Teaching & Service

Teaching, mentorship, conference service, and peer review

Mentorship

  1. 2025-
    Sofia Ferdini, PhD student at AgroParisTech/Paris-Saclay and Universität Hohenheim
    Individual Monitoring Committee member on process-based and data-driven modeling
  2. 2022-2027
    Yuqi Dong, PhD candidate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Co-supervisor with Dr. Zhang on phenology and productivity in global drylands
  3. 2022
    Manfred Lim, high school student at Jericho Senior High School; now undergraduate at Columbia University
    Science mentor on developing a machine learning model to predict soil respiration using satellite imagery and geospatial data

Teaching

  1. 2025-
    Global Change Biology, ETH Zurich, co-lecturer with Drs. Buchmann, Kukka-Maaria, and Flavian
  2. 2021-2024
    New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling, two-week training course, Cornell University, lecturer and instructor
  3. 2016
    IDCE 310: Introduction to GIS, Clark University, teaching assistant
  4. 2015
    EOG102: Weather and Climate, Clark University, teaching assistant

Conference Sessions

  1. AGU 2023
    Co-convener and co-chair
    GC063: Leveraging Multifaceted Approaches to Carbon Dioxide Removal for Effective Climate Change Mitigation

Academic Journal Peer Review

  • Nature
  • One Earth
  • Global Change Biology
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Biogeosciences
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • Land Degradation & Development
  • Ecohydrology
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Mathematical and Computational Applications
  • Plant and Soil
  • Water