2016
December
Attended the the AGU Fall Meeting at San Francisco, CA and gave a poster. Then, went back home right after the meeting from SF.
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September-November
Worked on revisions of two manuscripts submitted to Ecological Modelling and Nature Climate Change.
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August
08/29: A 1st author manuscript entitled “An individual-based model of forest volatile organic compound emissions–UVAFME-VOC 1.0” was submitted to Ecological Modelling.
08/08-08/11: I attended the 101st Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and gave a talk entitled “A global synthesis of tropospheric ozone impacts on budgets of long-lived greenhouse gases“
08/01: The NCC manuscript about impacts on troposphere ozone on GHGs was back with comments and a decision of submitting a revised manuscript.
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July
07/27: A 1st author AGU abstract entitled ‘Impacts of climate change on forest isoprene emission: diversity matters‘ by Bin Wang, Herman Shugart, and Manuel Lerdau was submitted.
A co-authored AGU abstract entitled ‘ Impacts of Species Interactions on Atmospheric Processes’ by Manuel Lerdau, Bin Wang, Brynn Cook, Jessica L. Neu, and David Schimel was submitted.
07/08: A coauthored manuscript entitled ‘ Liking diffuse radiation and photosynthetic seasonality in an Amazon forest: an application of two-leaf photosynthesis model incorporating eddy covariance and MODIS LAI data’ by Yan et al. was submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment. This central point of this work is dividing the photosynthesis simulation into sunlit and shaded leaves and thus an explicit consideration of radiation in terms diffuse light and beam light. And my dissertation work also involves the modelling of this with an IBM.
07/08: An important update to my 1st meta-analysis paper submitted to Nature Climate Change is that after two week’s consideration by the editor it was finally sent out for a peer-review
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June:
06/24: A first author manuscript entitled ‘ Global budget change of greenhouse gases resulting from troposphere ozone pollution‘ was submitted to Nature Climate Change. This work was mainly using the meta-analysis method by synthesizing the independent studies measuring GHGs exchanges around the world. I first had this idea in 2015 summer, which up to now takes about one year from collecting data through analyses and writing to this final submission.
06/2: A co-authored manuscript entitled ‘The sensitivity of Siberian evergreen expansion to climate oscillations’ was submitted to the newly launched journal by AGU, Earth’s Future.
06/1-06/3: I attended a short training course on Python, a currently very popular programming language, held by the University of Virginia. So far, i can program with almost all the major languages.
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May:
05/29: A review manuscript entitled “The larger they come, the warmer it gets: a review on soil aggregate-scale heterogeneity in greenhouse gas production and consumption” by Wang, Bin; Brewer, Paul; Shugart, Hank; Lerdau, Manuel, was finally submitted to Global Change Biology.
05/09-05/12: I attended the 2016 International Society of Ecological Modelling at Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, and gave a presentation on ‘Individual-based forest VOCs emissions model’.
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March:
A co-authored manuscript entitled “Unexpected evergreen expansion in the Siberian forest under warming hiatus” was submitted to Journal of Climate.
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February:
My first dissertation manuscript was finally accepted by Scientific Reports after cycles of submission-rejection with high profile journals like Nature, Science, and Science Advances. Right after its acceptation, this paper was featured on Science News website.(further distributed by its Twitter account) entitled
And later, this work was reported by the news media at University of Virginia–UVAToday. And it was also reproduced or reported by a couple of other famous science media and scientific blogs around the world:
1.environmentalresearchweb: a community website from IOP Publishing (publisher of Environmental Research Letters).
2.ScienceDaily: ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites.
3.Phys.org: a leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics.
4.EurekAlert: EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society.
5.YAHOO NEWS.
6. 科学网(sciencenet)：the leading science news website in Chinese.
7.中国科学报（China Science Daily)：the leading science newspaper in China, published by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chinese Academy of Engineering, and National Science Foundation of China(NSFC).
8.And many others (e.g., a very recent blog post), which totals about 20 reports.