How is global environmental change transforming terrestrial ecosystem and carbon cycle dynamics?

Climate change, human activity, and disturbances are reorganizing Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems. In the DYCE lab, we use remote sensing, high-performance computation, field measurements, and machine learning to study how these ecological transformations affect the global carbon-climate system.

Recent Highlights

June 6, 2025

Updates to the People page to include the SRI students who are assisting with the forest mortality project! Please welcome Gwyn, Olivia, and Amichi.

Eric, Makayla, Jiaming, and Jon traveled to Arizona to join some colleagues in some field work! We flew drones, measure tree structure, and baked under the hot sun. A new Gallery page features photos from lab get togethers, field work, and conferences over the last year or so.

May 21, 2025

A few updates from Spring 2025

Wanwan and Jon visited Alaska to attend the NASA ABoVE Science Team Meeting (the last one!).

Jon’s a co-author on new paper!

Jon also traveled to give talks at Boston University, University of Michigan, and University of Colorado Boulder!

Hannah, Hope, and Yahampath all did amazing jobs on their capstone and/or qualifying exams!!

January 22, 2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Eric Bullock to the lab as a postdoctoral researcher! He will bring top-notch remote sensing and forestry expertise to the Google benchmarking project.