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Joan Ramage, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Lehigh University

Joan Ramage

Associate Professor

610.758.6410
jmr204@lehigh.edu
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Research Areas

Additional Interests

  • Remote Sensing
  • Cryosphere
  • Environmental Change
  • Equity in STEM

Selected Publications

Boueshagh, M, J.M. RamageM.J. Brodzik, M.A.Hardman, 2026, Adaptive Thresholding (AT) for snowmelt detection with Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperatures (CETB): Timing and regional patterns for case study of Alaska, Science of Remote Sensing, V.13, doi: 10.1016/j.srs.2026.100390.

Boueshagh, M., J. M. Ramage, M. J. Brodzik, D.G. Long, M. A. Hardman, H-P Marshall, 2025, Revealing causes of a surprising correlation: snow water equivalent and spatial statistics from Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperatures (CETB) using interpretable machine learning and SHAP analysis, Frontiers in Remote Sensing. Volume 6.18 March 2025. 10.3389/frsen.2025.1554084.

Cunnick, Heidi, Joan Ramage, Dawn Magness, Stephen Peters, 2023. Mapping Fractional Vegetation Coverage Across Wetland Classes of Sub-Arctic Peatlands Using Combined Partial Least Squares Regression and Multiple Endmember Spectral Unmixing. Remote Sensing. 2023, 15(5), 1440; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051440

Cunnick, H.J.M. *RamageD.Magness, S.C. Peters, 2025, Monitoring Sub-Arctic Wetland Vegetation Using Nested Scales of Spectrometry Derived Data to inform Multiple Endmember Spectral Unmixing of Sentinel-2A Imagery, Environmental Research: Ecology Special Issue on "Focus on Remote Sensing Scaling for Advancing Arctic Ecology Research" 10.1088/2752-664X/adf448 

Johnson, M. T., J. M. Ramage, T.J.Troy, M. J. Brodzik, 2020. Snowmelt Detection with Calibrated, enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperatures (CETB) in Colorado Watersheds. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024542

Matias, M, *Ramage, J.M., Gurarie, E., Brodzik, M., 2024, Snowmelt Onset and Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Spring Migration, Remote Sens., (Special issue: “Understanding the Movement Ecology of Wildlife on the Changing Planet”) 16(13), 2391; doi:10.3390/rs16132391.

 

Teaching

Courses:
EES 14/90 Lands of the Midnight Sun
EES 318 Geographic Information Systems
EES 325 Remote Sensing
EES 457 Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing
EES 491 Special Topics