David is a remote sensing scientist with a strong background in coastal hydrogeology. His research interests cover a wide range of topics including land-water-atmosphere interactions and coastal hydrogeology. More specifically, his interests combine land use change, energy balance and water quality monitoring, and water-carbon cycle science in transitional environments at the land-sea interface. He has engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations with different agencies at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as with researchers from a variety of backgrounds.
Linking Carbon and Water Dynamics in the Pursuit of Predicting Peat Collapse in Coastal Wetlands
Beyond being one of the most carbon dense ecosystems due to their high carbon sequestration rates, mangrove forests and other blue carbon wetlands are economically and biologically important from local to global scales. Sea-level rise and seawater intrusion pose high-risks of change to mangrove forests and coastal marshes, which can result in extraordinary changes to inundation and salinity that impact both above and below ground carbon cycling. The main goal of this project will consist of developing a new analytical framework from the fusion of multiple readily available ground, airborne, and spaceborne remote sensing datasets to quantify and predict rapid changes or collapse of the blue carbon landscapes. Combining these datasets will enable us to estimate forest and ecosystem changes, identify areas vulnerable to collapse, and model changes to regional carbon and water cycling to inform current restoration and research efforts in the Everglades.
Total Carbon Estimation in African Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands in Preparation for REDD and Blue Carbon Credits
Our goals are to develop the methodlogies for, and produce the initial remote sensing products necessary to implement a MRV (monitoring, reporting, and verification) system in Coastal Blue Carbon ecosystems in collaboration with local in country and international partners. We plan to estimate forest change, structure, and biomass of mangrove forests to improve carbon management, monitoring, carbon cycle science, and to inform REDD+ and carbon emission mitigation projects in Tanzania, Mozambique, and Gabon.
Vulnerability Assessment of Mangrove Forests in the Americas
Remote Sensing of Wetlands
Coastal Hydrogeology
Carbon-Water Cycling
Groundwater/ Surface Water Interactions
Land-Water-Atmosphere Interactions
Land Cover/Land Use Change: Anthropogenic and Natural Disturbances
5/2014
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Present
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Universities Space Research Association,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Ph.D. in Geological Sciences (2014), Florida International University, Miami, FL
M.S. in Geology (2009), East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
B.S. in Geological Sciences (2007), Florida International Univeristy, Miami, FL
Florida Coastal Everglades: LTER,
2009
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Present
American Geophysical Union,
2008
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Present
Geological Society of America,
2007
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Present
McKnight Dissertation Year Fellowship (2013-2014)
ASD Goetz Instrument Support Program (2011)
Refereed
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. 2016. "A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space."
Remote Sensing,
8
(4):
327
[10.3390/rs8040327]
Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS),
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S.-K. Lee, and M. Simard. 2015. "High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an African blue carbon ecosystem."
Remote Sens Ecol Conserv,
1
(1):
51-60
[10.1002/rse2.3]
Campbell, P. K., E. M. Middleton, K. J. Thome, et al. 2013. "EO-1 Hyperion Reflectance Time Series at Calibration and Validation Sites: Stability and Sensitivity to Seasonal Dynamics."
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing,
6
(2):
276-290
[10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2246139]
Invited
Water-vegetation-atmosphere interactions in coastal carbonate estuaries
4
/
2014
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Connecting groundwater and surface water sources in a groundwater dependent coastal wetland: Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico
2
/
2014
McKnight Mid-Year Research and Writing Conference. Tampa, FL.
Other
Linking Hydrology, Geology, and Ecology at the Coastal Boundary
3
/
3
/
2016
NASA GSFC Hydrospheric Sciences Branch Terrestrial Water Cycle Seminar
Hydrologic signals and patterns in coastal mangrove communities using space-borne remote sensing
5
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2013
American Geophysical Union: Meeting of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico
Tracing coastal and estuarine groundwater discharge sources in a complex faulted and fractured karst aquifer system
5
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2013
American Geophysical Union: Meeting of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico
Seasonal water chemistry and spectral reflectance in coastal mangroves
6
/
2012
9th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference. Orlando, FL.
Monitoring hydrogeochemical interactions in coastal mangroves in Everglades National Park using field spectroscopy and remote sensing
12
/
2011
American Geophysical Union: Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Seasonal spectral dynamics and carbon fluxes at core EOS sites using EO-1 Hyperion images
12
/
2010
American Geophysical Union: Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Refereed
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S. Lee, et al. 2016. "A Comparison of Mangrove Canopy Height Using Multiple Independent Measurements from Land, Air, and Space."
Remote Sensing
8
(4):
327
[10.3390/rs8040327]
Lee, S.-K., L. E. Fatoyinbo Agueh, D. Lagomasino, et al. 2015. "Large-scale mangrove canopy height map generation from TanDEM-X data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques."
2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
[10.1109/igarss.2015.7326420]
Lagomasino, D., T. Fatoyinbo, S.-K. Lee, and M. Simard. 2015. "High-resolution forest canopy height estimation in an African blue carbon ecosystem."
Remote Sens Ecol Conserv
1
(1):
51-60
[10.1002/rse2.3]
Campbell, P. K., E. M. Middleton, K. J. Thome, et al. 2013. "EO-1 Hyperion Reflectance Time Series at Calibration and Validation Sites: Stability and Sensitivity to Seasonal Dynamics."
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing
6
(2):
276-290
[10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2246139]
