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Agencies 
Other NASA Supported Program(s) 
AAC Management ABoVE Airborne Campaign Management & Data Products >>NASATE
Abshire (2017) Extending the 2017 ASCENDS Airborne Campaign into the Arctic in support of ABoVE >>NASATE
Anderson (NSF 2018) Bridging the scale gap between local and regional methane and carbon dioxide isotopic fluxes in the Arctic >>NSF 
Armstrong (TE 2018) Vulnerability of the Taiga-Tundra Ecotone: Predicting the Magnitude, Variability, and Rate of Change at the Intersection of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems >>NASATE
Bartsch (2016) GlobPermafrost >>ESA 
Bartsch (ESA 2018) CCI Permafrost >>ESA 
Baskaran (LCLUC 2021) Analyzing the Land-Use Change Impacts of Oil and Gas Exploration Related Infrastructure Changes on Arctic Communities >>NASALCLUC
Berner (NIP 2020) Mapping plant biomass distribution and change across the rapidly warming Arctic tundra biome >>NASATE
Bloom (TE 2021) Using CO2, CH4 and land-surface constraints to resolve sign and magnitude of northern high latitude carbon-climate feedbacks >>NASATE
Boelman (TE 2014) Animals on the move: Remotely based determination of key drivers influencing movements and habitat selection of highly mobile fauna throughout the ABoVE study domain >>NASATE
Boelman (TE 2018) Quantifying socioecological consequences of changing snow and icescapes: A data-model fusion approach >>NASATE
Boelman (TE 2021) The future of the Forest-Tundra Ecotone: A synthesis that adds interactions among snow, vegetation, and wildlife to the equation >>NASATE
Bourgeau-Chavez (RRNES 2015) Planning and Collection of Data on Boreal Wildfire Effects: Studies of broad-scale 2014 Wildfires in NWT, Canada >>NASATE

NACP
Bourgeau-Chavez (SMAP 2015) Assessing and Downscaling SMAP data for Organic Soil Fuel Moisture Estimation in Boreal-Arctic Ecosystems >>NASA 
Bourgeau-Chavez (TE 2014) Understanding the Vulnerability and Resiliency of Boreal-Taiga Ecosystems to Wildfire in a Changing Climate: A study of the 2014 Northwest Territories Wildfires >>NASATE

NACP
Bourgeau-Chavez (TE 2018) Understanding the Interactions between Wildfire Disturbance, Landscape Hydrology and Post-Fire Recovery in Boreal-Taiga Ecosystems >>NASATE

NACP
Bourgeau-Chavez (TE 2021) Integrating remote sensing and modeling to better understand the vulnerability of boreal-taiga ecosystems to wildfire >>NASATE
Brinkman (TE 2014) Biophysical Characteristics and Mechanisms of Environmental Disturbances Influencing Human Access to Ecosystem Services in Boreal Alaska >>NASATE
Buermann (GRF 2022) Recent Changes in NOrthern VEgetation CaRbon CYcling - RECOVERY >>Other 
Butman (TE 2018) Crossing the divide: Inundation drives hotspots of carbon flux >>NASATE

NACP
Butman (TE 2021) Do changing terrestrial-aquatic interfaces in Arctic-boreal landscapes control the form, processing, and fluxes of carbon? >>NASATE
Byrne (NPP 2018) Constraining carbon fluxes in northern regions by combining constraints from multiple atmospheric CO2 observing systems >>NASATE
Carroll (TE 2012) Determining the Extent and Dynamics of Surface Water for the ABoVE Field Campaign >>NASATE

NACP
Chatterjee (TE 2016) GEOS-5 Forecasting and Modeling in Support of ABoVE airborne research >>NASATE

NACP
Chen (TE 2018) Quantifying socioeconomic impacts of changing Arctic ecosystems using ABoVE datasets in an integrated Human-Earth system modeling and data assimilation framework >>NASATE
Chen-W (2016) Monitoring and Assessing Cumulative Impacts on Western Canadian Arctic Ecosystems >>NRCan, 

