News
>> September 2024: The 1st draft of the ARID Scoping Study White Paper is now available for public review and comment. Find out more about this scoping study and the link to the white paper and survey here.
>> September 2024: Welcome Joy Kehinde Adebisi to the lab!
>> September 2024: Rubaya presented her latest project updating the DryFlux product at the AmeriFlux Annual Meeting in San Francisco in early September. She was also awarded a travel stipend from AmeriFlux to attend the meeting! Congratulations Rubaya!
>> August 2024: Liam and Natalia are presenting at the Western USRI Research Conference today! Check out their posters here and here!
>> May 2024: Welcome Mohan Joshi to the lab!
>> May 2024: Welcome to Liam Bogucki and Natalia Porro to the lab for summer undergraduate research internships! And Camellia Naderi returning for a summer research assistantship!
>> December 2023: Rubaya presented her latest research on aridity zone differences in how dynamic global vegetation models capture dryland GPP at the American Geophysical Union this week. Check out her poster here. Rubaya was awarded the American Geophysical Union Biogeoscience Student Travel Grant to attend the meeting. Congratulations Rubaya!
>> September 2023: Welcome again to Camellia Naderi who is starting a thesis in the lab as part of her Honors Specialization in Geography and Environment working on the impacts of ENSO on Australian dryland productivity.
>> May 2023: Welcome to Camellia Naderi who will be doing a summer research assistantship in the lab this summer.
>> March 2023: Rubaya is giving a talk at the AAG in Denver this week. Good luck Rubaya!
>> March 2023: Rubaya has been selected to receive a scholarship from the IndianaView student scholarship program to support her research. Congratulations Rubaya!
>> December 2022: Rubaya presented her latest research at the American Geophysical Union this week. You can see her poster on global-scale benchmarking of dryland GPP in the TRENDY models here . Rubaya was selected for two travel awards for the meeting from the IU Department of Geography and College of Arts and Sciences. Go Rubaya!
>> August 2022: Rubaya’s 1st paper on fusion of hyperspectral and LiDAR canopy-height data for estimating separate fractional cover of different dryland plant functional types was published today in the International Journal of Remote Sensing. Find the link here. Congratulations Rubaya!
>> July 2022: Natasha is very excited to be starting a new Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Environment & Department of Biology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada!!
>> May 2022: Kashif has just shared his exciting news that he will be starting as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Kimbell School of Geosciences at Midwestern State University in Texas, starting in the Fall! CONGRATULATIONS Kashif!!
>> January 2022: Natasha is appointed land editor for the AGU Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES).
>> December 2021: Natasha, Kashif, and Rubaya all presented at the AGU Fall Meeting. Their talks and poster can be found here, here, and here.
>> December 2021: Natasha is voted to be a Co-Chair of the Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of Earth Systems (AIMES) Project, taking over from MPI- Hamburg’s Victor Brovkin. AIMES is a global research project of Future Earth.
>> September 2021: Kashif’s paper on dryland carbon cycle parameter optimization with the ORCHIDEE model was published today in JGR-Biogeosciences. Congratulations Kashif! You can find the link here.
>> September 2021: Kashif and Natasha participated in the AmeriFlux Annual Meeting. Kashif presented his latest work on using parameter optimization to aid in modeled T/ET partitioning in semi-arid ecosystems. And Natasha was a panelist on the AmeriFlux Early Career Network Career Panel. A great meeting and chance to connect with friends and collaborators.
>> August 2021: Kashif presented his work on semi-arid CO2 flux optimization during the Joint iLEAPS and FLUXNET Early Career Scientist Twitter Poster Conference today. Join the discussion here!
>> August 2021: Natasha’s latest paper on how TRENDY models underestimate C flux inter-annual variability in SW US semi-arid ecosystems has just been accepted in Environmental Research Letters. Check it out here.
>> June 2021: Natasha has won a ~$900k NASA Carbon Cycle Cycle Program grant as lead PI to study Dryland ecosystem structure and function! Announcement of successful grants here. (Media links at the bottom of this page)
>> April 2021: Rubaya has been awarded an IU Department of Geography Graduate Student Research Grant to continue her work into the spatial pattern analysis of shrub-grass coexistence in semi-arid ecosystems. Congratulations Rubaya!
