October 14, 2024
Major news for the lab!
We’ve won a grant from the Google Academic Research Awards to expand our airborne biomass mapping work! Many thanks to Wanwan Liang and Jiaming Lu for the tremendous help. Learn more here.
Jon’s paper in Environmental Research Letters on trends in wildfire severity has been accepted! Learn more here.
We’ve won a collaborative internal grant with the Dept. of Anesthesiology to examine the effects of urban heat island on post-operative outcomes! Learn more here.
August 20, 2024
We’re excited to start off fall semester for 2024 by welcoming Hope Gale-Hendry, a new Ph.D. student, to the lab! She will examine how wildfires are transforming ecosystems across North America.
We also wish Ceci a heartfelt farewell as she leaves the lab to pursue a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Thank you so much for all your contributions and your good energy, Ceci!
June 20, 2024
We are pleased to welcome April Radford, a new research assistant, to the lab!
May 28, 2024
Jon and Wanwan were in Boulder, CO last week to present recent research progress at the NASA ABoVE Meeting!
We are pleased to welcome Makayla Patrick as an undergraduate Wilkes Scholar to the lab! She is jointly advised by Marysa Lague and will help us think about vegetation change in the Great Basin.
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February 14, 2024
We are so pleased welcome a few new members to the DYCE lab!
Welcome Ceci Rigby, a technician who will help organize the lab and field equipment.
Welcome to undergraduate researchers Tyler Shek and Emilie Parra, who will assist with the Land Cover Change project!
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November 20, 2023
We are thrilled to announce two awesome developments:
Hannah Meier has joined the lab as a co-advised Ph.D. student! Welcome Hannah! She plans to study changes in the Great Salt Lake using remote sensing, field/lab work, and mathematical modeling.
The lab’s grant proposal has been selected for funding in NASA’s Land Cover and Land Use Change program! See the Selections section at the program website for more information.
September 1, 2023
The DYCE lab welcomes its newest members! Yahampath Marambe has joined as a Ph.D. student who will work on forest responses to drought in the western U.S. Wanwan Liang has joined as Postdoctoral Researcher who will help develop land cover and aboveground biomass datasets for Canada and Alaska.
June 22, 2023
A website is finally here! In January of 2023, the DYCE lab began operation in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah. We look forward to many adventures exploring ecosystem and carbon cycle dynamics!
Interested in applying remote sensing and data science to understand terrestrial ecosystem and carbon dynamics in climate sensitive biomes? The lab is seeking actively seeking members at all levels! Email Jon with questions and to learn more.