Maintenance and refinement of the AMSR-E SWE product - Role : PI - Source : NASA - 2007 - 2010 Combination of active and passive space-borne microwave data for improving the retrieval of SWE from space - Role : PI - Source : NASA - 2007 - 2010 Blending of visible and microwave products for snow application - Role: Co-I - Source : AFWA - 2006 - 2008 Towards improved weather and sub-seasonal climate forecasts through assimilation of NASA EOS land surface products into the NASA GMAO seasonal forecasting and weather prediction systems - Role : Co - I - Source: NASA - 2007 - 2010 Currently funded projects Ongoing unfunded projects Improvement of melting detection techniques from space-borne microwave brightness temperatures over the Greenland Ice Sheet Studying supra-glacial lakes with visible satellite data and their evolution with increased snow melting in recent years Improvement of melting detection techniques from space-borne microwave brightness temperatures over Antarctica and climate teleconnections Expired projects Improved passive microwave snow retrievals of snow depth and snow water equivalent over land and sea ice through the incorporation of electromagnetic modeling and temporal information. NASA unsolicited - July 2006 - 2007, Sponsor: Thorsten Markus - NASA Analysis and correction of brightness temperatures for atmospheric effects and forest cover for microwave remote sensing of snow., NASA unsolicited, July 2006 - June 2008; Sponsor: James R. Wang - NASA