Brooke is a PI!

Dr Brooke Rose taking field spectroradiometer measurements of California sagebrush at the UC Santa Barbara Sedgwick Natural Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, in support of our NASA grant to study remote sensing of flowering in native and non-native plant species (April 6, 2026. Photo by Janet Franklin)

Watching Wildflowers: Tracking Bloom Time with Planes, Satellites, and Community Science

Dr. M. Brooke Rose conducted the first year of research on a 3-yr NASA grant (her first as Principal Investigator). In this NASA Biodiversity grant 2025-2028 we are linking community science observations with NASA's airborne and satellite data to examine how plant flowering and fruiting are shifting across space and time in California's Central Coast.