The Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics Lab

UC Berkeley: Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Berkeley National Lab: Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division

Navigation
Group photo

Joint retreat of the Keenan and Girotto groups, Fall 2021






Group Members



Photo of Trevor


Trevor F. Keenan

Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Chief Scientist @ Earthshot Labs.

Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystems and global change; ecosystem ecology; nature-based climate solutions; carbon sequestration; biosphere-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks; data science; machine learning; phenology

Curriculum vitae here
Email: trevorkeenan@berkeley.edu




Photo of Kyle


Kyle Delwiche

FLUXNET Project Deputy Director

Research interests: Climate change, carbon and water cycling, eddy covariance, aquatic methane emissions, methane bubbling sensors

Research Scientist (2023-present) Environmental Science, UC Berkeley
Postdoc (2021-2023) Environmental Science, UC Berkeley
Postdoc (2019-2021) Environmental Science, Stanford University
Postdoc (2018-2019) Environmental Science, Harvard University
PhD (2018) Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS (2012) Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
BS (2007) Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Berkeley




Photo of Maoya





Maoya Bassiouni

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests: Ecohydrology, biometeorology, eco-evolutionary optimality, machine learning, data-driven and process-based model integration, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Postdoc (2019-21) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
PhD (2019) Water Resources Engineering, Oregon State University, USA
MSc (2012) Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hydrologist (2009-15) USGS Pacific Islands Water Science Center, HI, USA
BSc (2008) Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology




Photo of Yanghui


Yanghui Kang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests: Remote sensing, machine learning, terrestrial ecosystems, climate change, crop yield forecast

Post-doc (2020 - 2021), Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA
PhD (2020), Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
MS (2018), Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
MS (2013), Environment and Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
BS (2011), Geographical Information System, Beijing Normal University, China




Photo of David


David Miller

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests: Drought, remote sensing, vegetation cover and function, carbon and water cycling, phenology

PhD (2020), Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
MA (2017), Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
BA (2013), Physical Geography and Mathematics (double major), Boston University, USA




Photo of Julia



Julia Yang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests: Nature-based Climate Solutions (NbCS), forest restoration, land surface modeling, global change

PhD (2023), Biology, University of Utah, USA
MA (2019), Geography, University of Arizona, USA
BS (2014), Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Science (double major), University of Kansas




Photo of Xinchen


Xinchen Lu

PhD Candidate, NASA FINESST Fellow

Research interests: Climate change, remote sensing, data science, land surface models, phenology

MSc (2019), Global Environmental Change, Beijing Normal University, China
BSc (2016), Remote Sensing and Technology, Wuhan University, China




Photo of Sophie


Sophie Ruehr

PhD Candidate, NASA FINESST Fellow, ARCS Fellow

Research interests: Eddy-covariance, land-atmosphere interactions, water cycling, solar induced fluorescence, machine learning

BSc (2019), Geology and Geophysics, Yale University




Photo of Huiqi


Huiqi Wang

PhD Candidate (CEE), Jane-Lewis Fellow

Research interests: Remote sensing, water cycling, land surface/subsurface modeling, data assimilation

MSc (2020-2021), Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA
BSc (2018), Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Tianjin University, China



Photo of Ngoc


Ngoc Nguyen

PhD Candidate

Research interests: Global Ecosystem/Carbon Cycle Modelling, Vegetation Dynamics, Water Cycle, Climate Change

BSc (2021), Environmental Science, University of Denver, CO




Photo of Jackie


Jackie Reu

Graduate Student, Berkeley Graduate Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Research interests: Plant ecology, nutrient cycling, remote sensing, land surface modeling, plant-soil interactions, machine learning

BA (2019), Environmental Biology and Physics (double major), Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA








Alumni



Photo of Julia


Julia Green

Postdoctoral Researcher (2021-2023)

Research interests: Carbon and water cycle coupling through vegetation, biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks, climate extremes, remote sensing, surface hydrology, vegetation biogeochemistry, modeling, eddy-covariance data, machine learning, and statistical methods of data analysis

PhD (2019) Earth and Env. Engineering, Columbia University, USA
MSc (2014) Earth and Env. Engineering, Columbia University, USA
BSc (2008) Civil Engineering, Tufts University, USA




Photo of Max


Max Gaber

Visiting Graduate Student (2022)

Research interests: terrestrial carbon cycle, machine learning, geo-information systems, remote sensing, climate change mitigation and adaptation

MSc (2020-), Climate Change, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
BSc (2019), Physics, University of Bremen, Germany




Photo of Chi


Chi Chen

Postdoctoral Researcher (2020-2022)

Research interests: Land-atmosphere interactions, Remote sensing, Earth system modeling

PhD (2020), Earth and Environment, Boston University, USA
MA (2015), Remote Sensing and GIS, Boston University, USA
BEng (2013), Remote Sensing and Technology, Wuhan University, China




Photo of Alejandro


Alejandro Alcudia

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (2020-2022)

