
I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the GEODE lab (PI: Scott Goetz) in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. My research relies on the integration of field and remotely-sensed data to examine global forest community dynamics including drivers of biodiversity, constraints on community assembly, stand and landscape structure, and ecosystem response to global change. Currently, I am employing NASA satellite and NEON aerial data to examine environmental and bioclimatic constraints on the relationship between vegetation structure, diversity, and ecosystem function across biomes. Results will assist collaborative efforts to model multi-scale community processes at a global extent using space-borne LiDAR and hyperspectral like NASA's GEDI and SBG sensors. Here is my curriculum vitae.
Education
2017 PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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Ecology
2007 MA Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Regional Studies East Asia
2004 BA Reed College, Portland, OR
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Chinese Studies
Appointments
2019– Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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Postdoctoral Researcher, GEODE lab; School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS)
2017– Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Houston, TX
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Kinder Scholar
2017–2019 Rice University, Houston, TX
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rice Academy of Fellows (Principal Investigator; joint affiliation with the Department of Statistics and The Kinder Institute for Urban Research)
2014–2017 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Fellow, Earth and Space Science Program
2014 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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Instructor, Department of Geography
2011–2014 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology/Geography
2007–2010 Solarbuzz LLC, San Francisco, CA
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Consultant
2007 The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Kunming, China
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Communications Assistant
2005–2007 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Research Assistant, Chinese Language Program
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Secretary, Harvard Beijing Academy
2005 World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Kunming, China
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Research Intern