Mark L. Carroll curriculum vitae
Mark L. Carroll
Senior Support Scientist
Sigma Space Corporation
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 618
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Mark.Carroll@nasa.gov
301.614.6974
Appointments
Oct. 2011 – present:
Mar. 2000 – Oct. 2011:
Aug. 1997 – Mar. 2000:
Jun. 1996 – Aug. 1997:
Senior Support Scientist, Sigma Space Corporation, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center
Faculty Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of
Maryland.
Physical Science Technician, Smithsonian Environmental Research
Center
Biological Science Technician, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Education
Degrees
1991 – 1996
B.S. Natural Resources Management, University of Maryland, College Park,
USA.
M.P.S. Geographic Information Systems, University of Maryland, College
Park, USA.
2008 – 2010
Research Interests
Methods and techniques for generating and analyzing time series maps of land cover and
specifically water resources
Long term monitoring of water resources for identification of trends and anomalies
Monitoring High Northern Latitude lakes as indicators of climate change
Successful Grants
2013 – 2015
2013 – 2014
2013
2013 – 2018
PI: Determining the extent and dynamics of surface water for the ABoVE field
campaign. NASA Terrestrial Ecology program ($245,012).
Co-I/Institutional PI: Measuring Impact (sub-award to Environmental Incentives).
USAID-Forestry and Biodiversity office ($56,200).
PI: Analysis of forest cover change for developing countries in Africa. ICF-Macro
($20,000).
Co-I/Institutional PI: Vegetation Continuous Fields ESDR for the AVHRR and
MODIS Records: 1981 – Present NASA MEaSURES program ($268,360)
2012 – 2017
2010 – 2013
2008 – 2009
Co-I: RECOVER: Rehabilitation Capability Convergence for Ecosystem Recovery
NASA Applications: Wildfires program ($435,358).
Co-I: Enhanced Land Cover Products from MODIS: Vegetation Continuous Fields
Algorithm Maintenance and Refinements. NASA Science of Terra and Aqua
program ($827,282).
PI: Global Mapping of Surface Water using MODIS and SRTM at 250m Spatial
Resolution. NASA Terrestrial Ecology program ($99,690).
Publications
Refereed Articles:
Brown, M.E., Carroll, M.L., Escobar, V.M. 2014. User needs and assessing the impact of low
latency NASA Earth observation data availability on societal benefit. Space Policy. [online journal]
doi: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2014.05.002
Brown, M.E., Grace, K., Shively, G., Johnson, K.B., Carroll, M.L. 2014. Using satellite remote
sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental
change. Population and Environment. [online journal] doi 10.1007/s11111-013-0201-0.
Carroll, M. L., Schnase, J. L., Weber, K. T., Brown, M. E., Gill, R. L., Haskett, G. W., & Gardner,
T. A. 2013. A new application to facilitate post-fire recovery and rehabilitation in Savanna
ecosystems. Earthzine. [online journal] (http://www.earthzine.org/2013/06/22/a-new-applicationto-facilitate-post-fire-recovery-and-rehabilitation-in-savanna-ecosystems/)
Silver, K.C., and Carroll, M.L. 2013. A Comparative Review of North American Tundra
Delineations. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2.2: 324-348.
Carroll, M., Townshend, J.R.G., DiMiceli, C.M., Loboda, T., Sohlberg, R.A., 2011. Shrinking lakes
of the Arctic: Spatial relationships and trajectory of change, Geophysical Research Letters. 38,
L20406, 5 PP., doi:10.1029/2011GL049427
Carroll, M., Townshend, J., DiMiceli, C., Noojipady, P., Sohlberg, R. 2009. A new global raster
water mask at 250 meter resolution, International Journal of Digital Earth. 2(4), 291-308.
Chang J., Hansen M.C., Pittman K., Carroll M. & DiMiceli C., 2007. Corn and soybean mapping in
the United States using MODIS time-series data sets, Agronomy Journal, 99(6):1654-1664.
Hansen, M. C., Stehman, S.V., Potapov, P.V., Loveland, T.R., Townshend, J. R. G., DeFries, R. S.,
Pittman, K.W., Arunarwati, B., Stolle, F., Steininger, M.L., Carroll, M., DiMiceli, C.M. 2008.
Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and
multiresolution remotely sensed data, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105, 27,
9439-9444.
Hansen, M. C., Townshend, J. R. G., DeFries, R. S., and Carroll, M. 2005. Estimation of tree cover
using MODIS data at global, continental and regional/local scales, International Journal of
Remote Sensing. 26, 4359-4380.
Morton, D.C., DeFries, R.S., Shimabukuro, Y.E., Anderson, L.O., Espírito-Santo, F.D.B., Hansen,
M.C., and Carroll, M.L. 2005. Rapid assessment of annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
using MODIS data, Earth Interactions. 9, Paper 8, [online journal].
Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Carroll, M., DiMiceli, C., and Sohlberg, R. 2003.
Global percent tree cover at a spatial resolution of 500 meters: first results of the MODIS
Vegetation Continuous Fields algorithm, Earth Interactions. 7, 1-15[online journal].
Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Sohlberg, R., DiMiceli, C., and Carroll, M. 2002.
Towards an operational MODIS continuous field of percent tree cover algorithm: Examples using
AVHRR and MODIS data, Remote Sensing Environment. 83(1&2), 303-319.
Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R., Townshend, J.R.G., DiMiceli, C., Carroll, M., Eastman, J.C., Hansen, M.,
and DeFries, R.S. 2002. Detection of land cover changes using MODIS 250m data, Remote
Sensing Environment. 83(1&2), 336-350.
Book Chapters
Carroll, M., Townshend, J., Hansen, M., DiMiceli, C., Sohlberg, R., Wurster, K. 2011. Vegetative
Cover Conversion and Vegetation Continuous Fields. In Ramachandran, B., Justice, C.O., Abrams,
M. (eds) Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: NASA’s Earth Observing
System and the Science of Aster and MODIS Springer-Verlag pp 725 – 745.
Conference Proceedings and Published Reports:
Carroll, M., Descloitres, J., Giglio, L., Sohlberg, R., Finco, M, Quayle, B., Owens, J., Townshend,
J., and Justice, C. 2002. MODIS Land Rapid Response activities with the USDA Forest Service:
time sensitive data acquisition to support wildfire management. NASA Science Data Processing
Workshop, Greenbelt, Md.
Descloitres, J., Sohlberg, R., Owens, J., Giglio, L., Justice, C., Carroll, M., Seaton, J., Crisologo,
M., Finco, M., Lannom, K., and Bobbe, T. 2002. The MODIS Land Rapid Response Project.
IGARSS: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings,
Toronto.
Quayle, B., Finco, M., Kostyuchenko, D., Lannom, K., Norton, J., Carroll, M., Descloitres, J., and
Sohlberg, R., 2002. USDA Forest Service MODIS active fire mapping and delivery. Rapid
Delivery of Remote Sensing Products: Proceedings of the Ninth Forest Service Remote
Sensing Applications Conference, San Diego. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing: Bethesda, MD.
Townshend, J.R.G., DeFries, R.S., Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R.A., Hansen, M.C., DiMiceli, C., Carroll,
M.L., and Eastman, J.C. 2001. MODIS 250m and 500m time series data for change detection and
continuous representation of vegetation characteristics. Multitemp 2001, Trento, Italy.
Recent Presentations
Dec. 2013
Dec. 2013
Mar. 2013
Dec. 2012
Oct. 2012
Mar. 2012
Sep. 2011
May 2011
Dec. 2009
May 2009
Determining the extent and dynamics of surface water for the ABoVE Field
Campaign. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting San Francisco, CA
Dec. 9 – 13, 2013
RECOVER: An Automated Burned Area Emergency Response Decision Support
System for Post-fire Rehabilitation Management of Savanna Ecosystems in the
Western US. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting San Francisco, CA
Dec. 9 – 13, 2013.
The RECOVER Cloud-Based Data Server. Intermountain GIS Conference - Boise,
ID - March 11-13, 2013.
Quantifying the importance of representing small lakes in coarse resolution
processes. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting San Francisco, CA
Dec. 10 – 14, 2012.
ICESat-2 applications: status and future plans. ICESat-2 Science Definition Team
meeting Austin, TX Oct. 29 – 31, 2012.
Shrinking Lakes of the Arctic. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Terrestrial
Water Cycle seminar series Mar. 14, 2012.
Twelve Years of Global Mapping from MODIS. Fall seminar series George Mason
University Sep. 28, 2011.
Vegetation Continuous Fields and the Global Water Mask. MODIS Science Team
meeting College Park, MD May 2011.
Changes in Arctic Surface Water: A remote sensing approach using MODIS 250m
data. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting San Francisco, CA. Dec. 14
– 18, 2009.
Surface Water Dynamics Derived from the MODIS Data Record. American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 24 – 27,
2009.
Teaching
Instructor: Jun. – Jul. 2010
Introduction to Remote sensing and GIS for Master in the Professional Studies in GIS Program
(GEOG 579) - on-line graduate course-prerequisite for MPS in GIS program
Service
Aug. 2006 – Sep. 2011:
Aug. 2009:
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center User Working
Group.
NASA Vulnerability and Resilience of Arctic and Sub-Arctic
Landscapes (VuRSAL) scoping study for NASA field campaign.
Fairbanks, AK Aug. 2009