THE PROPOSED WORK ADDRESSES TWO OF THE ABOVE PHASE 2 RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS BY ANALYZING REMOTE SENSING DATA COLLECTED DURING THE 2017 ABOVE AIRBORNE CAMPAIGN TO DEVELOP THE DATA PRODUCTS REQUIRED TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND INTEGRATING RESEARCH RESULTS FROM ABOVE INTO A COHERENT MODELING FRAMEWORK TO DIAGNOSE AND PREDICT ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS. OUTPUTS FROM THIS PROJECT WILL INCLUDE: 1) ABZ SPECIFIC L-BAND ALGORITHMS FOR RETRIEVING SOIL MOISTURE; 2) SAR MAPS OF TRENDS IN SOIL MOISTURE; 3) TIME SERIES OF ABZ TUNED SMAP MAPS ACROSS THE ABOVE DOMAIN; 4) QUANTIFICATION OF C-CONSUMPTION AND EMISSIONS FROM EMPIRICAL MODEL CANFIRE FOR 2014-16 WILDFIRES OF NWT/ALBERTA; 5) IMPROVED MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERACTIONS OF WILDFIRE AND HYDROLOGY ON THE BOREAL LOWLAND AND UPLAND SYSTEMS; AND 6) MODEL PREDICTIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS ON SUCCESSIONAL TRAJECTORIES.