December 16, 2015 | Landsat Science

Longwall mining machinery in a Colorado coal mine

Assessing Longwall Mining Impacts on the Forests Above

December 16, 2015

Erin Pfeil-McCullough, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, gave a talk at #AGU15 on insights that she has gained from her research to determine what impacts longwall mining has on forest canopies above as the ground subsides and local hydrology is altered.

Monitoring Water Quality Trends in the Niger River Basin

December 16, 2015

Chase Mueller from NASA Ames Research Center shared the results of a project that uses Landsat and MODIS data to monitor water quality trends at #AGU15. We spoke with him about his findings.

Tracking Microbiological Health Hazards in Burkina Faso

December 16, 2015

Elodie Robert from the French National Center for Scientific Research presented preliminary results of her research at #AGU15 that aims to track microbiological heath hazards based on surface water turbidity in West Africa.

Day: December 16, 2015

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Assessing Longwall Mining Impacts on the Forests Above

Monitoring Water Quality Trends in the Niger River Basin

Tracking Microbiological Health Hazards in Burkina Faso