Group News
April 2026: A warm welcome to Molly McKellar and Olivia Griffith, who will join the group in Fall 2026! 🎉
May 2025: A warm welcome to Megan Marra as she joins the group in Fall 2025! 🎉
Apr 2025: Dien’s first PI proposal via CSU to NASA’s TEMPO mission was funded! 🛰️ This project focuses on soil NOx emissions from agricultural land. Our team includes Stephen Ogle and Anping Chen.
Jan 2025: Dien started her assistant professorship at the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.
Research Theme
The overarching goal is to investigate human impacts on carbon, pollution, water, and energy fluxes using observations as key constraints! In our rapidly changing climate, our generation faces key challenges related to the carbon and water/energy cycles: mitigating anthropogenic and pyrogenic emissions while enhancing carbon sequestration and ensuring food security while coping with water scarcity. We are equally interested in the technical tools needed to tackle these questions, including atmospheric transport and chemistry modeling, inverse modeling, satellite remote sensing, and machine learning. Here are specific research questions about these climate-sensitive systems:
💧 🌾 Agricultural Land (water usage, soil emissions)
🔥 Fires (wildfires, urban fires, prescribed burns, fire-induced weather)
🚗 Bridging Carbon and Air Pollutants
🌆 🌳 Urban Carbon (fossil fuel combustion, vegetation)
