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Kai-Ting awarded fellowship from Taiwan!
Third year LCSC Ph.D. student Kai-Ting Hu was recently awarded a fellowship from the government of Taiwan to help support her Ph.D. research. These are competitive merit-based awards, and Kai-Ting’s selection is a tremendous and well-deserved recognition of her talent and scientific potential.
Congratulations Kai-Ting!
New NASA Project
We were recently selected for funding as part of a team led by Dr. Jon Wang at UCI (moving to the University of Utah in Januray) as part of NASA's ABoVE Phase III project science team. The project title is: "Quantifying Disturbance and Global Change Impacts on Multi-decadal Trends in Aboveground Biomass and Land Cover across Arctic-boreal North America." In addition to Jon, Jim Randerson and Mike Goulden at UCI are co-investigators, with Werner Kurz and Piotr Tompalski from the Canadian Forest service participating as collaborators.
Seven new LCSC papers!
It's been a busy and productive year for the LCSC team - so far 9 new papers published in 2022, with the seven most recent now posted (with links) on our publications page. New papers cover the full range of topics and projects that are ongoing in the group, including global land cover mapping, land surface phenology, and bi-directional interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere linked vi phenology!
Two new LCSC papers!
We have two new papers from Team LCSC over the last few months. The first (Graesser et al., 2022) presents a sophisticated new model for pre-processing Landsat time series to remove noise and fill gaps. The second (Zhang et al., 2022), was lead by Yingtong Zhang in the Woodcock group here at BU and presents a novel analysis of disturbance dynamics in the ABoVE
Dr. Minkyu Moon promoted to Research Assistant Professor
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Minkyu Moon has been promoted to the rank of Research Assistant Professor! Minkyu is very deserving of this promotion, which reflects the quality of his research as well as his productivity and rising visibility in the field.
Congratulations to Professor Moon!!!
New LCSC project funded by NASA
We have a new 3-year project funded by NASA's Science of Aqua and Terra program. Josh Gray at NCSU is a co-investigator and Andrew Richardson at NAU is a collaborator. At BU, post-doc Minkyu Moon and PhD student Tristan Green will work on the project. Over the 3-year project period, we will use the 20+ year record of global MODIS phenology measurements to explore long term changes and variability in large scale phenology, examine linkages between phenology, climate, and carbon fluxes, and use the MODIS record to explore the dynamics and ecological dynamics of large scale droughts over the MODIS record.
For a list of ongoing projects, please see the LCSC Current Projects page.
Minkyu publishes new paper in RSE!
Post-doc Minkyu Moon has a new paper out in Remote Sensing of Environment that examines cross-scalar land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 imagery, Planetscope imagery at 3 m spatial resolution, and PhenoCams. Please see our Publications page for a link to this paper, and others!
New Academic Year, New Team Members
As we head into the new academic year, Team LCSC is excited to welcome new team members Tristan Green and Richard Lee! Tristan is a new PhD student who comes to us with a background in physical geography and atmospheric sciences from the University of Kansas. He'll be working on climate-ecosystem dynamics at continental-to-global scale based on the MODIS record from the last two decades. Richard is a MS student who recently received his BA in Environmental Science (with a minor in Computer Science), and is going to be helping the team with a variety data processing and coding tasks. For more information, see their bios on the LCSC team page!
Welcome Tristan and Richard!
New paper in Nature Climate Change
The third chapter of former LCSC PhD student Jon Wang's dissertation is out in Nature Climate Change. In this paper, Jon (now a post-doc at UC Irvine) combines LiDAR measurements with historical Landsat imagery to estimate annual maps of aboveground biomass over a the study domain of NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. His results provide new insights into the role of fire in high-latitude carbon budgets and also show that current generation (CMIP6) Earth system models dramatically overestimate sequestration in high-latitude forests. To see the paper, see the link on the LCSC publications page.
New LCSC paper in RSE!
The third and final chapter from Minkyu's dissertation is now published in Remote Sensing of Environment: Using time series of MODIS land surface phenology to model temperature and photoperiod controls on spring greenup in North American deciduous forests - congrats Minkyu! The paper uses MODIS data to develop a Bayesian model that simulates the timing of spring greenup, and then uses this model to quantify the relative importance of photoperiod versus temperature controls on the timing of spring phenology in deciduous forests of North America - it has some really exciting and innovative new results. For details, please see the LCSC publications page.
