2017

2017

December

— I drove four days across the US from Virginia to Irvine, South California. I saw magnificent scenery changes from forests through grassland to desert. en route i came across heavy rain in Tennesse and big snow in Colorado. Overall i enjoyed this roadtrip actually, which is not boring as i have imagined before i hit the road. The pic above shows the route i followed of this four-day long road trip.

— First author paper submitted to Ecological Applications has been sent our for peer review. This is a piece of work that applies the UVAFME-VOC1.0 model to study warming impacts on forest isoprene emissions. Major findings of this work include: warming would largely reduce the abundance of oak speices ( Quercus spp.) in the south eastern US forests, and this decline would reduce the overall forest isoprene emissions, which is in contrast to the currently widely accpeted findign that warming enhances VOC emissions.

— Attended the AGU Fall meeting in New Orleans, and gave a talk entitled ‘ embracing ecosystem complexity in biosphere-atmosphere interactions using individual-based model’.

— Second author review paper lead by Shugart got reviews back from Environmental Research Letters. This is a review paper on forest gap models and their applications in addressing global change impacts on forest systems, in which my dissertation work in the last few years got summarized.

— Coauthored paper lead by Zhiping Wang was submitted to Science of the Total Environment. This work is about groundwater-derived methane in the eastern Inner Mongolia, which was conducted back in 2012.

November

• Passed dissertation defense, and be a doctor finally.
• Paper published in ERL got featured in environmentalresearchweb in an article entitled '' How does tropospheric ozone affect greenhouse gas budgets?"
• My co-authored paper led by Yan et al. (2017; JAMES) got highlighted in AGU EOS.
• Nov. 8th: I gave a talk to the Department of Environmental Sciences, UVA entitled ” Embracing Ecosystem Complexity in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions“

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October

-The date of dissertation defense has been scheduled.

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September

-Went to the Jeju Island, South Korea and attended the ISEM meeting, on which i got the Best Young Research paper award, gave a talk about the using UVAFME-VOC to study the O3 impacts on forest, and met academic grandpa Bernard Patten and the chief editor of Ecological Modelling. What’s more fun is that i had some wonderful interactions with local Korean. Guided by the folks of great hospitality, i visited local markets and had famous local dishes, enjoying the culture there.

-A coauthored ms about using a two-leaf light-use efficiency model to explain the seasonal tropical forest GPP has been published online.

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August

—8/10: Got an email from a freelance writer saying our ERL paper entitled ” Sensitivity of global greenhouse gases budgets to tropospheric ozone pollution mediated by the biosphere” is going to be covered and featured in environmental research web.

—8/1: An AGU abstract entitled ” Integrating Biodiversity into Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions Using Individual-Based Model” was submitted.

A co-authored AGU abstract entitled ‘Gap models as a tool for assessment of sustainable development in northern Eurasia’ (Shugart et al.) was submitted.

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July

–July, 27th: The Nature Communications manuscript revision was sent back for the 2nd round review.

–I was approved to review the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees–Global Warming of 1.5ºC.

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June

–Referees’ reports of our Nature Communications manuscript are back with a chance to revise the manuscript.

–Finally got myself registered for the upcoming ISEM meeting that will be held at Korea in this Sempeter, on which i will give a talk of my award-winning paper concerning individual-based forest VOC emissions model

—Environmental Research Letters paper concerning the first ever assessment of global GHGs budgets change in response to tropospheric ozone elevation is accepted for publication after the rejection with a two-round review at Nature Climate Change.

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May

— Environmental Research Letters paper revision has been returned for the 2nd round review.

— My Ecological Modelling paper is one of the winners of International Society for Ecological Modelling 5th Biennial Best Young Researcher Paper Award.

–The manuscript transferred to Nature Communications from Nature Climate Change is under review. Fingers crossed!

–A manuscript submitted to Nature Climate Change was rejected without sending out for a peer-review, but the editor expressed interest to highlight this paper once it gets published somewhere else.

–A piece of Opinion paper entitled ‘Widespread production of greenhouse gases from soils ” is accepted for publication by Global Change Biology. Way to go!

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April

–ERL paper about Ozone-induced GHGs exchange changes is back with a decision of major revision.

–GCB manuscript about non-microbial production of GHGs is back for second-round review.

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March

–A first author manuscript entitled ‘Climate change-air quality feedbacks bridged by volatile organic compounds: forest diversity matters’ submitted to Nature Ecology and Evolution.

–A co-authored manuscript entitled ‘ Unexpected evergreen forests invasion in Siberia under warming hiatus‘ was accepted for publication by Journal of Climate.

–The manuscript entitled ‘Widespread non-microbial greenhouse gases production from soils’ submitted to Global Change Biology was back with a decision of Major Revision. This is encouraging!

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February

-First author manuscript entitled ‘ An individual-based forest volatile organic compounds-UVAFME-VOCs 1.0’ by Wang, Bin, Shugart, Herman, and Lerdau, Manuel is accepted for publication in Ecological Modelling.

-Unfortunately, the NCC manuscript was rejected after two rounds of review. And it is under review now in Environmental Research Letters.

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January

Happy new year of the rooster!

Submitted the manuscript entitled ‘Widespread production of non-microbial greenhouse gases‘ to Global Change Biology as a piece of Opinion.