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Xiuchen Jiang successfully defends thesis on bur oak thermal safety margins

Sunday, April 12, 2026
On Wednesday, April 8, Xiuchen successfully defended his M.A. thesis on "Changes in bur oak leaf temperature, critical temperature, and thermal safety margin under elevated temperature and CO2." Congratulations Xiuchen!
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Riley Pacer successfully defends thesis on cooling potential of restored prairie

Sunday, April 12, 2026
On Friday, April 3, Riley successfully defended her M.A. thesis on "Assessing the Biogeophysical Cooling Potential of Constructed Prairie with Eddy Covariance & Thermal UAS Remote Sensing." Congratulations Riley!
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Feng Wang publishes new article evaluating gridded climate products in U.S.

Friday, February 6, 2026
In a new article in Environmental Research Letters, ECH2O Lab personnel show that annual tree growth models are not sensitive to large differences in precipitation among gridded meteorological datasets.