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
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
The whole lab attended AGU annual Fall Meeting 2022
All lab members attended the annual AGU Fall Meeting in the week of December 11, 2022. It seems to be a fruitful week for everyone! However, Min managed to successfully lead the team to the …
January 9, 2023
Led by Fa Li, we published a paper with Global Change Biology for understanding the impacts of vegetation clumping on global photosynthesis.
The spatial organization of vegetation crowns and leaves in vegetation canopy (clumping) and its uncertainty have a big impact on the land surface light environment and photosynthesis, highlighted by our new research. See details at …
October 31, 2022
Annelise presented her MMSD SRI program poster
As a celebration of finishing her MMSD SRI program internship, Annelise presented a nice poster titled “Changes in climatic residential suitability in US major cities” on September 20, 2022. Her poster attracted a lot of …
September 27, 2022Welcome Annelise Alvin!
We welcomed Annelise Alvin to be part of our lab for this summer. Annelise is one of 30 students from the Madison Metropolitan School District who was selected to be a part of the High …
June 18, 2022- More