CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS
Yaqian He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Before joining UARK, She worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Central Arkansas from 2020 to 2024. Before that, she worked as a postdoc research fellow in Dr. Justin Mankin’s research group in the Department of Geography at Dartmouth College. She also worked closely with Dr. Jonathan Chipman.She got her PhD degree in Geography at the Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University in 2018. During her PhD, she was supervised by Dr. Eungul Lee and working closely with Dr. Tim Warner. Before coming to the US, She got her master degree in Cartology and Geographic Information System in Dr. Yanchen Bo’s lab at Beijing Normal University in 2013 and bachelor in Surveying Engineering at China University of Mining and Technology in 2010.
Faith Vire is a research assistant working on detecting crop phenology and its relationship with climate. Before this, Faith got her master degree of Geographic Information Systems at the University of Central Arkansas. When she is not conducting research, she enjoys reading horror novels and caring for her two cats.
FORMER GROUP MEMBERS
Emma Steuber 2025, former undergraduate research assistant, now is an honors junior undergraduate at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Kayla Stahl 2024, former undergraduate research assistant, now at PAgis
Wei Tay 2021, former undergraduate research assistant, now at Geoscience master program at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Paul Seminara 2021, former undergraduate research assistant, now at Garver
Marisol Filares 2021-2022, former undergraduate research assistant, now at Arkansas Department of Transportation
Caden Rhodes 2021-2022, former undergraduate research assistant, now at Arkansas State Military Department
Drew Chagnon 2023, former undergraduate research assistant, now at CTEH