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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 …

Min gave his “vegetation structural complexity” talk at Ohio State University

Min gave a talk at Johns Hopkins University Wolman Seminar on Vegetation Structural Complexity and Its Implications on Oct 31, 2023

Min gave an invited talk at Harvard University Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar on Modeling Wetland Methane Emissions on Oct 27, 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 …

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 …

Meng’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 …

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!

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 …