Projects
Current Projects
Monitoring and Assessing Variabilityy of Nutrient Status in Almond Orchards with Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery Empowered by Artifical Intelligence
Yufang Jin (Lead PI) with Patrick Brown (Lead PI) and Alireza Pourreza (PI)
Funded by CDFA (2025 - 2027)
Coupling biocrusts and vegetation dynamics to improve predictions of dryland change
Yufang Jin (Co-PI) with Xiaoli Dong (PI) and other Co-PIs.
Funded by NSF (2023 - 2027)
Collaborative Research: New mathematical approaches for understanding spatial synchrrony in Ecology
Yufang Jin (Co-PI) with Alan Hasting (Lead PI) and other Co-PIs.
Funded by NSF (2024 - 2026)
Linking climate change impacts on forest health, fire risk, and vegetation and snow dynamics in Claifornia
Yufang Jin (Non-Agency PI) with Agency PIs (Kyle Knipper and Steven Ostajo)
Funded by USDA ARS and Climate Hub (2023 - 2025)
Optimizing K fertilization management in almond and pistachio orchards
Yufang Jin (PI) with Patrick Brown (Lead PI) and Elia Scudiero (PI).
Funded by CDFA (2024 - 2026)
Resilient and Equitable Urban Stream Corridors
Yufang Jin (Co-PI) with Gregory Pasternack (Lead PI) and other Co-PIs (Costanza Rampini and Serena Alexander) .
Funded by UCOP (2023 - 2026)
Integrated field and satellite based decision support system for climate-resilient and sustainable ranches and rangelands across California
Yufang Jin (PI) with Co-PIs: Leslie Roche, Matthew Shapero, Royce Larsen, and Steven Steven Ostoja
Funded by Western SARE Research and Education Program (2022 - 2025)
Yield Prediction for Resource Management and Yield Optimization in Almond
Co-PI Yufang Jin with Patrick Brown (PI) and others
Funded by Almond Board of California (2021 - 2024)
Tree-based multilevel spatial decision support systems to close the yield gap in almond orchards
Y. Jin (PI in US) with Ahmad Hakim-Elahi (PI in Israel)
Funded by the US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund, (2021 - 2024)
Multi-source Wildland Urban Interface Characterization Enhanced with Machine Learning Technique: Dynamics and Hazard Assessment
Yufang Jin (PI) with Yong Jae Lee (Co-PI)
Funded by NASA LCLUC (2021 -2023)
AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems
Yufang Jin (Co-I) with (Lead PI) Illias Tagkopoulos and Co-PIs: Nitin Nitin, Mason Earles, Xin Liu, Qing Zhao, and Tarek Zohdi
Funded by NSF NAIRI (2020 -2025)
Innovation Center for Advancing Ecosystem Climate Solutions
Yufang Jin (Co-PI) with Michael Goulden (Lead PI) and other Institutional Co-PIs: Roger Bales, John Battles, Christopher Field, and Walter Oechel
Funded by California Strategic Growth Council (2019 -2022)
Future of California Drought, Fire, and Forest DiebackYufang Jin (Co-PI) with Alex Hall (PI) and Co-PIs: Rong Fu, Michael Goulden, Lara Kueppers, Max Moritz, James Randerson, and Chonggang Xu
Funded by UC Multicampus - National Lab Collaborative Research (2018-2022)
Completed Projects
A Multispectral and Thermal Imaging sUAS System for Monitoring Crop Water Use and Detecting Water Stress
Yufang Jin (PI) with Co-Is: YangQuan Chen (UC Merced) and Ken Shackel (UC Davis)
Funded by CITRIS Seed Funding Program (2017-2018)
Remote Data Collection for Adaptive Rangeland Management on Public Lands
Yufang Jin (Co-I) with Leslie Rochie (PI), and other Co-I(s): Elise Gornish, Sean Hogan, David Lile, and Laura Snell
Funed by the Russell L. Rustici Rangeland and Cattle Research Endowment (2017-2019)
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Postfire Ecosystem Management Prioritization and Implementation
Yufang Jin (Co-I) with Mark Schwartz (PI) and Co-Is: James Thorne, Jeffrey Clary, and Vix Claassen
Funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (2016-2021)
Mapping Evapotranspiration for Improved Data-driven Water Management
Yufang Jin (PI)
Funded by NASA JPL ECOSTRESS (2016 - 2017)
Data-driven Block-level Yield Prediction for Seasonal N Fertilization Strategies in California's Almond Orchards
Yufang Jin (PI), Co-Is: Patrick Brown and Elina Nino
Funded by USDA California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) (2017 - 2019)
Statewide Remote Sensing Crop Mapping
Yufang Jin in collaboration with LandIQ, NASA Ames, and CalPoly
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) (2017 - 2021)
A data-driven decision support system for monitoring and predicting forage production in California's rangeland
Yufang Jin (PI), Co-I: Anthony O'Geen and Leslie Roche
Funded by the Russell L. Rustici Rangeland and Cattle Research Endowment (2016-2017)
Crop Consumptive Use Estimation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Yufang Jin (Co-PI), PI: Josue Medellin-Azuara and other Co-Is
Funed by the Delta Watermaster (2015-2017)
Preparing for Water Scarcity: Learning from California’s Recent Drought
Yufang Jin (Co-PI), PI (Ellen Hanak and Jay R. Lund) and other Co-Is
Funded by EPA (2015-2018)
Updating Crop Water Use and Crop Coefficients of Mature Pistachio Orchards in the San Joaquin Valley
Yufang Jin (Co-PI), Daniele Zaccaria (PI)
Funded by California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) (2015 - 2018)
Fires in Southern California: Interactions Between Climate Change, Ecosystems, and Humans
Yufang Jin (PI), Co-PIs: James Randerson, Michael Goulden, Alex Hall, Qinbin Li, and Simon Hook
NASA Interdisciplinary Science (2010-2014)
Fire-induced Changes in Albedo and the Associated Radiative Forcing: a Comparison of Boreal Canada and Australia Tropical Savannas
Yufang Jin (PI)
NASA New Investigator Program (2008-2012)
Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System
Yufang Jin (Co-I) with S. Goetz (PI), Co-Is: Michelle Mack, James Randerson, and Pieter Beck
NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems (2008-2011)
