News

  • February 5, 2024: We had a really nice feature of our latest paper in AGU Advances today in AGU EOS.
  • October 16, 2023: Today we welcomed our newest lab member, Zexi Shen. Zexi is a postdoc in the group who is interested in learning how teleconnections influence water availability in drylands.
  • August 21, 2023: Welcome to Santiago Valencia Cardenas! Santiago is the newest member of our group, and is starting his PhD. If you’re interested in seeing some of his work, check out his latest publication on forest-savanna transition in the Llanos region, out today!
  • December 12-16, 2022: Another great AGU! I convened and chaired sessions on vegetation water stress, presented my latest research on constraining Earth System Model projections, helped to manage the OSPA program for Biogeosciences, and connected with colleagues old and new. Now, it’s time to catch up on some sleep.
  • October 6, 2022: I received a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the European Commission to research vegetation water stress at the Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF). While I declined the fellowship due to my approaching faculty appointment at UofA, it was an honor to be recognized.
  • September 7-9, 2022: The AmeriFlux Annual Workshop was this week at the University of Michigan Biological Station. It was a great opportunity for networking and learning more about the exciting ecological work going on at eddy-covariance flux towers across the globe.
  • July 18-20, 2022: I virtually attended the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution meeting. Here I presented my latest work related to the sensitivity of stomatal conductance to changes in moisture availability.
  • June 13, 2022: I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona. I will be recruiting a PhD student and a postdoc for Fall 2023 so stay tuned!
  • April 18, 2022: I guest lectured in the UC Berkeley Ecosystem Ecology course. The student engagement and questions were impressive, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to share my work with them.
  • March 8, 2022: I gave a guest lecture in the UCSD Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing course. I enjoyed chatting with the students, learning about their projects, and alerting them to the many remote sensing data products that can be used to study our carbon, water and energy fluxes.
  • December 13-17, 2021: Another successful AGU Fall Meeting full of networking and cutting-edge science. I chaired and convened two oral sessions and a poster session on vegetation water stress, in addition to presenting in the oral and poster session for Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment. I also want to thank the U.S. Carbon Program and North American Carbon Program for their help in funding my conference travel via the U.S. Carbon Program Leadership Award.
  • December 1, 2021: I spoke at the first public General Assembly for CONsistent representation of temporal variations of boundary Forcings in reanalysES and Seasonal forecasts (CONFESS). More information including registration links can be found here.
  • August 23, 2021: I started a new position at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Trevor Keenan’s lab. I will be part of an international collaboration called LEMONTREE, where researchers will be working towards the development of a new and improved model of the terrestrial biosphere based on eco-evolutionary optimality principles.
  • July 29, 2021: It was my last day at LSCE today. What an amazing experience working on surface energy fluxes and plant water stress in the tropical Americas with Drs. Philippe Ciais and Ashley Ballantyne.