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
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 …
June 18, 2022
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, …
June 1, 2022
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.
April 16, 2022
New published study points out adjusting solar-induced fluorescence to nadir-viewing provides a better proxy for GPP
Solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) provides key information for inferring terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP). However, there is little research on analyzing the performance of nadir-adjusted SIF (SIFnadir) on GPP, compared to total SIF emitted by all leaves (SIFtotal) for reducing the …
April 16, 2022Welcome Dr. Dashti, Dr. Fa Li and Mr. Hellenbrand
The lab is happy to welcome Dr. Hamid Dashti, Dr. Fa Li, and Mr. Carter Hellenbrand to join us in the first month of 2022!
January 27, 2022- More