Dr. Kyle Davis is a visionary researcher, teacher, and person. Kyle’s research concentrates on a relatively new research field at the confluence between the natural and social environmental sciences to address critical research questions on food, wat...

Dr. Dan Li’s scientific accomplishments and international reputation are now setting new trends in global environmental change (GEC). His work on how urbanization interacts with the climate system has skillfully welded GEC and corollary fields includ...

Dr. Mark J. Lara is receiving AGU’s Global Environmental Change Early Career Award “for advancing knowledge of the causes and consequences of past and projected global carbon climate feedbacks from thawing permafrost.” Dr. Lara is a first-generation ...

Dr. Sean Michaletz was selected to receive the 2022 AGU Global Environmental Change Early Career Award for his original, synthetic research linking environmental variation to plant physiology across scales, from leaves to the biosphere. Dr. Michaletz...

Dr. Anna Trugman specializes in dynamic vegetation modeling, ecophysiology, and vegetation data science, all with a strong focus on how vegetation is impacted by, and impacts, climate change. She uses a hierarchy of mechanistic models to investigate ...

Through her innovative investigations of environmental, economic, and social drivers of sustainable agriculture, metrics that quantify sustainability, and in-depth nutrient budget analyses, Xin Zhang has moved the discussion on sustainable agricultur...