Highlighted News

2025:

August 26th: Exciting news — Appalachian Today featured our team as recipients of the Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Grant!

August 2nd: A new paper "Unraveling the link between riparian vegetation health and drought severity" has been published in the journal Ecological Indicators (IF: 7.4). Please check out this link.

May 29th: I'm very excited and honored to be selected as an awardee for Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Program 2025 ($23,500)! The 3-year project is titled "Mapping the Impact of Flooding on North Carolina: Enhancing Community Resilience through an AI-Driven Social Vulnerability Index".

March 20th: I'm very excited to welcome Abigail Kratsch to our research team this coming fall semester! Abigail will be pursuing a thesis-based master’s degree in our department, supported by a GRAM scholarship.

February 18th: I am delighted to share that I have been selected as a 2025-2026 Graduate Research Assistant Mentoring Program (GRAM)  Awardee! This award can be used as an opportunity to mentor talented graduate students through collaborative work on my research project "Unequal Exposure: How Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Marginalized Communities". If you are interested in this scholarship program, please feel free to reach out to me!

2024:

August 12th: I am so thrilled to join the Department of Geography and Planning at Appalachian State University in August 2024! Looking forward to working and living in Boone, NC!

September 4th: A new co-authored paper "Mixed-use urban land parcels identification integrating geospatial data and machine learning" has been published in the journal Geo-spatial Information Science. Please check out this link.

October 19th: Another new co-authored paper "Multi-scale analysis of urban forests and socioeconomic patterns in a desert city, Phoenix, Arizona" has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. Please check out this link.