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Our research is motivated by the compelling need to understand how climate change impacts ecosystems and society and how to mitigate and adapt to climate change. We strive to address these questions and advance sustainability by combining in-situ measurements, remote sensing, machine learning/AI, and Earth system modeling.

Highlights on recent articles:

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Group news:

2026:

February:

Our work on global impacts of transportation infrastructure on forest degradation and loss is published in Nature Communications. [PDF]

January:

Jingyi has been promoted as a Research Scientist. Congrats, Jingyi!

2025:

December:

Jingfeng and Jingyi presented research results and co-chaired a session at the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans.

Jingfeng was ranked as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate again (6,868 researchers, 0.1% of the  world's scientists and social scientists, earned this exceptional distinction) and as a Highly Ranked Scholar – Prior Five Years by ScholarGPS again (one of the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide).

November:

The review article that Jingfeng wrote with Dennis Baldocchi, Kazu Ichii, Fei Li, and Dario Papale (Insights into terrestrial carbon and water cycling from the global eddy covariance network) is published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. [PDF]

October:

Jingfeng is the receipent of the 2025 UNH Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award in Sustainability.

Shuangtian Li joined our group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome, Shuangtian!

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Prospective graduate students, postdocs, and visiting students or scholars:

Our group may have positions open for highly-motivated and productive graduate students or postdocs. We also host highly-motivated visiting students or scholars.