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Jessica L. McCarty

Jessica L. McCarty

Biospheric Science Branch Chief

Contents

Division: Earth Science Division (SG)

Branch: Biospheric Sciences Branch (SGE)

Education

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Ph.D., Geography, 2009. Dissertation: Seasonal and interannual variability of emissions from crop residue burning in the contiguous United States. Advisor: Christopher O. Justice, PhD. Fellowship: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship 

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, M.A., Geography, 2005 

Advisor: Christopher O. Justice, PhD 

Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, B.A., Geography (Regional Analysis and Public Policy) and Spanish, 2003, summa cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi  

Experience

Dr. McCarty has more than 15 years’ experience in applications of Earth observations and geospatial and data science to accurately quantify wildland and human-caused fire management and emissions, agriculture and food security, climate change impacts and adaptation, and land-cover/land-use change. She is the author/co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, 12 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, 5 book chapters, 5 technical reports, 5 data citations, and 1 NASA Technology Transfer. Dr. McCarty is a member of the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Science Team and was a member of the NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ field campaign and the NASA Hysperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) Airborne campaign. She is an invited U.S. contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) Expert Meetings on Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs), the Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme’s Expert Group on SLCFs, and the European Commission’s EU Action on Black Carbon Action. Her published fire emission methodologies have been used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory and National Emissions Inventory. 

Research Interests

Wildland and prescribed fires, fire emissions, climate change, air quality, agriculture and food security, landscape change science, natural resource and fire management, remote sensing theory, field methods for remote sensing campaigns, terrestrial ecology.  

