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Find LCSC at AGU Fall Meeting 2018
Are you going to be at AGU this fall? Come by and say hi to our LCSC team. We are presenting on diverse topics and in diverse presentation formats. Douglas Bolton B33K-2817: Monitoring vegetation greening at alpine treeline ecotones using airborne laser scanning and Landsat time-series Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:40 – 18:00 Mark Friedl GC14B-08: Mapping […]
Mark Friedl and Eli Melaas to attend NSF Macrosystems Biology project meeting
Mark Friedl and Eli Melaas will be attending the NSF Macrosystems Biology PhenoCam Project meeting at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona October 24-26. The NSF Macrosystems Biology project strives to understand the role of phenology in mediating ecosystem-atmosphere coupling and feedbacks at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Jon Wang will give two invited talks in Montreal, Canada
Jon Wang, LCSC PhD candidate, has been invited to give a talk at the University of Quebec at Montreal’s Center for Forest Studies on October 17th as well as a talk at McGill University Department of Geography on October 18th. The talk, which is titled “Regional shifts in productivity and plant functional types resulting from […]
Jordan Graesser is a Research Officer at the University of Queensland
LCSC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Jordan Graesser, just started a new position as a Research Officer at the University of Queensland. Jordan has an appointment at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program where he uses satellite time series for detecting land surface trends across Queensland. Good luck Down […]
Three new projects from NASA and NSF
We are very excited to have received funding for three new LCSC projects! In collaboration with colleagues at Northern Arizona University (Andrew Richardson), Cornell University (Toby Ault), and the University of New Hampshire (Steve Frolking) we have a new 5-year project entitled: “Improved Understanding of Feedbacks between Ecosystem Phenology and the Weather‐Environment Nexus at Local‐to‐Continental […]
Leticia Lee will attend NEON Data Institute 2018
In July 2018, PhD student Leticia Lee will attend the NEON Data Institute: Remote Sensing with Reproducible Workflows using Python at the NEON headquarters in Boulder, CO. At the institute, Leticia will be learning how to create reproducible workflows and how to use NEON hyperspectral and LiDAR data for remote sensing of vegetation using open […]
Jon Wang and Minkyu Moon going to ForestSAT conference
PhD students Jon Wang and Minkyu Moon will be presenting their work at ForestSAT conference taking place in College Park, Maryland in October 2018. The biennial ForestSAT conference is an international gathering of researchers from government agencies, universities, and the private sector. ForestSAT provides a forum for discussion and discovery of the latest research in […]
Doug Bolton will join LCSC on July 1st
Doug Bolton, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, will be joining the LCSC team on July 1st 2018. Doug graduated with a PhD in Forest Sciences from the University of British Columbia and he received his MA from Boston University in 2011. Welcome back, Doug!
Qiong Hu accepted a tenure-track position
LCSC visiting scholar, Qiong Hu, just defended her dissertation at the Chinese Academy of Science where she was a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Agricultural Remote Sensing. Qiong has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the department of Urban & Environmental Sciences at Center China Normal University. She will start as an Assistant Professor on August 1, […]
Jon Wang received AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
Congratulations to PhD candidate Jon Wang who received an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the AGU Fall Meeting 2017. Jon’s presentation was entitled “Multidecadal Rates of Disturbance- and Climate Change-Induced Land Cover Change in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems over Western Canada and Alaska Inferred from Dense Landsat Time Series.”