Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Jack Lamb
Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science, admitted Autumn 2021
BioJack Lamb is a PhD student working under Professor Alison Hoyt in the Earth System Science department. He is interested in developing low-cost instrumentation networks for effective ground-truthing and upscaling of satellite imagery.
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Eric Lambin
George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI study human-environment interactions in land systems by linking remote sensing, GIS and socio-economic data. I aim at better understanding causes and impacts of changes in tropical forests, drylands, and farming systems. I currently focus on land use transitions – i.e., the shift from deforestation (or land degradation) to reforestation (or land sparing for nature), – the influence of globalization on land use decisions, and the interactions between public and private governance of land use.
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Fa Li
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioMy research investigates wildfires/climate extremes, greenhouse gases emissions, and nature-based solutions by combining data-driven approaches (e.g., physically interpretable AI and causality inference), process-based terrestrial biosphere/Earth system models, and big data (e.g., remote sensing, in-situ measurements).
For example, together with our collaborators at Stanford and beyond, I play a leading role in FLUXNET-CH₄ V2.0, a global network of eddy covariance measurements, to enhance the monitoring of ecosystem carbon (CO2 and CH4)-water-energy fluxes and support Global Carbon Project. These observations are not only important for carbon science, but also for AI in Earth science because "Data is the foundation of AI"–I believe.
I develop physically interpretable AI, integrating scientific principles to improve reliability, particularly when solving critical challenges such as climate and wildfire prediction. Because "black-box AI" with low "physical interpretability" often concerns me, why? -
Mengyu Liang (Amber)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioI'm currently a postdoc at Stanford Woods Institute of the Environment working on combining remote sensing and econometric to assess the environmental and social outcomes of natural climate solutions and forest management interventions. I completed my PhD at the Department of Geographical Sciences at UMD in May 2024. During my PhD, I developed remote sensing techniques utilizing multi-source remote sensing data (e.g,. GEDI, ICESat2, Landsat archive, PlanetScope) for monitoring long-term carbon sequestration in forest restoration areas in East Africa. Seeking to understand how to use Earth Observation to improve the sustainability of human-environment interaction is both a passion of mine and the research agenda during my PhD and onwards. Moreover, I have developed skills in forest inventory and Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) data collection from working on field campaigns in Mozambique and Uganda. Developing web-based interactive map dashboards is another set of technical expertise that I have been practicing (see http://mliang8.github.io/ for map portfolio ) and want to employ in future projects to enhance communications with various stakeholders.
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Stephanie M. Lim
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioI am a biological oceanographer studying the response of ice algae, phytoplankton, and biogeochemical cycles to climate change in the polar oceans. My personal website is https://slim8288.github.io
