Carbon Cycle Dynamics and Predictability
Land-Atmosphere Coupling
Carbon-Water Interactions
Application of Seasonal Forecast and Climate Projection to Carbon and Water Management
Sc.D. (2011): Atmospheric Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Impacts of Meteorology-Driven Seed Dispersal on Plant Migration: Implications for Future Vegetation Structure under Changing Climates (advisor: Prof. Ronald G. Prinn)
M.S. (2005): Chemistry, The Ohio State University
B.S. (2002): Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University
12/2021
-
Present
Senior Research Scientist
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II (GESTAR2), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC),
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
8/2021
-
11/2021
Senior Scientist & Manager
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association (USRA), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD
9/2015
-
8/2021
Research Scientist
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association (USRA),
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
9/2012
-
8/2015
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sustainability Science Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
10/2011
-
7/2012
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / Center for Global Change Science, MIT,
Cambridge, MA
1/2005
-
6/2005
Graduate intern
Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
Teaching Assistant for Graduate-Level Courses at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Global Climate Change: Economics, Science and Policy
Atmospheric Radiations
Harvard Sustainability Science Fellowship, 2012-2015
MIT Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability, 2008
MIT Presidential Fellowship, 2005
10/01/2016
NASA Interdisciplinary Science (NNH16ZDA001N-IDS),
NASA
Integrating remote sensing observations with NASA’s GEOS-5 modeling framework in support of retrospective analyses and seasonal prediction of biosphere-atmosphere CO2 flux
;
Co-I
08/01/2022
NASA Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Hydrometeorological Prediction (NNH21ZDA001N-S2SHYD),
NASA
Improved hydrometeorological prediction in an S2S system through improved treatments of evapotranspiration, runoff, and carbon cycle processes
;
Co-I
08/23/2022
NASA SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (NNH21ZDA001N-SERVIR),
NASA
Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecasting for Informed Decision-Making in the Mekong River Valley
;
Co-I
Refereed
Lee, E., R. D. Koster, L. E. Ott, et al. 2022. "Skillful Seasonal Forecasts of Land Carbon Uptake in Northern Mid‐ and High Latitudes."
Geophysical Research Letters,
49
(6):
e2021GL097117
[10.1029/2021GL097117]
Han, S.-C., K. Ghobadi-Far, I.-Y. Yeo, et al. 2021. "GRACE Follow-On revealed Bangladesh was flooded early in the 2020 monsoon season due to premature soil saturation."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
118
(47):
e2109086118
[10.1073/pnas.2109086118]
Han, S., I. Yeo, M. Khaki, et al. 2021. "Novel Along‐Track Processing of GRACE Follow‐On Laser Ranging Measurements Found Abrupt Water Storage Increase and Land Subsidence During the 2021 March Australian Flooding."
Earth and Space Science,
8
(11):
[10.1029/2021ea001941]
Bian, H., E. Lee, R. D. Koster, et al. 2021. "The response of the Amazon ecosystem to the photosynthetically active radiation fields: integrating impacts of biomass burning aerosol and clouds in the NASA GEOS Earth system model."
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,
21
(18):
14177-14197
[10.5194/acp-21-14177-2021]
Lee, E., F. Zeng, R. D. Koster, et al. 2020. "Impact of a Regional US Drought on Land and Atmospheric Carbon."
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,
125
(8):
[10.1029/2019jg005599]
Arias, M. E., F. Farinosi, E. Lee, et al. 2020. "Impacts of climate change and deforestation on hydropower planning in the Brazilian Amazon."
Nature Sustainability,
3:
430-436
[10.1038/s41893-020-0492-y]
Farinosi, F., M. E. Arias, E. Lee, et al. 2019. "Future climate and land use change impacts on river flows in the Tapajós Basin in the Brazilian Amazon."
Earth's Future,
7
(8):
993-1017
[10.1029/2019EF001198]
Lee, E., F. Zeng, R. D. Koster, et al. 2018. "The impact of spatiotemporal variability in atmospheric CO2 concentration on global terrestrial carbon fluxes."
Biogeosciences,
15:
5635-5652
[10.5194/bg-15-5635-2018]
Arias, M. E., E. Lee, F. Farinosi, F. Pereira, and P. Moorcroft. 2018. "Decoupling the effects of deforestation and climate variability in the Tapajós river basin in the Brazilian Amazon."
Hydrological Processes ,
32
(11):
1648-1663
[10.1002/hyp.11517]
Lee, E., A. Livino, S.-C. Han, et al. 2018. "Land cover change explains the increasing discharge of the Paraná River."
Regional Environmental Change,
18
(6):
1871–1881
[10.1007/s10113-018-1321-y]
Pereira, F. F., F. Farinosi, M. E. Arias, et al. 2017. "Technical note: A hydrological routing scheme for the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2+R) tested in the Tapajós River basin in the Brazilian Amazon ."
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,
21:
4629-4648
[10.5194/hess-21-4629-2017]
Swann, A. L., M. Longo, R. G. Knox, E. Lee, and P. R. Moorcroft. 2015. "Future deforestation in the Amazon and consequences for South American climate."
