and Documentation in Data Science

From Research to Reddit: Earth Lab's Fire Outreach

For Earth Lab, increased attention to wildfire dynamics from the public is an exciting development and allows us opportu...

Drought, dieback, and wildfire in southern California

With the help of Natasha Stavros and Joe McGlinchy of CU Boulder, I've been building a model that looks at how drought c...

When "Going Green" Isn't Good: Lake Color Response to Wildfire

This project intends to determine if post-wildfire changes to lake water quality can be detected with remote sensing too...

Dam: You're Really Disrupting the Flow

For this project, we performed global analyses examining relationships between dam types and river connectivity characte...