Adjunct Faculty: Compton Tucker

Compton Tucker is a Senior Earth Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Biospheric Sciences Branch Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics. He completed his Masters in Forest Science from Colorado State University in 1973 and a PhD also from Colorado State University in 1975. He has broad experience in remote sensing research and applications and has won a number of prestigious national and international awards. His research interests are focused on Earth Systems Research through the use of satellite remote sensing. He is Director of the Global Monitoring and Modeling Studies group at GSFC. He has on-going projects on tropical forest monitoring, remote sensing of disease vectors and famine early warning. He has a broad interest in environmental issues, remote sensing archaeology, the monarch butterfly and oriental rugs. He assists in graduate student advising and has taught remote sensing in the Department. He is currently seconded to the US Climate Change Science Program Office.

Example Publications:

Tucker CJ, Grant DM, Dykstra JD, "NASA's global orthorectified landsat data set", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70 (3): 313-322, MAR 2004.

Buermann, W., B. Anderson, C. J. Tucker, R. E. Dickinson, W. Lucht, C. S. Potter, and R. B. Myneni, "Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D13): Art. No. 4396, 2003.

Anyamba, A., C. J. Tucker, and R. Mahoney, "From El Niño to La Niña: Vegetation response patterns over East and Southern Africa during 1997-2000 period", J. Climate, 15, 3096-3103, 2002.

Tucker, C. J., Wilson, J. M., Mahoney, R., Anyamba, A., Linthicum, K. J., and Myers, M., 2002. "Climatic and Ecological Context of Ebola Outbreaks". Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, (2002)68, N0. 2, 147-152.