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 …
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 …
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, …