Professor John Townshend has received an award from NASA entitled "Earth Science Data Records of Global Forest Cover Change", otherwise known as MEASURES. The award is for $3.5 million over a five year period. The goal is to use remote sensing products of various resolutions synergistically to create internal consistent data sets of global forest cover.

Professor Samuel Goward has been awarded over $250,000 per year for three years for a project entitled “Role of North American Forest Disturbance and Regrowth in NACP: Integrated Analyses of Landsat and US Forest FIA Data.”

Professor Eric Kasischke has received a sub award for the project entitled "Assessing the impacts of fire and insect disturbance on the terrestrial carbon budgets of forested areas in Canada, Alaska and the Western United States." The project has three year’s funding for a total of $562,000.

Professor Shunlin Liang, Principal Investigator, and Professor John Townshend, Co-Investigator, have received the NOAA award entitled “Land Surface Thermal Infrared Emissivity Database Development and Modeling for Operational Weather Prediction and Climate Models” The project has three year’s funding for a total of $414,000.