NRC Decadal Survey

Decadal Survey RFI 2 Documents
Submitting Author	Title
Dale Quattrochi	High Spatial, Temporal, and Spectral Resolution Instrument for Modeling/Monitoring Land Cover, Biophysical, and Societal Changes in Urban Environments
Wendy Calvin	Earth Surface Geochemistry and Mineralogy: Processes, Hazards, Soils, and Resources
Philip Dennison	Global Measurement of Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation
Heidi Dierssen	Assessing Transient Threats and Disasters in the Coastal Zone with Airborne Portable Sensors
Riley Duren	Understanding anthropogenic methane and carbon dioxide point source emissions
Joshua Fisher	EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources
Steve Greb	Inland Waters
Robert Green	Science and Application Targets Addressed with the 2007 Decadal Survey HyspIRI Mission Current Baseline
Eric Hochberg	Coral Reefs: Living on the Edge
Simon Hook	Carbon Emissions from Biomass Burning
Jeffrey Luvall	A Thermodynamic Paradigm For Using Satellite Based Geophysical Measurements For Public Health Applications
Natalie Mahowald	Measuring the Earth’s Surface Mineral Dust Source Composition for Radiative Forcing and Related Earth System Impacts
Frank Muller-Karger	Monitoring Coastal and Wetland Biodiversity from Space
Thomas Painter	Understanding the controls on cryospheric albedo, energy balance, and melting in a changing world
Tamlin Pavelsky	From the Mountains to the Sea: Interdisciplinary Science and Applications Driven by the Flow of Water, Sediment, and Carbon II
Ryan Pavlick	Biodiversity
David Pieri	Enabling a global perspective for deterministic modeling of volcanic unrest
E. Natasha Stavros	The role of fire in the Earth System
Philip Townsend	Global Terrestrial Ecosystem Functioning and Biogeochemical Processes
Kevin Turpie	Global Observations of Coastal and Inland Aquatic Habitats
Robert Wright	Predicting Changes in the Behavior of Erupting Volcanoes, and Reducing the Uncertainties Associated with their Impact on Society and the Environment

Additional information about the 2nd RFI is available here .

Original White Papers Submitted November 2015 (see below)

Lead author	Title and Link
Fisher	Evapotranspiration: A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources
Luvall	Human Health / Water Quality
Melton	Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security: Recommendations and Requirements
Waliser	Advancing the Science and Societal Benefits of Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Environmental Prediction
Mahowald	Closing the Earth Surface Dust Source Composition Gap for Earth System Understanding and Modeling
Dennison	Burning Questions: Critical Needs for Remote Sensing of Fire Impacts on Ecosystems
Thorpe	Mapping atmospheric constituents at high spatial resolution to understand their influence on Earth's climate
Clark	Local to Global Remote Sensing of Surface and Atmospheric Chemistry
Fisher	Evapotranspiration: A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources
Luvall	Human Health / Water Quality
Mahowald	Closing the Earth Surface Dust Source Composition Gap for Earth System Understanding and Modeling
Calvin	Key Questions and Challenges in Dynamic Earth Processes, Natural Resources, and Hazards linked to Geologic and Soil Surface Composition
Pavlik	Biodiversity
Dennison	Burning Questions: Critical Needs for Remote Sensing of Fire Impacts on Ecosystems
Turpie	New Need to Understand Changing Coastal and Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Services
Melton	Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security: Recommendations and Requirements
Fisher	Evapotranspiration: A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources
Luvall	Human Health / Water Quality
Mahowald	Closing the Earth Surface Dust Source Composition Gap for Earth System Understanding and Modeling
Painter	Monitoring Cryospheric Albedo in a Changing World: Filling the knowledge void on a key climate parameter
Thorpe	Mapping atmospheric constituents at high spatial resolution to understand their influence on Earth's climate
Waliser	Advancing the Science and Societal Benefits of Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Environmental Prediction
Dennison	Burning Questions: Critical Needs for Remote Sensing of Fire Impacts on Ecosystems
Calvin	Key Questions and Challenges in Dynamic Earth Processes, Natural Resources, and Hazards linked to Geologic and Soil Surface Composition
Wright	Predicting Changes in the Behavior of Erupting Volcanoes to Reduce the Uncertainties Associated with their Impact on Society and the Environment