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.