NWT CIMP, 

POLAR
 
Chopping (TE 2014) Changes in Shrub Abundance in Arctic Tundra from the Satellite High Resolution Record for the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment and Impacts on Albedo >>NASATE

NACP
Cook (CMS 2015) Remote Sensing as a Bridge to Operational Forest Carbon Monitoring in Interior Alaska >>NASATE

CMS
Cook (CMS 2018) NASA-USFS Partnership to Advance Operational Forest Carbon Monitoring in Interior Alaska >>NASATE

CMS
Cook (TE 2014) Fingerprinting Three Decades of Changes in Interior Alaska (1982-2014) Using Field Measurements, Stereo Air Photos, and G-LiHT Data >>NASATE

NACP
Cooley (NIP 2020) Leveraging New Satellite Technologies to Constrain Feedbacks between Surface Water, Permafrost and Carbon Emissions in the Arctic >>NASATE
D'Arrigo (2016) Determining the Vulnerability and Resilience of Boreal Forests and Shrubs across Northwestern North America >>NSF 
Douglas (2016) Variations in Wetland Terrain Feature Conditions: The Role of Permafrost and Impacts to Military Operations >>USACE 
Drewry (TE 2016) Airborne Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Characterize Arctic Boreal Zone Phenology and Productivity >>NASATE
Du (TE 2021) High Resolution Mapping of Surface Soil Freeze Thaw Status and Active Layer Thickness for Improving the Understanding of Permafrost Dynamics and Vulnerability >>NASATE
Duncanson (TE 2018) Mapping boreal forest biomass density for the ABoVE domain circa 2020 with ICESat-2 >>NASATE
Duncanson (TE 2021) Mapping boreal forest biomass recovery rates across gradients of vegetation structure and environmental change >>NASATE
Eitel (TE 2014) LiDAR, passive spectral, and ecophysiological approaches to link Forest Tundra Ecotone structure and function >>NASATE

NACP
Epstein (GEO 2016) Ecosystem Functional Diversity of the Circumpolar Arctic Tundra >>NASATE

ECON, 

BDEC

APPLIED
Fichot (CARBON 2020) The export of terrigenous DOC from boreal terrestrial ecosystems to the Arctic Ocean and its vulnerability to environmental change >>NASAOBB

NACP
Fisher (TE 2014) A Model-Data Integration Framework (MoDIF) for ABoVE Phase I research: simulation, scaling and benchmarking for key indicators of Arctic-boreal ecosystem dynamics >>NASATE

NACP
Frankenberg (TE 2018) Ecophysiological and physical mechanisms linking solar-induced fluorescence and vegetation reflectance to boreal forest productivity >>NASATE
French (TE 2018) Wetland status, change, and seasonal inundation dynamics for assessing the vulnerability of waterfowl habitat within the ABoVE study domain >>NASATE
French (TE 2021) Informing wetland policy and management for waterfowl habitat and other ecosystem services using multi-frequency synthetic aperture radar >>NASATE
Frost (TE 2014) Biophysical drivers and socio-ecological impacts of environmental change in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region, western Alaska >>NASATE
Frost (TE 2021) Towards a Warmer, Less Frozen Future Arctic: Synthesis of Drivers, Ecosystem Responses, and Elder Observations along Bioclimatic Gradients in Western Alaska >>NASATE
Gamon (TE 2014) Evaluating growing season length and productivity across the ABoVE Domain using novel satellite indices and a ground sensor network >>NASATE

NACP
Genet (2016) Modeling landscape vulnerability to thermokarst disturbance and its implication for ecosystem services in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska >>USGS 
Goetz (TE 2014) Mapping and modeling attributes of an arctic-boreal biome shift: Resource management implications within the ABoVE domain >>NASATE

NACP
Goetz (TE 2018) Mapping and modeling attributes of an arctic-boreal biome shift: Phase-2 applications within the ABoVE domain >>NASATE

