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 feedback to the human and Earth systems. We develop and use a variety of tools including land surface models, remote sensing models and data, integrated assessment models and model-data fusion techniques.
"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
George Box
Lab news
Hamid won the 2023 DIH Postdoctoral Fellowship – Congratulations!
Wisconsin is the second-largest dairy producer in the US, but the industry is facing challenges, including climate change and changes in dietary patterns. US climate policies, including carbon pricing, are complex due to variations between …
November 22, 2023
New Research Published in Earth’s Future Explores the Impact of Uncertain Future Land Use and Land Cover Change on Land Carbon Dynamics
Today, an important study led by graduate student Meng Luo, with contributions from Fa Li and Hamid Dashti of our lab, has been published in Earth’s Future, shedding light on the uncertainties surrounding future land …
September 28, 2023
Our paper “Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures” has been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
In the field of global change ecology and Earth system science, understanding vegetation greenness changes is crucial. Spectral vegetation indices (VIs) have been widely used for this purpose, but they are susceptible to artifacts, as …
September 16, 2023Meng’s proposal has been selected by the NASA FINESST program
Meng Luo’s proposal “Quantifying the impacts of forest biomass and productivity change on future Land cover and land use change projections” was selected for funding by NASA’s Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science …
September 12, 2023
August presented her Wisconsin Carbon Budget project at the Intro Bio 152 Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
On May 3rd, 2023, August presented her Wisconsin Carbon Budget project at the Intro Bio 152 Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium. She did an excellent job in reconciling multiple data sources regarding the state’s carbon emissions …
May 4, 2023
A new study on the global role of Arctic carbon sink
The EGU journal Earth system dynamics published our entitled “Global and northern-high-latitude net ecosystem production in the 21st century from CMIP6 experiments” in the new year. Led by Han Qiu, we used results from the …
January 9, 2023- More