November 2025
Announcements

AGU 2025 Sessions of Interest to ABoVE

NASA Stories
NASA | NASA Earth Science Celebrates GIS Day 2025
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NASA | Summary of the 11th ABoVE Science Team Meeting
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NASA | The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: July–September 2025
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Media Coverage
Mirage News | SARP East 2025 Terrestrial Fluxes Group
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Northern Youth Leadership | Protecting Our Lands Camp 2025
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Mirage News | Summary Of 11th ABoVE Science Team Meeting
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Publications

Cahoon, D. R., Soja, A. J., Stocks, B. J., Potter, S., Jurko, N., Gargulinski, E., Rogers, B. M., Conard, S. G. 2025. Reconstructing wildland fire burned area for Asian Russia (1979-2000) using AVHRR GAC satellite data to provide an improved baseline for assessing long-term change. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 230, 318-345. DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.09.011

Associated Projects:
  • Rogers (CARBON 2016) ( ABoVE, CCE, NACP, TE)
 

Pallandt, M. M. T. A., Chatterjee, A., Ott, L. E., Marshall, J., Gockede, M. 2025. If the Yedoma thaws, will we notice? Quantifying detection limits of top-down methane monitoring infrastructures. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 18(22), 7053-7073. DOI: 10.5194/amt-18-7053-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Chatterjee (TE 2016) ( ABoVE, CCE, NACP, TE)
 

Maier, K., Xia, Z., Liu, L., Lara, M. J., van der Sluijs, J., Bernhard, P., Hajnsek, I. 2025. Quantifying retrogressive thaw slump mass wasting and carbon mobilisation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using multi-modal remote sensing. The Cryosphere. 19(10), 4855-4873. DOI: 10.5194/tc-19-4855-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Lara (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Shuman, I. N. C., Serbin, S. P., Erb, A. M., Schaaf, C. B., Yang, D. 2025. Fine-scale vegetation composition and structure shape spatiotemporal variation in surface albedo across a low Arctic tundra landscape. Environmental Research: Ecology. 4(4), 045001. DOI: 10.1088/2752-664x/ae04ef

Associated Projects:
  • Iversen (2012) ( ABoVE, NACP)
  • Yang (FINESST 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Walker, X. J., Mack, M. C., Black, B., Dean, J., Kemper, L. F., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Truettner, C. M. 2025. Increasing wildfire frequency decreases carbon storage and leads to regeneration failure in Alaskan boreal forests. Fire Ecology. 21(1). DOI: 10.1186/s42408-025-00390-3

Associated Projects:
  • Walker (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Tao, J., Liljedahl, A. K., Burn, C. R., Grosse, G., Noetzli, J., Goetz, S. J., Douglas, T. A., Yang, Y. 2025. Permafrost vulnerability to climate change: understanding thaw dynamics and climate feedback of permafrost degradation. Environmental Research Letters. 20(10), 100201. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adfc7e

Associated Projects:
  • Goetz (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Derkacheva, A., Frost, G. V., Epstein, H. E., Ermokhina, K. 2025. Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective. Journal of Ecology 113:2813-2831. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.70129

Associated Projects:
  • Frost (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Farina, M., Christian, W., Hasson, N. R., McDermott, T., Powell, S., Hatzenpichler, R., Webb, H., LaRue, G., Okano, K., Sproles, E., Watts, J. D. 2025. Methane emission hotspots in a boreal forest-fen mosaic potentially linked to deep taliks. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adff9a

Associated Projects:
  • McDermott (EXO 2020) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
  • Watts (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Jorgenson, M. T., Sedinger, J., Ely, C., Fienup-Riordan, A., Atkinson, D. E., Ayuluk, J., Brown, D., Frost, G. V., Jones, B. M., Jorgenson, J., Keim, F., Loehman, R. A., Macander, M., Rearden, A. 2025. Interacting Sea-Level Rise, Sea-Ice Loss, Storm Flooding, Erosion, and Permafrost Thaw Threaten Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Communities on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Earth's Future. 13(8). DOI: 10.1029/2025ef006015

Associated Projects:
  • Frost (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Nitze, I., Heidler, K., Nesterova, N., Kupper, J., Schutt, E., Holzer, T., Barth, S., Lara, M. J., Liljedahl, A. K., Grosse, G. 2025. DARTS: Multi-year database of AI-detected retrogressive thaw slumps in the circum-arctic permafrost region. Scientific Data. 12(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05810-2

Associated Projects:
  • Lara (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Carman, T. B., Genet, H., Rutter, R. A., Jafarov, E., Euskirchen, E., Maglio, B., Clein, J., Briones, V., Mullen, A. L., Greaves, H., McGuire, A. D., Yuan, F., Chang, C., Rady, J. M., Teber, D., Rogers, B. M., Smith, T., Mevenkamp, H., Lara, M. J., Zhuang, Q., Yi, S. 2025. DVMDOSTEM v0.8.3: a terrestrial ecosystem model designed to represent arctic, boreal and permafrost ecosystem dynamics. Journal of Open Source Software. 10(111), 7667. DOI: 10.21105/joss.07667

Associated Projects:
  • Lara (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
  • Rogers (2022) ( ABoVE)
 

Bhattacharya, D., Van Etten, J., Panayotakis, G., McDermott, T., Stephens, T. G. 2025. Gene transfer drives community cooperation in geothermal habitats. Trends in Microbiology. DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2025.06.004

Associated Projects:
  • McDermott (EXO 2020) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Foster, K. T., Sun, W., Merder, J., Hararuk, O., Kurz, W. A., Malhotra, A., Metsaranta, J., Nesdoly, A., Sinha, E., Bond-Lamberty, B., Huntzinger, D., Natali, S. M., Schwalm, C., Michalak, A. M. 2025. Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(6). DOI: 10.1029/2024gb008460