NACP
Goetz (TE 2021) Mapping and modeling attributes of an Arctic - boreal biome shift: Phase-3 applications within the ABoVE domain >>NASATE
Goulden (TE 2014) Shifting Patterns of Boreal Forest Succession and Browning Over the Last 30 Years >>NASATE
Greaves (NESSF 2015) Multisensor Fusion for Mapping of Low-Stature Arctic Vegetation Communities and Woody Biomass >>NASATE

BDEC
Hajnsek (DLR 2018) Permafrost Airborne SAR Experiment - PERMASAR >>DLR 
Hebblewhite (2017) Fortymile caribou herd habitat relationships >>BLM 
Hensley (TE 2018) Analysis and Interpretation of UAVSAR Tomographic Data in the Arctic Boreal Region >>NASATE
Hik (2015) CHARS Experimental and Reference Area (ERA) >>POLAR 
Hu (TE 2018) Toward disentangling causes for the substantial increase of CO2 seasonal amplitude in the Arctic >>NASATE
Huemmrich (TE 2016) Causes and Consequences of Arctic Greening: The Importance of Plant Functional Types >>NASATE
Huemmrich (TE 2018) Clarifying linkages between canopy solar induced fluorescence (SIF) and physiological function for high latitude vegetation >>NASATE
Iversen (2012) Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) >>DOENACP
Iwahana (TE 2016) Quantification of thermokarst and carbon release in ice-rich permafrost regions >>NASATE
James (NSF 2017) Monitoring the role of subsurface physical processes in carbon flux from a degraded permafrost site using novel multidisciplinary observations >>NSF 
Keeling (CARBON 2016) Detection, Quantification, and Analysis of Changes in Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems Using Measurements and Models of CO2 and Its Isotopes >>NASATE
Kim (SMAP 2015) Dynamic inundation mapping for boreal regions using SMAP, UAVSAR, and Radarsat2 >>NASA 
Kimball (TE 2014) Satellite data driven model assessment of landscape variability and environmental controls on the Arctic-Boreal carbon budget >>NASATE

NACP
Kimball (TE 2018) Improving Understanding and Prediction of Permafrost Active Layer Processes Using a Coupled Radar Inversion and Soil Process Model Framework. >>NASATE
Kremers (NESSF 2015) Is Arctic Greening Consistent with the Temperature Sensitivity of Coupled Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles? >>NASATE
Lara (TE 2021) ABoVE-Ground Characterization of Plant Species Succession in Retrogressive Thaw Slumps Using Imaging Spectroscopy >>NASATE
Liu (TE 2021) Characterizing Arctic-Boreal Vegetation Resilience under Climate Change and Disturbances >>NASATE
Loboda (TE 2012) Long-Term Multi-Sensor Record of Fire Disturbances in High Northern Latitudes >>NASATE

NACP
Loboda (TE 2014) Quantifying long-term impacts of single and repeated wildfire burning in North American tundra on organic soil carbon stocks and ecosystem functioning >>NASATE

NACP
Loboda (TE 2018) Assessing impact of climate-driven increase in wildfire emissions on air quality and health of urban and indigenous populations in Alaska >>NASATE
Ludwig (FINESST 2019) Hierarchical scaling of carbon fluxes from terrestrial-aquatic interfaces in the Arctic >>NASATE

NACP
Lutz (TE 2018) Dynamic Modeling of Ecosystem Processes and Services in North American Boreal Forests within the ABOVE Study Region >>NASATE
Mack (TE 2014) Increasing fire severity and the loss of legacy carbon from forest and tundra ecosystems of northwestern North America >>NASATE

NACP
Maguire (FINESST 2019) Toward an improved understanding of the mechanisms driving solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence across the structurally complex forest-tundra ecotone >>NASATE
Maguire (NPP 2020) Seasonal response of carbon uptake to direct and diffuse light regimes across the evergreen needleleaf forest biome >>NASATE
Marsh (2016) Hydrology, snow. permafrost and terrestrial ecology in the western Canadian Arctic >>NSERC, 

