This is Round One of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Dr. Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University, Dr. Bruce Millett from South Dakota State University, Dr. Dana Peterson from the University of Kansas, and Dr. Doug Ramsey from Utah State University, and we’re discussing all things Landsat Next. We talk about what everyone is most looking forward to with the upcoming launch of Landsat Next, how its new and improved capabilities over the previous Landsat satellites will impact data collection, research, and analysis, and the potential challenges of the new system and data. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com

Dana Peterson from the University of Kansas joins us to talk about the Yellow Pages of class descriptions, the Kansas Biological Survey, archiving Landsat imagery from 9-Track Tapes, spectroradiometers, watersheds and green-up, field work on the Rio Grande, the Sentinel GreenReport that leverages Sentinel-2 imagery for vegetation monitoring over time, eastern red cedar woody encroachment, and mapping and collecting data for invasive species analysis. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com

Kevin Czajkowski from the University of Toledo joins us to talk about snow days, a heat wave summer, an internship with the National Weather Service, space plasma physics, the revelation of getting paid to go to graduate school, the ups and downs of academic job applications, the perils of looking like a geographer, receiving the NASA New Investigator grant, soil moisture sampling and the SMAP project, taking your son with you for fieldwork, having sensors eaten by cows, GLOBE Mission Earth, Kevin’s work philosophy, the early days of OhioView, air quality satellites and analysis, and much more. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com