This AVHRR image shows heavy ice cover on the Great Lakes. Synoptic views such as these provide rapid assessment of ice thickness and texture, which in turn provide crucial information for predicting shoreline erosion, impacts on the shipping industry, and lake effect snows.
EPSSI NEWS
Proposal in Progress, January 6, 2012
Assistant Professor Gregory Waite (GMES/EPSSI) and Associate Professor Jeffrey Allen (ME-EM/EPSSI), "Numerical and Analog Modeling of Weak Volcanic Shockwaves," NSF
Proposals in Progress, January 3, 2012
Assistant Professor Thomas Oommen (GMES/EPSSI), "Application of Remote Sensing Techniques to Rapidly Delineate Liquefaction for a New Madrid Earthquake," NASA
Assistant Professor Audrey Mayer (SFRES/EPSSI), Professor John Gierke (GMES/EPSSI), Assistant Professor Michael Falkowski (SFRES/EPSSI) and Assistant Professor Thomas Oommen (GMES/EPSSI), "Using satellite imagery and vegetation loss indicators in a machine learning model for landslides in Central America," NASA
Proposal in Progress, December 22, 2011
Assistant Professor Simon Carn (GMES/EPSSI), "Volcano Monitoring Tools for East Africa and Mesoamerica (VOMTEAM), NASA
Proposals in Progress, December 20, 2011
Assistant Professor Thomas Oommen(GMES/EPSSI), "Collaborative Research: Semi-automation of Damage Assessment Models for Extreme Events that Use Crowdsourcing to Analyze Remote Sensing Imagery," NSF
Assistant Professor Thomas Oommen (GMES/EPSSI) and Professor John Gierke (GMES/EPSSI), "Regional Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation for Locations with Sparse Geotechnical Data," NSF
New Funding, November 8, 2011
Professor Alex Kostinski (Physics/EPSSI) has received $125,333 of a potential $400,252 from the National Science Foundation for the first year of a potential three-year project, "Stochastic Aspects of Physical and Radar Meteorology."
New Funding, October 3, 2011
Assistant Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics/EPSSI), co-PI Louisa Kramer (GMES) and co-PI Robert Owen (MTRI) have received $156,057 of a potential $299,857 from the US Department of Energy for the first year of a potential two-year project, "The Radiative Role of Free Tropospheric Aerosols and Marine Clouds Over the Central North Atlantic."
The Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI) facilitates and promotes research and education in interdisciplinary areas spanning Earth and its ecosystems to the reaches of intergalactic space. Twenty faculty, representing seven different departments, are members of EPSSI. EPSSI oversees the interdisciplinary, non-departmental PhD program in Atmospheric Science as well as the University minor in Remote Sensing.
EPSSI's goals are to work by consensus to promote Earth, planetary and space sciences at Michigan Tech through (1) interdisciplinary coursework and programs, (2) group funding efforts for equipment and research, and (3) interdisciplinary seminars and short courses.
EPSSI's previous incarnation was as the Remote Sensing Institute (RSI).
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