Grants

1. NSF CRISES: Collaborative Research: Planning: Human-Centered Early Warning Systems for Weather Hazards, Brenda Philips (PI), Qian Yu, et al., 9/1/2024-8/31/2025.
2. UMass Interdisciplinary Research Grants,Assessing salt marsh vegetation health and wetland sustainability using SAR and optical remote sensing, Qian Yu (PI), Paul Siqueira and Brian Yellen, 6/1/2024-5/31/2025.
3. NSF Algorithms for Threat Detection, ATD: Deep Learning on Anomaly Detection for Human Dynamics and Hazard Response, Qian Yu (PI), Hui Guan, and Brenda Philips, 8/1/2023-7/31/2026.
4. USGS NE CASC, Effects of urban coastal armoring on salt marsh sediment supplies and resilience to climate change, Brian Yellen (PI), Q. Yu and J. Woodruff, 9/1/2022-8/31/2025.
5. USDA NRCS 2020 Soil Science Collaborative Research, Regional scaling of blue carbon measurements with lidar-derived geomorphic tools, Brian Yellen (PI), J. Woodruff, J. Richardson, and Q. Yu. 6/1/2020-3/1/2023.
6. UMass Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Grant, Understanding and predicting human response to personalized severe weather warnings for urban flash floods, UMass, Brenda Philips (PI), David Jensen, Qian Yu, March, 2020.
7. UMass Faculty Research Grant, Remote sensing of dissolved organic carbon in inland and estuarine waters for the assessment of terrestrial-aquatic carbon flux. Qian Yu (PI), 05/01/2016-11/30/2017.
8. UMass President’s 2010 Science & Technology (S&T) Initiatives, Hong Liu (PI), Co-PIs: Qian Yu et al., Consortium on Anytime-Anywhere-Anyway (AAA) Transportation Information, Nov, 2010.
9. NSF Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences (CMG), Qian Yu (PI), Co-PIs: Anna Liu, Collaborating with Yong Tian and Robert Chen at UMass-Boston, Collaborative Research: Modeling DOC dynamics from landscapes to coasts: hydrological connectivity and estuary processes, Sept 2010 – Aug 2014.
10. USGS Water Resources Annual Institute Program (sponsored by MA WRRC), Qian Yu (PI), Co-PIs: Weining Zhu, Monitoring and modeling chromophoric dissolved organic matter in Neponset River and Boston Harbor using GIS and hyperspectral remote sensing, May 2010-April 2011.
11. UMass Faculty Research Grant, Qian Yu (PI), Estimating carbon flux from terrestrial landscape to coastal water using remote sensing technology and watershed modeling, 05/01/2007-09/30/2010.
12. Five Colleges Lecture Fund, applied for Five Colleges GIS Day, Qian Yu (PI), Nov 2007.
13. National Park Service, Peng Gong (PI), Co-PI: Qian Yu, Object-oriented vegetation classification at peninsular national parks in California with airborne high resolution imagery: DAIS, 2002-2004.
14. Monterey Pine Forest Ecology Cooperative, Qian Yu (PI), High Resolution Remote Sensing Based Monterey Pine Mapping and Inventory at San Francisco and Northern San Mateo Coast, 2003.