top of page
IC_00804v2.jpg

Fall,  2022

Principal Investigator

Dr. Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

Chaoqun is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology at ISU. She is a quantitative ecosystem ecologist, with a research focus on understanding and quantifying the complex ecosystem processes in response to climate change, land use and cover change, and human management across scales. Her primary area of interest includes estimation of terrestrial carbon sequestration, land-to-atmosphere greenhouse gas emissions, and land-to-aquatic nutrient movements by using process-based land surface models, and data-driven AI-empowered prediction tools. 

​

Short Bio

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Linchao is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISU. He earned his Doctorate in Land Resources and Spatial Information Technology from Northwest Agricultural & Forestry University, China. His research focuses on assessing and predicting crop growth and yield, in the context of climate change and extreme events, utilizing process-based modeling and machine learning approaches.

LinchaoLi.jpg

Bo is a Ph.D. student in the program of EEB at ISU. He received his Master's degree in soil science from Zhejiang University, China. His current research work seeks to represent lignin decomposition and belowground carbon cycling in models. His projects integrate a large volume of lab incubation and field measurement data from NEON soil samples and long-term observation sites to improve a mechanistic ecosystem model.

Bo Yi-Picture.jpg

Shuchao is a Ph.D. student in the program of Environmental Science at ISU. He received his Master’s degree in surveying and mapping from Central South University, China. His research interests include quantifying the impacts of land use and cover change, such as cropland expansion and CRP land enrollment, on the terrestrial carbon cycling and predicting the carbon sequestration potentials under conservation practices.

Shuchao Ye.jpg

Master student, Environmental Sciences

Ignacio Calderon 
(ignacioc[at]iastate.edu)

Ignacio is an Environmental Science MS student at ISU. After graduating with a Photojournalism BA from Columbia College Chicago in 2020, he worked as a data journalist through a USA Today Fellowship. During that time, he reported on the intersection between climate change and agriculture. His research interests include how different land uses affect water quality in local communities and downstream ecosystems and how extreme weather events affect this dynamic.

headshot.jpeg

Visiting student

Yan is a Ph.D. candidate in soil science at the Northwest Agricultural & Forestry University, China. Her research focus is mainly on evapotranspiration in surface energy balance systems and hydrological cycles. In her current research project, she uses remote sensing and ecosystem modeling approaches to estimate the dynamics and patterns of evapotranspiration in croplands.

Yan.jpg

Lab Alumni

IMG_20150328_120627_edited.jpg

Peiyu Cao, Ph.D. Student and Postdoctoral researcher (2016-2023), now a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University

JIenZ.jpeg

Jien Zhang, Postdoctoral researcher (2018-2022), now a quantitative associate at J.P. Morgan

Zhen Yu, Postdoctoral researcher (2016-2019), now a professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

​

Alina.jpg

Alina Lu, Undergraduate Researcher (2017-2018), now a DMD student at Penn Dental Medicine

Avani Khadilkar, Graduate student (2017-2020), now a Bioinformatics Systems Analyst in the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

20181129_200743.jpg

Geunhu Kim, Graduate student (2019-2020), now in South Korea

IMG_1396.JPG

Luke Sloterdyk, Undergraduate researcher (2019-2020), now a graduate student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Rotation Students

Henri Chung, BCB rotation student, Fall 2019

Zerui Zhang, BCB rotation student, Fall 2017

Avani Khadilkar, BCB rotation student, Summer 2017

bottom of page