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Kai-Ting defends her dissertation
Kai-Ting – now Dr. H – successfully defended her dissertation in August. Congratulations and way to go Kai-Ting!
New paper in Global Change Biology
Tristan has a new lead author paper in Global Change Biology. His analysis uses a combination of remote sensing and modeling to show how, by how much, and why water use efficiency has decreased in drylands worldwide - here's a link to the paper.
New paper in Science Advances!
Led by Jim Randerson, this review paper proposes a 'weak land sink' hypothesis, which posits that current models over-estimate the magnitude of the land carbon sink. Check it out at this link!
Chishan Zhang joins LCSC
Over the su
mmer we welcomed Dr. Chishan Zhang to the group. Chishan completed his PhD focused on remote sensing and deep learning of agricultural systems at the University of Illinois. Here at BU, Chishan is collaborating on a project that is joint with the Global Development Policy Center focused on quantifying the impact of foreign investment from China on forest cover in the tropics - welcome Chishan!
New AFM paper from Leticia!
Check out our new paper from recent LCSC PhD Leticia Lee in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. We use UAV imagery, airborne LiDAR to show how variation in canopy shadows + solar zenith angle affect estimates of leaf area and fAPAR from harmonized #Landsat and #Sentinel 2 imagery. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109389
New project on coastal resilience spinning up!
We've officially started our new coastal resilience project, which is funded by NASA. This is a collaborative project with Sergio Fagherazzi (PI) and Cedric Fischot (both colleagues at BU), and Marc Simard at NASA JPL. Minkyu will be the main team member working on this project from team LCSC, and the goal is to use remote sensing to monitor and model impacts on coastal marshes in North America from sea level rise. Should be interesting and fun!
LCSC ABoVE Phase III kick-off!
Several LCSC team members (Mark, Seamore, Kai-Ting) attended the ABoVE Phase III Science Team meeting in San Diego on Jan 22-26. We had a great meeting, caught up with former LCSC (and project PI) Jon Wang, learned a lot and had a lot of productive meetings. Also had some great Mexican food, including some very strange (but delicious) Tacos :)
Leticia successfully defends her PhD!!!
Proud to announce that Leticia successfully defended her dissertation today (Phenology, Light Use Efficiency, and Ecosystem Productivity in Temperate Deciduous Forests). Both the dissertation and the presentation were excellent - CONGRATS AND WAY TO GO LETICIA!!!!
LCSC at Pecora 2022 in Denver
Team LCSC had a strong showing at the Pecora 2022 meeting in Denver last month - a full list of presentations is provided on this page.
New paper in Remote Sensing of Environment
Exciting new work from post-doc Radost Stanimirova has been published! In this paper, Radost uses a combination of spectral unmixing and time series methods to quantify changes in bare ground, herbaceous cover, and woody vegetation over the Southern Cone of South America over 20 years. Very cool methods, even more cool results!
Check it out on our Publications page.