POLAR, 

 
McDermott (EXO 2020) Environmental Distribution and Evolutionary History of Non-Methanogen Methane Synthesis >>NASATE
McKain (TE 2016) Arctic Carbon Atmospheric Profiles (ArcticCAP) >>NASATE
Meredith (NSF 2020) Advancing OCS as an independent atmospheric tracer for global photosynthesis through quantification of microbial-mediated sources and sinks in soils >>NSF 
Meyer (TE 2014) Characterizing methane emission response to the past 60 years of permafrost thaw in thermokarst lakes >>NASATE

NACP
Michalak (TE 2021) Quantifying climate sensitivities of photosynthesis and respiration in Arctic and boreal ecosystems from top-down observational constraints >>NASATE

NACP
Miller (CARBON 2013) CARVE (Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment) Airborne Observations of Carbon Dynamics in the Vulnerable Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems of Northwestern Canada - CARVE-CAN >>NASATE

NACP
Miller (IDS 2012) Permafrost Vulnerability in a Seasonally Sea Ice-free Arctic >>NASANACP
Miller (TE 2014) Quantifying CO2 and CH4 Fluxes from Vulnerable Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems Across Spatial and Temporal Scales >>NASATE

NACP
Miller (TE 2016) Imaging Arctic Methane Plumes >>NASATE
Miller (TE 2018) Characterizing Microtopographic Hot-spots and Landscape-scale Methane Emissions Across the ABoVE Domain >>NASATE
Miller (TE 2021) Enhanced Methane Emissions in Transitional Permafrost Environments: An ABoVE Phase 3 Synthesis Investigation >>NASATE
Miller-S (TE 2021) A synthesis and reconciliation of greenhouse gas flux estimates across the ABoVE domain >>NASATE
Moghaddam (IDS 2012) Regional Mapping of Soil Conditions in Northern Alaska Permafrost Landscapes Using AirMOSS and Land Model Data Assimilation, and Associated Impacts on Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes >>NASANACP
Moore (TE 2018) Improving mechanistic representation of Arctic carbon dynamics using data assimilation >>NASATE

NACP
Morin (2015) High resolution commercial satellite imagery for ABoVE >>NASATE

NACP
Morton (CMS 2013) A Joint USFS-NASA Pilot Project to Estimate Forest Carbon Stocks in Interior Alaska by Integrating Field, Airborne and Satellite Data >>NASATE

NACP

CMS
Moses (OBB 2020) Remote Sensing of Environmental Change in Arctic Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems >>NASAOBB
Munger (CARBON 2016) Multi-scale data assimilation and model comparison for ABoVE to identify processes controlling CO2 and CH4 exchange and influencing seasonal transitions in Arctic tundra ecosystems >>NASATE

NACP
Munger (TE 2012) Development of a Data-Assimilation Framework for Integrating 25 Years of Surface and Airborne observations to assess patterns of net CO2 Exchange from Arctic Ecosystems >>NASATE

NACP
Myers-Smith (2017) ShrubTundra: Climate as a driver of shrub expansion and tundra greening / TundraTime: Plant phenology change as a driver of Arctic greening trends >>NERC 
Myers-Smith (2024) Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems >>NSERC 
Natali (GBMF 2019) The Arctic Carbon Monitoring and Prediction System >>Other, 

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
 
Natali (TE 2014) Winter respiration in the Arctic: Constraining current and future estimates of CO2 emissions during the non-growing season (Augmented Jul 2019) >>NASATE

NACP
Neigh (AIST 2016) Automated Protocols for Generating Very High-Resolution Commercial Validation Products with NASA HEC Resources >>NASABDEC
Neigh (CARBON 2016) Disturbance, Growth, and Recovery of Boreal Forests Spanning the Satellite Era: 3D Structure, Site Index, and Ecosystem Carbon Flux with Changing Climate >>NASATE

