Dr. Anthony Campbell is an assistant research scientist with Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II who sits in the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory. Anthony focuses on utilizing remote sensing to understand coastal ecosystems and how they are changing to inform policy. These ecosystems greatly benefit society, including reducing flood-related death and damage and mitigating and adapting to climate change. He utilizes satellite imagery and field data to produce maps of change across time and space and how these changes impact the environment and society. He has previously conducted studies to understand intertidal marsh extent and change using object-based and high-resolution imagery, a global study of salt marsh and carbon emissions, mapping aboveground biomass and carbon in the salt marshes of the United States, and biodiversity in South Africa’s estuaries. He is a member of the BioSCape science team, a biodiversity-focused field campaign in the Greater Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.
Anthony attended the University of Rhode Island, where he studied with Yeqiao Wang and received his Doctorate in Biological and Environmental Science. His dissertation was titled “Remote Sensing Monitoring of Salt Marsh Condition and Change in the Mid-Atlantic National Seashores.” During his graduate education, he worked in the Environmental Data Center and Laboratory of Terrestrial Remote Sensing, studying the impact of Hurricane Sandy on coastal national parks.