Loboda, Tatiana V.

Bio

Tatiana Loboda is a Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park.  She received her B.A. degree in 1995 from the Moscow Pedagogical State University (Moscow, Russia), and her M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park. Tatiana’s research interests include wildland fire, biodiversity, climate change, public health and their interactions with other human and physical factors on the landscape. 

Her work incorporates satellite observations of land surface conditions and change to study a variety of science questions ranging from impacts of wildfire on ecosystems and climate to assessing the impacts of conservation policies on poor rural communities to forecasting malaria outbreaks in the tropics. Geographically, her research is mostly focused on boreal forest and tundra biomes, although she has also been involved in studies of temperate and tropical ecosystems.

Dr. Loboda has been an investigator on numerous NASA projects funded by the Terrestrial Ecology (TE), Interdisciplinary Science (IDS), and Land Cover and Land Use (LCLUC) programs. In 2015 she became a Principal Investigator (PI) for the NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) - a major field campaign aimed at developing a better understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of High Northern Latitude ecosystems and society to a rapidly changing environment.  

In parallel, since 2014 she has focused on bridging disciplinary gaps with medical researchers to bring cutting edge remote sensing capabilities into monitoring and forecasting malaria outbreaks in South-East Asia. In 2017 she received a prestigious International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) NIH grant as part of a multi-institutional interdisciplinary team of researchers to establish a regional Center of Excellence in Myanmar where she will support the global malaria elimination agenda and build regional capacity in satellite monitoring and remote sensing applications.  

In 2018, Dr. Loboda was named among "Women Leaders in Fire Science" by the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

Degrees

  • Geography/English, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow Russia, 1995 - BA

  • Geography, University of Maryland, College Park MD, 2008 - Ph.D

  • Geography, University of Maryland, College Park MD, 2004 - MA

Areas of Interest

  • Multi-scale impacts of socio-economic and environmental factors on wildland fire occurrence and its characteristics
  • Impacts of land use and land cover change on human health
  • Impact of climate change on arctic ecosystems: implications for the indigenous people and area’s biodiversity

Research Topics

  • Carbon, Vegetation Dynamics and Landscape-Scale Processes
  • Geospatial Information Science and Remote Sensing
  • Human Dimensions of Global Change - Coupled Human and Natural Systems
  • Land Cover - Land Use Change

                        

                                                                                                                                      
  • Chen, D., Fu, C, Jenkins, L.K., He, J., Jandt, R.R., Baer, A., Loboda, T.V. 2024.  Regional fire–greening positive feedback loops in Alaskan Arctic tundra. Nature Plants, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01850-5

  • Zhu, X., Chen, D., Kogure, M., Hoy, E., Berner, L. T., Breen, A. L., Chatterjee, A., Davidson, S. J., Frost, G. V., Hollingsworth, T. N., Iwahana, G., Jandt, R. R., Kade, A. N., Loboda, T. V., Macander, M. J., Mack, M., Miller, C. E., Miller, E. A., Natali, S. M., Raynolds, M. K., Rocha, A. V., Tsuyuzaki, S., Tweedie, C. E., Walker, D. A., Williams, M., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., French, N., and Goetz, S., 2024. A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 3687–3703, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3687-2024Miller, C., Griffith, P.C., Hoy, E., Pinto, N.S., Lou, Y., Hensley, S., Chapman, B.D., Baltzer, J., Bakian-Dogaheh, K., Bolton, W.R., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., Chen, R.H., Choe, B., Clayton, L.K., Douglas, T.A., French, N., Holloway, J.E., Hong, G., Huang, L., Iwahana, G., Jenkins, L., Kimball, J.S., Loboda, T., Mack, M., Marsh, P., Michaelides, R.J., Moghaddam, M., Parsekian, A., Schaefer, K., Siqueira, P.R., Singh, D., Tabatabaeenejad, A., Turetsky, M., Touzi, R., Wig, E., Wilson, C., Wilson, P., Wullschleger, S.D., Yi, Y., Zebker, H.A., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Goetz, S.J., 2024. The ABoVE L-band and P-band Airborne SAR Surveys.  Earth System Science Data, essd-2021-172.  https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-172. 

  • Feng, T., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Montesano, P., Skakun, S., Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Minor, D., Loboda, T., 2024.  Characterizing fire-induced forest structure and aboveground biomass changes in boreal forests using multitemporal lidar and Landsat.  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17: 10108 – 10125, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3400218.