NACP
Nicolsky (2016) Augmentation of the USArray sites with temperature profilers >>NASATE
Oechel (TE 2014) Temporal and Spatial Patterns of and Controls on Arctic CO2 and CH4 fluxes in the ABoVE Domain >>NASATE
Olefeldt (2015) Impacts of climate change on greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and wetlands on the Boreal and Taiga Plains of western Canada >>CAIP, 

NSERC, 

UANRA
 
Parazoo (IDS 2016) Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Soil Moisture Observations to Characterize Terrestrial Vegetation Photosynthesis and Biosphere Carbon Uptake in North America >>NASATE
Prugh (IDS 2019) Linking seasonal snow processes to wildlife population dynamics >>NASATE
Prugh (TE 2014) Assessing Alpine Ecosystem Vulnerability to Environmental Change Using Dall Sheep as an Iconic Indicator Species >>NASATE
Quinton (2017) Dehcho Collaborative on Permafrost (DCoP) >>Canadian Funding, 

NSERC
 
Ranson (CARBON 2013) A High-Resolution Circumpolar Delineation of the Forest-Tundra Ecotone With Implications for Carbon Balance >>NASATE

NACP

LCLUC
Rawlins (RSWQ 2017) Merging Satellite Data and Models to Investigate Soil Freeze-Thaw Dynamics Influencing Terrestrial Water and Carbon Exports from the Western Arctic >>NASATE

NACP
Rocha (2016) NSF-LTREB: Following the reorganization and resynchronization of biogeochemical cycles after an unprecedented tundra fire >>NSF 
Rogers (2022) Permafrost Pathways: Connecting Science, People, and Policy for Arctic Justice and Global Climate >>The Audacious Project 
Rogers (CARBON 2016) Understanding the Causes and Implications of Enhanced Seasonal CO2 Exchange in Boreal and Arctic Ecosystems >>NASATE

NACP
Rogers (TE 2014) Developing a spatially-explicit understanding of fire-climate forcings and their management implications across the ABoVE domain >>NASATE

NACP
Schaaf (LCLUC 2017) Circumpolar Albedo of Northern Lands from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 >>NASALCLUC
Schaefer (CMAC 2014) PBS project: A Permafrost Benchmark System to evaluate permafrost models >>NASA 
Schaefer (RRNES 2015) YKD project--Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: The Impact of Fire on Active Layer Thickness >>NASATE
Schaefer (TE 2012) Remotely-Sensed Active Layer Thickness (ReSALT) Product Derived from InSAR Data Over North American Arctic Regions >>NASATE

NACP
Schaefer (TE 2016) The Airborne InSAR and PolSAR Permafrost Dynamics Observatory >>NASATE
Shuman (FINESST 2021) Integrating Field Observations and Multi-scale Remote Sensing to Understand the Environmental and Biological Controls of Tall Shrub Distribution in Arctic Tundra >>NASATE
Siqueira (NSDT 2015) NISAR Ecosystems and Permafrost Science in the ABoVE Domain >>NASA 
Smith (TE 2016) Sensitivity of Arctic-Boreal surface water to permafrost state >>NASATE
Striegl (TE 2014) Vulnerability of inland waters and the aquatic carbon cycle to changing permafrost and climate across boreal northwestern North America >>NASATE

NACP
Sun (2020) Comparing ABoVE/ASCENDS airborne lidar measurements of XCO2 to those from atmospheric models & satellites >>NASATE
Tabatabaeenejad (TE 2016) Estimation of Belowground Biomass and Permafrost Active Layer Properties Using Radar and Lidar Measurements >>NASATE
Tank (2017) Arctic Fire >>POLAR 
Tape (TE 2021) Characterizing a widespread disturbance regime in the ABoVE domain: Beaver engineering >>NASATE
Touzi (2016) Investigation of the added value of L- and P-band PolinSAR for permafrost characterization and mapping >>NRCan 
Townsend (TE 2018) Variation in Foliar Functional Traits across Environmental Gradients in ABoVE Landscapes >>NASATE
Townsend (TE 2021) Functional diversity as a driver of GPP variation across the ABoVE domain >>NASATE
Turner-K (2007) Evaluating the influence of climate and land cover changes on water and carbon balance in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada >>NSERC 
Varner (IDS 2016) From Archaea to the Atmosphere: Integrating Microbial, Isotopic and Landscape-Scale Observations to Quantify Methane Emissions from Global High-Latitude Ecosystems >>NASA 
Veraverbeke (2018) Fires Pushing Trees North >>NWO 
Veraverbeke (ERC 2021) Fire in the land of ice: climatic drivers and feedback (FireIce) >>ERC 
Vierling (TE 2011) Quantifying Thresholds in Arctic Tundra Vegetation Structure and Ecosystem Function Using LiDAR and Multispectral Remote Sensing >>NASATE

