Solution Area - Platforms & Tools
The Platforms and Tools for Monitoring Decision-Making Solution Area (Platforms and Tools), is focused on exploring ways in which data acquired with sensors - satellite, airborne, land/water-based - and the accompanying data analysis and modeling workflows, can support the adaptive management of planetary health and human activities. Sensor-based systems will transform the approach to addressing critical issues related to climate change, sustainability, and equity by providing the essential measurements needed, with the spatial and temporal sampling needed, to inform the development and implementation of new policies.
Co-Chairs: Rosemary Knight & Fiorenza Micheli
Phase: Integrative Projects awarded
Taking the pulse of the watershed
PI: Rosemary Knight, George L. Harrington Professor of Geophysics and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment;
Co-PIs: Greg Beroza, Wayne Loel Professor of Geophysics; Ettore Biondi, Assistant Professor of Geophysics; William Ellsworth, Emeritus Professor (Research) of Geophysics; Scott Fendorf, Terry Huffington Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment; Zerina Kapetanovic, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Ching-Yao Lai, Assistant Professor of Geophysics; Olav Solgaard, Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor of Electrical Engineering; William Tarpeh, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Daniel Tartakovsky, Professor of Energy Science & Engineering; Howard Zebker, Kwoh Ting Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Geophysics; Sasha McLarty, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Washington State University
Countries around the world face a diminishing supply of freshwater to support the needs of humans and ecosystems. The transformative contribution that we will make, to support sustainable freshwater management, is the development of a sensor-informed analytical framework to accurately quantify connected changes in human-ecological-hydrologic systems. Through our project we will improve the capacity to utilize existing sensor data and will develop new forms of measurements and sensors, integrating all data through the development of a digital twin. We have selected California’s San Joaquin Valley Watershed as the starting location for conducting and exemplifying the field- and sensor-based research.
Solution Area: Platforms and tools
Taking the pulse of the coastal ocean
PI: Fio Micheli, David and Lucille Professor of Marine Science and Professor of Oceans
Co-PIs: Kristen Davis, Associate Professor of Oceans, and Stephen Palumbi, Jane and Marshall Steel, Jr., Professor of Marine Sciences and Professor of Oceans and Biology
Stanford's Integrative Project, "Taking the Pulse of the Coastal Ocean," includes partnerships with government, NGOs, and researchers to build an Accessible, Affordable, Actionable coastal observing system addressing ecosystem change and declining ocean monitoring funding. Using innovative technologies and community co-creation, the project will integrate data on fisheries, oceanography, marine mammals, and kelp ecosystems to improve forecasting, management, and restoration in central California. Over five years the project will pilot observing and forecasting platforms and tools to sustain kelp forests, marine mammal populations and fisheries; by 2035 it aims to deliver a globally transferable model for coastal monitoring and climate adaptation.
Solution Area: Platforms and tools
Apply for a Solution Area - Integrative Projects grant
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