                                                                                                              
  • Hoffman-Hall, A., Puett, R., Silva, J.A., Chen, D., Bredder, A., Shevade, V., Han, Z.Y., Han, K.T., Aung, P.P., Plowe, C.V., Nyunt, M.M., Loboda, T.V., 2023.  Comparison of Deforestation and Forest Land Use Factors for Malaria Elimination in Myanmar. IJID Regions, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2023.06.006

  • Hassan, M.M., Hassan, I., Southworth, J., Loboda, T.V., 2022.  Mapping fire-impacted refugee camps using the integration of field data and remote sensing approaches.  International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 115, 103120.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103120

  • He, J., Loboda, T.V., Chen, D., French, N.H.F., 2022.  Cloud-to-ground lightning and near-surface fire weather control wildfire occurrence in Arctic tundra. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096814.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096814French, N.H.F., Loboda, T.V., Puett, R., 2021.  Consequences of a future increase in fire: The human health perspective.  One Earth, 4 (4), 517-530.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.03.008


                                                                                                              
  • Chen, D., Loboda, T.V., Silva, J.A., Tonellato, M.R., 2021. Characterizing Small-Town Development Using Very High Resolution Imagery within Remote Rural Settings of Mozambique. Remote Sensing, 13, 3385. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173385

  • He, J., Chen, D., Jenkins, L., Loboda, T.V., 2021.  Impacts of wildfire and landscape factors on organic soil properties in Arctic tussock tundra.  Environmental Research Letters, 16 (8), 085004.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1192  

  • Chen, D., Shevade, V., Baer, A., He, J., Hoffman-Hall, A., Ying, Q., Li, Y., Loboda, T.V., 2021. A Disease Control-Oriented Land Cover Land Use Map for Myanmar. Data, 6,63.  https://doi.org/10.3390/data6060063.  


                                                                                                              
  • Chen, D., Fu, C., Hall, J.V., Hoy, E.E., Loboda, T.V., 2021.  Spatio-temporal patterns of optimal Landsat data for burn severity index calculations: implications for high northern latitudes wildfire research.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 258 (1): 112393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112393

  • Wimberly, M.C., de Beurs, K.M., Loboda, T.V., Pan, W.K, 2021.  Satellite observations and malaria: new opportunities for research and applications.  Trends in Parasitology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2021.03.003

  • Hoffman-Hall, A., Puett, R., Silva, J.A., Chen, D., Baer, A., Han, K.T., Han, Z.Y., Thi, A., Htay, T., Thein, Z.W., Aung, P.P., Plowe, C.V., Nyunt, M.M., Loboda, T.V., 2020.  Contextualizing Malaria Exposure in Myanmar by Combining Satellite-Derived Land Cover and Use Observations with Field Surveys.  GeoHealth, 4 (2): e2020GH000299.


                                                                                                              
  • Bergen, K., Loboda, T., Newell, J., Kharuk, V., Hitztaler, S., Sun, G., Johnson, T., Hoffman-Hall, A., Ouyang, W., Park, K., Fort, C., Gargulinski, E. 2020. Long-term trends in anthropogenic land use in Siberia and the Russian Far East: a case study synthesis from Landsat.  Environmental Research Letters, 15, 105007.

  • Chen, D., Loboda, T.V., Hall, J.V., 2020.  A Systematic Evaluation of Influence of Image Selection Process on Remote Sensing-based Burn Severity Indices.  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammerty and Remote Sensing, 159: 63-77, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.11.011. 

  • Duncan, B.N., Abshire, J.B., Brucker, L., Carton, J.S., Comiso, J.C., Dinnat, E.P., Forbes, B.C., Gregg, W.W., Hall, D.K., Ialango, I., Jandt, R., Kahn, R.A., Kawa, S.R., Kumpula, T., Loboda, T.V., Nassar, R., Ott, L.E., Parkinson, C.L., Pulliainen, J., Rautiainen, K., Rousseaux, C.S., Soja, A.J., Tamminen, J., Tzortziou, M.A., Wang, J.S., Winker, D.M., Wu, D.L., 2019. Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic-Boreal System: The Foundation for Coordinated Scientific Research and Informed Decision-Making on Human Welfare, Environmental Health, Economic Development, Adaptation, and Geostrategy.  Review of Geophysics, 58, e2019RG000652. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000652


                                                                                                              
  • He, J., Loboda, T.V., Jenkins, L., Chen D., 2019.  Mapping fractional cover of major fuel type components across Alaskan tundra.  Remote Sensing of Environment 232, 111324.

