CGCEO members present at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, San Francisco, December 2023

January 10, 2024

Each year, AGU’s annual meeting convenes >25,000 attendees from 100+ countries to share research and connect with friends and colleagues. Scientists, educators, policymakers, journalists and communicators attend AGU23 to better understand our planet and environment, opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations to lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.  CGCEO members (shown in bold) presented or co-authored the following papers at the AGU.

Chen, J., John, R., Tian, L., Fang, W., Kolluru, V., Saraf, S., Khajavigodellou, Y., Yang, Z., Meurs, M.E., Sat, B., MohammadiHamidi, S., Socioeconomic-Environmental Systems along the Silk Road across Asian Drylands Belt, Oral Presentation in Global Environmental Change: Atmospheric, Ocean, and Biogeochemistry, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Cho, M.S., Roy, D.P., Huang, H., Yuean, Q., Hugo, D.L., Potential and constraints of commercial high spatial and temporal resolution BlackSky imagery for land science applications – a multi-sensor comparison, Poster in Commercial Earth Observation Data: Research and Applications, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

De Lemos, H., Roy, D.P., A Caution on the Quantification of Rapid Surface Albedo Change Using the MODIS Albedo Product – a Demonstration Study Using the MISR-HR Albedo Product Over a Fire Prone Region in Southern Africa, Poster in The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Falvo, G., Lei, C., Chen, J., Robertson, G.P., Radiative Forcing from Deforestation is Partially Offset by Soil Conservation, Surface Albedo Modification, and Ecosystem Restoration, Poster in Global Environmental Change: Climate Change and Solutions-Anthropocene, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Groisman, P., Chen, J., Tchebakova, N., Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI), Three Directions/Areas of Research, Poster in Global Environmental Change: Integrated Earth System Science, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Huang, H., Roy, D.P., De Lemos, H., Zhang, H.K.,, Luo, D., Boschetti, L., High resolution burned area mapping by deep learning PlanetScope Image Pairs, Oral presentation in Commercial Earth Observation Data: Research and Applications II, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.  

Henebry, G.M., Sîrodoev, I., Tomaszewska, M.A., Mack,E.A., Paraschiv, M., Schvab, A., Ianoş, I., Agricultural land cover transitions, institutional triggers, and the diffusion of innovation in Romania 2002-2024: Initial results, Poster in Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.  

Jain, K., John, R., Torbick, N., Kolluru, V.,  Saraf, S.,  Henebry, G.M., Chandel, A., Jarchow, M., Field-scale detection of multiple Agricultural management practices through Machine learning algorithms in eastern South Dakota, Poster in Remote Sensing for Sustainable Agriculture session, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.  

John, R., Chen, J., Kolluru, V., Henebry, G.M., Saraf, S., Jain, K., Xiao, J., Chandel, A., Interdependent dynamics of food, energy, water and grassland degradation estimates in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Oral Presentation in Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia session, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.  

John, R., Chen, J., Kolluru, V., Henebry, G.M., Saraf, S., Jain, K., Xiao, J., Chandel, A., Interdependent Dynamics of Food, Energy, Water and grassland degradation estimates in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Oral Presentation in Global Environmental Change: Atmospheric, Ocean, and Land Biogeochemistry, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.  

Khajavigodellou, Y., Qi, J., Chen, J., Moore, N., Nejadhashemi, A. P., Zarrin Z., Reframing the WEF Nexus to Prevent WEF Bankruptcy: Transboundary River Basin Water - Energy - Food Bankruptcy Challenges and Potential Solutions, Poster in Global Environmental Change: Climate Change and Solutions-Anthropocene, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Kolluru, V., John, R., Saraf, S., Chen, J., Hankerson, B., Robinson, S., Kussainova, M., Jain, K., Gridded livestock density database and spatial trends for Kazakhstan, Poster in Global Environmental Change: Machine Learning-AI, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Kolluru, V., John, R., Chen, J., Saraf, S., Henebry, G.M., Xiao, J., Jain, K., Pixel-wise contribution and attribution of socioenvironmental system drivers to grassland degradation in Kazakhstan. Poster in Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia,  Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Liang, L., Yang, J., Wittenbraker, W.,  Crocker, E.,  Tomaszewska, M.A., Henebry, G.M., Observing the Differential Phenophasing of Native Trees and Invasive Shrubs Using VENμS: Initial Results, Poster in Understanding Phenological Responses, Changes, and Feedbacks: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Consequences session, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Lou, D., Zhang, H.K., Roy, D.P., Accurate Landsat-8 Cloud and Shadow Masking with a Learning Attention Network Algorithm (LANA), Poster in AI Models in Earth Science, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Qiu, Y., Roy, D.P., Zhang, H.K., Huang, H., Liu, H., Self-supervised Deep Learning Experiments to Detect Forest Cover Loss Using Landsat Time Series, iPoster in Advances in Characterizing and Monitoring Land System Change Using Remote Sensing Data eLightning session, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.  

Saraf, S., John, R., Kolluru, V., Jain, K., Chen, J.,  Examining the causal mechanisms between anthropogenic disturbance, plant diversity, and invasive yellow sweet clover, Poster in Biogeosciences: Global Policy and Solutions, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Shirkey, G., John, R., Anctil, A., Kolluru, V., Mungai, L., Kashongwe, H.B., Cooper, L., Celik, I.,  Chen, J., Carbon Offset Potential of Midwest Agroecosystems: A Spatialized Life-Cycle Assessment Framework, Poster in Global Environmental Change: Atmospheric, Ocean, and Land Biogeochemistry, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Shope, M., Khajavigodellou, Y., Lan, X., Chen, J., Bridging Gaps and Balancing Generalizability with Specificity - Coupled Human and Natural Systems Frameworks for Real-World Applications in a Changing World, Oral Presentation in Science and Society: Integrated Earth System Science, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Tomaszewska, M.A., Henebry, G.M., Snow cover seasonality across montane Central Asia: Variation and change over 20 years (2001-2021) as observed by the MODIS Terra snow product. Poster in Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Whitcraft A.K., Humber, M.L., Guan, K., Sahajpal, R., Kerner, H.R., Gold, K., Jiang, Y., Wolf, S., Skakun, S., Hosseini, M., Hansen, M., Thieme, A., Mirsky, S.B., Hively, W.D., Ghezzehei, T.A., Lobell, D.B., Roy, D.P., Yan, L., Vorster, A., Machmuller, M., Ogle, S.M., Evangelista, P., Yang, Y., Anderson, M., Rejesus, R., Andrisse, S., Pepper, N., Skudrzyk, B., Becker-Reshef, I., Justice, C.O., Doorn, B. The NASA Acres Consortium: Down to Earth Information for US Agriculture, Oral presentation in Applications of Earth Observations for U.S. Agriculture, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Xiao, J., Li, F., Chen, J., Ballantyne, A., Jin, K., Li, B., Abraha, M., John, R., Global water uses efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit, Poster in Biogeosciences: Integrated Earth System Science, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Yan, L., Roy, D.P., Crop field extraction in smallholder regions in Asia from commercial high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery, Oral presentation in Remote Sensing for Sustainable Agriculture, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Yuan, J., Chen, J., Disproportionate Contributions of Land Cover and Changes to Ecosystem Functions in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Poster in Biogeosciences: Integrated Earth System Science, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.

Zhumanova, M., Henebry, G.M., Tomaszewska, M., Orunbaev, S., Vegetation shifts follow slope-aspect patterns: Insights into the consequences of environmental changes in Central Asian Highlands. Poster in Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia session, Annual Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, December 11-15, 2023.