Educational Component
Year 1
Todd Hockenberry began his internship in January. He was just completing an undergraduate degree in Geography from Eastern Michigan University during this time. He worked on the Landsat dNBR activity reported on above (item 5). Results of his work are reported on in the attached description of how dNBR is derived (Appendix C) and the poster and paper presented in St Petersburg, also attached (Appendix H). He completed his internship in May.
Luz Silverio was brought into Altarum's summer internship program and fully funded through the NASA-NIP grant. She had completed her second year of undergraduate schooling at Washington University when she started in May. Her contributions were many. She provided extensive work on the ecoregions map, did most of the work on the first-order estimation of fuel consumption by ecoregion, and help collect field data in Alaska. Her contributions were summarized in her final presentation required under the Institute's summer internship program (Appendix J). She completed her internship in mid-August.
Jenna Melwiki was hired as a summer intern through the summer internship program with the intention of having her help with the NASA-NIP grant project. She made only a few contributions to this project, however, concentrating her time on other projects within the Environment and Emerging Technologies Group within Altarum Institute. She was called on to help with GIS metadata work for the NASA-NIP. Her main contribution to the NASA-NIP project was in providing help with pre-processing of Landsat imagery for the land cover map of Alaska.
Year 2
Luke Spaete has worked on several aspects of the project and will be presenting a poster at the San Diego Fire Congress in November. His internship report will be presented later in August. He will be in Alaska for two weeks in August doing field work.
Ben Koziol has worked this summer on compiling data for the Lower-48 fuel consumption part of the project. He will be presenting his material also in August.
Rick Powell is a research assistant at Altarum and is working on a remote sensing master's degree. He worked on field data collection and attended the Fairbanks burn severity working group meeting in June. He is helping with the image analysis of Alaska fires. He will be presenting his results at the November Fire Congress.