2011 News

2011

December

• The Environmental Ecology Lab welcomes two new members, Galam Lee (left) and Hyungseok Kim (right). Garam hold BS and MS for remote sensing, and Hyungseok is a senior at DOLA, SNU. Welcome!

• Youngryel gave a lecture on “Land-atmosphere interactions from leaf to the global land” at The 3rd International Winter School and Workshop on Climate/Environment Change, Ewha Womans University.

Youngryel gave a talk on “Land surface processes from leaf to the globe” at the Center for Climate/Environment Change Prediction Research, Ewha Womans University.

• Youngryel contributed to two AGU presentations:

  • Baldocchi, D.D., Ryu, Y., Kobayashi, H. Computing Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Fluxes Everywhere, All of the Time (Invited)

  • Hahn, M.S., Baldocchi, D.D., Ryu, Y., van Ingen C., Hunt, J.R. BIAS AND VARIANCE IN COARSE RESOLUTION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FLUX MODELS USING MODIS DATA

• Youngryel contributed to one CS conference paper:

  • Humphrey, M., Hill, Z., Van Ingen, C., Jackson, K., & Ryu, Y. (2011). Assessing the Value of Cloudbursting: A Case Study of Satellite Image Processing on Windows Azure. In, IEEE e-Science 2011 Conference. Stockholm, Sweden

• BESS paper has been finally published:

  • Ryu Y, Baldocchi DD, Kobayashi H, van Ingen C, Li J, Black TA, Beringer J, van Gorsel E, Knohl A, Law BE & Roupsard O (2011) Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25, GB4017, doi:10.1029/2011GB004053 [PDF]

November

• We got the 3-year funding for global monitoring of carbon and water fluxes from NRF (National Research Foundation)!! This is a collaborative project with Rama Nemani (NASA Ames) and Catharine van Ingen (Microsoft Research)

• The Environmental Ecology Lab welcomes two new members, Juwon Kong (right) and Jaehun Jung (left). They are currently juniors at DOLA, SNU. Welcome!

• Youngryel gave a lecture on “Cloud computing/Remote Sensing based mapping” at Eddy flux tower based terrestrial greenhouse gas monitoring workshop”, Jeju Island.

• Ryu Y, Baldocchi DD, Kobayashi H, van Ingen C, Li J, Black TA, Beringer J, van Gorsel E, Knohl A, Law BE & Roupsard O (2012) Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi:10.1029/2011GB004053 In Press

October

• The MODIS-Azure project was highlighted in the Science@Microsoft Research.

  • http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/researchconnections/science/stories/

  • In particular, check Simulating the Breathing of the Biosphere

• Youngryel gave a talk on “Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales” at the “International Converence of Forest Technologies for Mitigating Climate Change”

• Youngryel gave a talk on “From the old house of Yunjeung to the Microsoft” at the Joint degree program of Landscae Architecture of SNU.

• Youngryel gave a talk on “Monitoring of the breathing biosphere from space” at the ASIAHORCs conference in Bejing.

• Youngryel gave a lecture on “why do leaves fall” at the preschool of SNU.

• Ryu Y, Baldocchi DD, Kobayashi H, van Ingen C, Li J, Black TA, Beringer J, van Gorsel E, Knohl A, Law BE & Roupsard O (2012) Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. In Press

• Ryu, Y., Baldocchi, D.D., Black, T.A., Detto, M., Law, B.E., Leuning, R., Miyata, A., Reichstein, M., Vargas, R., Ammann, C., Beringer, J., Flanagan, L.B., Gu, L., Hutley, L.B., Kim, J., McCaughey, H., Moors, E.J., Rambal, S. & Vesala, T. (2012) On the temporal upscaling of evapotranspiration from instantaneous remote sensing measurements to 8-day mean daily-sums. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 152, 212-222.

• Kobayashi, H., Baldocchi, D.D., Ryu, Y., Chen, Q., Ma, S., Osuna, J.L. & Ustin, S.L. (2012) Modeling energy and carbon fluxes in a heterogeneous oak woodland: A three-dimensional approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 152, 83-100.

September

• Ryu Y, Baldocchi DD, Black TA, Detto M, Law BE, Leuning R, Miyata A, Reichstein M, Vargas R, Ammann C, Beringer J, Flanagan LB, Gu L, Hutley LB, Kim J, McCaughey JH, Moors E, Rambal S, Vesala T (2011) On the temporal upscaling of evapotranspiration from instantaneous remote sensing measurements to 8-day mean daily-sums Agricultural and Forest Meteorology In Press

• Kobayashi,H., Baldocchi, D. D., Ryu, Y., Chen, Q., Ma, S., Osuna, J. &Ustin, S. L. 2011. Modeling Energy and Carbon Fluxes in a Heterogeneous Oak Woodland: A Three-Dimensional Approach Agricultural and Forest Meteorology In Press

• Pisek, J., Ryu, Y. and Alikas, K., 2011. Estimating leaf inclination and G-function from leveled digital camera photography in broadleaf canopies. Trees – Structure and Function, 25: 919-924

August

• Youngryel started the faculty position on Aug 1.

• An NRF proposal for Korea-America collaboration project was submitted.

• BESS manuscript has been determined by the minor revision after 6-month review (!) in Global Biobeochemical Cycles.

• The MODISAzure project has been published:

• Agarwal, D., Cheah, Y.-W., Fay, D., Fay, J., Guo, D., Hey, T., Humphrey, M., Jackson, K., Lie, J., Poulain, C., Ryu, Y. and van Ingen, C., 2011. Data-Intensive Science: The Terapixel and MODISAzure Projects. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 25(3): 304-316

July

• Hideki Kobayashi visited my lab between July 19-22. He became the first visitor!

• Youngryel gave a lecture at the Asiaflux training course on July 11.