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Yi gave an invited seminar in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Yi spent a day visiting the...

Yi visited the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) at Columbia University for an invited seminar with a day of exciting...

Our lab is awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grant ($50k) for our project, "Moving Into Harm's Way? Paradox of Domestic...

This is a fantastic AGU. Yi gave an invited talk at the AGU Fall Meeting 2025 in Washington, D.C., titled "Advancing Understanding and Prediction of...

Yi gave a public talk at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute titled "When Cities Get Hotter: From New York to Abu Dhabi," with Dr. Rita Sousa from NYU Abu Dhabi,...

Our paper Contemporary income inequality outweighs historic redlining in shaping intra-urban heat disparities in Los Angeles is now published in Nature...

Yi has been honored with the NYU Arts & Science Teaching Innovation Award for her work in redesigning the departmental core course ES100: Environmental System...

Welcome Dr. Xinlei Liu to join our group! Xinlei received her PhD from Nankai University in China, and conducted postdoctoral research at Peking University,...

Welcome Baby Tara to this beautiful world! Yi will be taking family leave in the following 3 months, but will read her emails periodically.

Welcome Dr. Qingyu Wang to join our lab!

Welcome to our visiting PhD student Hong Wei from Tsinghua University! Hong will be working with Yi on the cooling efficiency of urban trees and their...

Yi gave an invited seminar at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Cornell University, entitled "Key Driving Factors for the Accelerating...

Yi is appointed as an Associate Editor at Science Advances, a leading multidisciplinary open-access journal published by the American Association for the...

Thrilled to share that our OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) proposal, in collaboration with Dr. Frankenberg at Caltech, has been awarded by NASA! The project,...

Yi visited UCLA for an invited seminar at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, entitled "Accelerating methane growth rates in recent years."

Congratulations to Liyin He for her new paper The weekly cycle of photosynthesis in Europe reveals the negative impact of particulate pollution on carbon...

I am officially joining the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU as a faculty member and starting a new lab! 🌿

Our paper Unequal exposure to heatwaves in Los Angeles: Impact of uneven green spaces is now published in Science Advances.