Associated Projects:
  • Michalak (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, NACP, TE)
 

Maier, K., Xia, Z., Liu, L., Lara, M. J., van der Sluijs, J., Bernhard, P., Hajnsek, I. Quantifying Retrogressive Thaw Slump Mass Wasting and Carbon Mobilisation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-2187

Associated Projects:
  • Lara (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Talucci, A. C., Loranty, M. M., Holloway, J. E., Rogers, B. M., Alexander, H. D., Baillargeon, N., Baltzer, J. L., Berner, L. T., Breen, A., Brodt, L., Buma, B., Dean, J., Delcourt, C. J. F., Diaz, L. R., Dieleman, C. M., Douglas, T. A., Frost, G. V., Gaglioti, B. V., Hewitt, R. E., Hollingsworth, T., Jorgenson, M. T., Lara, M. J., Loehman, R. A., Mack, M. C., Manies, K. L., Minions, C., Natali, S. M., O'Donnell, J. A., Olefeldt, D., Paulson, A. K., Rocha, A. V., Saperstein, L. B., Shestakova, T. A., Sistla, S., Sizov, O., Soromotin, A., Turetsky, M. R., Veraverbeke, S., Walvoord, M. A. 2025. Permafrost-wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes. Earth System Science Data. 17(6), 2887-2909. DOI: 10.5194/essd-17-2887-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Lara (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Lu, J., Huang, C., Schleeweis, K., Zou, Z., Gong, W. 2025. Tree age estimation across the U.S. using forest inventory and analysis database. Forest Ecology and Management. 584, 122603. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122603

Associated Projects:
  • Ranson (CARBON 2013) ( ABoVE, CCE, LCLUC, NACP, TE)
 

Wen, J., Tagliabue, G., Rossini, M., Fava, F. P., Panigada, C., Merbold, L., Leitner, S., Sun, Y. 2025. Detection of fast-changing intra-seasonal vegetation dynamics of drylands using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF). Biogeosciences. 22(8), 2049-2067. DOI: 10.5194/bg-22-2049-2025

Associated Projects:
  • Michalak (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, NACP, TE)
 

Baltzer, J. L., Walker, X. J., Veraverbeke, S., Hessilt, T. D., Alfaro-Sanchez, R., van Gerrevink, M. J., Mack, M. C., Ogden, E. L., Olsen, R., Scholten, R. C., Turetsky, M. R. 2025. Overwintering fires can occur in both peatlands and upland forests with varying ecological impacts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(4), 559-564. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02630-2

Associated Projects:
  • Walker (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Watts, J. D., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Virkkala, A., Fiske, G., Arndt, K. A., Burrell, A., Butler, K., Gerlt, B., Grayson, J., Shestakova, T. A., Du, J., Kim, Y., Parmentier, F. W., Natali, S. M. 2025. Regional Hotspots of Change in Northern High Latitudes Informed by Observations From Space. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(2). DOI: 10.1029/2023gl108081

Associated Projects:
  • Natali (GBMF 2019) ( ABoVE)
  • Watts (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Du, J., Endsley, K. A., Bakian Dogaheh, K., Kimball, J., Moghaddam, M., Douglas, T., Melebari, A., Eskandari, S., Kim, J., Whitcomb, J., Zhao, Y., Henze, S. Assessing spatial heterogeneity of active layer thickness over Arctic-foothills tundra through intensive field sampling and multi-source remote sensing DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-3236

Associated Projects:
  • Du (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Lin, H., Du, J., Kimball, J. S., Cheng, X., Donnelly, J. P., Watts, J. D., Bartsch, A. A satellite-based ice fraction record for small water bodies of the Arctic Coastal Plain DOI: 10.5194/essd-2025-503

Associated Projects:
  • Du (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

Thum, T., Pacheco-Labrador, J., Aurela, M., Barr, A., Honkanen, M., Johnson, B., Lindqvist, H., Magney, T., Migliavacca, M., Pierrat, Z. A., Quaife, T., Stutz, J., Zaehle, S. Modelling sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in evergreen conifer forests with a terrestrial biosphere model DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-4432

Associated Projects:
  • Parazoo (IDS 2016) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE)
 

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Data Products

Carbon Model Intercomparison (Planned)

Associated Project:
  • Watts (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

Radiative Perturbations Assessment (Planned)

Associated Project:
  • Watts (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

ABoVE: Land Cover, Methane Flux, and Environmental Data, Big Trail Lake, Fairbanks AK (Provisional) DOI

Associated Project:
  • Watts (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

Alaskan Tundra in-situ Carbon Synthesized Dataset (Planned)

Associated Project:
  • Du (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

A satellite-based ice fraction record for small water bodies of the Arctic Coastal Plain (Planned)

Associated Project:
  • Du (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

Estimate of methane fluxes from Alaska across years 2012 -- 2017 estimated from airborne observations and inverse modeling (Planned)

Associated Project:
  • Miller-S (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

Structural overshoot occurrences derived from MODIS EVI during 2000-2019 (Planned)

Associated Project:
  • Liu (TE 2021) ( ABoVE, CCE, TE )
 

Funding Opportunities

Allen Family Philanthropi: Allen Family Philanthrophies: Accelerating NCS in the United States
NOI: January 15, 2026
Due: TBD

 

NASA: Earth Venture: TROPICS and PREFIRE Science and Applications Teams - ROSES 2025 A.2
NOI: September 18, 2025
Due: January 13, 2026

 

NASA: User-Centered Applications with Large Earth Foundation Models - ROSES 2025 A.9
NOI: December 4, 2025
Due: January 9, 2026