Meng Zhao

New Paper Alert! 🚨 Our latest modeling study finds canopy temperature is likely an important omission in interpreting microwave vegetation optical depth. 🌿📡 #VOD #Ecology #MicrowaveRemoteSensing [Link to the paper rb.gy/j6lx2q]

We are running our drought session again at #AGU24. Fellow fans of water and heat stress, please consider submitting! @JuliaKGreen1 @merneovine @Dendrogobbler agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

🌊 Join us! 🌿 Postdoc (remote option) & Ph.D. positions available in our USGS-funded eco-hydrology project. Boost water budget predictions across the US! 🚀 Apply: [bit.ly/48iTUSv] Please share with those who might be interested. Thanks! 🙌 #ResearchJobs #PhD #Postdoc

Are you studying vegetation’s impact on our water and climate? Our @theAGU session agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/preli… is a great place for you, convened by myself, Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, AJ Purdy, & @alkalifly, & with invited speakers @Novick_Lab and Corey S. Lesk.

Going to #AGU22 and wondering where the #soils and #CriticalZone sessions are? Come take a look at the summary by the Soil&CZ Tech Committee! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… We tagged the sessions to help you plan your days! Did we miss something? Add it!

shout out to the Soil Processes and Critical Zone subcommittee for the inspiration.

Always choose a supportive supervisor over university prestige.

Alex Konings at Stanford is looking for a postdoc on microwave remote sensing of plants and asked to share on her behalf. See here: koningslab.stanford.edu/postdoc-opport…. I can personally attest that she is a fantastic thinker, highly creative, and great person all around. Please retweet!

As a first-gen student, I often ask myself how I can justify an academia pitch to other first-gen students during outreach and recruitment. Telling my parents that I'd be working with a grad salary was a HUGE concern for them. I was met with, "Are you serious right now?" (1/4)

A study in @NatureClimate shows drought-driven evapotranspiration increases are widespread and depend on the magnitude of precipitation and total water shortage anomalies. go.nature.com/3DlYhOj

Drought is complex. Plants are important. Soil processes are hard to model accurately. Good messages all around. Great study nature.com/articles/s4155…

Does evapotranspiration increase or decrease during droughts? The answer is not straightforward! We found that evapotranspiration increases in 44% of drought months. Models underestimate this by a half. Plant and soil structure are the causes. Read here rdcu.be/cYpAV

Join us on Tuesday, October 11th at 3pm for a seminar with Prof. Alexandra Konings titled "Microwave remote sensing of plant water stress"! This is a hybrid event - follow the link for more details on how to attend: cse.umn.edu/safl/events/mi…

One year ago, I launched this free textbook probability4datascience.com Today, the book has been downloaded by >35,000 students from >500 universities. If each book costs $100, we have saved families $3.5M. Boiler up @LifeAtPurdue #DataScience #MachineLearning

Last chapter published yesterday in ERL @IOPscience! doi.org/10.1088/1748-9…. We modeled climate change impacts to peat swamps in SE Asia by applying deep learning to🛰️soil moisture. Drier climate portends drier soils and higher fire risk 🫥

The @BiomedGps Elevator Pitch Competition is Thurs at 5 pm PT Come support Zhuoya He as she and 11 other PhD students share their passion for science and effective ways to engage scientists, non-scientists, community members, and industry professionals! buff.ly/363TtgQ

China’s ecological restoration projects deplete terrestrial water stores: news.uci.edu/2020/09/10/chi…