Choy's Ecology and Remote Sensing Lab
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
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Researchers in Choy's Ecology and Remote Sensing Lab use synoptic sensing methods to integrate information acquired from the ground, sky and space to investigate the impacts of climate change, mainly elevated temperature and amplified drought, on terrestrial ecosystems at the regional and global scales. Our research mainly focuses on the tropical region including montane cloud forest, rainforest, and seasonally dry forest.
Students, postdocs and visiting scholars who are interested in the topics please contact me. Email is at the bottom of this web page.
-- Videos --
-- 2021 News --
- 03/02: A study in our montane cloud forest site was promoted by the Global Association of MDP Programs. PDF
- 02/01: We welcome Jonathan Wang from the University of Toronto to join our team.
-- Notable events --
- 2017/06/21-23: Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends in tree mortality as an indicator of forest health, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Hannover, Germany.
- 2014/10/20-23: International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Tree Mortality, the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Report Review
- 2013/09/04-06: A workshop on Remote Sensing of Vegetation Mortality: Challenges, Solutions, and Ecological Understanding. Santa Fe, NM, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Lab, NM, USA. Photo Publication Video
-- Highlights --
- Global Association of MDP Programs (2021): MDP student research: Observational and numerical research of Taiwan's mountains. PDF
- Malvern Panalytical (2019): Assessing forest canopy productivity using active and passive remote sensing. HTML
- Cal Poly News (2017): Cal Poly assistant professor takes on vexing global problem of dying forests. HTML
- F1000 Research (2017): Estimation of canopy water interception of a near-tropical montane cloud forest in Taiwan. HTML
- Academia Sinica Highlights (2016): Rewrite a classical theory: When evolutionary biology encounters macroecology. PDF
- NTU Highlights (2016): Daily variations have opposite effect to seasonal fluctuations on species distribution. HTML
- AAAS EurekAlert! (2016): Tolerance to daily versus seasonal temperature changes may dictate fitness. HTML
- Science Perspective (2016): Thermal trouble in the tropics. HTML
- Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2016): Cover image. PDF
- ScienceDaily (2015): Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death. HTML
- The New York Times (2015): Climate change threatens to kill off more aspen forests by 2050s. HTML
- Pacific Standard (2015): The trembling aspen Is in trouble. HTML
- The Week (2015): How climate change is killing the aspen forests of the American Southwest. HTML
- Colorado Public Radio (2015): Listen to aspen trees having 'heart attacks' due to drought. HTML
- Nature World News (2015): Drought damage will cause widespread forest death by 2050. HTML
- Woodworking Network (2015): Aspen trees threatened by hot droughts. HTML
- The Independent (2015): Climate change could eliminate aspen forests in the western US. HTML
- Carnegie Science highlight (2015): Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death. HTML
- Trends in Plant Science (2015): Cover image. PDF
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences (2014): Cover image. PDF
- IOP highlight (2014): Vegetation in Taiwan is strongly affected by El Nino. HTML
- Landsat news (2011): Consequences of aspen die-off. HTML
- DIREnet highlight (2011): Large drought-induced aboveground live biomass losses in southern Rocky Mountain aspen forests. PDF
- Photo gallery (2007): Postfire stand structure. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 88:23. PDF
-- Passengers and traces--
- 2019/12/30: We welcome Evan Liang, University of Western Australia Engineering major senior joining our lab this winter for 6 weeks.
- 2019/08/05: We welcome UCLA Civil Engineering major Ariel Kuo joining our lab this August.
- 2019/05/31: Time of year again for graduation. Super congrats to Lai GY, Tsai SF and Rau HT! Photo
- 2017/07/11: Chung CH passed his dissertation with flying colors. Super congrats Dr. Chung!
- 2017/03/30: Our former undergraduate Liu PH has been admitted by the EBS University for Business and Law MBA program. Atta girl!
- 2017/07/03: We welcome Geography major Abbey Wong (KCL) and Venessa Ng (NUS) joining our lab this summer. Photo
- 2016/07/26: We welcome Tai TC, UCL Geography major sophomore and Basant Apurva, Lakeside HS junior joining our lab this summer.
- 2016/07/04: We welcome Stella Yuan, UCSD Environmental Sciences/Psychology major senior joining our lab this summer for 6 weeks.
- 2015/07/21: Miao R, a 3rd year Nankai University Environmental Sciences major college student is staying with our lab for 8 weeks for the NTU summer intern training program.
- 2015/06/14: Our lab's first PhD Wang H. Super congrats, Dr. Wang!
- 2014/07/02: We welcome Xiong D, a 3rd year UCLA Civil Engineering major college student. She will stay in our lab for 8 weeks for the NTU summer intern training program.
- 2014/06/06: Our Hu KT and former summer intern Liu PH will graduate this year. You go girls! Photo
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