Awards & Others

2020 Group Achievement Award FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality) 

2005 NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellow 

Select Publications

  1. Crowley, M.A., Stockdale, C.A., Johnston, J.M., Wulder, M.A., Liu, T., McCarty, J.L., Rieb, J.T., Cardille, J.A., and White, J.C. (2023) Towards a whole-system framework for wildfire monitoring using Earth observations. Global Change Biology, 29 (6): 1423-1436. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16567 
  1. Canosa, I.V., Biesbroek, R., Ford, J., McCarty, J.L., Orttung, R.W., Paavola, J., and Burnasheva, D. (2023) Wildfire adaptation in the Russian Arctic: A systematic policy review. Climate Risk Management, 39: 100481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100481. 
  1. Zamanialaei, M., Brown, M.E., McCarty, J.L., and Fain, J.J. (2023). Understanding the Perceived Indicators of Food Sovereignty and Food Security for Rice Growers and Rural Organizations in Mazandaran Province, Iran. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.998235 
  1. Zamanialaei, M., McCarty, J.L., Fain, J.J., and Hughes, M.R. (2022). Understanding the Perceived Indicators of Food Sovereignty and Food Security for Rice Growers and Rural Organizations in Mazandaran Province, Iran. Agriculture & Food Security, 11(1):1-15, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00386-1 
  1. Shuman, J.K. and 86 authors. (2022). Reimagining fire science in the Anthropocene. PNAS Nexus, 1: pgac115, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac115.   
  1. Grudzinski, B.P., Fritz, K., Golden, H.E., Newcomer-Johnson, T.A., Rech, J.A., Levy, J., Fain, J., McCarty, J.L., Johnson, B., Vang, T.K., Maurer, K. (2022). A global review of beaver dam impacts: Stream conservation implications across biomes. Global ecology and conservation, 37: e02163, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02163.  
  1. Wooster, M. J., Roberts, G. J., Giglio, L., Roy, D. P., Freeborn, P. H., Boschetti, L., Justice, C., Ichoku, C., Schroeder, W., Davies, D., Smith, A.M.S., Setzer, A., Csiszar, I., Strydom, T., Frost, P., Zhang, T., Xu, W., de Jong, M.C., Johnston, J.M., Ellison, L., Vadrevu, K., Sparks, A.M., Nguyen, H., McCarty, J., Tanpipat, V., Schmidt, C., and San-Miguel-Ayanz, J. (2021) Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 267: 112694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112694.  
  1. Glushkov, I., Zhuravleva, I., McCarty, J.L., Komarova, A., Drozdovsky, A., Drozdovskaya, M., Lupachik, V., Yaroshenko, A., Stehman, S.V., and Prishchepov, A.V. (2021) Spring fires in Russia: Results from participatory burned area mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery. Environmental Research Letters, 16: 125005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3287.  
  1. McCarty, J. L., Aalto, J., Paunu, V.-V., Arnold, S. R., Eckhardt, S., Klimont, Z., Fain, J. J., Evangeliou, N., Venäläinen, A., Tchebakova, N. M., Parfenova, E. I., Kupiainen, K., Soja, A. J., Huang, L., and Wilson, S. (2021) Reviews and syntheses: Arctic Fire Regimes and Emissions in the 21st Century, Biogeosciences, 18: 5053-5083, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5053-2021. 
  1. Liu, T., Mickley, L., and McCarty, J.L. (2021) Global search for temporal shifts in fire activity: potential human influence on southwest Russia and north Australia fire seasons. Environ. Res. Lett. 16: 044023, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe328. 
  1. Flett, L., McLeod, C., McCarty, J.L., Shaulis, B., Fain, J.J., and Krekeler, M.P.S. (2021). Providing New Environmental Health Contexts for Native American Populations: A Geochemistry, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Geospatial Investigation of Airborne Uranium and Metal Particulate in Tree Bark near the Midnite Mine and Dawn Mill, Spokane Reservation, Washington. Environmental Research. 194: 110619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110619. 
  1. McCarty, J.L., Smith, T.E.L., and Turetsky, M.R. (2020). Arctic Fires Re-Emerging. Nature Geosciences. 13: 658–660. 
  1. Thomas, N., Neigh, C. S., Carroll, M. L., McCarty, J. L., & Bunting, P. (2020). Fusion Approach for Remotely-Sensed Mapping of Agriculture (FARMA): A Scalable Open Source Method for Land Cover Monitoring Using Data Fusion. Remote Sensing, 12(20): 3459. 
  1. Enenkel, M., Brown, M.E., Vogt, J.V., McCarty, J.L., Reid Bell, A., Guha-Sapir, D., Dorigo, W.A., Vasilaky, K., Svoboda, M., Bonifacio, R., Voigt, S., Anderson, M., Funk, C., Osgood, D.E., Hain, C., and Vinck, P. (2020). Why predict climate hazards if we need to understand impacts? Mobile technologies could put humans back into the equation. Climatic Change. 162: 1161–1176. 
  1. McDonald, A.J., Jat, M.L., Craufurd, P., Hellin, J., Hung, N.V., Keil, A., Kishore, A., Kumar, V., McCarty, J.L., Pearson, P., Samaddar, A., Shyamsundar, P., Shirsath, P.B., Sidhu, H.S., Singh, A.K., Sudhanshu Singhm, Srivastavam, K., Urban, E., Malik, R.K., Gerard, B. (2020). Indian agriculture, air pollution, and public health in the age of COVID. World Development, 135: 105064. 
  1. Elmes, A., Alemohammad, H., Avery, R., Caylor, K., Eastman, R., Fishgold, L., Friedl, M., Jain, M., Kohli, D., Laso Baya, H.C., Lunga, D., McCarty, J.L., Pontius, Jr., R.G., Reinmann, A.B., Rogan, J., Song, L., Stoynova, H., Ye, Su., Yi, Z.-F., and Estes, L. (2020). Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to Earth observations. Remote Sensing.  12(6): 1034.  
  1. Henry, M.C., Maingi, J.K., and McCarty, J. (2019) Fire on the Water Towers: Mapping Burn Scars on Mount Kenya Using Satellite Data to Reconstruct Recent Fire History. Remote Sensing. 11(2): 104.  
  1. Enekel, M., Osgood, D.E., Greatrex, H., Powell, B.F., Brown, M.E., McCarty, J.L., Neigh, C.S.R., Carroll, M.L., Anderson, M.E., Hain, C., Husak, G., and Wooten, M.R. (2019), Exploiting the convergence of evidence in satellite data for advanced weather index insurance design. Weather, Climate, and Society.  11(1): 65-93 
  1. Osgood, D., Powell, B., Diro, R., Farah, C., Enenkel, M., Brown, M.E., Husak, G., Blakeley, A.L., Hoffman, L., and McCarty, J.L. (2018). Farmer Perception, Recollection, and Remote Sensing in Weather Index Insurance: An Ethiopia Case Study. Remote Sensing. 10(12): 1887. 
  1. Hou, P., Wu, S., McCarty, J.L. (2018), Sensitivity of atmospheric aerosol scavenging to precipitation intensity and frequency in the context of global climate change, Atmospheric Chemistry Physics. 18(11): 8173-8182. 
  1. Neigh, C.S.R., Caroll, M.L., Wooten, M.R., McCarty, J.L., Powell, B., Husak, G., Hain, C. (2018), Smallholder crop area mapped with wall-to-wall WorldView sub-meter panchromatic image texture: a test case for Tigray, Ethiopia. Remote Sensing of Environment. 212: 8-20. 
  1. McCarty, J.L. and Garbe, P.L. (2018). Where there is smoke: Introduction to the virtual special issue of the health impacts of wildland fire smoke exposure – Selected papers from the 2nd International Smoke Symposium. Science of the Total Environment. 626: 1259-1260. 
  1. Pouliot, G., G., Rao, V., McCarty, J.L., Soja, A., 2017. Development of the crop residue and rangeland burning in the 2014 National Emissions Inventory using information from multiple sources. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 67(5): 613-622. 
  1. Groisman, P., Kicklighter, D., Henebry, G., Shugart, H., Tchebakova, N., Maksyutov, S., Monier, W., Gutman, G., Gulav, S., Qi, J., Prishchepov, A., Kukavskaya, E., Porfiriev, B. Shiklomanov, A., Loboda, T., Shiklamanov, N., Nghiem, S., Bergen, K., Albrechtova, J., Chen, J., Shahgedanova, M., Shvidenko, A., Speranskaya, N., Soja, A., de Beurs, K., Bulygina, O., McCarty, J., Zhuang, Q., Zolina, O. (2017), Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): Facing the Challenges and Pathways of Global Change in the 21st Century. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 4:41. doi: 10.1186/s40645-017-0154-5.  
  1. McCarty, J.L., Carroll, M.L., Neigh, C.S.R., and Wooten, M.R. (2017), Extracting Smallholder Cropped Area in Tigray, Ethiopia with Wall-to-Wall Sub-Meter WorldView and Moderate Resolution Landsat 8 Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment.  202:142-151.  
  1. Brown, M.E., and McCarty, J.L. (2017), Finding and Monitoring Urban Farms with Remote Sensing. Applied Geography. 80:23-33.  
  1. Mozer, D., Mussikhin, V., Mass, K., Wold, S., McCarty, J.L., Levin, E., Gey, N., Toleubekova, Zh. (2017), Comparative analysis of software packages for RADAR data interferometric processing from CIS country view. Surveying and Land Information Science. 76(2): 1-9.  
  1. Molina, L.T., Gallardo, L., Andrade, M., Baumgardner, D., Borbor-Córdova, M., Bórquez, R., Casassa, G., Cereceda-Balic, F., Dawidowski, L., R. Garreaud, R., Huneeus, N., Lambert, F., McCarty, J.L., McPhee, J., Mena-Carrasco, M., Raga, G.B., Schmitt, C., and Schwarz, J.P. (2015), Pollution and its Impacts on the South American Cryosphere. Earth’s Future. doi:10.1002/2015EF000311. 
  1. Ogle, S.M., Davis, K.J.,  Lauvaux, T., Schuh, A., Cooley, D., West, T., Heath, L., Miles, N., Richardson, S., Breidt, F., Smith, J., McCarty, J.L, Gurney, K.R., Tans, P.P., and Denning, A. (2015), An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO2 concentration data. Environmental Research Letters. 10(3):  doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034012.  
  1. Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., Krylov, A., McCarty, J.L., Radeloff, V.C., and Hansen, M.C. (2015), Eastern Europe forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified using Landsat archive. Remote Sensing of Environment. 159: 28-43.