2026.08 We are funded by NSF Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) program. The project will leverage AI for flash drought forecasting and understanding.

2026.07 Yanlan presented scaling plant hydraulic traits at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2026.07 New paper that relates satellite-derived forest resilience indicator with field-derived hydraulic safety margin is now online. Check it out!

2026.07 Yue successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Characterizing nonlinear vegetation dynamics inArctic-boreal North America under climate change”. Big congratulations, Dr. Zhang!!

2026.06 New review on forest responses to changing disturbance regimes came out online in New Phytologist. Check it out!

2026.06 New paper on land surface temperatures from remote sensing and reanalysis is now online in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

2026.06 We celebrated the end of the school year with a fun trip to the LA Zoo.

2026.05 New paper on parameterizing stomatal conductance for better hydrological predictions is now online in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

2026.05 New paper on biomass turnover in Amazon forest is now online in Nature Climate Change.

2026.05 We are funded by NASA Ecohydrology to study vegetation feedback to flash droughts.

2026.04 Yidong and Yanlan attended the 4th Annual Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference in Woods Hole, MA.

2026.03 Yanlan visited University of Texas at Austin and presented a DeFord Lecture: “Plant Responses to Drought Across Scales: From Hydraulics to Resilience”.

2026.03 Yanlan’s Tansley Insight on scaling plant hydraulic traits to predict ecosystem fluxes under drought is now published online in New Phytologist.

2026.02 Yanlan delivered an invited talk at the Biology Colloquium at Harvey Mudd College.

2026.01 Yanlan gave an invited talk on scaling plant hydraulics in the FraLab at Caltech.

2026.01 New paper is now online in Earth’s Future: Climate-driven hydraulic traits shift in natural and planted forests.

2025.12 Our group presented at AGU 2025 in New Orleans, LA.

2025.09 We are excited to join UCLA Geography in January 2026!