I am a broadly trained ecologist interested in understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystem to global change at regional to global scales. I work as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State University. I am looking for a postdoc to join as soon as possible and graduate students to join 2023 spring/fall, please contact me at (tvq5043 AT psu DOT edu) if you are interested. My lab takes a data-model synthesis approach that integrates satellite and airborne remote sensing, monitoring networks, and forest inventory with Bayesian hierarchical models to develop nature-based solutions to fight climate change. Specifically, my lab focus on:

• Deriving habitat characteristics for forest trees and the vast community it supports using combined LiDAR and Hyperspectral imagery
• Revealing the climate-habitat interactions that govern biodiversity change
• Understanding variations in seed production and how they related with climate, nutrient availability, and species traits
• Evaluating forest regeneration from fecundity to seedling recruitment to adult trees
• Balancing human needs (e.g., food and water) with the needs of wildlife species (e.g., habitat and healthy soil)

I worked as a postdoc with Dr. Jim Clark to study global change impacts on fecundity and biodiversity. For my doctoral research, I worked with Drs. Conghe Song, Jim Clark, Erika Wise, Diego Riveros-Iregui, and Allen Hurlbert to understand how vegetation phenology responds to climate change, extreme weather events, and urbanization.