NACP
Vuyovich (THP 2020) SnowEx >>NASA 
Walker (TE 2012) Recovery and Archiving of Key Arctic Alaska Vegetation Map and Plot Data for Long-Term Vegetation Analyses >>NASATE

NACP
Walker (TE 2021) Drivers and Impacts of Reburning in boreal forest Ecosystems (DIRE) >>NASATE
Wang (TE 2021) Quantifying disturbance and global change impacts on multi-decadal trends in aboveground biomass and land cover across Arctic-boreal North America >>NASATE
Ward Jones (NIP 2020) Degrading Ice-wedges: Using Field, Airborne and Satellite Measurements to Link Fine-scale Micro-topographic Changes to Large-scale Impacts in Terrestrial Permafrost Systems >>NASATE
Watts (2018) Integrating Remote Sensing and Field Measurements to Identify Environmental Nonstationarity on Interior Alaska DoD Training Lands >>SERDP 
Watts (CSDA 2020) Developing high spatiotemporal resolution inundation maps to detect rapid changes in surface hydrology and methane hotspots across ecosystem gradients in Alaska >>NASATE
Watts (NIP 2017) Reconciling Carbon Flux Budgets in Alaska and northwest Canada through Integrated Satellite, Airborne, and Field Measurements >>NASATE
Watts (NSF 2020) Environmental and biological controls on carbon uptake phenology in permafrost affected boreal forests >>NSF 
Watts (TE 2021) Contributions of tundra and boreal systems to radiative forcing in North America and Russia under contemporary and future conditions >>NASATE
Webb (FINESST 2019) Vegetation dynamics as drivers of albedo change in northern high latitude ecosystems >>NASATE
Welker (2017) Nutritional Landscapes of Arctic Caribou: Observations, Experiments and Models Provide Process-Level Understanding of Forage Traits and Trajectories >>NSF 
Wheater (2013) Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) >>NSERC 
Wilcock (NSF 2020) Development of an Integrated Climate Resiliency Index - ICRI >>NSF 
Wilson (IDS 2012)

(Ended)
Characterizing Thawing Permafrost Carbon Emissions: An Integrated Pilot Study in Support of Satellite Evaluation/Design and Earth System Modeling Capabilities >>NASANACP
Woodcock (TE 2014) Landscape-Scale Histories and Active Monitoring of Disturbance, Seasonality and Greenness Trends for ABOVE from Landsat >>NASATE
Wu-Y (FINESST 2019) Monitoring Soil Water and Organic Carbon Storage Patterns at the Arctic Foothills, Alaska, using InSAR >>NASATE
Wunch (2016) Atmospheric Total Column Measurements of Carbon Dioxide and Methane over the ABoVE Domain >>U of Toronto 
Yaacoub (NSERC 2019) Assessing spruce bark beetle impacts on boreal forests in southwest Yukon at various scales via a multisensor approach >>NSERC 
Zhuang (TE 2021) Role of linked hydrological, permafrost, ground ice, and land cover changes in regional carbon balance across boreal and arctic landscapes >>NASATE
Zolkos (NSF 2020) Short- and long-term effects of wildfire and permafrost thaw on mercury cycling and bioavailability across a major northern river delta landscape >>NSF