Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Alexey N Shiklomanov

(Rsch AST, Earth Sciences Remote Sens)

 alexey.shiklomanov@nasa.gov

 301.614.6683

Org Code: 610.1

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

April 2023 - Present


Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD

November 2021 - Present


Research physical scientist

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

March 2020 - April 2023


Postdoctoral research associate

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

September 2018 - March 2020


Adjunct faculty

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

September 2019 - 2020


Graduate research assistant

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

September 2014 - July 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

Raiho, A. M., K. Cawse‐Nicholson, A. Chlus, et al. J. Dozier, M. Gierach, K. Miner, F. Schneider, D. Schimel, S. Serbin, A. N. Shiklomanov, D. R. Thompson, P. A. Townsend, S. Zareh, M. Skiles, and B. Poulter. 2023. Exploring Mission Design for Imaging Spectroscopy Retrievals for Land and Aquatic Ecosystems Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128 (4): [10.1029/2022jg006833]

Weiskopf, S. R., A. N. Shiklomanov, L. Thompson, S. Wheedleton, and E. H. Campbell Grant. 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]

Angel, Y., and A. N. Shiklomanov. 2022. Remote Detection and Monitoring of Plant Traits: Theory and Practice Annual Plant Reviews online 5 (3): 313-344 [10.1002/9781119312994.apr0778]

Jian, J., V. Bailey, K. Dorheim, et al. A. G. Konings, D. Hao, A. N. Shiklomanov, A. Snyder, M. Steele, M. Teramoto, R. Vargas, and B. Bond-Lamberty. 2022. Historically inconsistent productivity and respiration fluxes in the global terrestrial carbon cycle Nature Communications 13 (1): 1733 [10.1038/s41467-022-29391-5]

Dorheim, K., C. M. Gough, L. T. Haber, et al. K. C. Mathes, A. N. Shiklomanov, and B. Bond‐Lamberty. 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]

Meunier, F., M. D. Visser, A. Shiklomanov, et al. M. C. Dietze, J. A. Guzmán Q., G. A. Sanchez‐Azofeifa, H. P. De Deurwaerder, S. M. Krishna Moorthy, S. A. Schnitzer, D. C. Marvin, M. Longo, C. Liu, E. N. Broadbent, A. M. Almeyda Zambrano, H. C. Muller‐Landau, M. Detto, and H. Verbeeck. 2021. Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity Global Change Biology 28 (1): 227-244 [10.1111/gcb.15928]

Myers, B. J., S. R. Weiskopf, A. N. Shiklomanov, et al. S. Ferrier, E. Weng, K. A. Casey, M. Harfoot, S. T. Jackson, A. K. Leidner, T. M. Lenton, G. Luikart, H. Matsuda, N. Pettorelli, I. M. Rosa, A. C. Ruane, G. B. Senay, S. P. Serbin, D. P. Tittensor, and T. D. Beard. 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]

Thompson, D. R., P. G. Brodrick, K. Cawse‐Nicholson, et al. K. Dana Chadwick, R. O. Green, B. Poulter, S. Serbin, A. N. Shiklomanov, P. A. Townsend, and K. R. Turpie. 2021. Spectral Fidelity of Earth's Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 (8): [10.1029/2021jg006273]

Woodard, D. L., A. N. Shiklomanov, B. Kravitz, C. Hartin, and B. Bond-Lamberty. 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]

Shiklomanov, A. N., M. C. Dietze, I. Fer, T. Viskari, and S. P. Serbin. 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]

Nicholls, Z., M. Meinshausen, J. Lewis, et al. M. R. Corradi, K. Dorheim, T. Gasser, R. Gieseke, A. P. Hope, N. J. Leach, L. A. McBride, Y. Quilcaille, J. Rogelj, R. J. Salawitch, B. H. Samset, M. Sandstad, A. Shiklomanov, R. B. Skeie, C. J. Smith, S. J. Smith, X. Su, J. Tsutsui, B. Vega‐Westhoff, and D. L. Woodard. 2021. Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: Synthesising Earth system knowledge for probabilistic climate projections Earth's Future [10.1029/2020ef001900]

Cawse-Nicholson, K., P. A. Townsend, D. Schimel, et al. A. M. Assiri, P. L. Blake, M. F. Buongiorno, P. Campbell, N. Carmon, K. A. Casey, R. E. Correa-Pabón, K. M. Dahlin, H. Dashti, P. E. Dennison, H. Dierssen, A. Erickson, J. B. Fisher, R. Frouin, C. K. Gatebe, H. Gholizadeh, M. Gierach, N. F. Glenn, J. A. Goodman, D. M. Griffith, L. Guild, C. R. Hakkenberg, E. J. Hochberg, T. R. Holmes, C. Hu, G. Hulley, K. F. Huemmrich, R. M. Kudela, R. F. Kokaly, C. M. Lee, R. Martin, C. E. Miller, W. J. Moses, F. E. Muller-Karger, J. D. Ortiz, D. B. Otis, N. Pahlevan, T. H. Painter, R. Pavlick, B. Poulter, Y. Qi, V. J. Realmuto, D. Roberts, M. E. Schaepman, F. D. Schneider, F. M. Schwandner, S. P. Serbin, A. N. Shiklomanov, E. N. Stavros, D. R. Thompson, J. L. Torres-Perez, K. R. Turpie, M. Tzortziou, S. Ustin, Q. Yu, Y. Yusup, and Q. Zhang. 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]

Jian, J., A. Shiklomanov, W. D. Shuster, and R. D. Stewart. 2021. Predicting near-saturated hydraulic conductivity in urban soils Journal of Hydrology 595 126051 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126051]

Atkins, J. W., E. Agee, A. Barry, et al. K. M. Dahlin, K. Dorheim, M. S. Grigri, L. T. Haber, L. J. Hickey, A. G. Kamoske, K. Mathes, C. McGuigan, E. Paris, S. C. Pennington, C. Rodriguez, A. Shafer, A. Shiklomanov, J. Tallant, C. M. Gough, and B. Bond-Lamberty. 2021. The <i>fortedata</i> 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]

Fer, I., A. K. Gardella, A. N. Shiklomanov, et al. E. E. Campbell, E. M. Cowdery, M. G. De Kauwe, A. Desai, M. J. Duveneck, J. B. Fisher, K. D. Haynes, F. M. Hoffman, M. R. Johnston, R. Kooper, D. S. LeBauer, J. Mantooth, W. J. Parton, B. Poulter, T. Quaife, A. Raiho, K. Schaefer, S. P. Serbin, J. Simkins, K. R. Wilcox, T. Viskari, and M. C. Dietze. 2020. Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration Global Change Biology gcb.15409 [10.1111/gcb.15409]

Nicholls, Z. R., M. Meinshausen, J. Lewis, et al. R. Gieseke, D. Dommenget, K. Dorheim, C.-S. Fan, J. S. Fuglestvedt, T. Gasser, U. Golüke, P. Goodwin, C. Hartin, A. P. Hope, E. Kriegler, N. J. Leach, D. Marchegiani, L. A. McBride, Y. Quilcaille, J. Rogelj, R. J. Salawitch, B. H. Samset, M. Sandstad, A. N. Shiklomanov, R. B. Skeie, C. J. Smith, S. Smith, K. Tanaka, J. Tsutsui, and Z. Xie. 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]

Shiklomanov, A. N., B. Bond-Lamberty, J. W. Atkins, and C. M. Gough. 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]

Gough, C. M., J. W. Atkins, B. Bond-Lamberty, et al. E. A. Agee, K. R. Dorheim, R. T. Fahey, M. S. Grigri, L. T. Haber, K. C. Mathes, S. C. Pennington, A. N. Shiklomanov, and J. M. Tallant. 2020. Forest Structural Complexity and Biomass Predict First-Year Carbon Cycling Responses to Disturbance Ecosystems [10.1007/s10021-020-00544-1]

Shiklomanov, A. N., E. M. Cowdery, M. Bahn, et al. C. Byun, S. Jansen, K. Kramer, V. Minden, Ü. Niinemets, Y. Onoda, N. A. Soudzilovskaia, and M. C. Dietze. 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]

Weiskopf, S. R., J. L. McCarthy, K. P. McCarthy, et al. A. N. Shiklomanov, H. T. Wibisono, and W. Pusparini. 2019. The conservation value of forest fragments in the increasingly agrarian landscape of Sumatra Environmental Conservation 46 (4): 340-346 [10.1017/s0376892919000195]

Viskari, T., A. Shiklomanov, M. C. Dietze, and S. P. Serbin. 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]

Shiklomanov, A. N., B. A. Bradley, K. M. Dahlin, et al. C. M. Gough, F. M. Hoffman, E. M Middleton, S. P. Serbin, L. Smallman, W. K. Smith, and A. M. Fox. 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]

Kaverin, D. A., E. B. Melnichuk, N. I. Shiklomanov, et al. N. B. Kakunov, A. V. Pastukhov, and A. N. Shiklomanov. 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]

Shiklomanov, A. N., M. C. Dietze, T. Viskari, P. A. Townsend, and S. P. Serbin. 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]

Levia, D. F., A. N. Shiklomanov, J. T. Van Stan, et al. C. E. Scheick, S. P. Inamdar, M. J. Mitchell, and P. J. McHale. 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]

Shiklomanov, A. N., and D. F. Levia. 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]

Non-Refereed

Serbin, S., A. Shiklomanov, D. Yang, et al. P. Brodrick, D. Thompson, and B. Poulter. 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]

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