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Meet the Team

The objective of the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) is to bring scientists together with the tools, massive global datasets, and supercomputers necessary to accelerate research in Earth systems science and global change.

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NEX Core Team

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Matthew Johnson

NEX Principal Investigator (Acting)

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Weile Wang

Land Remote Sensing and Modeling

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Taejin Park

Land Remote Sensing and Climate Science

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Hirofumi Hashimoto

Land Remote Sensing and Modeling

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Keiko Nomura

Biodiversity and Earth System Dynamics

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Wen Yip

Project Management, Budget, Resource and Science Support

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Conor Doherty

Mathematical modeling of remotely sensed environmental time series data

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Morgan Gilmour

Marine Ecology: Remote Sensing and Seabird Tracking

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Jeremy Benik

Fire modeling and atmospheric modeling

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Sungchan Jeong

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow

Mashrekur Rahman (GeoAI)

Geospatial AI and Machine Learning for Earth Systems Modeling

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Khuong Tran (WERK)

Advanced Remote Sensing for Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring

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Pratima KC (WERK)

Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Large-scale Ecosystem Monitoring

Akash Awasthi (WERK)

Large Multimodal Models and collaborative SI for scientific applications

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Daniel Dixon (WERK)

Geospatial Analysis, Machine Learning, and Forest Ecology

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Carl Norlen (WERK)

Ecosystem Ecology, Human Dimensions, and Geospatial Analysis

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Stephanie Copeland

NASA Postdoctoral Program

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Paul Seibert

Research Scientist

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Saba Saberi (WERK)

Research Scientist

Bridget Thrasher

NEX