Education: |
M.S., School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2001
Yale University, New Haven, CT |
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B.A., Department of Biology, 1997
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN |
Professional Experience: |
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2005-Present |
Manager, Airborne Science Program Office
NASA Ames Research Center |
2002-2005 |
Research Scientist
Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch
NASA Ames Research Center |
2004-2005 |
Special Assistant to Center Director
NASA Ames Research Center |
2001-2002 |
NASA Headquarters, Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC 20546
Program Analyst – Presidential Management Intern
Principal investigator for the Carbon Management National Application
Assist with FY 2004 Budget formulation and FY 2002 performance evaluation
Liaise with the State Department, USAID and NIMA on international projects |
1999-2001 |
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511
Teaching Fellow
Assisted graduate students with ArcView 3.x GIS software and extensions.
Assisted undergraduates on the analytic applications of GIS to common scenarios at larger scales of natural resource management.
Worked with the instructor to secure additional funding from the administration to modernize GIS facilities at the School |
1998-2001 |
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511
Forest Ecology Research Assistant
Inventory, map and analyze long-term ecological experimental plots.
Model forest regeneration and growth in boreal, temperate and tropical forest ecosystems.
Test software for Delta-T Devices (UK) to calibrate image and sensor measurements of light resources under forests of different composition and successional state |
1998-2001 |
Cambodian Genocide Program, New Haven, CT 06511
Geographic Research Specialist
Maintain & update a GIS of investigative materials on suspected human rights violations in Cambodia between 1975-1979.
Advise Program Director on documentation, analysis and presentation of geographic datasets for purposes of UN sanctioned Cambodian war crimes tribunal.
Created an internet map server to allow distribution of maps and summaries to legal experts. |
1997-1998 |
USDA – Agricultural Research Service, Mandan, ND 58554
Biological Technician
Maintained and sampled four long-term agricultural experiments.
Processed and analyzed raw data for publications and conference presentations.
Consulted on information technology resources and applications. |
Awards & Accomplishments: |
2002 |
NASA Office of Earth Science Award |
2001-2003 |
Presidential Management Intern, NASA Headquarters |
2000-2001 |
Chair, Conference Committee, Trans-Boundary Protected Areas: The Viability of Regional
Conservation Strategies , International Society of Tropical Foresters, Yale Chapter |
2000 |
Conference presenter, Source materials on the Cambodian Genocide , Yale University |
2000 |
Student Representative, Curriculum Committee, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies |
1998-2001 |
Board Member, International Society of Tropical Foresters, Yale chapter |
1999-2000 |
Board Member, Yale Forestry Club |
1999-2000 |
Secretary & Treasurer, Society of American Foresters, Yale University chapter |
1999-2001 |
Research Assistant, Forest Ecology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies |
1998-2000 |
Yale University Teaching Fellow:
Geographical Information Systems (School of Environmental Studies, 1998)
Introduction to Environmental Studies (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1999-2001)
Technical Module on Spatial Statistics (School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2000) |
1997 |
NSF Research Fellow in Molecular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson |
1995 |
Award for Research on Community Development in India, Center for Research on a New Economic Order, Madras, India |
1994 |
Habitat for Humanity Volunteer, Chicago |
1993-1997
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Gustavus Adolphus College Partners in Scholarship recipient for research |
Selected Publications: |
Potter, C., S. Klooster, V. Genovese, S. Hiatt, M. Fladeland, and P. Gross. 2005. Past Impacts and Future Scenarios of Climate on Ecosystem Carbon Balance for the Western United States. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 5-9, San Francisco, CA.
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Hiatt, S., C. Potter, S. Klooster, V. Genovese, P. Gross, and M. Fladeland. 2005. Methane Emissions from Natural Wetlands in the United States: Satellite-Derived Estimation based on Ecosystem Carbon Cycling. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 5-9, San Francisco, CA.
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Fladeland, M., R. Dobosy, T. Takahashi, and D. Sullivan. 2005. A Suborbital Observation System for Measuring Carbon Flux over Land and Water. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Infotech@Aerospace , Sept. 26-29, Arlington, VA.
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Fladeland, M., C. Potter, V. Brooks-Genovese, S. Klooster, and S. Hiatt. 2004. CASA -CQUEST: Decision support tools and data analysis for ecosystem carbon management in the United States. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 13-17, San Francisco, CA.
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Birk, R. J., T. Stanley, G. I. Snyder, T. A. Hennig, and M. Fladeland. 2003. Commerical imagery for use in government-sponsored Earth Science and mapping programs, Remote Sensing of Environment , 88(1-2): 3-16.
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Fladeland, M., M. S. Ashton, and X. Lee. 2003. Landscape variations in understory PAR for a mixed deciduous forest in New England , USA , Agricultural and Forest Meteorology . 118: 137-141.
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Goodale, U., A. Lanfer, M. Stern, C. Margoluis, A. Lanfer, and M. Fladeland. 2003. Trans-boundary protected areas: The viability of regional conservation strategies, Journal of Sustainable Forestry , 17: 1-2.
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Sheffner, E., and M. Fladeland. 2002. Towards a Carbon Management Regime. Earth Observer Magazine, 11(8): 22-25 |
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