PI/Institutional PI – 2 Million

• Mapping understory vegetation change using animal- and space-borne sensor, PI: Z. Zhu, USDA, Total $60,000, 10/2024-09/2027.
• Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Estimating the extinction risk of biodiversity with a time-based dynamic system, PI (UConn): Z. Zhu, PI (TempleU): S.B. Hedges, NSF, Total $1,952,698, UConn Proportion $961,763, 10/2023-9/2027.
• IUCRC Phase I Grant University of Connecticut: Center for Weather Innovation, Smart Energy and Resilience (WISER), PI: E. Anagnostou, Senior Personal: Z. Zhu, NSF, Total $750,000, 1/2023-12/2027.
• Improvements of QA Band and New Science Data Layers Proposed for the NASA Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Product, PI: Z. Zhu, NASA, Total $297,781, 4/2023-3/2025.
• Estimating roadside tree risk to grid resilience and reliability using PlanetScope time series, PI: Z. Zhu, Eversource, Total $88,000, 9/2023-8/2025
• An Alkalinity and Inorganic Blue Carbon Monitoring System: Crediting Wetland-to-Ocean Lateral Fluxes in Carbon Markets and Inventories, PI: Kevin Kroeger, Institutional PI: Z. Zhu, NASA, Total $1,199,695, UConn Proportion $182,743, 2023-2026.
• Water-use and Land-cover change detection using ECOSTRESS and OpenET, PI: Y. Yang, Institutional PI: Z. Zhu, NASA, Total $388,237, UConn Proportion $120,076, 2023-2025.
• Maintenance and Continuation of NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product Suite from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS, PI Z. Wang, Institutional PI: Z. Zhu, NASA, Total $689,856, UConn Proportion $234,578, 2021-2024.