Amy McNally

Amy McNally

Assistant Researcher, FEWS NET, NASA GSFC, USAID's Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance

How I work with Harvest

 

Amy leads research on remote sensing applications for food security, and the Famine Early Warning Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS), which includes working with the Harvest team to make FLDAS monitoring and forecasting data more accessible and user friendly.

Biography

 

Amy McNally is a Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory. She uses hydrologic models and satellite data to monitor and forecast water availability for the USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) and other food and water security applications. Amy specializes in research-to-operations, to keep user communities up-to-date with the latest science and technology. Amy has a Ph.D in Geography from University of California Santa Barbara, an M.S. in Water Resources Policy and Management from Oregon State University, and B.S. in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY-ESF.

 

Read Amy's NASA GSFC Profle here: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/amy.l.mcnally

 

 

Selected Relevant Publications

 

  1. McNally, A. et al. A Central Asia Hydrologic Monitoring Dataset for Food and Water Security Applications in Afghanistan. Earth Systems Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3115-2022.
  2. Hazra, A.,  et al. NASA's NMME Based S2S Hydrologic Forecast System for Food Insecurity Early Warning in Africa. Journal of Hydrology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.129005
  3. McNally, A., Arsenault, K., Kumar, S., Shukla, S., Peterson, P., Wang, S., Funk, C., Peters-Lidard, C.P., Verdin, J.P. A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications. Sci. Data 4:170012. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.12
Amy McNally