Shane R. Coffield
(FACULTY ASSISTANT)
| Email: | shane.coffield@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 618 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 618 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIV OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK |
Current Projects
Earth Information System - Fire
Fire
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/eis
Positions/Employment
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - College Park, MD
September 2022 - Present
Education
University of California, Irvine
Ph.D., Earth System Science, 2022
M.S., Earth System Science, 2019
The University of Chicago
B.S., Geophysical Sciences, 2017
B.S., Environmental Science, 2017
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
2017 - Present
National Science Policy Network
2020 - Present
Publications
Refereed
2026. "Leveraging additional VIIRS information to improve wildfire tracking in the western US.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 334 115156 [10.1016/j.rse.2025.115156] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking.", Fire Ecology, 21 (1): 55 [10.1186/s42408-025-00407-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Leveraging the next generation of spaceborne Earth observations for fuel monitoring and wildland fire management.", Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, [10.1002/rse2.416] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system.", Scientific Data, 9 (1): 249 [10.1038/s41597-022-01343-0] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12 (9): [10.1029/2019ms001955] [Journal Article/Letter]