News
-
Marvin Browne joins the group
Marvin completed his PhD on the plant physiology of drought response at UCLA. He will work on linking plant physiology and microwave proxies of vegetation water. Welcome, Marvin!
October 03, 2023
-
Dapeng Feng joins the group
Dapeng recently completed his PhD in CEE at Penn State on differentiable machine learning and will apply his AI expertise to ecohydrology and remote sensing. Welcome, Dapeng!
August 04, 2023
-
Krishna's LFMC & wildfire ignition work described in AGU EOS Editor's Vox post
The post describes Krishna's recent research - and its implications - for a lay audience
August 02, 2023
-
Krishna's paper on LFMC's effect on the probability of wildfire ignition is now published in GRL.
The paper uses the Sentinel-1 derived LFMC maps Krishna built a few years ago, and focuses on dry lightning events using an RCT approach for robustness.
August 02, 2023
-
Caroline Famiglietti successfully defends her PhD dissertation: "Quantifying and mitigating the contribution of model uncertainty to predictions of the terrestrial carbon cycle"!
Congratulations, Caroline! We'll miss you and good luck at Hydrosat!
May 12, 2023
-
Alex gets tenure!
Thanks to the group's members, alumni, and collaborators for making its continued existence possible!
May 10, 2023
-
We are looking for a new postdoc!
The position focuses on AI to understand belowground plant water uptake patterns with microwave remote sensing and hybrid physical-ML based data assimilation. Application due 03/20
March 02, 2023
-
Alex wins a Sloan Research Fellowship
Congratulations to all awardees, and thanks to Alex's nominator and recommenders and all the group members and collaborators over the years!
February 15, 2023
-
February 09, 2023
-
Greg's paper (with Nathan, Caroline, Alex, and others) attributing historical C fluxes is now out in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
We use CARDAMOM to attribute historical C fluxes to climate change and CO2 and show that local respiration responses change the regional distribution of the additional C sink.
January 28, 2023
-
Caroline's paper on C flux prediction accuracy using environmental filtering is in press at Global Change Biology
We used satellite-derived environmental filtering to parametrize CARDAMOM across the globe and compared the accuracy of flux predictions against a conventional PFT approach.
December 29, 2022
-
We are hiring a new postdoc
Please check out the ad for a new postdoc in microwave remote sensing of vegetation water content/leaf water potential. Please apply by January 10th for full consideration
November 23, 2022
-
Meng's paper on surprisingly-common positive ET anomalies during drought is now out in Nature Climate Change.
We show missing soil structure effects are part of the reason models get this very wrong. The paper also has a News & Views highlight from Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell (JPL).
October 27, 2022
-
Erica McCormick joins the group as a PhD student
Erica joins the group after an extended time as a researcher at University of Texas-Austin in Daniella Rempe's group. Welcome, Erica!
September 22, 2022
-
Former postdoc Greg Quetin's paper on the total power associated with sap ascent is featured in EOS
Greg's paper (which Alex co-authored) finds that the energy harvested passively by sap ascent is equivalent to the world's hydropower production and ~14% of photosynthetic energy
September 16, 2022
-
Review paper on soil hydrology within the earth system now published at Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
Alex contributed to the paper, which covers the impacts of soil hydrological processes on ecosystems and climate.
August 02, 2022
-
July 18, 2022
-
Nathan's paper on climate change effects on soil moisture and fire risk in Southeast Asian peatlands is now out in ERL
We find that soil moisture reductions (and associated increases in fire risk) due to climate change are significant relative to current ENSO-related interannual variability.
June 30, 2022
-
Krishna wins the ESS Department Graduate Student Award for Scholarly/Research Achievement
Congratulations, Krishna!
June 12, 2022
-
Check out the group's work at the EGU general assembly!
Matthew and Nathan will present in person, and Meng, Caroline, and Alex will deliver virtual presentations.
May 23, 2022