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Deepak Mishra, Assistant Professor

Research Emphasis:

Application of geospatial science including remote sensing, GIS, and GPS to coastal environments. My broad research interests are: Remote Sensing of Wetlands Health and Productivity; Remote Sensing of Water Quality (Inland waters, Estuaries, Coastal, and Open Ocean Waters); Remote Sensing in Monitoring Global Climate Change; Ocean Optics and Satellite Oceanography

GCE Committees:

GCE Disturbance Committee, GCE Flux Tower Committee, GCE Executive Committee

Contact Information:

Primary Organization:  University of Georgia

Mailing Address:

Dr. Deepak Mishra
Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602

Office Phone:  (706) 542-8927

FAX Number:  (706) 542-2388

E-Mail:  dmishra@uga.edu

Web Page:  http://geography.uga.edu/directory/profile/mishra-deepak/

Other Identity Systems:

ORCID:  orcid.org/0000-0001-8192-7681

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GCE Data Sets:

MSH-GCEM-2508 (Eddy covariance (EC) vertical carbon fluxes from a Georgia tidal salt marsh from 2014 to 2024)

MSH-GCEL-2506 (Georgia Salt Marsh: Soil Organic Carbon, Nitrogen, Bulk Density, Moisture, and Texture)

PLT-GCET-2409 (Spartina alterniflora above- and belowground biomass predictions and inundation intensity as estimated by the Belowground Ecosystem Resiliency Model for U.S. Georgia marshes from 2014 to 2023.)

MSH-GCET-2402a (Eddy covariance 30-minute CO2 fluxes with accompanying biophysical variables from the GCE-LTER flux tower site from January 2014 to December 2022 for sensor Flux2)

MSH-GCET-2402 (Eddy covariance 30-minute CO2 fluxes with accompanying biophysical variables from the GCE-LTER flux tower site from January 2014 to December 2017 for sensor Flux1)

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GCE Publications and Presentations: (custom bibliography)

Journal Articles

Julien, A., Narron, C. and Mishra, D. 2025. Expanding the flooding in Landsat across tidal systems model to Landsat 5–9 imagery for long-term marsh inundation analysis. Science of the Total Environment. 965:14. (DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178602)

Runion, K., Alber, M., Mishra, D., Lever, M.A., Hladik, C.M. and O'Connell, J.L. 2025. Early warning signs of salt marsh drowning indicated by widespread vulnerability from declining belowground plant biomass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(26):8. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425501122)

Runion, K.R., Mishra, D., Alber, M., Lever, M.A. and O'Connell, J.L. (in press). Capturing spatiotemporal variation in salt marsh belowground biomass, a key ecosystem resilience metric, through geoinformatics. Ecosphere.

Hawman, P., Cotten, D.L. and Mishra, D. 2024. Canopy Heterogeneity and Environmental Variability Drive Annual Budgets of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange in a Tidal Marsh. JGR Biogeosciences. (DOI: 10.1029/2023JG007866)

Runion, K.D., Mishra, D., Alber, M., Lever, M.A. and O'Connell, J.L. 2024. Capturing spatiotemporal variation in salt marsh belowground biomass, a key resilience metric, through geoinformatics. Ecosphere. 15(12):e70110. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70110)

Hawman, P., Mishra, D. and O'Connell, J.L. 2023. Dynamic emergent leaf area in tidal wetlands: Implications for satellite-derived regional and global blue carbon estimates. Remote Sensing of Environment. 290(15). (DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113553)

Lehmann, M.K., Gurlin, D., Pahlevan, N., Binding, C., Fichot, C., Gitelson, A., Mishra, D., Schalles, J.F., Simis, S., Smith, B. and Spyrakos, E. 2023. GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality. Nature - Scientific Data. 10:1130958, 6 April 2023(100 (2023)):13 p. (DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01973-y)

Lynn, T., Alber, M., Shalack, J. and Mishra, D. 2023. Utilizing Repeat UAV Imagery to Evaluate the Spatiotemporal Patterns and Environmental Drivers of Wrack in a Coastal Georgia Salt Marsh. Estuaries and Coasts. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01265-z)

Mao, L., Mishra, D., Hawman, P., Narron, C., O'Connell, J.L. and Cotten, D.L. 2023. Photosynthetic Performance of Tidally Flooded Spartina Alterniflora Salt Marshes. JGR Biogeosciences. 128(3). (DOI: 10.1029/2022JG007161)

Gaiser, E., Kominoski, J.S., McKnight, D.M., Bahlai, C.A., Cheng, C., Record, S., Wollheim, W.M., Christianson, K.R., Downs, M.R., Hawman, P., Holbrook, S.J., Kumar, A., Mishra, D., Molotch, N.P., Primack, R.B., Rassweiler, A., Schmidt, R.J. and Sutter, L. 2022. Long-term ecological research and the COVID-19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance. Ecosphere. (DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4019)

Narron, C., O'Connell, J.L., Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., Hawman, P. and Mao, L. 2022. Flooding in Landsat across tidal systems (FLATS): An index for intermittent tidal filtering and frequency detection in salt marsh environments. Ecological Indicators. 141:109045. (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109045)

Sharma, R., Mishra, D., Levi, M.R. and Sutter, L. 2022. Remote Sensing of Surface and Subsurface Soil Organic Carbon in Tidal Wetlands: A Review and Ideas for Future Research. Remote Sensing. 14(2940). (DOI: 10.3390/rs14122940)

