2024.04 Yue passed her Ph.D. candidacy exam! Way to go, Yue!
2024.04 Claire Sneed successfully defended her undergraduate thesis, graduating with honors research distinction! Congratulations, Claire!
2024.04 Watching eclipse on the south oval. Photo credit to Qian.
2024.04 Yanlan is in Woods Hole, MA, attending the 2nd Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference.
2024.04 Shengxi successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Big congratulations, Dr. Gui!
2024.02 Zhaozhe and Yue won 1st and 2nd place in the 2024 Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum. Congratulations, Zhaozhe and Yue!
2024.02 Yanlan receives support from the Ohio Department of Higher Education to study climate resilient crop production, in collaboration with Prof. Steven Lyon and Dr. Vinayak Shedekar.
2024.01 Yanlan as a Co-PI is supported by the USGS Water Resources Research Act Program to enhance water budget predictions through below-ground processes. The project is led by Dr. Meng Zhao at the University of Idaho.
2024.01 Ziyang Tan joins the group as a Ph.D. student after receiving his Master’s degree in Statistics from UIUC. Welcome Ziyang!!
2023.12 Yue, Shengxi, and Yanlan presented at the AGU 2023 Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Check out our sessions and presentations:
- B23K-2232: Using Remotely Sensed Vegetation Resilience to Diagnose Ecological Symptoms in Arctic-Boreal Regions
- B31A-08: Identifying Soil and Atmospheric Moisture Thresholds of Evapotranspiration Reduction across CONUS
- B51D-1791: Decadal Legacy Effect of Fires on the Spatial Structure of Forests across CONUS
- B43E & B52A: Advances in Understanding Water-Energy-Carbon Interactions
2023.11 Yanlan gave an invited talk on vegetation dynamics in fast warming northern high latitudes at the Environmental Research 2023 Virtual Event Series.
2023.10 Yanlan gave an invited talk at the University of Virginia.
2023.10 Yanlan gave an invited talk at Indiana University-Perdue University Indianapolis
2023.09 Dr. Qian Zhao joins the group as a postdoc! Qian will work with us on understanding flash droughts. Welcome, Qian!!
2023.08 Yidong Tong joins the group as a Ph.D. student through the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program. Welcome Yidong!!
2023.05 New paper led by former Ph.D. student Tongxi Hu in SENR and coauthored by Yanlan comes out on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. The work demonstrates the use of interpretable data-driven methods for crop yield prediction.
2023.05 Yanlan is in Bethesda, MD, presenting work on dynamic vegetation modeling and postfire recovery of Arctic vegetation at DOE Environmental System Science (ESS) Program annual Principal Investigators Meeting.
2023.05 Yanlan attended NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop in College Park, MD, presenting work on Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience led by Yue Zhang.
2023.05 Yanlan receives the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Teaching Award. Thanks to the outstanding graduate students in the School of Earth Sciences!
2023.04 Lauren McIntosh graduates with research distinction. Congrats, Lauren! Best of luck with the next phase! We will miss you.
2023.04 Yanlan gave an invited talk in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State.
2023.04 Yanlan receives a research pilot award from the Translational Data Analytics Institute and the Sustainability Institute to study data-driven prediction of droughts regulated by plants.
2023.03 Yanlan attended the 1st Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference in Woods Hole, MA.
2023.01 Yanlan is attending the 9th Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Science Team Meeting in San Diego, CA.
2023.01 Yanlan is teaching ENR 5194: Plant Water Interactions, in Spring 2023.
2022.12 Jake Bolton successfully completed his undergraduate thesis on canopy structural impact on plant water use efficiency. Congrats, Jake!
2022.12 Yue and Yanlan are presenting at the AGU 2022 Fall Meeting in Chicago. Check out our sessions and presentations:
- B11-B16: Advances in Understanding Water-Energy-Carbon Interactions
- B52I-0966: Pervasive Loss of Arctic-Boreal Vegetation Resilience from Climate Change and Disturbance
- B45E-08: Large divergence of projected Arctic plant composition and productivity due to functional trait uncertainty
2022.12 Lauren McIntosh receives an undergraduate research scholarship in recognition of her excellent research proposal. Congratulations, Lauren!
