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Erica’s paper on photosynthesis suppression under wet extremes is now published at GCB
Erica used eddy covariance & careful modelling to isolate how much GPP is enhanced or suppressed by wet extremes, finding the amount of suppression highly site-dependent
May 22, 2025
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Veda Sunkara joins the group
Veda is a first-year E-IPER student who will work on hydrologic remote sensing in Indian agriculture with machine learning. Welcome, Veda!
May 07, 2025
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Konstantin Schellenberg visits the group
Konstantin, a PhD student in Germany, has been working with the VODNet network of GNSS sensors, and is visiting for three months. Welcome, Konstantin!
April 01, 2025
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Erica McCormick wins AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Erica won for her talk on building and analyzing the first large-scale record of plant rock moisture uptake time series. Congrats, Erica!
March 26, 2025
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Alex to receive the AGU James B. Macelwane Medal
Thank you to the group members, mentors, and collaborators who have helped lead to this award!
September 18, 2024
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Meng's paper on temperature's likley significant influence on VOD variations is now out at GRL!
Meng used simulations to compare the influence of temperature, water stress, and biomass on VOD and found a substantial role for temperature, despite routinely being ignored.
July 30, 2024
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Alex, Krishna, Erica, and Meng's paper on species explaining only half of variations in plant water sensitivity now published in GCB
We use Sentinel-1 and FIA data to show that only 53% of explainable plant water sensitivity spatial patterns can be predicted by species. Thus, climate, soil, etc can't be ignored.
July 15, 2024
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AGU Advances publishes commentary on stomatal timescale paper
The short commentary (by Mazen Nakad) nicely contextualizes our work
June 05, 2024
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We are still looking for a new postdoc!
Please reach out if you have an interest in working on wildfire, remotely sensed live fuel moisture, fuels management and more!
May 10, 2024
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Matt's paper on post-drought carbon allocation in tropical forests is now published at Global Change Biology
Matt (together with Caroline, Alex, and others) used CARDAMOM to infer drought-induced carbon allocation shifts in the Amazon, and their effect on lengthening drought legacies.
May 04, 2024
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The group goes kayaking at Elkhorn Slough
Lots of fun was had, and much wildlife was spotted.
April 28, 2024
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Andrew Feldman's Nature Reviews Earth & Environment article on plants and rainfall intermittency now published
The review article discusses how changing rainfall intensity and frequency affects plants across dry and wet ecosystems, and identifies testable hypotheses. Alex is a co-author.
April 09, 2024
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Marvin and Alex go to MOFlux site to install TerraRad Tech L-band radiometer
We hope to compare VOD to leaf water potential across a diverse forests, collaborating with Jeff Wood's group at University of Missouri
April 04, 2024
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Emil Biju joins the group
Emil is a master's student in CEE who will be working with Dapeng on building a multi-decadal LFMC record for the Western US using multi-target machine learning. Welcome, Emil!
April 01, 2024
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Natan's paper on the timescale at which stomata respond to water stress is now published at AGU Advances
Natan (with Alex and UMN collaborators) developed a method to determine the discount factor timescale that captures stomatal responses to previous-time water stress and mapped it.
March 29, 2024
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Yitong Yao (Caltech)'s paper on GNSS VOD's response to water potential variations across timescales now published at GRL.
Yitong used GNNS-based VOD at MOFlux to show that VOD diurnal patterns can be used to reconstruct ET, supported by Natan's Clima-Land simulations of the site.
March 19, 2024
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We are looking for a new postdoc!
If you are interested in working on live fuel moisture content remote sensing, hybrid physical-AI modelling of plant hydraulics or wildfire dynamics, please apply!
February 29, 2024
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January 23, 2024
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Caroline Famiglietti's new paper on the timescales of environmental filtering is in press at New Phytologist
Caroline (with Matt Worden & Lee Anderegg) studied the timescale on which climate is calculated for trait-environment relationships. Shorter-term climate periods should be used.
January 23, 2024
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Andy Huynh joins the group
Andy will be workin with Kuai Fang (from Kate Maher's group) on using transformers to improve Western US LFMC retrievals for wildfire applications. Welcome, Andy!
January 15, 2024