Research interests: Climate change, vegetation and the carbon cycle; forest and agroforestry systems; agroforestry for greenhouse gas mitigation

PhD (2017), Ecology and Sustainable Development, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México
MSc (2013), Natural Resources and Rural Development, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México




Photo of Qiaoyun


Qiaoyun Xie

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (2022)

Research interests: Terrestrial vegetation dynamics; Land surface phenology and climate change; Remote sensing; Agricultural and environmental management

Chancellor's Research Fellow (2020-), University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Postdoc (2018-2019), University of Technology Sydney, Australia
PhD (2017), Cartography and GIS, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & University of Southampton, UK




Photo of Sami


Sami Rifai

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (2021-2022)

Research interests: Ecosystem ecology of tropical and subtropical forests, remote sensing, vegetation modeling, land-atmosphere interactions, climate extremes

Postdoc (2020-2022) University of New South Wales, Australia
Postdoc (2017-2019) Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
PhD (2016) Forestry and Conservation, University of Florida
MSc (2008) Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia
BSc (2005) Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine




Photo of Hyungsuk


Hyungsuk Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher (2021-2022)

Research interests: Carbon and water cycling, climate change, plant physiology, remote sensing, sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

PhD (2021) Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
MLA (2015) Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, South Korea
BLA (2013) Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, South Korea




Photo of Matt


Matt Roby

Visiting Graduate Student (2021), DOE Student Research Fellow

Research interests: Carbon and water cycling in dryland ecosystems, eddy covariance, soil carbon dioxide efflux

PhD (scheduled 2021), Natural Resources (Watershed Management & Ecohydrology), University of Arizona
MSc (2016), Agricultural Meteorology, Iowa State University
BSc (2013), Meteorology, San Jose State University




Photo of Remi


Xiangzhong (Remi)Luo

Postdoctoral Researcher (2017-2020)

Research interests: Remote sensing, global photosynthesis, terrestrial ecosystem models

PhD (2017), Physical Geography, University of Toronto, Canada
MSc (2013), Physical Geography, Peking University, China
BSc (2010), Environment and Resource Management (GIS & Remote sensing), Wuhan University, China




Photo of Yao


Yao Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2021)

Research interests: Remote sensing, machine learning, global photosynthesis, drought

Post-doc (2018-2019), Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA
PhD (2017), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oklahoma, USA
MSc (2014), Forest Management, Northwest A&F University, China
BSc (2011), Geographical Information Sciences, Nanjing University, China




Photo of Sha


Sha Zhou

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2021)

Research interests: Climate extremes; land-atmosphere interactions; carbon and water cycling; evapotranspiration partitioning

Post-doc (2018-), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
PhD (2018), Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
BSc (2013), Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China




Photo of Meinan


Meinan Zhang

Visiting Graduate Student (2019-2020)

Research interests: Remote sensing, distribution modeling, climate change, bamboo, land cover mapping

PhD (2018-), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China







Photo of Aditi



Aditi Maheshwari

Undergraduate Researcher (2019-2020)

Research interests: Climate change, data science, dynamic vegetation

BSc (2018-), Molecular Environmental Biology, UC Berkeley





Photo of Elmera

Elmera Azadpour

Undergraduate Researcher (2018)

Research interests: Environmental Science, Urban Ecology, Stable Isotopes, Nitrogen Cycling

BSc (2019), Environmental Biology, University of Utah






Photo of Genan

Genan Wu

Visiting Graduate Student (2018-2019)

Research interests: Climate change, evapotranspiration, land surface models

PhD (2017-), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China






Photo of Cecilia

Cecilia Chavana-Bryant

Postdoctoral Researcher (2017-2019)

Research interests: Plant traits, spectral methods, tropical ecology, plant functional theory

PhD (2016), Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
MSc (2006), Botanical Conservation, University of Plymouth, UK
BSc (2004), Ecology, University of Plymouth, UK

Email: cchb@lbl.gov






Photo of Paul

Paul Rosane

Visiting Masters student (2017)

Research interests: Data science, machine learning, environmental science

MSc (2016-) Applied Mathematics, ENSTA ParisTech, Paris, France
BSc (2016) Mathematics, Lycee Condorcet, France









Photo of Mengtian

Mengtian Huang

Visiting graduate student (2017-2018)

Research interests: Climate change, drought and optimal photosynthesis

PhD (2016-) Piao Group, Peking University, China








Photo of Nick

Nick Smith

Postdoctoral Researcher (2016-2017, currently faculty at Texas Tech)

Research interests: Plant acclimation, photosynthetic theory, optimality

PhD (2016) Biological Sciences, Purdue University
BSc (2010) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Purdue Univeristy







Pre-UC Berkeley

Anna Ukkola

Graduate student (2013-2016 Macquarie University, currently a postdoc at UNSW)

Research interests: Interactions between vegetation, climate and water resources

PhD (2016) Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
BSc (2010) Geography, University of Bristol, UK