2022.10 Yanlan’s coauthored paper on how frequently evapotranspiration increases in drought is now online in Nature Climate Change. Check it out here: Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts.
2022.10 Yanlan attended the annual all-hands meeting of Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) – Arctic in Chattanooga, TN.
2022.10 Yanlan’s coauthored paper on plant hydraulics is published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences: Hydraulic sensitivity and stomatal regulation of two desert riparian species.
2022.09 Shengxi Gui, Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, joins the group as a Graduate Research Assistant. Welcome, Shengxi!
2022.08 Yanlan is teaching EARTHSC 5641 Geostatistics, in Fall 2022.
2022.08 Yanlan’s co-authored paper on vegetation sensitivity to precipitation is published in Nature Communications: Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2.
2022.08 Yanlan’s new paper: “Canopy height and climate dryness parsimoniously explain spatial variation of unstressed stomatal conductance” is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
2022.07 Yanlan is in the field, measuring vegetation composition, distribution, and gas exchange of Arctic tundra ecosystems, on Seward Penninsula, AK.
2022.07 Yanlan’s new paper about Arctic shrub expansion is now published in Nature Communications: Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion. This paper is featured on the Editor’s Highlights page.
2022.06 Yanlan will attend the Gordon Research Conference on Multiscale Plant Vascular Biology in Newry, Maine, presenting and discussing about plant-atmosphere connections from landscapes to whole Earth.
2022.05 Yanlan receives an award from the NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program to study Arctic-Boreal vegetation resilience under climate change and disturbances.
2022.05 Yanlan attended the 2022 ESS PI meeting (virtual).
2022.05 Yanlan will attend the 8th Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Science Team Meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska.
2022.02 Yanlan will attend the 11th annual all-hands meeting of Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) – Arctic (virtual).
2022.01 Yanlan is teaching a new course, EARTHSC 5194 Group Studies: Ecohydrology, in Spring 2022.
2021.12 Yanlan’s co-authored paper on tropical forest resilience and mortality is published in Global Change Biology: “Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine-scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought“.
2021.12 Yanlan is attending AGU 2021 fall meeting. Check out our sessions and presentations:
- B12B: Advances in Understanding Water-Energy-Carbon Interactions
- B25N: Advances in Understanding Vegetation Shifts in the Arctic
- B12B-08: Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts, especially mild ones
- B15C-1434: Evidence for the importance of dispersal and fire on Arctic shrub expansion
2021.12 Yanlan gave an invited virtual talk in the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at Tsinghua University.
2021.11 Yanlan’s co-authored paper “The coupled effect of soil and atmospheric constraints on the vulnerability and water use of two desert riparian ecosystems” is published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2021.09 Yang Li’s paper (with Yanlan) is published in Science of The Total Environment. Check it out here: “Impacts of forest loss on local climate across the conterminous United States: Evidence from satellite time-series observations“. Congrats, Yang!
2021.09 Yanlan’s co-authored paper on detecting vegetation water content is published in Global Change Biology: “Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content“.
2021.07 Yue Zhang will join our group in Fall 2021 as our pioneer Ph.D. student! Welcome, Yue!
2021.05 Yanlan attended the 7th Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Science Team Meeting.
2021.05 Yanlan’s work Global ecosystem-scale plant hydraulic traits retrieved using model–data fusion is published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. The article is part of the special issue “Microwave remote sensing for improved understanding of vegetation–water interactions”. Check out the entire collection here.
2021.05 Yanlan’s paper “Reduced resilience as an early warning signal of forest mortality” published in 2019 is included in the recent Focus Collection of Nature Climate Change on forest carbon.
2021.04 Yanlan’s co-authored paper, led by Zelalem Mekonnen at Berkeley Lab, is published in Environmental Research Letters. Check it out here: Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance
2021.03 Yanlan gave an invited talk in the Carbon and Ecosystems Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
2021.03 Yanlan gave an invited talk in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
2021.01 Yanlan attended the 10th annual all-hands meeting of Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) – Arctic.
2020.10 Hello world!