Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

1 Introduction 2 Algal blooms Suzanne Mcgowan 3 Grasshopper Infestations Scott Schell 4 Locust swarms Jeffrey Lockwood4.1 The Australian plague locust Chris Adriaansen4.2 Desert locust Keith Cressman 4.3 Other locusts Ramesh Sivanpillai5 Decline of bees and other pollinators Norman Carreck6 Bark beetle infestation Kevin Hyde7 Release of natural enemies James Cuda8 Animals as hazards Rachel M. Cavin9 Biodiversity Robert M. May10 Environmental disease Kirsten M.M. Beyer 11 Land degradation Paolo D'Odorico11.1 Desertification Sarah Harris11.2 Grassland Degradation Abbey F. Wick11.3 Rangeland Ecosystems Jay P. Angerer 12 Deforestation Richard Houghton 12.1 Deforestation SE Asia Edgar C. Turner12.2 Nepal Ram P. Chaudhary12.3 Deforestation in Latin America Timothy Boekhout van Solinge13 Ecological impacts of climate change George Malanson 14 Comet and asteroid strikes René A. De Hon

Ramesh Sivanpillai is a remote sensing scientist with the University of Wyoming where he teaches remote sensing and environmental sciences courses and directs the WyomingView program. Ramesh received his B. Sc in physics (PSG College of Arts & Science, India); M. Sc in environmental studies (Cochin University of Science & Technology, India); M. Phil in environmental sciences (Bharathiar University, India); M.S in environmental sciences (University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA), and PhD in forestry (Texas A&M University, USA). Since 1992, he has been working with remotely sensed data for applications in forestry, rangeland, agriculture, water bodies, disaster monitoring, and land cover/land use mapping. He has worked with national and international agencies, and academic institutions in India, United States of America, Mexico, Mali, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kenya, and Australia. Ramesh has published papers and book chapters in remote sensing applications in agriculture, forestry, environmental and habitat mapping, water and floods. He has served on the Board of Directors of AmericaView and is a member in the board of the ASPRS-RMR chapter. He serves as the associate editor for the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing and Frontiers of Earth Science. Ramesh has received the Project Manager training from the International Charter on Space Disasters and managed two of its activations in 2011 (flooding) and 2018 (wildfires). Ramesh was elected as the Fellow of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2021 for his contributions to remote sensing education and applied research.