JON WANG

Assistant Professor

School of Biological Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Climate change and human impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and the global carbon cycle.

- Vegetation dynamics in critical ecosystems: Arctic-boreal, semi-arid, and cities.

- Advanced computation and continental-scale time series remote sensing

 

Ecology & Conservation Biology;

Ecosystem Science;

Physiology and Functional Morphology; 

Plant Biology

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    FOREST DISTURBANCE MAPPING TO INFORM FOREST DISTURBANCE MANAGEMENT
    2 Jan 2026 - 1 Jul 2028
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    MAPPING THE IMPACTS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT ON MULTIDECADAL ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS AND SURFACE CLIMATE DYNAMICS ACROSS WESTERN US RANGELANDS
    1 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    TRACKING DROUGHT-INDUCED FOREST MORTALITY USING SPATIOTEMPORAL ANOMALIES IN LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE WESTERN US
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    QUANTIFYING DISTURBANCE AND GLOBAL CHANGE IMPACTS ON MULTI-DECADAL TRENDS IN ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS AND LAND COVER ACROSS ARCTIC-BOREAL NORTH AMERICA
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026