Current: Christopher Williams | Natalia Hasler | Tong Jiao | Yu Zhou | Surendra Shrestha | Li Xi
Former: Listed Below
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B.A., Biology/Environmental Studies, Bucknell University (1996) Professor Christopher A. Williams joined the faculty in the Graduate School of Geography in Fall 2008. Prior to coming to Clark University he was a Research Scientist at Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, followed by faculty appointment as Assistant Research Scientist with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center of the University of Maryland Baltimore County and based in the Biospheric Sciences Branch of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. More about Chris here |
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B. Eng, M.S., Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (1995) Dr. Hasler’s research is broadly centered on land-atmosphere interactions, with detailed focus on a) precipitation response to land cover changes such as deforestation and conversion to agriculture, and b) determining controls on terrestrial water and carbon dioxide exchanges with the atmosphere. She employs a variety of methods including synthesis of flux-tower observations, regional climate simulation (RAMS), and general circulation modeling. Presently, she is assisting our group with mapping and monitoring forest carbon stocks across forests of the conterminous US and modeling seasonal and interannual variability of surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide. |
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B.S. Geographic Information System, Beijing Forestry University (2011) Tong Jiao earned a B.Sc. in GISci from Beijing Forestry University in 2011 and a follow-on M.S. in Quantitative Remote Sensing in 2014. Her master’s study examined the mapping of global seasonal forest background reflectivity with MISR data. Her research interests focus on the investigation of forest ecosystem carbon, water, and energy dynamics by using field measurements, remote sensing, and modeling. |
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B.S. Remote Sensing Science & Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology (2012) Yu Zhou earned a B.S. in Remote Sensing Science & Technology from Remote Sensing Science & Technology in 2012 and a follow-on M.S. in Cartography & GIS from Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in 2015. Her Master’s study examined the carbon cycling on grassland in Central Asia. Her research interests focus on the ecological modeling, ecosystem carbon and water cycling, global change, human-environment interactions, remote sensing. |
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B.S. Forestry, Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2009) Surendra Shrestha is interested in impacts of land use and climate change on hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions. His Master’s research examined hydrological impacts of land use and land cover changes in Georgia, as well as land use changes related to increasing demand for wood pellets in the US South. During Bachelor studies in Nepal, Surendra performed thesis research assessing the status of forest condition and plant diversity in a a community forest of Puranchaur VDC of the Kaski District. |
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B.A. Geography with Highest Honors, Binghamton University, State University of New York (2016) Li Xi’s is interested in impacts of forest disturbance, forest conversion, and reforestation on the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate. Her approach involves a combination of detailed high-resolution mapping with remote sensing datasets coupled with forest carbon modeling and albedo assessments to study large-scale radiative forcing. Her Master’s research examined subpixel urban impervious surface mapping with Landsat imagery, as well as detecting urban land cover change. She has experience with coding batch processing of Landsat time series stacks, with writing algorithms for detecting land change, with assessing training data, and with a range of machine learning, random forest, and similar analytical techniques. She has investigated how the assessment of impervious surface extent varied with atmospheric corrections, with climate conditions, and with seasonal effects. |
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Post-doctoral Research Scientists PhD Students MS Students BA Students NSF REU Mentees via Harvard Forest LTER Program |
