Benjamin Sleeter
My research activities focus on characterizing changes in land use and disturbance – past, present and future - and how they impact ecosystem carbon dynamics.
I lead two large projects which have shared goals of further developing USGS capabilities in land change science and ecosystem carbon cycling. I lead the development of the LUCAS modeling framework (Land Use and Carbon Scenario Simulator).
Science and Products
Carbon Storage and Fluxes on Department of Defense Installations
Decision Support Tool to Assess the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Restoring Wetlands within National Park Service Lands
Developing a Decision Support Tool to Assess Carbon Sequestration on Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Wetland Reserve Easements in Kentucky and Tennessee
Developing a Decision Support Tool to Inform Louisiana’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
Wetland Carbon Working Group: Improving Methodologies and Estimates of Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Flux in Wetlands
Future Scenarios of Land Use and Land Cover Change for Integrated Resources Assessment
The LUCAS Model
Land use and tsunami hazards in the Pacific Northwest
California land-change projections
Land change and water use in California
Land use and carbon modeling in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Great Dismal Swamp carbon dynamics
Historical and projected future land change and ecosystem carbon stocks for California
Data Release - CONUS carbon budget related to Global Change Biology publication
Restoration and Conservation Opportunity Maps for the conterminous U.S. (CONUS)
Frequency of forest change across the conterminous United States from 1985-2020
Carbon stocks and fluxes for the conterminous United States 2001-2020
Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States: Estimates 2005-14 - Data Release
Simulated 1km resolution 1971-2015 ecosystem carbon variables from the IBIS model (2017/09/12)
A National Land Use And Land Cover Projection For Threat Assessment And Conservation Planning
Land Use and Conservation Scenarios for California's 4th Climate Change Assessment
Land-use and Land-cover Projections for California's 4th Climate Assessment
Earthquakes and faults in southern California (1970-2010)
Results of land cover change detection analysis in and around Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru
Earthquakes and faults in the San Francisco Bay area (1970-2003)
Operational assessment tool for forest carbon dynamics for the United States: A new spatially explicit approach linking the LUCAS and CBM-CFS3 models
Ecosystem carbon balance in the Hawaiian Islands under different scenarios of future climate and land use change
Modeling watershed carbon dynamics as affected by land cover change and soil erosion
Substantially greater carbon emissions estimated based on annual land-use transition data
Effects of 21st century climate, land use, and disturbances on ecosystem carbon balance in California
Federal lands greenhouse emissions and sequestration in the United States—Estimates for 2005–14
In January 2016, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior tasked the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) with producing a publicly available and annually updated database of estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the extraction and use (predominantly some form of combustion) of fossil fuels from Federal lands. In response, the USGS has produced estimates of the greenhouse gas emi
Increasing soil organic carbon to mitigate greenhouse gases and increase climate resiliency for California
Adaptation with climate uncertainty: An examination of agricultural land use in the United States
Effects of contemporary land-use and land-cover change on the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in the United States
Land cover and land use change
Integrating continuous stocks and flows into state-and-transition simulation models of landscape change
Future scenarios of land change based on empirical data and demographic trends
Science and Products
Carbon Storage and Fluxes on Department of Defense Installations
Decision Support Tool to Assess the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Restoring Wetlands within National Park Service Lands
Developing a Decision Support Tool to Assess Carbon Sequestration on Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Wetland Reserve Easements in Kentucky and Tennessee
Developing a Decision Support Tool to Inform Louisiana’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
Wetland Carbon Working Group: Improving Methodologies and Estimates of Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Flux in Wetlands
Future Scenarios of Land Use and Land Cover Change for Integrated Resources Assessment
The LUCAS Model
Land use and tsunami hazards in the Pacific Northwest
California land-change projections
Land change and water use in California
Land use and carbon modeling in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Great Dismal Swamp carbon dynamics
Historical and projected future land change and ecosystem carbon stocks for California
Data Release - CONUS carbon budget related to Global Change Biology publication
Restoration and Conservation Opportunity Maps for the conterminous U.S. (CONUS)
Frequency of forest change across the conterminous United States from 1985-2020
Carbon stocks and fluxes for the conterminous United States 2001-2020
Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States: Estimates 2005-14 - Data Release
Simulated 1km resolution 1971-2015 ecosystem carbon variables from the IBIS model (2017/09/12)
A National Land Use And Land Cover Projection For Threat Assessment And Conservation Planning
Land Use and Conservation Scenarios for California's 4th Climate Change Assessment
Land-use and Land-cover Projections for California's 4th Climate Assessment
Earthquakes and faults in southern California (1970-2010)
Results of land cover change detection analysis in and around Cordillera Azul National Park, Peru
Earthquakes and faults in the San Francisco Bay area (1970-2003)
Operational assessment tool for forest carbon dynamics for the United States: A new spatially explicit approach linking the LUCAS and CBM-CFS3 models
Ecosystem carbon balance in the Hawaiian Islands under different scenarios of future climate and land use change
Modeling watershed carbon dynamics as affected by land cover change and soil erosion
Substantially greater carbon emissions estimated based on annual land-use transition data
Effects of 21st century climate, land use, and disturbances on ecosystem carbon balance in California
Federal lands greenhouse emissions and sequestration in the United States—Estimates for 2005–14
In January 2016, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior tasked the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) with producing a publicly available and annually updated database of estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the extraction and use (predominantly some form of combustion) of fossil fuels from Federal lands. In response, the USGS has produced estimates of the greenhouse gas emi