S13E6: Forest Carbon Monitoring with Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo

In the last episode of Season 13, we talk to Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo about SAR, LiDAR, passive multispectral data, mangroves, biomass estimation, carbon stocks, payment ecosystem services, science communication & much more.  Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, is a NASA scientist!! She is Research Scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center based in Maryland, USA, where she studies forest ecology and ecosystem structure with multi-source remote sensing. Dr. Fatoyinbo has a Doctorate in Environmental sciences from University of Virginia, with a focus on Forest Ecology and Remote Sensing of Mangrove Wetlands. She serves on the GEDI and ICESat-2 Mission Science Teams and is Principal investigator on NASA Earth Science research. 

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EarthToLola
• Research: https://mangrovescience.org/
• NASA Directory Page: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/lola.fatoyinbo 

 

Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Ishveena Singh featured on S13E6: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/esa-biomass-maps-climate-change/ 

 

Stay tuned for a bonus episode this summer to round out Season 13 of Scene From Above recapping the season and prospecting what comes next. And as always, thanks for listening!

 

Shownotes:

• Dr. Fatoyinbo’s 2011 Presidential Early Career Award: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2012/12-064.html 
• Minecraft Mangrove Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkR6xX_v0pw
• Mangrove Science Data Portal: https://mangrovescience.org/data-portal-2/
• Global Mangrove Dataset: https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1665
• NASA Biodiversity: https://cce.nasa.gov/biodiversity/ 
  • Dr. Sassan Saatchi: https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/saatchi/ 
  • Dr. Marc Simard twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcLovesEarth
  • Dr. Woody Turner: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/about/our-team/woody-turner 

 

S13E6 News Links:

• A new web-based mapping application: Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer:
  • https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/imagery/global-land-cover-revealed/?adusf=twitter&aduc=esri_conserv&adut=341c8636-83a0-4da0-859d-54ffafe29c71 
• ESA's wind mission helps to investigate the nature of volcanic plumes:
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27021-0#Abs1 
• Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor Anomaly:
  • https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/news/recent-landsat-9-tirs-anomaly-pauses-processing-new-landsat-9-data 
• ESA Biomass satellite will be launched in 2024:
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2023/02/24/esa-biomass-satellite-set-to-map-earths-essential-old-growth-forests/amp/ 

 

News Correspondent: 

• Rafaela Tiengo: https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_
• Subscribe to Rafaela’s Newsletter! https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/

 

Hosts:

• Dr. Gopika Suresh: https://twitter.com/Go__pika 
• Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://twitter.com/flasmendes 
• Dr. Morgan Crowley: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley