Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Alexey N Shiklomanov

(Rsch AST, Earth Sciences Remote Sens)

Alexey N Shiklomanov's Contact Card & Information.
Email: alexey.shiklomanov@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6683
Org Code: 610.1
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 610.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Research Interests


Earth Science informatics

Earth Science: Analysis


Dynamic vegetation modeling

Earth Science: Ecosystem function


Vegetation remote sensing

Earth Science: Remote Sensing


Current Projects


Cloud computing technologies for NASA Earth Science data


Hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation


NASA Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission preparatory activities

Remote Sensing

Positions/Employment


Research physical Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office - Greenbelt, MD

March 2023 - Present


Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

October 2021 - Present


Research physical scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory - Greenbelt, MD

February 2020 - March 2023


Postdoctoral research associate

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) - College Park, MD

August 2018 - February 2020


Adjunct faculty

George Washington University, Department of Geography - Washington, D.C.

August 2019 - December 2020


Graduate research assistant

Boston University, Department of Earth & Environment - Boston, MA

August 2014 - June 2018

Education


  • 2018. Ph.D. Geography, Boston University.
    • Dissertation: Improving ecological forecasts using model and data constraints
    • Advisor: Michael Dietze
  • 2014. Honors B.S. with Distinction, Chemistry and Environmental Science, University of Delaware
    • Honors thesis: Stemflow acid neutralization capacity in a deciduous forest: The role of edge effects
    • Advisor: Delphis Levia

 

Publications


Refereed

2023. "A community convention for ecological forecasting: Output files and metadata version 1.0." Ecosphere 14 (11): [10.1002/ecs2.4686] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Exploring Mission Design for Imaging Spectroscopy Retrievals for Land and Aquatic Ecosystems." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128 (4): [10.1029/2022jg006833] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Winter severity affects occupancy of spring‐ and summer‐breeding anurans across the eastern United States." Diversity and Distributions 28 (10): 2187-2199 [10.1111/ddi.13620] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Remote Detection and Monitoring of Plant Traits: Theory and Practice." Annual Plant Reviews online 5 (3): 313-344 [10.1002/9781119312994.apr0778] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Historically inconsistent productivity and respiration fluxes in the global terrestrial carbon cycle." Nature Communications 13 (1): 1733 [10.1038/s41467-022-29391-5] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Climate Drives Modeled Forest Carbon Cycling Resistance and Resilience in the Upper Great Lakes Region, USA." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127 (1): [10.1029/2021jg006587] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity." Global Change Biology 28 (1): 227-244 [10.1111/gcb.15928] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "A New Approach to Evaluate and Reduce Uncertainty of Model-Based Biodiversity Projections for Conservation Policy Formulation." BioScience 71 (12): 1261-1273 [10.1093/biosci/biab094] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Spectral Fidelity of Earth's Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 (8): [10.1029/2021jg006273] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "A permafrost implementation in the simple carbon–climate model Hector v.2.3pf." Geoscientific Model Development 14 (7): 4751-4767 [10.5194/gmd-14-4751-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Cutting out the middleman: Calibrating and validating a dynamic vegetation model (ED2-PROSPECT5) using remotely sensed surface reflectance." Geoscientific Model Development 14 (5): 2603–2633 [10.5194/gmd-14-2603-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: Synthesising Earth system knowledge for probabilistic climate projections." Earth's Future [10.1029/2020ef001900] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms." Remote Sensing of Environment 257 112349 [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112349] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Predicting near-saturated hydraulic conductivity in urban soils." Journal of Hydrology 595 126051 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126051] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "The fortedata R package: open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience." Earth System Science Data 13 (3): 943-952 [10.5194/essd-13-943-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration." Global Change Biology gcb.15409 [10.1111/gcb.15409] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 1: introduction and evaluation of global-mean temperature response." Geoscientific Model Development 13 (11): 5175-5190 [10.5194/gmd-13-5175-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Structure and parameter uncertainty in centennial projections of forest community structure and carbon cycling." Global Change Biology n/a (n/a): [10.1111/gcb.15164] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Forest Structural Complexity and Biomass Predict First-Year Carbon Cycling Responses to Disturbance." Ecosystems [10.1007/s10021-020-00544-1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within plant functional types? A Bayesian multivariate trait meta‐analysis." Ecological Applications 30 (3): [10.1002/eap.2064] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "The conservation value of forest fragments in the increasingly agrarian landscape of Sumatra." Environmental Conservation 46 (4): 340-346 [10.1017/s0376892919000195] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "The influence of canopy radiation parameter uncertainty on model projections of terrestrial carbon and energy cycling." PLOS ONE 14 (7): e0216512 [10.1371/journal.pone.0216512] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Enhancing global change experiments through integration of remote‐sensing techniques." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17 (4): 215-224 [10.1002/fee.2031] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Long-term changes in the ground thermal regime of an artificially drained thaw-lake basin in the Russian European north." Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 29 (1): 49-59 [10.1002/ppp.1963] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Quantifying the influences of spectral resolution on uncertainty in leaf trait estimates through a Bayesian approach to RTM inversion." Remote Sensing of Environment 183 226-238 [10.1016/j.rse.2016.05.023] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Calcium and aluminum cycling in a temperate broadleaved deciduous forest of the eastern USA: relative impacts of tree species, canopy state, and flux type." Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 187 (7): 458 [10.1007/s10661-015-4675-3] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Stemflow acid neutralization capacity in a broadleaved deciduous forest: The role of edge effects." Environmental Pollution 193 45-53 [10.1016/j.envpol.2014.06.011] [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2020. "Evaluation of sensor characteristics on the retrieval of vegetation surface reflectance in high-latitude ecosystems." AUTHOREA (https://www.authorea.com/) [10.1002/essoar.10504943.2] [Other]

Grants


Functional ecology in the SBG era: An assessment of the state of plant trait retrieval from imaging spectroscopy

ROSES2020 A.31 New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science - NASA (NNH20ZDA001N-NIP) - Awarded: 2021-03-19


Dates: 2021-04-01  - 2024-03-31


Intermediate complexity schemes for modelling the diversity of vegetation drought response

ROSES2020 A.16 Modeling Analysis and Prediction - NASA (NNH20ZDA001N-MAP) - Awarded: 2020-03-12


Dates: 2021-04-01  - 2025-03-31