Dr. Wang attended the AMS annual meeting and the Inez Fung symposium in Phoenix, and presented our research on the impact of plant hydraulic redistribution on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling, as well as our work on simulating the South American droughts using a regional climate model. Lab alumni Yeonjoo Kim (PhD, 2007; currently Associate Professor in Yonsei University) and Amir Erfanian (PhD, 2018, currently postdoc at UCLA) also attended the symposiums, and we had a mini lab reunion!
The Inez Fung symposium was a great success, thanks to the hard work by Dr. Rong Fu and many others organizing this symposium! It was great to hear all the stories about Inez shared by scientists from various career stages including several from her cohort of distinguished MIT alumni (e.g., Kalnay, Shukla). Purely inspiring!