Teaching
Teaching area: terrestrial ecosystems, climate change, ecological modelling, remote sensing
2020-2021 Sem2, GE3221 Ecological Systems (sole instructor, the module is merged into GE3256 2021 onwards)
2020-2021 Sem2, GE4211 Advanced Hydrology and Water Resource Management (w/ Dr Pierre Tailladart)
2021-2025 Sem1, GE4234 Environmental Change in the Tropics (sole instructor)
2021-2023 Sem2, GE3256 Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Ecosystems (w/ Dr Nawaz in 2022; w/ Prof Lu Xixi in 2023)
2021-2025 Sem2/2025-2026 Sem1, GE2103 Our Planet: An Earth Systems Science Perspective (w/ Prof Massino Lapascu)
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To be launched in 2026-2027:
CCS5210 Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (sole instructor, a continuation of GE4234 at the graduate level)
HS2934 The Matter of Air: Science and Culture (w/ Prof. Weiqiang Lin, an interdisciplinary course)
Services
Review: Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, New Phytologist, National Science Review, Ecology Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Geophysical Research Letters, JGR-Biogeosciences, JGR-Atmosphere, Water Resources Research, Environmental Research Letters, Biogeoscience, Earth System Science Data, Earth System Dynamics, Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Communications Earth & Environment, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Cell One Earth, Journal of Hydrology, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Scientific Data, Scientific report, Carbon Balance and Management.
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Editorial:
Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Associate Editor, 2025 -
​Global Change Biology, Editorial Advisory Board, 2025 -
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Academic associations:
· American Geophysical Union, 2014-now;
· FLUXNET, 2017-now;
· USA-National Phenology Network, 2012-now.
· Asiaflux, 2020-now;
· Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 2020-now;​​
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Other services:
2025 Co-organizer of 3rd expert workshop on Geostationary Satellite for Terrestrial Monitoring (3rd-Geoworkshop; Agenda)
2025 Local host of 2nd meeting of League of geophysical research eXcellences for tropical asia (LeXtra)
2025 AOGS session co-convenor for integrated understanding of global biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks
2024 AGU session co-convenor for vegetation and leaf traits session and land biogeochemical cycle session
2024 AOGS session co-convenor for League of geophysical research eXcellences for tropical asia (LeXtra)
2023 USGS Powell workshop on integrated understanding of terrestrial evapotranspiration topic lead.
2022 Ameriflux Evapotranspiration workshop topic lead.
2021 US Department of Energy Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Predictability invited participant.
2019 AGU session 2019-B059 Vegetation and leaf traits session co-convener.
Outreach
Center for Nature-based Climate Solution seminar - Global photosynthesis in a changing climate
NUS News featured article - Studying the invisible in Earth’s ecosystems to save our planet
The Straits Times - Droughts may affect forest's ability to take in carbon dioxide: NUS study
LianHeZaoBao - Small Chance of Transboundary Haze in Singapore this year
LianHeZaoBao - Reflection on the second warmest month (July 2024) in record since 1940
LianHeZaoBao - 2024 is likely the hottest year on the record
LianHeZaoBao - Weak La Nina, forecast of 2025 temperature and monsoon surge in March
LianHeZaoBao - Vegetation fire risk in Singapore
LianHeZaoBao - Historically highest rainfall in March in Singapore
LianHeZaoBao - Strong Sumatra Squall in October
iLeaps - Ozflux joint conference highlighted early career scientist
Geoinsider talk (in Mandarin) - Reduce the uncertainty of global photosynthesis simulation
Hydro90 seminar (in Mandarin) - Tropical extreme droughts drive long term increase in atmospheric CO2 variability