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Philip (Phil) Townsend
(updated: 25-Mar-2024)
Address: University of Wisconsin
Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology
1630 Linden Drive
Madison WI 53706
USA
Email:ptownsend@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.444.7375

CCE Project Participation:  
Project Title:Role
Mapping changes in forest diversity and disease in North American temperate forests (view profile)Co-Investigator
Leaves, Landscapes, and Lambda: Using Remote Sensing to Improve Predictions and Mechanistic Understanding of Spatiotemporal Wildlife Population Dynamics (view profile)Co-Investigator
Linkage of Remote Sensing, Field Spectroscopy and Modeling to Characterize Ecosystem Function in Relation to the Heat Island and Carbon Budget of an Urban Area (view profile)Co-Investigator
A Land to Sea Paradigm: Impact of Spatially and Temporally Varying Nutrient and Freshwater Fluxes on Coastal Carbon Dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico (view profile)Co-Investigator
BioCube: Integrating remote sensing and in-situ dimensions of biodiversity to understand plant and animal community composition and dynamics at large scales (view profile)Co-Investigator
Detecting disturbance legacy effects in functional trait phenology using imaging spectroscopy data from the SHIFT campaign (view profile)Project Lead
Assimilation of imaging spectroscopy data to improve the representation of vegetation dynamics in ecosystem models (view profile)Co-Investigator
Assimilation of imaging spectroscopy data to improve the representation of vegetation dynamics in ecosystem models (view profile)Co-Investigator
The bridge from canopy condition to continental scale biodiversity forecasts, including the rare species of greatest conservation concern (view profile)Co-Investigator
Spectral Data Discovery, Access and Analysis through EcoSIS Toolkits (view profile)Project Lead
On-Demand Geospatial Spectroscopy Processing Environment on the Cloud (GeoSPEC) (view profile)Project Lead
Vegetation functional amplitudes along a rainfall gradient in Indian ecosystems using AVIRIS-NG (view profile)Project Lead
CapeTraits: Patterns of functional trait variation and diversity across the Greater Cape Floristic Region and comparison with other Mediterranean ecosystems (view profile)Project Lead
Bringing Wildlife Management into Focus: Integrating Camera Traps, Remote Sensing and Citizen Science to Improve Population Modeling (view profile)Project Lead
Landscapes In Flux: The Influence of Demographic Change and Institutional Mechanisms on Land Cover Change, Climate Adaptability and Food Security in Rural India (view profile)Project Lead
Ecological Spectral Information System (ESIS): Integration of Spectral Data with Measurements of Vegetation Functional Traits (view profile)Project Lead
Variation in Foliar Functional Traits across Environmental Gradients in ABoVE Landscapes (view profile)Project Lead
Functional diversity as a driver of GPP variation across the ABoVE domain (view profile)Project Lead
Effects of Insect Defoliation on Regional Carbon Dynamics of Forests (view profile)Project Lead
Detection of key leaf physiological traits using spectroscopy and hyperspectral imagery (view profile)Project Lead
Measurement of ecosystem metabolism across climatic and vegetation gradients in California for the 2013-2014 NASA AVIRIS/MASTER airborne campaign (view profile)Project Lead
An integrative approach for quantifying the effects of disturbance on regional forest carbon cycling (view profile)Project Lead
Characterization of forest functional types and their role in mediating ecosystem response to environmental change (view profile)Project Lead


CCE Group Participation:
2008 CCE JSW - Breakout Chairs
2008 CCE JSW Registrants
2011 CCE JSW Registrants
2014 Biodiversity & Ecological Forecasting Funded Projects
2015 CCE JSW Invited speakers
2015 JSW Registrants
BDEC All Email List
BDEC Interested
BDEC Project Participants
Support Task: Townsend, Phillip (Project Lead)
TE 2010 Breakout Leads
TE 2010 Meeting Planning Commitee
TE 2010 Meeting Registrants
TE 2013 Meeting Breakout Chairs
TE 2013 Meeting Plenary Speakers
TE 2013 Meeting Registrants
TE All Email List



Other Group Participation:

NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE):

ABoVE 2016 STM2 Invitees
ABoVE 2018 STM4 Invitees
ABoVE 2019 STM Invite
ABoVE 2019 STM5 Registrants
ABoVE 2020 STM6 Invite
ABoVE 2021 Planning EMAIL List
ABoVE 2021 STM7 Registrants
ABoVE 2023 STM9 Registrants (all)
ABoVE 2024 Planning EMAIL List
ABoVE 2024 STM10 Registrants / Moderators / Presenters Email List
ABoVE Airborne Daily - EMAIL LIST
ABoVE All Email List
ABoVE All Science Team Email List
ABoVE NASA Currently Funded Project Leads (2022+) (Project Lead)
ABoVE Phase 3 Project Leads (Project Lead)
ABoVE Project Leads (2022+) (Project Lead)
ABoVE Project Leads (Project Lead)
ABoVE Scoping Study Workshop (2012) Participants
ABoVE WG Modeling Framework & Comparisons
ABoVE WG Spectral Imaging

NASA Biological Diversity & Ecological Conservation (BDEC):

BDEC All Email List
BDEC Interested
BDEC Project Participants

Carbon North America (CarboNA):

2007 US AND Joint Meeting Participants

North American Carbon Program (NACP):

2004 Missoula RS Workshop - NACP relevant RS project participants
2007 US AND Joint Meeting Participants
2007 US NACP Meeting Participants
Desai (2018) (Co-Investigator)
Disturbance Synthesis - All
Disturbance Synthesis - WG 1: Quantifying forest disturbances
Disturbance Synthesis - WG 1d: Quantifying Forest Health
Disturbance Synthesis - WG 3: Modeling the impacts of forest disturbances on carbon cycling
NACP Broad Mailing List
NACP Project Participants

NASA Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry (OBB):

OBB All Email List
OBB Project Participants

NASA Terrestrial Ecology (TE):

Support Task: Townsend, Phillip (Project Lead)
TE 2010 Breakout Leads
TE 2010 Meeting Planning Commitee
TE 2010 Meeting Registrants
TE 2013 Meeting Breakout Chairs
TE 2013 Meeting Plenary Speakers
TE 2013 Meeting Registrants
TE 2019 Participant Message Board
TE 2019 STM Invite
TE All Email List