Oct 19 He et al presented the study of "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Near-Real Time Prediction Algorithms for Climate Extremes in Arkansas" at the annual meeting of Arkansas GIS Users Forum

Jun 26 New study about 'Land Cover and Land Use Change Impacts on Biomass Carbon Emission' published in Biogeochemistry. Check [link]

Jun 24 NASA EPSCoR R3 Grant received to 'Quantifying Effects of Land Cover Change-Climate Interactions on Ecosystem Productivity in Northwestern US' (Collaborated with Dr. Di Yang (Co-PI)).

Apr 20 He et al presented the study about irrigated land use transition and climate interactions impacts on crop yield at the annual meeting of Arkansas NASA EPSCoR

Apr 11 New study about 'Irrigation-climate Interactions Impacts on Crop Yield' published in Progress in Physical Geography. Check [link]

Dec 19 NASA EPSCoR RID Grant received to 'Predict Near Real-time Climate Extremes Using Machine Learning Algorithm' (Collaborated with Dr. Miaoqing Huang (PI) and Dr. Xiao Liu (Co-PI)).

Nov 11 NASA Arkansas Space Consortium Grant received to 'Characterizing Spatiotemporal Patterns of Soybean Phenology in the Northern Arkansas Delta Region' (Collaborated with Dr. Brooks Pearson (Co-PI)).

Jul 28 He et al presented the study about rapid land cover and land use change in the Indo-Malaysian region over the last 34 years based on AVHRR NDVI data at the annual meeting of SWAAG

Jul 18 New study about 'Large-scale Land Cover and Land Use Change in Indo-Malaysian region' published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Check [link]

May 5 New study about 'Agricultural Aid and Forest Growth in Sierra Leone' published in Land. Check [link]

Apr 27 Arkansas INBRE – Summer Manuscript Support Grant received to 'Identify Associations of COVID19 with Socioeconomic and Climatic Variables in Arkansas'.

Apr 22 Filares-Arreguin et al presented the study about irrigated and rainfed soybean classification using Landsat and drone imagery in UCA CNSM Poster Symposium (student advised)

Mar 3 New study about 'Land Cover and Land Use Mapping in East Asian Summer Monsoon Region' published in Land. Check [link]

Feb 25 Yadav et al presented the study abouth vegetation-climate interactions in the western Tibetan Plateau during May

Feb 25 Jieun et al presented the study about mapping annual land cover/land use maps of the East Asian Summer Monsoon region from 1982 to 2015 in the annual meeting of AAG

Feb 25 He et al presented the study about impacts of irrigation-climate interactions on crop yields in Arkansas Delta in the annual meeting of AAG

Feb 15 New study about 'Vegetation-climate Interactions in Western Tibetan Plateau' published in Earth Interactions. Check [link]

Dec 17 NASA Arkansas Space Consortium Grant received to 'Guide Landscape-scale Restoration of Fire-adapted Vegetation in the Ouachita Mountains Using Historical and Remote Sensing Data' (Collaborated with Dr. William Flatley (PI)).

Oct 15 Congratulations to Paul for receiving First Prize in undergraduate paper competition in Southwest Division of AAG .

Oct 15 Filares-Arreguin et al presented the study about visual identificaiton of soybean irrigation status with RGB drone imagery and the VARI index in Southwest Division of AAG (student advised)

Oct 15 He et al presented the study about impacts of irrigation-climate interactions on crop yields in Arkansas Delta in Southwest Division of AAG

Oct 14 Seminara presented the study about identifying the effects of climatic and socioeconomic variables on the spread of COVID-19 in Arkansas in Southwest Division of AAG (student advised)

June 7 Study about Ammonia got media coverage. Check [link]

May 25 New study about 'Ammonia Change Patterns and its Driving Factors' published in Science of the Total Environment. Check [link]

May 6 New study about 'Cropland Expansion and Climate Extremes in Western India' published in Land. Check [link]

Apr 26 Congratulations to Wei for receiving 'Southwestern Energy Research Fellow'.

Apr 26 Congratulations to Paul for receiving 'Advancement of Undergraduate Research in the Sciences (AURS)' research award.

Feb 4 NASA EPSCoR RID Grant received to 'Quantify Irrigation Impacts on Crop Yield in Arkansas Delta' (Collaborated with Dr. Matthew Connolly (Co-PI) and Dr. Xiao Huang (Co-PI)).

Dec 1-17 New study about 'Rapid land cover and land use change in Indo-Malaysian region' was presented in AGU.

Nov 17-19 New study about 'Agricultural Aid and Deforestation in Sierra Leone' was presented in annual meeting of Southwestern AAG.

Nov 5 UCA University Research Council Grant received to 'Map Statewide Land Cover and Land Use Change in Arkansas'.

Oct 30 UCA Faculty Development Grant received to 'Improve Geospatial Teaching Pedagogy'.

Jun 6 New study about 'Climate Variability and Vegetation Dynamics over Upper Amur River Basin' published in Environmental Research Communication. Check [link]

May 11 Dartmouth Neukom Institute CompX Grant received to 'Assess Adaptation Feedbacks to Present and Future Climate Extremes' (Collaborated with Dr. Justin Mankin (PI) and Dr. Ethan Coffel (Co-PI)).

Feb 5 Yaqian was invited to give a lecture 'Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Regional Climate' at Department of Geology at University of Dayton.