Western Altiplano Peatland Productivity

Last updated on Jun 3, 2021
Photo of a peatland from the area of Cosapilla (October, 2019)

This research project began as part of a Fulbright Study and Research Fellowship in collaboration with the Instituto de Conservación, Biodiversidad y Territorio in Valdivia, Chile and the Laboratorio de Geo-Información y Percepción Remota in Valparaíso, Chile. I used satellite imagery to monitor changes in greenness and to assess how climate factors like temperature and precipitation influence the productivity of the peatlands.

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Talia Anderson, Duncan A. Christie, Roberto O. Chávez, Matias Olea, Kevin J Anchukaitis (2021). Spatiotemporal peatland productivity and climate relationships across the western South American Altiplano. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences.

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Roberto O. Chávez, Duncan A. Christie, Matias Olea, Talia Anderson (2019). A Multiscale Productivity Assessment of High Andean Peatlands across the Chilean Altiplano Using 31 Years of Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing, 11(24).

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Talia Anderson
Talia Anderson
University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society. I recently completed another postdoctoral fellowship with the NOAA Climate & Global Change Program and was based at the University of California - Los Angeles in the McKinnon Group. My research focuses on climate variability and change in mountain landscapes across different spatial and temporal scales. I use a variety of data types, from models to satellite imagery, to explore climate impacts in both localized areas and large, multi-country regions.