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Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 300-331

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Water & Ecosystems

Scientist

Biography

My research focuses on science applications for wildfires (pre-fire prediction and monitoring, and post fire vegetation recovery), agriculture, and large-scale water cycle changes. My research uses in situ observations, thermal remote sensing data including ECOSTRESS and HyTES. I am the current science applications lead for the ECOSTRESS mission.

Education

  • 2018 PhD Climate Science, Columbia University
  • BA 2011 Geography, Cambridge University

Professional Experience

  • 2021 – present: Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  • 2020 – 2021: JPL Postdoc, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  • 2018 – 2020: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  • 2013 – 2018: Graduate Researcher, Columbia University, New York, NY

Research Interests

  • Monitoring and predicting wildfire
  • Post-wildfire impacts on water and ecosystems
  • Agriculture water use

Selected Awards

  • 2022 NASA Wildland Fires Program
  • 2022 ECOSTRESS Science and Applications Science Team
  • 2022 NASA Wildland Fires Program Science Team
  • 2018 NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Award
  • 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Selected Publications

  1. Byrne, B., Liu, J., Bowman, K., Pascolini-Campbell, M., Chatterjee, A., Pandey, S., Miyazaki, K., van der Werf, G., Wunch, D., Wennberg, P., Roehl, C. and S. Sinha, Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires, Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07878-z
  2. Parazoo, N. C., Osman, M., Pascolini-Campbell, M., & Byrne, B. (2024). Antecedent Conditions Mitigate Carbon Loss During Flash Drought Events. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(8), e2024GL108310. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108310
  3. Boser, A., Caylor, K., Larsen, A., Pascolini-Campbell, M., Reager, J. T., Carleton, T. Field-scale crop water consumption estimates reveal potential water savings in California agriculture, 2024, Nature Communications, 15(1), 2366. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46031-2
  4. Simafranca, N., Willoughby, B., O’Neil, E. Farr, S., Reich, B. J., Giertych, N., Johnson, M., Pascolini-Campbell, M. (2024), Modelling wildland fire burn severity in California using a spatial super learner approach, 2024, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.16187
  5. M. Pascolini-Campbell and J. T. Reager, An Investigation of the spatial and temporal characteristics of dry and wet extreme events across NLDAS-2 models, 2023, Journal of Hydrometeorology, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-23-0038.1
  6. Pascolini-Campbell, M. Soil and plants lose more water under drought. Nature Climate Change – News and Views (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01510-6
  7. Pascolini-Campbell, M., Lee, C., Stavros, N. & Fisher, J. B. (2022). ECOSTRESS reveals pre-fire vegetation controls on burn severity for Southern California wildfires of 2020. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 1976– 1989. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13526
  8. Raymond., C., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Kornhuber, K., Pascolini-Campbell, M., Sillmann, J. and D. E. Waliser “Increasing spatiotemporal proximity of heat and precipitation extremes in a warming world quantified by a large model ensemble”, 2022, Environmental Research Letters, 17(3), 035005. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5712
  9. Pascolini‐Campbell, M., Fisher, J. B. & J. T. Reager “GRACE-ECOSTRESS synergies constrain fine-scale impacts on large-scale water balance”, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15), e2021GL093984. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093984