  • Shevade, V. and Loboda, T., 2019.  Oil palm plantations in Peninsular Malaysia: Determinants and constraints on expansion. PLoS ONE, 14(2): e0210628, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210628Goward, S., Loboda, T., Williams, D., Huang, C., 2019.  Landsat Orbital Repeat Frequency and Cloud Contamination: A Case Study for Eastern United States. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 85(2):109-118; doi: 10.14358/PERS.85.2.109

  • Buma, B., Harvey, B., Gavin, D., Kelly, R., Loboda, T., McNeil, B., Marlon, J., Meddens, A., Morris, J., Raffa, K., Shuman, B., Smithwick, E., McLauchlan, K., 2018.  The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience.  Landscape Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0754-5


                                                                                                              
  • Silva, J.A., Loboda, T.V., Strong, M., 2018.  Examining aspiration’s imprint on the landscape: Lessons from Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park.  Global Environmental Change, 51:43-53.  DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.04.013

  • Hall, J. and Loboda, T., 2018.  Quantifying the variability of potential black carbon transport from cropland burning in Russia driven by atmospheric blocking events.  Environmental Research Letters, 13, 055010.Carroll, M. and Loboda, T. 2018.  The sign, magnitude and potential drivers of change in surface water extent in Canadian tundra.  Environmental Research Letters, 13, 045009.

  • Chen, D. and Loboda, T., 2018.  Surface Forcing of Surface Fires in Siberian Larch Forests.  Environmental Research Letters, 13, 045008.


                                                                                                              
  • Hall, J. and Loboda, T. 2017.  Quantifying the potential for low-level transport of black carbon emissions from cropland burning in Russia to the snow-covered Arctic.  Frontiers in Earth Science, 5:109. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00109

  • Groisman, P., Kicklighter, D., Henebry, G., Shugart, H., Tchebakova, N., Maksyutov, S., Monier, E., Gutman, G., Gulev, S., Qi, J., Prishchepov, A., Kukavskaya, E., Porfiriev, B., Shiklomanov, A., Loboda, T., Shiklomanov, N., Nghiem, S., Bergen, K., Albrechtová, J., Chen, J., Shahgedanova, M., Shvidenko, A., Speranskaya, N., Soja, A., deBeurs, K., Bulygina, O., McCarty, J., Zhuang, Q., Zolina, O. 2017.  Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): Facing the Challenges and Pathways of Global Change in the 21st Century.  Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 4:41. doi 10.1186/s40645-017-0154-5

  • Shevade, V., Potapov, P., Harris, N., Loboda, T., 2017.  Expansion of industrial plantations continues to threaten Malayan tiger habitat.  Remote Sensing, 9, 747; doi:10.3390/rs9070747


                                                                                                              
  • Shuman, J.K., Foster, A.C., Shugart, H.H., Hoffman-Hall, A., Krylov, A., Loboda T., Ershov, D., Sochilova, E., 2017.  Increasing Russian fire disturbance: Implications for forest biomass and composition.  Environmental Research letters, 12, 035003.

  • Loboda, T.V. and Chen, D, 2017.  Spatial distribution of young forests and carbon fluxes within recent disturbances in Russia.  Global Change Biology, 23 (1): 138-153 doi: 10.1111/gcb.13349.

  • Barrett, K., Loboda, T., McGuire, A. D., Genet, H., Hoy E., Kasischke E., 2016.  Static and dynamic controls on fire activity at moderate spatial and temporal scales in the Alaskan boreal forest.  Ecosphere, 7 (11): e01572.


                                                                                                              
  • Hall, J., Loboda, T.V., Giglio, L., McCarty, G., 2016.  A MODIS-based burned area assessment for Russian croplands: mapping requirements and challenges.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 184: 506-521.

  • Zarin, D., Harris, N., Baccini, A., Aksenov, D., Hansen, M., Ramos, C., Azevedo, T., Margono, B., Alencar, A., Gabris, C., Allegretti, A., Potapov, P., Farina, M., Walker, W., Shevade, V., Loboda, T., Turubanova, S., Tyukavina, A., 2016.  Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in five years?  Global Change Biology, 22, 1336–1347 doi: 10.1111/gcb.13153

  • French, N.H.F., Jenkins, L., Loboda, T.V., Flannigan, M., Jandt, R., Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., Whitley. M., 2015.  Fire in Arctic Tundra of Alaska: Past fire activity, future fire potential, and significance for land management and ecology. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 24(8): 1045-1061


                                                                                                              
  • Billmire, M., French, N.H.F., Loboda, T., Owen, R.C., Koziol, B.W., Tyner, M., 2014. Santa Ana winds and predictors of wildfire progression in southern California. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 23: 1119-1129.

