News
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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
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Meng Zhao will start as assistant professor at University of Idaho in January 2023
We are lucky that he will continue to work with the group for the remainder of the year. Congratulations, Meng!
May 18, 2022
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Olivia Flournoy successfully presents her master’s thesis on potential improvements to SAR-derived LFMC data.
Congratulations, Olivia! We’ll miss you and good luck at Indeed!
May 16, 2022
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Krishna Rao successfully defends his PhD dissertation: "Parched Plants to Flaming Forests: Understanding Tree Mortality and Wildfires with Microwave Remote Sensing of Vegetation Water Stress"!
Congratulations, Krishna! We’ll miss you and good luck at Watershed!
May 13, 2022
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Nathan Dadap successfully defends his PhD dissertation on “Quantifying Hydrologic Change in Tropical Peatlands”!
Congratulations, Nathan! We’ll miss you next year and good luck with your AGU Congressional Fellowship!
May 04, 2022
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Jinshi Jian’s (PNNL) paper on inconsistency between best estimates of global GPP and global soil respiration is now out in Nature Communications.
The paper suggests substantial uncertainty in our understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Alex is a co-author.
April 01, 2022
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Kim Novick's (IU) article on the utility of water potential data is now in press at Nature Geoscience
Alex is a co-author.
March 14, 2022
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Krishna's article in The Conversation is now out.
The paper discusses the findings and implications of our recent Nature Ecology & Evolution for the public.
February 07, 2022
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Krishna's paper showing plant water sensitivity significantly affects burned area sensitivity to VPD now published Open Access in Nature Ecology & Evolution
We also show a disproportionate number of regions have both high plant water sensitivity and VPD trends, and that WUI population growth is fastest in highly sensitive ecosystems.
February 07, 2022
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Check out the group's work at AGU!
Alex, Caroline, Krishna, Meng, Matt, Natan, Nathan and Paula are all presenting, and many of us will attend in person.
December 12, 2021
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Trent Robinett joins the group as a PhD student
Trent recently completed his undergraduate degree at Notre Dame, where he worked (among others) on plant hydraulics modelling with Prof. David Medvigy. Welcome, Trent!
September 20, 2021
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Alex wins the AGU Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
The award is shared with Dr. Bin Zhao and friend-of-the-group Prof. Kim Novick
September 10, 2021
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Perspective paper on how vegetation water content from microwave remote sensing can help to understand forest drought response (led by Alex) now in press at Global Change Biology
This article originated in the two Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) workshops on the same theme that Alex co-organized in Fall 2019 and 2020. Natan and Yanlan are co-authors
September 03, 2021
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Krishna's paper on mapping where buildings are damaged post-wildfire is now published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
This paper was a result of Krishna's earlier project in the Stanford TreeHacks hackathon
August 26, 2021
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Krishna's paper on mapping where buildings are damaged post-wildfire is now published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
This paper was a result of Krishna's earlier project in the Stanford TreeHacks hackathon
August 26, 2021
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Alex, Natan, and Krishna's paper on VOD interannual variations published at GRL
This paper re-examines the commonly held literature assumption that VOD interannual variations are proportional to interannual variations in biomass.
August 11, 2021
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Alex and former postdoc Greg Quetin receive AGU Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
Both citations were made by the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
July 21, 2021
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Caroline's paper on the importance of extreme wet events is now published at ERL
Caroline compared the relative effect of extreme wet events and extreme drought events on vegetation greenness (NDVI) across the world.
June 29, 2021
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Paula Rueda Villamil joins the group for the summer
Paula is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and will research the (in)consistencies between active/passive remote sensing based estimates of vegetation water content. Welcome, Paula!
June 20, 2021
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Meng Zhao joins the group
Meng recently defended his PhD at UC Irvine, having worked on various applications of GRACE data for understanding drought and vegetation drought response. Welcome, Meng!
June 15, 2021