Mentoring

Northwestern University

Tara Wu (undergraduate) Winter 2021 - Spring 2021

  • Senior Thesis: Response of deciduous forest senescence rate to environmental changes in the northeastern United States

  • Presented the research work at 2021 Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition

  • Tara's thesis got the the award of Departmental Honors in Environmental Sciences at NU!

Minjee Jung (undergraduate) Summer 2020, 2021

  • Extract autumn phenology from NPN phenology observations of 6 deciduous species

  • Identify spatiotemporal variations of autumn phenology and the responses to environmental stresses

University at Buffalo

Fangfei Gao (Master) Spring 2017

  • Data processing of Fluxnet2015 sites at deciduous forest in USA

  • Identify responses of tree productivity to extreme weather events

  • R coding on data manipulation and analysis

University of Connecticut

Brian Kalmbach (undergraduate) Spring 2012 & Fall 2012

  • Phenology ground observation (budburst, leaf unfolding, flowering, leaf senescence, and leaf dropping) for eight deciduous tree species (totally 90 individual trees) in five sites.

Beijing Forestry University

Xiaochen Wang (undergraduate) Spring 2008

  • Data processing phenology of multiple species and weather station

  • Statistical analysis

  • Advised in productive scientific writing practices

  • Thesis title: Study of the Response of Woody Plants Phenology to Climate Change in Shenyang

Lihua Hai (undergraduate) Spring 2008

  • Data processing of phenology and weather observations at multiple sites

  • Statistical analysis

  • Advised in productive scientific writing practices

  • Thesis title: The Research on Phenological Responses of Salix babylonica L. to Climate Change in Different Regions of China