Dr. Song was named as a PI on one of 34 new CIROH research projects across 18 Institutions in North America to advance water prediction and resilience. Funded by USGS, Dr. Song and her collaborators from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University will advance irrigated agriculture water use and resource assessment in the USGS Agricultural Water Use Framework and NOAA NextGen hydrological model
Dr. Song was named as a PI on the DOE’s $8 Million research project for Earth System Model Development and Analysis. Dr. Song and her collaborators from DOE Oak Ridge National Lab and Sandia National Lab will focus on developing an integrated artificial intelligence and E3SM hierarchal modeling framework for elucidating environmental responses of soil carbon and nutrient dynamics and its implications for land carbon-climate
Dr. Song was selected for the DOE Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) Large-Scale Research Award. With this award’s support, we will elucidate environmental regulation on the structure and functional composition of microbial communities involved in Soil Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycling Using Metagenomics Analysis and an Artificial Intelligence Model.
Our manuscript, led by PhD student Patric Neri, was selected as the highlighted paper by the EGU Biogeosciences Journal. This study reported the first global-scale parameterization of temperature tolerance and resilience of photosystem II efficiency. This parameterization provides a new understanding of the terrestrial vegetative carbon cycle under extreme climates.
Congratulations to our BIO-ESM lab student, Patrick Neri, on winning the Spirit of Tom Meixner Award Sponsored by the Salt River Project at the 2024 El Día del Agua y la Atmósfera student symposium on March 27, 2024.
Congratulations to our BIO-ESM lab student, Changpeng Fan, for winning the 2nd place best graduate student poster award in the 19th Annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystem Symposium (RISE) on Oct 21, 2023.
Congratulations to our BIO-ESM lab student, Patrick Neri, for receiving the graduate student summer research fellowship from the DOE Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). Patrick will work on parameterizing environmental regulation on the non-photochemical quenching pathway of plant photosynthesis during the summer of 2023 on behalf of our lab’s collaboration study with ORNL.
Congratulations to our BIO-ESM lab student, Sabrina Wilson, for winning a Universities Research Association (URA) Sandia National Laboratory Summer Graduate Fellowship! Sabrina will work at the R&D program, Earth Science Research Foundation (EaSRF), at Sandia’s Livermore, California site during the summer of 2023.
We are glad to announce that our team, led by Dr. Kim Ogden, received $70 million from USDA and Bridgestone to develop a climate-smart alternative to rubber production by turning desert shrubs into rubber on May 8, 2023. As the Co-PI group specializing in developing climate-smart assessment tools, our BIO-ESM lab will be responsible for developing an integrated assessment model to assess the sustainability of rubber yields and the corresponding carbon benefits under diverse management practices.
Congrats to BIO-ESM lab student, Tianyi Hu, for receiving the Second Place Graduate Poster Prize in the 18th Annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystem Symposium (RISE) on Nov 5, 2022. This is the second time that Tianyi received the RISE prize.
Congrats to BIO-ESM lab graduate student, Sabrina Wilson, for receiving the NSF NRT BRIDGE Fellowship in 2022 Fall.
We are glad to announce that our BIO-ESM lab received funding from USDA NIFA to study and model the biochar effect on microbial-mediated soil organic matter cycling. We expect to develop predictive soil health management using biochar during 2022-2024 by collaborating with environmental and soil scientists from the University at Albany, SUNY, and Cornel University.
Congrats to BIO-ESM lab student Tianyi Hu for receiving the Best Graduate Poster Prize in the 17th Annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystem Symposium (RISE) on Nov 20, 2021.
We are glad to announce that the Bio-ESM lab received the Arizona Institutes for Resilience (AIR) Grant from the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) on February 1, 2021. We are excited to assess the resilience of Arizona grassland to change in the North American Monsoon.