Welcome to the Earth Modeling and Observation (EMO) Lab in the College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment at Auburn University. The EMO lab examines Earth’s environmental change through both modeling and observation, intending to help improve sustainability. Our research combines ground observation, remote sensing, process-based modeling, and data-driven modeling to study environmental issues such as climate change, urbanization, and land use land cover change. We’re currently quantifying the emission of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from wetlands, rice paddies, gas appliances, and oil and gas fields. We are also working on the global H2 budget project, supported by the Global Carbon Project.
NEWS!
New Article On-Line (Science Advances): Nitrogen dioxide exposure, health outcomes, and associated demographic disparities due to gas and propane combustion by US stoves. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adm8680
New Article On-Line (Global Change Biology): Recent increases in annual, seasonal, and extreme methane fluxes driven by changes in climate and vegetation in boreal and temperate wetland ecosystems. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17131
New Article On-Line (AGU Advance): Balancing Non-CO2 GHG Emissions and Soil Carbon Change in U.S. Rice Paddies: A Retrospective Meta-Analysis and Agricultural Modeling. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001052