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,
214-215:
12-24
[10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.07.006]
Non-Refereed
Livino, A., J. Briscoe, E. Lee, P. Moorcroft, and J. Kelman. 2014. "Climate Change as a Challenge to Decision-Makers in the Management of the Brazilian Hydropower Systems."
The International Journal on Hydropower & Dams
21
(4):
57-61.
Murthy, S., L. Pereira, A. Harley, et al. 2013. "The Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Helping Decision-Makers Meet Food, Energy and Water (FEW) Needs."
Harvard Sustainability Science Program Working Paper 2013-02
Invited
Effect of Land Initialization on the Skill of Forecasting Carbon Fluxes on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales
6
/
2021
Tackling Technical Challenges in Land Data Assimilation workshop
Response of the global terrestrial carbon cycle to spatiotemporal variability of the atmospheric CO2 concentration
4
/
2017
AOES Seminars, George Mason University
An Integrative Approach for the Hydrology, Land-Use, and Climate: Cases for the Amazon and its surrounding area
3
/
2014
Department of Geographical Sciences Seminar Series, University of Maryland
Linking Water and Climate Change: a Case for Brazil
8
/
2013
Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis workshop, Harvard University
Other
Incorporating a meteorological constraint to plant migration in a dynamic vegetation model: projections of future vegetation distribution in the Pan-Arctic
3
/
2010
State of the Arctic conference, Miami, FL
Refereed
Lee, E., R. D. Koster, L. E. Ott, et al. 2022. "Skillful Seasonal Forecasts of Land Carbon Uptake in Northern Mid‐ and High Latitudes."
Geophysical Research Letters
49
(6):
e2021GL097117
[10.1029/2021GL097117]
Han, S.-C., K. Ghobadi-Far, I.-Y. Yeo, et al. 2021. "GRACE Follow-On revealed Bangladesh was flooded early in the 2020 monsoon season due to premature soil saturation."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
118
(47):
e2109086118
[10.1073/pnas.2109086118]
Han, S., I. Yeo, M. Khaki, et al. 2021. "Novel Along‐Track Processing of GRACE Follow‐On Laser Ranging Measurements Found Abrupt Water Storage Increase and Land Subsidence During the 2021 March Australian Flooding."
Earth and Space Science
8
(11):
[10.1029/2021ea001941]
Bian, H., E. Lee, R. D. Koster, et al. 2021. "The response of the Amazon ecosystem to the photosynthetically active radiation fields: integrating impacts of biomass burning aerosol and clouds in the NASA GEOS Earth system model."
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
21
(18):
14177-14197
[10.5194/acp-21-14177-2021]
Lee, E., F. Zeng, R. D. Koster, et al. 2020. "Impact of a Regional US Drought on Land and Atmospheric Carbon."
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
125
(8):
[10.1029/2019jg005599]
Arias, M. E., F. Farinosi, E. Lee, et al. 2020. "Impacts of climate change and deforestation on hydropower planning in the Brazilian Amazon."
Nature Sustainability
3
430-436
[10.1038/s41893-020-0492-y]
Farinosi, F., M. E. Arias, E. Lee, et al. 2019. "Future climate and land use change impacts on river flows in the Tapajós Basin in the Brazilian Amazon."
Earth's Future
7
(8):
993-1017
[10.1029/2019EF001198]
Lee, E., F. Zeng, R. D. Koster, et al. 2018. "The impact of spatiotemporal variability in atmospheric CO2 concentration on global terrestrial carbon fluxes."
Biogeosciences
15
5635-5652
[10.5194/bg-15-5635-2018]
Arias, M. E., E. Lee, F. Farinosi, F. Pereira, and P. Moorcroft. 2018. "Decoupling the effects of deforestation and climate variability in the Tapajós river basin in the Brazilian Amazon."
Hydrological Processes
32
(11):
1648-1663
[10.1002/hyp.11517]
Lee, E., A. Livino, S.-C. Han, et al. 2018. "Land cover change explains the increasing discharge of the Paraná River."
Regional Environmental Change
18
(6):
1871–1881
[10.1007/s10113-018-1321-y]
Pereira, F. F., F. Farinosi, M. E. Arias, et al. 2017. "Technical note: A hydrological routing scheme for the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2+R) tested in the Tapajós River basin in the Brazilian Amazon ."
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
21
4629-4648
[10.5194/hess-21-4629-2017]
Swann, A. L., M. Longo, R. G. Knox, E. Lee, and P. R. Moorcroft. 2015. "Future deforestation in the Amazon and consequences for South American climate."
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
214-215
12-24
[10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.07.006]
Non-Refereed
Livino, A., J. Briscoe, E. Lee, P. Moorcroft, and J. Kelman. 2014. "Climate Change as a Challenge to Decision-Makers in the Management of the Brazilian Hydropower Systems."
The International Journal on Hydropower & Dams
21
(4):
57-61
Murthy, S., L. Pereira, A. Harley, et al. 2013. "The Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Helping Decision-Makers Meet Food, Energy and Water (FEW) Needs."
Harvard Sustainability Science Program Working Paper 2013-02
