Two new LCSC papers published
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Two new LCSC Team papers published
Two new papers from LCSC team members were recently published. The first paper, which is published in Ecological Applications with colleagues at Harvard and other institutions, describes results from an analysis of within and across site patterns in covariance between greenness indices derived from webcams and carbon fluxes at FLUXNET sites. The second paper, on which former LCSC team member Meghan Salmon (now at Wisconsin) is lead author, describes a new data set characterizing global rainfed, irrigated and paddy rice croplands. For links to these papers, please visit our “Publications” page via the menu at the top of this site.
New LCSC paper with Josh Gray as lead author published in Nature
Josh Gray (lead author) and Mark Friedl (senior author) have a new paper published in Nature shows how changes in global croplands have contributed to changes in the seasonality of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 50 years. You can find a link to the paper on our publications page, and a News ad Views piece published in the same issue of Nature that describes this work can be found by clicking here.
Leah Cheek joins the LCSC team!
Dr. Leah Cheek, who received her Ph.D. from Brown University in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences from Brown joined our group, starting Nov 3. She is going to be working on our new project with Steve Frolking at UNH and Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin that is looking at global urbanization and urban heat islands from remote sensing - welcome Leah!
Radost Stanimirova joins the LCSC group.
We are thrilled to welcome Radost to the LCSC team. She joins us with an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Barnard College. For the last year, Radost worked as a research assistant at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University. Her research interests focus on climate change and agriculture in tropical ecosystems. Welcome Radost!
Summer fellowships for Jon Wang and Xiaoman Huang
Two of our team members have been awarded prestigious fellowships this summer. Jon Wang will be spending nine weeks this summer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, where he will be working on research related to urban heat islands and contributing to ongoing efforts at Ames focused on the National Climate Assessment. Xioaman Huang will be spending the summer as a Graduate Student Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future here at BU, where she will be working on topics related to urbanization and loss of agricultural lands in Asia - congrats to both Jon and Xiaoman!
Josh Gray promoted to Research Assistant Professor
After two years of terrific work as a post-doc, Josh Gray has been promoted to the rank of Research Assistant Professor - a well-deserved recognition for the excellent work that Josh has done over the last couple of years. Josh is planning to hit the academic job market this coming year, but in the short term we're thrilled to have him stick around for another year!
New LCSC group papers published in Environmental Research Letters and Nature Climate Change
2014 has been a very productive year so far for the LCSC group - in the first half of this year we have 10 papers that have either been published or are in press. Most recently, we had two papers come out that focus on our phenology work in New England: Friedl et al. in Environmental Research Letters, and Keenan et al. in Nature Climate Change. For links to these papers and the rest of our publications, please visit our "Publications" page. We also have a number of papers focused on land cover change that are either recently published (Huang and Friedl) or will be soon (Sulla-Menashe et al) - stay tuned!
Eli Melaas and Mary Farina successfully defend their theses!
Mary successfully defended her MA thesis (“Relationships Between Tree Rings and Landsat EVI in the Northeast United States“) on May 27, and Eli defended his Ph.D. thesis (“Using Eddy Covariance, Remote Sensing, and In-situ Observations to Improve Models of Springtime Phenology in Temperate Deciduous Forests“) on June 5. Both did outstanding jobs. Eli is staying on as a post-doc here at BU in the LCSC group, and Mary as accepted a position as a Research Associate at the Woods Hole Research Center – congrats to both for outstanding work!
