GOAL: create "simple/inexpensive" scientific methods for quantitatively measuring & monitoring problems

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.”~ Albert Einstein

1. what are the jobs in future that humans can do but technology/machines cannot?

2. impact of climate, settlement patterns, and land use change on food, water and energy security

3. develop improved tools to understand and manage multifunctional landscapes

4. geospatial techniques for interpolating soil and water quality within watersheds

5. characterizing the pathways of contaminants through landscapes in both urban and rural settings

6. spatio-temporal analyses of management impacts on land cover and soil functions

7. discriminating anthropogenic land degradation drivers from climatic effects

8. assessing contribution of changing shapes and sizes of cities on ecosystem health

9. flood detection algorithms, and improving effectiveness of on-site waste disposal systems

10. other topics with sizeable quantitative components, and collaborators welcomed