Overview
The Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems focus area (CCE) supports interdisciplinary research initiatives into Earth’s ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, including how carbon, nitrogen and other nutrients are stored and cycled throughout the environment. CCE uses satellite remote sensing instruments, field campaigns, laboratory studies, and modeling to improve our understanding of how terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems around the world, such as forests, jungles, deserts, oceans, coasts, and polar environments, are changing over time. CCE also studies how changes in these ecosystems may affect how the planet stores nutrients like carbon and nitrogen in the future. Resolving these uncertainties will help us understand fluctuations in Earth’s climate and have major implications for biodiversity and sustainable resource management
ECO-3D
| 2011-08-18 | 2011-09-19 |
First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Field Experiment
| 1987-05-26 | 1987-10-16 |
| 1989-07-24 | 1989-08-12 |
Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment
| 2008-09-20 | 2008-10-19 |
| 2012-06-06 | 2012-07-19 |
| 2015-08-02 | 2015-08-18 |
| 2016-05-25 | 2016-08-16 |
| 2022-04-02 | 2022-08-09 |
Southern African Regional Science Initiative
| 2000-02-01 | 2000-03-31 |
| 2001-03-01 | 2001-03-31 |
| 1999-08-01 | 1999-09-30 |
| 2000-08-01 | 2000-09-30 |
NISAR UAVSAR AM-PM Campaign
| 2019-06-06 | 2019-10-30 |
Oregon Transect Ecosystem Research Project
| 1989-05-27 | 1989-08-23 |
| 1991-05-15 | 1991-08-24 |
| 1990-02-22 | 1991-01-07 |
Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons
| 2010-07-06 | 2010-07-18 |
| 2011-07-25 | 2011-08-06 |
| 2013-02-21 | 2013-03-08 |
| 2014-08-13 | 2014-09-03 |
| 2016-02-10 | 2016-02-11 |
| 2017-07-20 | 2017-08-09 |
BlueFlux
| 2023-02-05 | 2023-02-13 |
| 2023-03-10 | 2023-04-19 |
| 2022-03-19 | 2022-04-26 |
| 2022-10-14 | 2022-10-21 |
NASA Carbon Atmospheric Flux Experiment
| 2017-05-03 | 2017-05-26 |
| 2016-09-07 | 2016-09-26 |
Western Diversity Time Series
| 2020-09-17 | 2020-10-15 |
| 2021-02-09 | 2021-04-02 |
| 2022-09-02 | 2022-09-09 |
| 2023-03-31 | 2023-05-02 |
| 2024-06-04 | 2024-06-28 |
| 2025-05-27 | 2025-07-17 |
BigFoot Project
| 2001-08-01 | 2001-08-31 |
| 1999-05-01 | 1999-09-30 |
| 2000-06-01 | 2000-06-30 |
| 2000-07-01 | 2000-08-31 |
| 2001-06-01 | 2001-06-30 |
| 2001-07-01 | 2001-07-31 |
| 2001-09-01 | 2001-10-31 |
| 2002-07-01 | 2002-07-31 |
| 2002-08-01 | 2002-08-31 |
| 2002-09-01 | 2002-09-30 |
| 2002-11-01 | 2002-11-30 |
| 2003-06-01 | 2003-06-30 |
| 2003-07-01 | 2003-07-31 |
| 2003-09-01 | 2003-09-30 |
| 2003-11-01 | 2003-11-30 |
| 2004-02-01 | 2004-02-29 |
Korea-United States Ocean Color Study
| 2016-05-20 | 2016-06-06 |
Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research Experiment
| 2014-07-17 | 2014-08-07 |
EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing
| 2018-07-21 | 2018-09-13 |
| 2021-03-25 | 2021-06-01 |
Great Plains Irrigation Experiment
| 2018-05-29 | 2018-07-30 |
Atmospheric Tomography Mission
| 2016-07-29 | 2016-08-23 |
| 2018-04-24 | 2018-05-21 |
| 2017-09-28 | 2017-10-27 |
| 2017-01-26 | 2017-02-21 |
North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study
| 2015-11-05 | 2015-12-02 |
| 2016-05-11 | 2016-06-05 |
| 2017-08-30 | 2017-09-24 |
| 2018-03-20 | 2018-04-13 |
Geological Earth Mapping Experiment
| 2025-05-23 | 2025-09-23 |
| 2023-04-25 | 2023-04-28 |
| 2023-08-28 | 2023-09-26 |
| 2024-04-02 | 2024-06-24 |
Pacific Rim 2000
| 2000-07-21 | 2000-10-23 |
Delta Exchange
| 2021-03-26 | 2021-04-18 |
| 2021-08-18 | 2021-09-15 |
Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar
| 2010-12-01 | 2010-12-12 |
| 2011-03-22 | 2011-04-05 |
| 2012-02-22 | 2012-04-27 |
| 2012-09-14 | 2012-09-28 |
| 2013-07-01 | 2013-07-03 |
| 2013-09-18 | 2013-09-27 |
| 2014-07-10 | 2014-08-02 |
Global Tropospheric Experiment - Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
| 1984-06-13 | 1984-06-30 |
| 1987-04-13 | 1987-05-08 |
| 1988-07-07 | 1988-08-17 |
| 1990-07-06 | 1990-08-15 |
| 1985-07-11 | 1985-08-15 |
Airborne Validation Unified Experiment: Land to Ocean
| 2025-02-06 | 2025-02-28 |
Biodiversity Survey of the Cape
| 2023-10-16 | 2023-11-26 |
Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment
| 2012-05-23 | 2012-10-30 |
| 2013-02-05 | 2013-11-25 |
| 2015-02-10 | 2015-11-12 |
| 2014-02-13 | 2014-11-09 |
Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory
| 2016-06-06 | 2016-06-26 |
| 2016-09-01 | 2016-10-31 |
| 2017-02-01 | 2017-03-15 |
| 2017-04-03 | 2017-04-28 |
| 2017-05-01 | 2017-05-26 |
| 2017-05-27 | 2017-05-28 |
Hyperspectral Imaging of Harmful Algae Blooms
| 2015-07-13 | 2015-10-19 |
| 2016-06-06 | 2016-10-25 |
| 2017-06-21 | 2017-10-18 |
| 2018-07-03 | 2018-10-12 |
| 2019-08-09 | 2019-09-27 |
Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture
| 2010-07-13 | 2010-07-20 |
| 2010-06-01 | 2010-06-16 |
Hyperspectral Infrared Imager Preparatory Airborne Campaign
| 2013-03-26 | 2013-04-19 |
| 2013-05-02 | 2013-06-26 |
| 2013-09-13 | 2013-12-05 |
| 2014-03-31 | 2014-05-07 |
| 2014-05-28 | 2014-06-13 |
| 2014-08-18 | 2014-08-29 |
| 2014-09-19 | 2014-11-24 |
| 2015-04-16 | 2015-05-05 |
| 2015-05-28 | 2015-06-11 |
| 2015-08-24 | 2015-10-26 |
| 2016-06-09 | 2016-06-21 |
| 2017-01-17 | 2017-03-03 |
| 2017-06-07 | 2017-06-28 |
| 2018-01-11 | 2018-02-20 |
| 2018-06-19 | 2018-09-06 |
Student Airborne Research Program
| 2025-06-15 | 2025-08-02 |
| 2025-06-22 | 2025-08-09 |
| 2009-07-12 | 2009-08-13 |
| 2010-06-20 | 2010-07-30 |
| 2011-06-19 | 2011-07-29 |
| 2012-06-17 | 2012-08-10 |
| 2013-06-09 | 2013-08-02 |
| 2014-06-15 | 2014-08-08 |
| 2015-06-14 | 2015-08-07 |
| 2016-06-12 | 2016-08-05 |
| 2017-06-18 | 2017-08-11 |
