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2026 03 Umich Seminar

Seminar at E3B Columbia

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

Burroughs Wellcome Fund grant on climate change and health

We are excited to announce that our lab has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grant ($50k) for our project, "Moving...

Invited talk at AGU Fall Meeting 2025

Yi gave an invited talk at the AGU Fall Meeting 2025 in Washington, D.C., titled "Advancing Understanding and Prediction of Drought-Heat-Wildfire Extremes."

Yi receives NYU Arts & Science Teaching Innovation Award

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

Public talk at NYU Abu Dhabi

Yi gave a public talk at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute titled "When Cities Get Hotter: From New York to Abu Dhabi," discussing urban heat challenges across...

New paper on urban heat disparities in Nature Communications

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

Invited seminar at Cornell University

I had a great time visiting the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, where I gave a seminar on "Key Driving Factors for the...

New paper on tropical methane emissions in Nature Communications

Our paper Recent methane surges reveal heightened emissions from tropical inundated areas is now published in Nature Communications.

New NASA OCO-LOTUS project funded

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 joins Science Advances as Associate Editor

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

Yi gives invited seminar at UCLA

I had a great time visiting the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA, where I gave a seminar on "Accelerating methane growth rates in recent...

New paper on air pollution and photosynthesis in PNAS

Our paper The weekly cycle of photosynthesis in Europe reveals the negative impact of particulate pollution on carbon uptake is now published in Proceedings of...

The first semester at NYU

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

New paper on urban heat inequity

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