Total Active Grants: ~$7 million (PI: $3.17 million)

• Identifying early warning signals of marsh collapse to inform proactive restoration of Long Island Sound coastal wetlands, PI: Z. Zhu, EPA/Long Island Sound Study, Total $909,250 (Awarded).
• Enhancing Spatial and Temporal Capabilities of NASA HLS and SLI Data, PI: Z. Zhu, NASA, Total $935,536, 2026-2030.
• 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.
• Operational Cloud Detection Algorithm for NASA’s Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2, PI: Z. Zhu, NASA, Total $119,695, 09/2025-08/2027.
• Mapping understory vegetation change using animal- and space-borne sensors, PI: Z. Zhu, USDA, Total $60,000, 10/2024-09/2027
• IUCRC Phase I Grant University of Connecticut: Center for Weather Innovation, Smart Energy and Resilience (WISER), PI: E. Anagnostou, Senior Personnel: Z. Zhu, NSF, Total $750,000, 1/2023-12/2027.
• Advancing coastal wetland restoration outcomes: examining temporal trajectories and spatial variation of past management scale interventions across the Long Island Sound, PI: B. Lawrence, Co-PI: Z. Zhu, EPA/Long Sounds Study, Total $838,517, 1/2025-12/2026.
• 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.