Most of our lab traveled to Washington, DC, for the AGU 2024 Annual Meeting, and it was a truly enriching experience! It’s always a joy to reconnect with old friends, make new connections, and immerse …
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New publication by Hamid: Ecosystem Disturbance Recovery: What It Was or What It Could Have Been?
Hamid led a study that explores traditional vs. counterfactual views on ecosystem recovery in the age of climate change. Traditionally, recovery means bouncing back to a pre-disturbance state. The problem? It assumes a stable ecosystem, …
New study led by Meng Luo: Impacts of Forest Management-Induced Productivity Changes on Future Land Use and Land Cover Change
We found more intense forest management leads to smaller land use and land cover changes and helps preserve natural lands by 2100. See details at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004878
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 …
Congratulations to Haoran, who received the department’s annual Thomas O’Brien Award!
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 …
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 …
Welcome 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 …
New paper published by Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: revisiting vegetation indices with new insights
Led by Yelu, we published a technical review paper “Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally” in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. Beyond reviewing the history and applications of VIs, for the first time, …
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.