Martha Anderson
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Scientific career
ThesisThe Evolution of relativistic electron populations in shell supernova remnants (1993)

Martha Carol Anderson is research scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture. She is known for her work in using satellite imagery to track droughts and their impact on crops. In 2022, she was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering.

Education and career

Anderson has a B.A. from Carleton College (1987) and she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1993. Following her Ph.D., she move to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she worked first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as an associate researcher and assistant scientist. In 2005, she moved to the Agricultural Research Service as a research physical scientist.[1]

Research

Anderson's Ph.D. research was in the field of observational astrophysics where she investigated supernovas.[2][3] She then changed her research focus to the interactions between soils, plants, and the atmosphere[4] and how this is detected using remote sensing. She uses data from satellites to develop models[5][6] that are used to predict droughts and soil moisture stress,[7] and the subsequent impacts on crops.[8]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2022, Anderson was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.[9] In 2022, she also received the John Dalton medal from the European Geosciences Union in recognition of her work on "multi-scale thermal remote sensing to evapotranspiration and drought impact assessments".[10]

References

  1. ^ "Martha Anderson : USDA ARS". www.ars.usda.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  2. ^ Anderson, M.; Rudnick, L.; Leppik, P.; Perley, R.; Braun, R. (1991-05-01). "Relativistic Electron Populations in Cassiopeia A". The Astrophysical Journal. 373: 146. Bibcode:1991ApJ...373..146A. doi:10.1086/170033. ISSN 0004-637X.
  3. ^ Anderson, M. C.; Keohane, J. W.; Rudnick, L. (1995-03-01). "The Polarization and Depolarization of Radio Emission from Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A". The Astrophysical Journal. 441: 300. Bibcode:1995ApJ...441..300A. doi:10.1086/175356. ISSN 0004-637X.
  4. ^ Anderson, M. C.; Norman, J. M.; Diak, G. R.; Kustas, W. P.; Mecikalski, J. R. (1997-05-01). "A two-source time-integrated model for estimating surface fluxes using thermal infrared remote sensing". Remote Sensing of Environment. 60 (2): 195–216. Bibcode:1997RSEnv..60..195A. doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00215-5. ISSN 0034-4257.
  5. ^ Anderson, Martha C.; Norman, John M.; Mecikalski, John R.; Otkin, Jason A.; Kustas, William P. (2007-05-27). "A climatological study of evapotranspiration and moisture stress across the continental United States based on thermal remote sensing: 1. Model formulation: EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND MOISTURE STRESS". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 112 (D10). doi:10.1029/2006JD007506.
  6. ^ Anderson, Martha C.; Norman, J. M.; Mecikalski, John R.; Torn, Ryan D.; Kustas, William P.; Basara, Jeffrey B. (2004-04-01). "A Multiscale Remote Sensing Model for Disaggregating Regional Fluxes to Micrometeorological Scales". Journal of Hydrometeorology. 5 (2): 343–363. Bibcode:2004JHyMe...5..343A. doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2004)005<0343:AMRSMF>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1525-7541.
  7. ^ Anderson, M. C.; Kustas, W. P.; Norman, J. M.; Hain, C. R.; Mecikalski, J. R.; Schultz, L.; González-Dugo, M. P.; Cammalleri, C.; d'Urso, G.; Pimstein, A.; Gao, F. (2011-01-21). "Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field to continental scales using geostationary and polar orbiting satellite imagery". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 15 (1): 223–239. Bibcode:2011HESS...15..223A. doi:10.5194/hess-15-223-2011. hdl:10447/53094. ISSN 1607-7938.
  8. ^ Anderson, Martha C.; Norman, J. M.; Kustas, William P.; Li, Fuqin; Prueger, John H.; Mecikalski, John R. (2005-12-01). "Effects of Vegetation Clumping on Two–Source Model Estimates of Surface Energy Fluxes from an Agricultural Landscape during SMACEX". Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6 (6): 892–909. Bibcode:2005JHyMe...6..892A. doi:10.1175/JHM465.1. ISSN 1525-7541.
  9. ^ Lozier, Susan; Myles, LaToya (2022-09-19). "AGU Announces the 2022 Class of Fellows". Eos. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  10. ^ "Martha C. Anderson". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 2022-12-28.

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