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 highlight the global H2 budget project, supported by the Global Carbon Project.
NEWS!
[2024-08-10] EMO Lab welcomes new PhD Students Ying Sun and Xintong Zou!
[2024-08-02] EMO Lab welcomes visiting scholar Professor Feng Zhang from Lanzhou University, China, to join the group studying rice methane emissions.
[2024-07-25] EMO Lab welcomes high school student Leo Chen to join the group for a summer internship studying gas emissions from residential homes.
[2024-06-25] New Article On-Line (Scientific Reports): Belowground plant allocation regulates rice methane emissions from degraded peat soils. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-64616-1
[2024-06-04] New Article On-Line (Environmental Research Letters): Downstream natural gas composition across US and Canada: implications for indoor methane leaks and hazardous air pollutant exposures. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad416c/meta
[2024-05-03]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
[2024-02-01]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
[2024-01-21]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