Dr. Yu Zhou
Dr. Yu Zhou
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Carbon cycle
- Ecological modeling
- Machine learning
- Climate change
- Remote Sensing
Research Experience
Schmidt Postdoc Fellow, AI Institute for Science, Cornell University, 2023- 2024
Postdoctoral Associate, School of Integrative Plant Science, CALS, Cornell University, Aug 2022-Aug 2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss), Northern Arizona University, Sep 2021-Aug 2022
Research Assistant, Biogeosciences Research Group, Clark University, 2016-2020
Education
Ph.D., Geography, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA, 2021 (M.A. in 2019)
M.S. with Honors, Cartography & GIS, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2015
B.E. with Honors, Remote Sensing Science & Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, 2012
Selected Publications
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- Zhou, Y.*, Williams, C.A., Hasler, N., Huan, G., & Kennedy, R. (2021). Linking biomass to carbon fluxes: A comprehensive monitoring of forest carbon changes. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 055026, doi: external page 10.1088/1748-9326/abf06d
- Zhou, Y.*, Williams, C.A., Lauvaux, T., Davis, K.J., Feng, S., Baker, I., Denning, S., & Wei, Y. (2020). A multiyear gridded data ensemble of surface biogenic carbon fluxes for North America: Evaluation and analysis of results. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2019JG005314, doi: external page 10.1029/2019JG005314
- Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Xiao, J., Williams, C.A., Vitkovskaya, I., & Bao, A. (2019). Spatiotemporal transition of institutional and socioeconomic impacts on vegetation productivity in Central Asia over last three decades. Science of the Total Environment, 658, 922-935, doi: external page 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.155
- Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Fensholt, R., Wang, K., Vitkovskaya, I., & Tian, F. (2015). Climate contributions to vegetation variations in Central Asian drylands: Pre- and post-USSR collapse. Remote Sensing, 7, 2449-2470, doi: external page 10.3390/rs70302449
- Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., Xiao, J., Chen, S., Kato, T., & Zhou, G. (2014). A comparison of satellite-derived vegetation indices for approximating Gross Primary Productivity of grasslands. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 67, 9-18, doi: external page 10.2111/REM-D-13-00059.1
- Dong, Y., Zhou, Y.*, Zhang, L., Gu, Y., & Sutrisno, D. (2023) Intensive land-use is associated with development status in port cities of Southeast Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 044006, doi: external page 10.1088/1748-9326/acc2d2
- Ruehr S., Keenan T.F., Williams C., Zhou Y., Lu X., Bastos A., Canadell J.P., Prentice, I.C., Sitch, S., & Terrer, C. (2023). Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4, 518-534, doi: external page 10.1038/s43017-023-00456-3
- Hou, E., Ma, S., Huang, Y., Zhou, Y., Kim, H.-S., López-Blanco, E., Jiang, L., Xia, J., Tao, F., Williams, C., Williams, M., Ricciuto, D., Hanson, P. J., & Luo, Y. (2023). Across-model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change. Global Change Biology 29, 2759-2775, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.16643