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Rong Yu

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geography

Education

  • PhD, Physical Geography, University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, 2013
  • MS, Physical Geography, Peking University, 2005
  • BS, Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, 2001

Research Interests

Understanding terrestrial ecosystems and their response to climate change from local to global scales is always the primary motivation of Professor Yu's research. She uses a range of methodological techniques, including remote sensing, machine learning, and statistical analyses. She is mainly focused on three research areas:

  1. vegetation phenology and remote sensing phenology, particularly in deciduous forests;
  2. ecosystem sensitivity to climate change;
  3. phenology and productivity in arctic and boreal ecosystems.

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