Welcome to the Global Change Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are a group of scientists who are interested in understanding how climate change and human activities affect terrestrial ecosystems as well as their feedbacks to the human and Earth system. We develop and use a variety tools including land surface models, remote sensing model and data, integrated assessment model and model-data fusion techniques.
"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
George Box
Lab news
Haoran received a NEON scholarship. Congrats!
Haoran Liu received a NEON scholarship to support an excellent opportunity to attend the 13th Annual Fluxcourse this summer in Colorado.
April 16, 2022
New published study points out adjusting solar-induced fluorescence to nadir-viewing provides a better proxy for GPP
Solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) provides key information for inferring terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP). However, there is little research on analyzing the performance of nadir-adjusted SIF (SIFnadir) on GPP, compared to total SIF emitted by all leaves (SIFtotal) for reducing the …
April 16, 2022Welcome Dr. Dashti, Dr. Fa Li and Mr. Hellenbrand
The lab is happy to welcome Dr. Hamid Dashti, Dr. Fa Li, and Mr. Carter Hellenbrand to join us in the first month of 2022!
January 27, 2022
New progress on SIF research: Combining near-infrared radiance of vegetation and fluorescence spectroscopy to detect effects of abiotic changes and stresses
We published new research on Remote Sensing of Environment, entitled “Combining near-infrared radiance of vegetation and fluorescence spectroscopy to detect effects of abiotic changes and stresses”. In this paper, we found the slope of SIF …
January 9, 2022
New paper published at Remote Sensing of Environment
In principle, NIR reflectance purely from vegetation (NIRv) is a strong indicator of vegetation absorbed solar radiation and ecosystem primary productivity. The current formula of NIRv with multispectral remote sensing data removes most of the …
November 4, 2021- More