Principle Investigator
Yufang Jin
Professor of Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Change
Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources
Affiliated Graduate Groups: Geography, Hydrology, Ecology
Research interests: Remote sensing, Drivers and consequences of wildland fires, Crop monitoring and precision agriculture, Ecohydrology, Vegetation-climate-fire-human interaction, Machine learning, UAV applications, Geospatial technology
133 Veihmeyer Hall Email: yujin@ucdavis.edu
Academic Appointments
University of California, Davis | Department of Land, Air. and Water Resources
Professor 2021 - present; Associate Professor (2018 - 2021); Assistant Professor (2014 - 2018)
University of California, Irvine | Department of Earth System Science
Assistant and Associate Researcher 2005 - 2014
University of Maryland, College Park | Department of Geographical Sciences
Assistant Research Scientist 2003 - 2005
Education
Ph.D. Geography, Boston University, Boston, MA
M.S. Environmental Sciences, Peking University, P.R. China
B.S. Atmospheric Physics, Peking University, P.R. China
Honors and Awards
Muir Institute Fellow (2018 - 2023)
NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science Award (2008)
The 2nd International Young Scientists’ Conference award on Global Change
Peer-reviewed Publications
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Invited Speaker (Selected)
• Wildland Fire, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Climate Change: From Boreal Forest to Southern California’s Shrubland, Tod Spieker Colloqium, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2013)
• Global fire emissions and fire effects on biophysical properties and the associated radiative forcing, NASA MODIS/VIIRS Science Team Meeting, Washington DC (2010)
• Estimation of net radiation and evapotranspiration in California using MODIS satellite observations, AmeriFlux Science Meeting, Boulder, CO (2008)
• Mechanisms controlling California’s carbon budget at an inter-annual timescale, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA (2007)
• Monitoring surface albedo change using MODIS satellite observations, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2005)
• Monitoring global vegetation using satellite remote sensing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (2004)
Lead-Author Presentations (Selected)
• Contrasting behavior and economic impact of wildland fires in California's Mediterranean ecosystems, the 99th Ecological Society of America, Sacramento, CA (2014)
• Increased wildland fires in southern California during the mid-21st Century, NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting, La Jolla, CA (2013)
• Modeling climate-wildfire relationships in Southern California, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2012)
• The influence of burn severity on post-fire vegetation recovery and albedo change during early succession in North American boreal forests, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2011)
• Wildland fires in Southern California: a temporal perspective, NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop, Washington DC (2011)
• Fire induced changes in albedo and the associated radiative forcing: a comparison of boreal Canada and Australia tropical savannas, NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Science Team Meeting, Bethesda, MD (2010)
• Post-fire albedo change and the associated radiative forcing in northern and southern Canadian boreal forest, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2009)
• Fire-induced albedo changes and the associated radiative forcing: a comparison of boreal forests and tropical savanna”s, The 2nd International young scientists’s global change conference and ESSP Open Science Conference, Beijing, China (2006)
• Interannual variability in FPAR and NPP across California’s ecosystems, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
• Australian continental albedo dynamics, The 12th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia (2004)
• Improved MODIS burned area mapping by combined use of multi-temporal Terra and Aqua MODIS data - early results, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2003)
• A synergistic surface BRDF/Albedo retrieval with MODIS and MISR observations: Intercomparison, The AMS 11th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Madison, WI (2001)
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union, Association of American Geographers, Ecology Society of America