>> December 2020: Kashif presented at the virtual AGU Fall meeting today! Take a look at his presentation on using model-data assimilation to identify the processes causing underestimates in modeled semi-arid NEE here.
>> December 2020: Rubaya is featured in the graduate student spotlight of the IU Geography Fall 2020 Newsletter! Check out her interview here.
>> November 2020: Natasha’s latest paper evaluating the ORCHIDEE terrestrial biosphere water stores and fluxes at SW US semi-arid ecosystem sites is now published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Take a look here!
>> October 2020: Kashif presented his work on semi-arid ecosystem model optimization at the 2020 Ameriflux Annual Meeting. Despite the virtual format the meeting offered plenty of opportunity for interactions with Ameriflux PIs via the Gather platform!
>> October 2020: Rubaya successfully passed her PhD qualifications exam. Congratulations Rubaya!
>> March 2020: Rubaya has been awarded the John Odland Research Fellowship by the IU Department of Geography. Congratulations Rubaya!
>> January 2020: Natasha featured in the promotional video for IU’s new supercomputer “Big Red 200” talking about how faster computing systems help climate modeling research (skip to ~22:35)
>> January 2020: Natasha has been appointed an Associate Editor of the AGU Journal on Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19422466
>> December 2019: Rubaya Pervin gave an excellent presentation on her research on “Multi Data Fusion Remote Sensing Methods for Detecting Semi-Arid Shrub Cover” at AGU today! Rubaya won an AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Student Travel Grant to attend the conference. She also won travel grants to attend AGU from the IU College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Geography.
Find out more about Rubaya’s work here.
>> December 2019: Natasha presented two invited posters at AGU this week: one on Satellite Carbon Cycle Model-Data Assimilation and another on Modeling the Semi-Arid Carbon Cycle.
>> September 2019: A big welcome to Kashif Mahmud who joined the lab today! Kashif has just moved from Australia where he was working with Belinda Medlyn. Find out more about Kashif’s recent research on his website here.
>> April 2019: Heidi Takada – who has been working with our group as part of the IU Sustainability Scholars program – presented her research on the “Drivers of Mangrove Change in Southeast Asia” today at the Spring 2020 Sustainability Scholars Symposium. Congratulations to Heidi on completing the program!
You can read more about Heidi’s work by taking a look at her poster here and her GIS website here.
>> Check out this new Remote Sensing special issue on “Remote Sensing of Vegetation Phenology”. Natasha is a Guest Editor. Submit to the special issue Submit to the special issue here! Deadline 30th April 2020.
>> October 2018: Welcome to Heidi Takada who will be working with our group as part of the IU Sustainability Scholars Program!
>> August 2018: Welcome Rubaya Pervin to the lab!
>> August 2018: Natasha is excited to start as Assistant Professor in the Indiana University Department of Geography!
MEDIA coverage of research
- Indiana Environmental Reporter article on NASA Dryland Carbon Cycle Science Grant. Link. (September 2021)
- WFHB 91.3 FM Community Radio in Bloomington, IN interview on dryland research. Link. (September 2021)
- IU Research in the News podcast. Link. (September 2021)
- IU Press Release “NASA grant aids geography professor’s climate research on dryland regions”. Link. (September 2021)
- 2021: Indiana Daily Student article “IU professor will lead NASA-funded climate research on dry areas”. Link. (October 2021)
International Projects, Steering Committees and Editorial Boards
- Natasha is a Co-Chair of the Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System (AIMES) Project. AIMES is one of 20 global research projects of Future Earth, which is a 10-year interdisciplinary and international initiative aiming to build knowledge on global change and to find solutions for sustainable development.
- Natasha is the land Editor for the AGU Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. She also serves on the editorial board for GEO: Geography and Environment.
- Check out the ongoing work of the EU H2020 MULTIPLY Project.
Outreach
- Natasha is a member of 500 Women Scientists. Find out more here.
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