| 2018-06-18 | 2018-08-10 |
| 2019-06-16 | 2019-08-09 |
| 2021-12-03 | 2021-12-10 |
| 2022-06-12 | 2022-08-05 |
| 2023-06-11 | 2023-08-04 |
| 2023-06-18 | 2023-08-11 |
| 2024-06-16 | 2024-08-09 |
| 2024-06-23 | 2024-08-16 |
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
| 1994-02-02 | 1994-09-19 |
| 1996-02-27 | 1996-10-21 |
Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment
| 2018-07-02 | 2018-09-01 |
| 2022-07-05 | 2022-08-26 |
| 2017-04-27 | 2017-11-04 |
| 2019-06-30 | 2019-09-17 |
| 2023-07-05 | 2023-08-21 |
| 2024-08-12 | 2024-08-26 |
Impacts of Climate on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment
| 2011-06-25 | 2011-07-29 |
| 2010-06-15 | 2010-07-21 |
Costa Rica Airborne Research and Technology Applications 2005
| 2005-02-28 | 2005-04-06 |
FireSense
| 2024-10-01 | 2024-12-01 |
| 2025-03-17 | 2025-04-20 |
| 2023-09-14 | 2023-10-31 |
Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America
| 2017-01-31 | 2017-03-10 |
| 2017-10-03 | 2017-11-13 |
| 2019-06-17 | 2019-07-27 |
| 2016-07-18 | 2016-08-29 |
| 2018-04-12 | 2018-05-20 |
Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) High-Frequency Time Series
| 2022-02-24 | 2022-09-27 |
AfriSAR
| 2016-02-03 | 2016-03-11 |
Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface
| 2013-08-18 | 2013-08-27 |
| 2013-04-11 | 2013-04-19 |
| 2013-05-28 | 2013-06-07 |
| 2013-07-06 | 2013-07-14 |
| 2015-08-19 | 2015-08-27 |
| 2014-04-14 | 2014-04-25 |
| 2014-06-26 | 2014-07-07 |
| 2015-02-17 | 2015-02-25 |
| 2015-06-29 | 2015-07-06 |
| 2013-06-10 | 2013-06-21 |
| 2013-07-26 | 2013-08-03 |
| 2013-02-19 | 2013-02-25 |
| 2015-09-02 | 2015-09-10 |
| 2015-09-22 | 2015-09-29 |
| 2014-03-24 | 2014-04-02 |
| 2014-07-08 | 2014-07-19 |
| 2015-05-20 | 2015-05-24 |
| 2014-10-14 | 2014-10-24 |
| 2012-09-18 | 2012-09-20 |
| 2012-10-02 | 2012-10-11 |
| 2012-10-12 | 2012-10-22 |
| 2013-04-20 | 2013-05-01 |
| 2015-08-07 | 2015-08-18 |
| 2014-06-06 | 2014-06-19 |
| 2014-08-18 | 2014-08-27 |
| 2015-04-03 | 2015-04-14 |
| 2015-04-15 | 2015-04-24 |
| 2013-07-15 | 2013-07-25 |
| 2013-11-19 | 2013-11-25 |
| 2014-09-28 | 2014-10-08 |
| 2012-10-23 | 2012-10-30 |
| 2013-02-05 | 2013-02-12 |
| 2013-09-27 | 2013-09-30 |
| 2013-10-24 | 2013-10-28 |
| 2014-09-22 | 2014-09-27 |
| 2014-08-08 | 2014-08-15 |
| 2014-05-27 | 2014-06-04 |
| 2014-02-13 | 2014-02-24 |
| 2015-05-26 | 2015-05-31 |
| 2015-02-10 | 2015-02-13 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
Soil Moisture Experiment
| 2005-06-10 | 2005-07-08 |
| 2004-07-20 | 2004-08-26 |
| 2002-06-15 | 2002-07-23 |
| 2003-06-16 | 2003-07-21 |
Superior National Forest Project
| 1983-05-05 | 1983-10-27 |
| 1984-05-10 | 1984-09-23 |
Accelerated Canopy Chemistry Program
| 1992-06-02 | 1993-05-27 |
Cold Land Processes Experiment
| 2002-02-17 | 2003-04-01 |
| 2006-12-02 | 2008-02-24 |
Coastal and Ocean Airborne Science Testbed
| 2011-10-21 | 2011-10-28 |