Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. program, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009-present.
M.S. Environmental Monitoring, University Wisconsin - Madison, 2005
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University Wisconsin - Madison, 2001

Research Interests

My primary research interests lie in using process based models to simulate the carbon fluxes of forest ecosystems. Currently I am working on simulating the long-term effects of biomass harvest on soil carbon and nitrogen and productivity of midwest forests, estimating the forest carbon balance at regional scales, and coupling models of the forest and industrial C cycles to estimate the total C budget for Wisconsin and the midwestern US. I am also interested in remote sensing, image processing, and integration of multi-scale, multi-source spatial data for forest ecosystem modeling with emphasis on efficient data processing algorithms. Coupling field data and ground-measured spectral reflectance of vegetation and water bodies with satellite data.