[Eoas-seminar] EOAS seminar this Friday

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Dear all,

Professor Liling Chang in FSU Geography department will give a seminar this Friday in EOA 1044. Please see the details of her seminar below. Look forward to seeing you at the seminar.

DATE: Friday March 28
TIME: 3-4 PM
LOCATION: EOA 1044
SPEAKER: Prof. Liling Chang, FSU Geography

TITLE:  Can We Leverage Multi-Source Observations to Improve Future Predictions of Ecosystem Dynamics?

ABSTRACT: Recent estimates suggest that around 30% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions being absorbed by the terrestrial biosphere. The land biosphere also dominates the year-to-year variability of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Consequently, accurate estimates of the current and future magnitude of terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes are critical for predicting the rate at which CO2 will continue to accumulate in the Earth's atmosphere, and the resulting rate and magnitude of climate change over the coming century. Predictions regarding the future composition, structure, and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems in response to ongoing climate change rely heavily on the predictions of terrestrial biosphere and ecosystem models. Compared to rates of oceanic carbon uptake and release, estimates of the current and future magnitudes of the terrestrial carbon sink are highly uncertain. In this talk, we will 1) explore how uncertainty in current ecosystem states propagates through model forecasts and 2) demonstrates how to leverage multi-source observations to improve future predictions of ecosystem carbon and water cycles.

BIO: Dr. Liling Chang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at FSU, previously holding the same position at the University of Birmingham in the UK. She earned her doctorate in Hydrometeorology from the University of Arizona in 2021 followed by a two-year postdoctoral training at Harvard University. she is interested in examining responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability, elevated atmospheric CO2, and disturbance events. Her research focuses on integrating field observations, remote sensing data, and process-based models to quantify and predict ecosystem water, energy, carbon fluxes, productivity, and demography.

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Ming Ye, Ph.D.
Professor in Hydrogeology
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
Department of Scientific Computing
Office: 3015 EOAS Building (1011 Academic Way)
Phone: 850-645-4987
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4520
Email: mye at fsu.edu<mailto:mye at fsu.edu>
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