EARTHSC 5656: Ecohydrology (Spring 2022, 2024)
Physical and ecological processes of plant-water interaction. Principles of water transport in the soil-plant system, plant drought response, and feedbacks of plants on energy-water-carbon cycles, with examples from observational studies and ecohydrological models.
EARTHSC 5641 Geostatistics (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024)
Fundamentals of statistical inference, including probability theory, hypothesis testing, linear model, variable importance, and spatial-temporal analyses, with application examples in Earth and environmental science.
ENR 3240 Ecological Climatology (Spring 2023, 2025)
This course focuses on physical and ecological principles that shape water-carbon-energy cycles and vegetation dynamics in natural terrestrial ecosystems. Students will learn the fundamentals of how hydrology and plant activity regulate each other, and how the plant-water interactions feedback to surface energy and carbon budgets.