  • Krylov, A., McCarty, J.L., Potapov, P., Loboda, T., Tyukavina, A., Turubanova, S., Hansen, M.C., 2014.  Remote sensing estimates of stand-replacing fires in Russia, 2002-2011.  Environmental Research Letters, 9:105007.

  • Chen, D., Loboda, T.V., Hall, A., Channan, S., 2014. Long-term record of sampled disturbances in Northern Eurasian boreal forest from pre-2000 Landsat data. Remote Sensing, 6: 6020-6038. doi:10.3390/rs6076020


                                                                                                              
  • O'Neal, K. J., Loboda, T. V., Rogan, J., Yool, S., 2013. Woody plant encroachment in semi-arid Madrean grasslands of southeastern Arizona. The Southwestern Geographer, 16: 26-41.

  • Thelen, B., French, N.H.F., Koziol, B.W., Billmire, M., Owen, R.C., Johnson, J. Ginsberg, M., Loboda, T., Wu, S., 2013.  Modeling acute respiratory illness during the 2007 San Diego wildland fires using a coupled emissions-transport system and general additive modeling, Environmental Health, 12(1), 94, doi:10.1186/1476-069X-12-94.

  • Marx, A.J. and Loboda, T.V., 2013.  Landsat-based early warning system to detect the destruction of villages in Darfur, Sudan.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 136: 126-134.


                                                                                                              
  • Loboda, T.V., Giglio, L., Boschetti, L., Justice, C.O., 2012.  Regional fire monitoring and characterization using global NASA MODIS fire products in dry lands of Central Asia.  Frontiers of Earth Science, 6 (2): 196-205.

  • Loboda, T.V., Zhang, Z., O’Neal, K.J., Sun, G., Csiszar, I.A., Shugart, H.H., Sherman, N.J., 2012.  Reconstructing disturbance history from distribution of land covers in the Russian Far East.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 118: 241-248.  doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.022.

  • Gorsevski, V., Kasischke, E.S., Dempewolf, J, Loboda, T., Grossmann, F., 2012.  Impacts of armed conflict on the Eastern Afromontane forest region on the Sudan – Uganda border.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 118: 10-20.


                                                                                                              
  • Pflugmacher, D., Krankina, O., Cohen, W.,Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D., Kennedy, R., Nelson, P., Loboda, T.,  Kuemmerle, T., Dyukarev, E., Elsakov, V., Kharuk, S., 2011. Comparison and Assessment of Coarse Resolution Land Cover Maps for Northern Eurasia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115 (12): 3539-3553, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.016.

  • Kasischke, E.S., Loboda, T., Giglio, L., French, N.H.F., Hoy, E.E., de Jong, B., Riano, D. 2011.  Quantifying burned area from fires in North American forests – implications for direct reduction of carbon stocks.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, G04003, doi: 10.1029/2011JG001707.

  • Loboda, T.V., Hoy, E., Giglio, L., Kasischke, E.S. 2011.  Mapping burned area in Alaska using MODIS data: A data limitations-driven modification to the regional burned area algorithm. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 20: 487–496.


                                                                                                              
  • Loboda, T., 2009.  Modeling Fire Danger in Data-Poor Regions: A case study from the Russian Far East.  International Journal of Wildland Fire, 18 (1): 19-35. 

  • Giglio, L., Loboda, T., Roy, D.P., Quayle, B., Justice, C.O., 2009.  An Active-Fire Based Burned Area Mapping Algorithm for the MODIS Sensor.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 113 (2): 408-420.

  • McCarty, J., Loboda, T., Trigg, S., 2008.  A hybrid approach to quantifying crop residue burning in the US based on burned area and active fire data.  Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 24 (4): 515-527. 


                                                                                                              
  • Loboda , T., O’Neal, K.J., Csiszar, I., 2007. Regionally adaptable dNBR based algorithm for burned area mapping from MODIS data.  Remote Sensing of Environment 109: 429 – 442.

  • Loboda, T. and Csiszar, I., 2007.  Assessing the Risk of Ignition in the Russian Far East within a Modeling Framework of Fire Threat.  Ecological Applications, 17 (3): 791-805.

  • Loboda, T. and Csiszar, I., 2007.  Reconstruction of Fire Spread within Wildland Fire Events in Northern Eurasia from the MODIS Active Fire Product.  Global and Planetary Change, 56 (3-4): 258-273.


                                                                              

                      

                      

                        
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            Tatiana V. Loboda

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