Research Interests
My research interests include water on Earth and water on Mars.
I am interested in remote sensing of soil moisture and surface water on Earth.
I am interested in the history of water on Mars, including the sinks and loss mechanisms for water that help explain why there is significantly less water on Mars today than there used to be in the past.
Publications
Wernicke, L. J., Chew, C. C., Small, E. E. (2024). SMAP/CYGNSS EASE-Grid Soil Moisture. (NSIDC-0797, Version 1). [Data set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/8OODMTVR6RT9
Wernicke, L. J., Chew, C. C., Small, E. E. (2024). Spatially Interpolated CYGNSS Data Improve 3km Downscaled SMAP/CYGNSS Soil Moisture. Remote Sensing, 16(16), 2924. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16162924
Wernicke, L. J., Chew, C. C., Small, E. E., & Das, N. N. (2022). Downscaling SMAP Brightness Temperatures to 3km Using CYGNSS Reflectivity Observations: Factors That Affect Spatial Heterogeneity. Remote Sensing, 14(20), 5262. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14205262
Wernicke, L. J., & Jakosky, B. M. (2021). Martian hydrated minerals: A significant water sink. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126(3), e2019JE006351. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006351