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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.
New paper in Remote Sensing of Environment
Our colleague Qiong Hu, who visited the LCSC in 2019, has published the results from the work she did during her visit in Remote Sensing of Environment. Full details and a link to the paper can be found on our publications page.
Annual Aboveground Biomass for Boreal Forests Data set published.
The 30 meter above-ground biomass data set that Jon Wang created as part of his dissertation has now been published and is available for the science community to use. Please see Data and Code for details and a link to the data set! And stay tuned for the paper and analysis based on this data set, coming out soon!
New paper on moderate spatial resolution phenology
Our paper describing results from our NASA Multi-Sensor Land Imaging (MuSLI) project has been published in Remote Sensing of Environment. The paper was lead by post-doc Doug Bolton, and includes Eli Melaas, Josh Gray (at NCSU), Minkyu Moon and our Swedish collaborator (Lars Elklundh) as co-authors. This paper reflects a ton of great work by the team - great to see it out!
A link to the paper can be found on the LCSC publications page.
Doug Bolton takes position at Indigo Ag
Doug Bolton, who joined the LCSC team as a post-doc in July of 2018, has left the team to take a position as a remote sensing data scientist at Indigo Ag in Charlestown, MA. We're sad to see him leave, but excited for Doug as he starts this new phase of his career in the private sector. He's also staying local, so we expect him to keep in touch and occasionally flash his dance moves for the group. To celebrate and thank Doug, Minkyu cooked us dinner at a local Japanese restaurant ("I do, I do")
