NOAA-funded scientist wins Fulbright Research Scholar Award
Scott Goetz, a scientist supported by the NOAA Global Carbon Cycle program at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, was selected for a Fulbright Research Scholar Award to spend time in residence at the Center for the Study of the Biosphere from Space (CESBIO) in Toulouse France. The fellowship will permit Goetz to work with his colleagues at CESBIO to advance monitoring of ecosystem responses to climate and environmental change at high latitudes. Goetz focuses on use of satellite imagery to monitor vegetation change, including regrowth following fire disturbance, contrasting forest productivity dynamics and trends in both disturbed and undisturbed areas, and modeling changes in seasonality and growing season variability. The collaboration with French colleagues will also establish a framework for longer-term collaboration on broader use of remote sensing for forest monitoring.
