Marshall, Michael Thomas

Organization(s):

World Agroforestry Centre - Nairobi, Kenya

Link to CV:

http://chg.geog.ucsb.edu/people/cv/michael-marshall.pdf

Michael is broadly interested in the interaction of land surface processes with the atmosphere and how this interaction impacts agrarian society. After receiving his B.S. in physics from UCSD, he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania. He received a Fulbright Fellowship after earning his M.A. in Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University to evaluate the socioeconomic impacts of climate change on the spread of malaria and cholera in communities around Lake Victoria.

He received his Ph.D. in Geography from UC Santa Barbara. His dissertation titled, Modeling Evapotranspiration in sub-Saharan Africa: A Tool for Food Security Analysis synthesized remote sensing and land surface reanalysis to parameterize a low cost and effective evapotranspiration model.

He was a Mendenhall Research Fellow with the U.S. Geological Survey. His project there used a suite of hyper- spatial and spectral remote sensing data, geographic information system (GIS) layers, and groundtruth data to estimate and evaluate crop water productivity for the primary irrigated crops in California.

He now is a climate change scientist for the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Research Interests:

Climate change, LULCC, agriculture, water resources, and remote sensing

Home Page:

World Agroforestry Centre

Home Page:

Bio Dr. Michael Marshall (Climate Hazards Group)

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National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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