Our group had three talks at the AGU fall meeting (by Dr. Wang and Kazi Ahmed), including two invited and one contributed:
“Mechanisms Linking Land Use and Regional Climate Changes in West Africa”
“Impact of Vegetation Feedback on Climate Predictions at the Seasonal and Multi-Decadal Time Scales”
“Regional Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Land Use in West Africa”
Dana, Congsheng, Zhenming, and Miao all had poster presentations.
Dr. Roop Saini completed her postdoc appointment in our group, and Dr. Zhenming Ji completed his visit in our group. We will miss you both!
Dr. Wang presented a keynote on “Present and future land use land cover changes in North Africa : the Impacts of climate and socioeconomic drivers” for a workshop organized by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany.
Dr. Wang gave a talk in the CEE department at Northwestern University on “Understanding the impact of soil moisture on precipitation over the U.S.: Mechanisms and challenges”.
Dr. Miao Yu completed her postdoctoral appointment in our group and is moving back to a faculty position at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. Miao spent a very productive three years here and has collaborated with almost everyone in the group. We look forward to future collaborations with her as she further develops her career in China. Miao, we will all miss you!
Dr. Wang visited the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences with a long time collaborator Liangzhi You from IFPRI, and gave a talk on “Climate and agricultural land use modeling”.