NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching leaf phenology and carbon ecology (kwheelerecology@gmail.com)
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A new preprint is available for a spring phenology forecast challenge I lead as part of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative. You can access it at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4357147.
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I am excited to announce that I started a new position as Associate at the environmental consulting company Industrial Economics, Inc, where I will be assisting on Natural Resource Damagement Assessments of sites that have been contaminated by hazardous waste. I look forward to using what I learned in academia to have meaningful, applied impact and to gain more skills.
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Our paper from the Ecological Forecasting Initiative spring phenology forecast challenge was recently published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. It is available open access at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192323005002. Paper highlights include: (1) We held a community forecast challenge to predict daily plant greenness through which we submitted forecasts from 18 models. (2) Forecast skill was highest when forecasting earlier in the greenup period compared to the end. (3) Forecasts were worst when submitted right before budburst. (4) Historical means of greenness on each day of year were difficult to outperform.
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A paper that I am a co-author on just came out in Ecosphere (https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4342). This work came from a workshop through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).
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This week I officially began my NOAA postdoc fellowship at MIT.