Dr. Wang led the successful planning of the 37th Conference on Hydrology, which took place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver  as part of the AMS 103rd Annual Meeting during January 8-12. The meeting was very well attended and was a great success!

Dr. Wang gave a talk on the role of vegetation in flash drought development, Dr. Jiang gave a virtual poster on his attribution study of the 2020-21 U.S. drought, and Koushan talked about his research on snow hydrology and winter flood analysis. It was Koushan’s first oral presentation at AMS and he did great!

Javad Teymoori joined the lab as a new PhD student! Javad earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from universities in Iran. His PhD dissertation research will focus on land-atmosphere interactions in drought development. Welcome Javad!

Our lab had a strong show at the AGU Fall Meeting held in Chicago. Dr. Wang talked about our work on machine learning-based crop yield modeling, Yan talked about her research on how temperature and water stress influence ecosystem productivity, Yelin presented his study on the role of soil moisture and soil temperature as sources of subseasonal predictability, Koushan presented his latest analysis on SIF RCI and flash drought early warning based on multiple datasets, and Badhan presented her progress in climate downscaling using a deep learning approach! It was Yan’s first oral presentation at AGU and she did a great job!

Yelin Jiang successfully defended his PhD dissertation and is taking a postdoc job at Columbia University. Congratulations Dr. Jiang!

Congratulations to Qinqing and Meijian for the publication of a highly interdisciplinary paper in AIES! It is an exemplary  collaboration between AI experts and process-based modelers to predict crop yield in the U.S. Corn Belt: “Machine learning crop yield models based on meteorological features and comparison with a process-based model”, Artificial Intelligence for Earth Systems, 1(4), https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-22-0002.1

Meanwhile, our PNAS paper continues to garner media attention. Here is a comprehensive piece from the New York Public Radio: https://gothamist.com/news/a-plants-glow-can-predict-some-droughts-weeks-in-advance-uconn

Dr. Xiaoming Sun’s paper on negative scaling of extreme precipitation has been published! Congratulations Xiaoming!

Sun & Wang, 2022: Causes for the negative scaling of extreme precipitation at high temperatures. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0142.1

The lab welcomed new PhD student Faisal Alvee. Faisal received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. His PhD research will focus on understanding and predicting extreme precipitation in a changing climate. Welcome Faisal!

Koushan’s paper on SIF-based flash drought early warning has been published in PNAS. Congratulations!  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202767119 

Click here to read the UConn Today article on our lab’s new publication:

For Advance Drought Warning, Look to the Plants

Two new papers from our lab have been published recently:

Erfanian et al. on “Variability, trend, and extremes of the South American vegetation-climate system: Results from a coupled regional model” in JGR-Atmospheres
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035691

Wang & Sun on “Monotonic increase of extreme precipitation intensity with temperature when controlled for saturation deficit” in Geophysical Research Letters

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022GL097881

Congrats!

Several members of our lab presented during this past conference season (AGU in December and AMS in January):

Dr. Meijian Yang presented his work on crop yield changes in Ethiopia as a panelist in the AMS Presidential Session on water security; Mr. Koushan Mohammadi presented his work on flash drought early warning based on remote sensing data (AGU); Dr. Guiling Wang talked about extreme precipitation scaling with temperature in saturated and unsaturated atmosphere and how it changes with climate (AMS); Mr. Yelin Jiang presented his work on S2S land-atmosphere interactions over the tropical South America (AGU), on ecohydrological responses to drought (AMS), and on a new method to initialize soil moisture/temperature in S2S simulations at the CESM workshop that took place immediately after the AMS conference!

And congratulations to Yelin on the publication of his paper “Eco-hydrological responses to recent droughts in tropical South America” in Environmental Research Letters!

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac507a

Makduma Zahan Bahan joins the lab as a new PhD student. Badhan received her B.S. degree from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Welcome Badhan!

Dr. Wang has been appointed to serve as an author for the Land Cover & Land Use Change chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). The National Climate Assessment is the U.S. Government’s premier report on climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation across the Nation. It is a Congressionally mandated, interagency effort that brings together experts from governments, academic, non-profit, and private sectors. Congrats!

Congratulations is also due to Dr. Wang on her election as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society!

https://cee.engr.uconn.edu/dr-guiling-wang-elected-as-ams-fellow.html

https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/2022-awards-and-honors-recipients/

 

 

Meijian Yang successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and took a postdoctoral position in Cornell University. Congratulations, Dr. Yang! We will miss you.