Currently, estimating surface albedo is particularly difficult due to spatial (land use, agronomic practices, anthropogenic activities) and temporal (seasonality, sampling frequency) factors affecting surface irradiance. It is also compounded by precision, where one method of acquiring data favors space, but is drastically limited over its temporal component, or vice versa. Thus, broadening initiatives in climate change research to include environmental spatio-temporal data through modelling is critically needed. This working group focuses on the exploration of albedo on multiple unique landscapes, as well as the integration of surface irradiance into climate modeling. Our work will facilitate the development of modelling global warming potentials of different landscapes in order to advance climate modelling and prediction over space and time.
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Meet The Team!
Prinicpal Investigator
2023 Summer Undergraduate Intern
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station LTER Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
2023 Summer Undergraduate Intern
Great Lakes Bioenegy Research Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
Collaborators
Collaboration with Dr. Ines Ibanez to examine forest demographic responses to the combined effects of these stressors for temperate forests. This work facilitates the development of vegetative models that inform decisions on climate change mitigation and conservation management practices.
Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology
Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management (School for the Environment and Sustainability)
Collaboration with Dr. Jiquan Chen and Dr. Philip Robertson to understand the changes in albedo during bare-ground, peak growing, and senescence seasons, and contribute to assessing the global warming potentials of different types of biofuel cropping systems.
Professor & Head of LEES Lab
Doctoral Candidate
Post-doctorate
Chapman University
Past Interns & Collaborators
Julia Seay
Environmental Studies and Earth & Environmental Geoscience
Washington and Lee University
Renae Kenney
College of Engineering
Michigan State University
Michael Collins
Department of Environment and Sustainability
Michigan State University
Maximilian Mihaylov
Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science
Michigan State University
Ezequiel Mussambe
Department of Geography, Environment & Spatial Sciences
Michigan State University
Isabel Arrocha
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
University of Arkansas
Emily Lindback
Department of Earth and the Environment
Franklin & Marshall College
Pedro Kuyenga
Department of Geography, Environment & Spatial Sciences
Michigan State University
Kaylee Peterson
Department of Community Sustainability
Michigan State University
Kaitlyn O’Brien
Department of Community Sustainability
Michigan State University