Yaqian He — Geospatial & Environmental Modeling

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2026

June 15 Conference He et al presented "Enhanced Extreme Precipitation Simulation in China using NCAR CESM Based on a Realistic Remotely-Sensed Time Series of Annual Land Cover and Land Use Data from 1982 to 2013 " at 2026 CESM Workshop, Boulder, CO.

Jun 02 Publication New study on pecipitation extreme prediction published. View →

May 15 New Members Welcome L, Huber, Sahana, Madhugiri Shankar, and Shubham Ganpat, Khupase joining the group as undergraduate research assistant, and summer research interns.

May 12 Graduation Congradulations to Seth for his sucessful master thesis defense!

2025

Nov 23 Conference He et al attended the annual meeting of Southeastern AAG in Lexington, KY and presented research on NASA GLOBE land cover intercomparison.

Nov 15 Publication New book on supervised learning and remote sensing published. View →
Nov 15 Publication New study on soybean phenology in the Arkansas Delta region published. View →
Oct 23 Conference He et al attended Applied Geography annual meeting in St. Louis, MO and presented research on NASA GLOBE land cover intercomparison.
Aug 31 Publication New study on LCLUC impacts on temperature extremes in China published. View →
Jul 3 Publication New study on land cover change impacts on climate extremes in the ABoVE domain published. View →
Jun 27 Publication New study on agricultural geography and international water conflict published. View →
Jun 24 Publication New study on deep learning, CORONA imagery, and LCLUC classification published. View →
May 27 Conference He et al attended Advancing Participatory Sciences annual meeting in Portland, OR — presenting "Multi-view citizen science: Advancing land cover and disease risk models with AI."
May 12 Conference He et al attended the NASA ABoVE annual science meeting in Fairbanks, AK — presenting biogeophysical impacts of land cover change on regional climate.
Apr 11 Publication New study on spatiotemporal disparities in maternal mortality in China published. View →
Feb 28 Award Congratulations to Seth on being selected for the NOAA William M. Lapenta NWS Student Internship Program (June–August 2025).

2024

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2023

Oct 19 Conference He et al presented "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Near-Real Time Prediction Algorithms for Climate Extremes in Arkansas" at the Arkansas GIS Users Forum.
Jun 26 Publication New study on land cover and land use change impacts on biomass carbon emission published. View →
Jun 24 Grant NASA EPSCoR R3 Grant received to quantify effects of land cover change–climate interactions on ecosystem productivity in Northwestern US (with Dr. Di Yang, Co-PI).
Apr 11 Publication New study on irrigation–climate interaction impacts on crop yield published. View →

2022

Dec 19 Grant NASA EPSCoR RID Grant received to predict near real-time climate extremes using machine learning (with Dr. Miaoqing Huang, PI and Dr. Xiao Liu, Co-PI).
Nov 11 Grant Arkansas Space Consortium Grant received to characterize spatiotemporal patterns of soybean phenology in the Northern Arkansas Delta Region (with Dr. Brooks Pearson, Co-PI).
Jul 18 Publication New study on large-scale land cover and land use change in the Indo-Malaysian region published. View →
May 5 Publication New study on agricultural aid and forest growth in Sierra Leone published. View →
Mar 3 Publication New study on land cover and land use mapping in East Asian Summer Monsoon region published. View →
Feb 15 Publication New study on vegetation–climate interactions in western Tibetan Plateau published. View →

2021

Dec 17 Grant Arkansas Space Consortium Grant received to guide landscape-scale restoration of fire-adapted vegetation in the Ouachita Mountains (with Dr. William Flatley, PI).
Oct 15 Award Congratulations to Paul for receiving First Prize in the undergraduate paper competition in Southwest Division of AAG.
May 25 Publication New study on ammonia change patterns and driving factors published. View →
May 6 Publication New study on cropland expansion and climate extremes in Western India published. View →
Feb 4 Grant NASA EPSCoR RID Grant received to quantify irrigation impacts on crop yield in Arkansas Delta (with Dr. Matthew Connolly and Dr. Xiao Huang, Co-PIs).

2020

Dec Conference He et al presented "rapid land cover and land use change in the Indo-Malaysian region" at AGU.
Nov Conference He et al presented "Agricultural Aid and Deforestation in Sierra Leone" at the annual meeting of Southwestern AAG.
Nov 5 Grant UCA University Research Council Grant received to map statewide land cover and land use change in Arkansas.
Jun 6 Publication New study on climate variability and vegetation dynamics over the Upper Amur River Basin published. View →
May 11 Grant Dartmouth Neukom Institute CompX Grant received to assess adaptation feedbacks to present and future climate extremes (with Dr. Justin Mankin, PI and Dr. Ethan Coffel, Co-PI).
Feb 5 Invited Talk Yaqian was invited to lecture on "Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Regional Climate" at the Department of Geology, University of Dayton.

Open calls

Farmer Irrigation Nation is a citizen science project that invites farmers in the United States to empower next-gen irrigation by sharing basic information about when, where, and how irrigation is happening.

Remote Sensing and GIScience for Natural Hazard Mitigation and Resilience

Land–Atmosphere Interactions

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