Hawman, P., Mishra, D., O'Connell, J.L., Cotten, D.L., Narron, C. and Mao, L. 2021. Salt Marsh Light Use Efficiency is Driven by Environmental Gradients and Species-Specific Physiology and Morphology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006213)

O'Connell, J.L., Mishra, D., Alber, M. and Byrd, K.B. 2021. BERM: A belowground ecosystem resilience model for estimating Spartina alterniflora belowground biomass. New Phytologist. (DOI: 10.1111/nph.17607)

Zhang, C., Mishra, D. and Pennings, S.C. 2019. Mapping salt marsh soil properties using imaging spectroscopy. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 148:221-234. (DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.01.006)

Cao, F., Mishra, D., Schalles, J.F. and Miller, W. 2018. Evaluating ultraviolet (UV) based photochemistry in optically complex coastal waters using the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 215:199-206. (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2018.10.013)

Tao, J., Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., O'Connell, J., Leclerc, M.Y., Nahrawi, H.B., Zhang, G. and Pahari, R. 2018. A Comparison between the MODIS Product (MOD17A2) and a Tide-Robust Empirical GPP Model Evaluated in a Georgia Wetland. Remote Sensing. 10:1831. (DOI: 10.3390/rs10111831)

O'Connell, J., Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., Wang, L. and Alber, M. 2017. 'The Tidal Marsh Inundation Index (TMII): An inundation filter to flag flooded pixels and improve MODIS tidal marsh vegetation time-series analysis '. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 201(November 2017):34-46. (DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.008)

Conference Posters and Presentations

Runion, K., Mishra, D., Alber, M., Lever, M.A. and O'Connell, J.L. 2024. Presentation: Signals of salt marsh drowning are obscured by increasing aboveground canopies. Wetlands. Ecological Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting, August 2024, Long Beach, CA.

Runion, K.D., Alber, M., Mishra, D., Lever, M.A. and O'Connell, J.L. 2024. Poster: Salt Marsh Productivity Modeling Reveals Widespread Declining Belowground Biomass and Potential for Marsh Drowning. Modeling Coastal Marsh Resilience: Advancements, Uncertainties, and Sustainable Solutions. American Geophysical Union 2024 Annual Meeting, December 2024, Washington, D.C.

Bice, K., Hawman, P., Momani, A., Mishra, D., Bollt, E. and Meile, C. 2023. Presentation: Detecting causal relationships in salt marsh productivity. AGU Fall meeting, Dec 11-15, 2023, San Francisco CA.

Runion, K.D., Alber, M., Mishra, D., Byrd, K. and O'Connell, J.L. 2023. Presentation: Is salt marsh ecosystem resilience driven more by changes in space or time? Interdisciplinary Tools to Advance Ecology. Ecological Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting, August 2023, Portland, OR.

Runion, K.D., Mishra, D., Alber, M. and O'Connell, J.L. 2022. Poster: Broadening a Belowground Ecosystem Resiliency Model for Spartina alterniflora salt marshes. Long Term Ecological Research Network All Scientists Meeting 2022, September 2022, Pacific Grove, CA.

O'Connell, J.L., Alber, M., Mishra, D. and Byrd, K. 2020. Presentation: Structural heterogeneity in above vs belowground biomass pools differ for Spartina alterniflora monocultures, with consequences for forecasting ecosystem resiliency. Ecological Society of America.

Hawman, P., Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., O'Connell, J., Mao, L. and Narron, C. 2019. Poster: Salt marsh light use efficiency and gross primary production in response to environmental conditions. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF), 2019, Mobile, Alabama.

Hawman, P., Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., O'Connell, J., Narron, C. and Mao, L. 2019. Presentation: Salt marsh light use efficiency and gross primary productivity in response to environmental conditions. Disturbance Impacts on Ecological and Biogeochemical Processes in Coastal Wetlands I. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019, December 12, 2019, San Francisco, California.

Hawman, P., Mishra, D., O'Connell, J., Cotten, D.L., Narron, C. and Mao, L. 2019. Presentation: Salt marsh light use efficiency and gross primary production in response to environmental conditions. Carbon fluxes in coastal systems. CERF Biennial Conference 2019, November 5, 2019, Mobile, Alabama.

Mao, L., Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., O'Connell, J., Narron, C. and Hawman, P. 2019. Poster: Analyzing chlorophyll fluorescence in Juncus roemerianus by Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) fluorometer at different plant heights. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, 2019, Yokohama, Japan.

Mishra, D., Cotten, D.L., O'Connell, J., Mao, L., Narron, C. and Hawman, P. 2019. Poster: Salt marsh light use efficiency and gross primary productivity in response to environmental conditions. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019, San Francisco, CA.

Narron, C., Mishra, D., O'Connell, J.L., Cotten, D.L., Hawman, P. and Mao, L. 2019. Presentation: Assessing tidal wetland above- and belowground net primary production using field and in situ measurements. Carbon fluxes in coastal systems. 2019 CERF 25th Biennial Conference, 11/05/2019, Mobile, AL.

O'Connell, J., Alber, M., Mishra, D. and Byrd, K.B. 2018. Presentation: Landsat models of Spartina alterniflora belowground biomass in coastal marshes. Ecological Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

O'Connell, J., Mishra, D., Alber, M. and Byrd, K.B. 2017. Presentation: Estimating patterns in Spartina alterniflora belowground biomass within salt marshes. American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA.