2024

• —No individually dated entries recorded for 2024.

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.