| Date | Place |
|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2024 | University of Tennessee, TN, USA |
| My student, Maedeh Rahimitouranposhti successfully defended her masters thesis, ``Investigating Resiliency of Transportation Network Under Targeted and Potential Climate Change Disruptions’’ at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |  |
| Oct 27, 2024 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Our paper, ``Enhancing Photosynthesis Simulation Performance in ESMs with Machine Learning-Assisted Solvers’’ was accepted 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytics with Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change in conjunction with IEEE Bigdata 2024 in Washington DC, USA. | Link to Workshop |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Our paper, ``Investigating Resiliency of Transportation Network Under Targeted and Potential Climate Change Disruptions’’ was accepted in Transportation Research Board 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington DC, USA. It is recommended for TRR Journal. | Link to Conference |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Our paper “Carbon cycle extremes accelerate weakening of the land carbon sink in the late 21st century” was cited in the New Scientist article “One of Earth’s major carbon sinks collapsed in 2023” Download News Article. |  |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Our paper, ``Quantifying Carbon Cycle Extremes and Attributing Their Causes Under Climate and Land Use & Land Cover Change from 1850 to 2300’’ [https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006738] was among the most downloaded article. |  |
| Dec 15, 2023 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Presented my paper “Investigating the CO2 Response of Secondary-Succession Forests at Duke and Oak Ridge FACE Experiments Simulated with ELM-FATES-CNP” in American Geophysical Union 2023 annual meeting in San Francisco, CA. #AGU2023. |  |
| Sep 14, 2023 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Story published highlighting our work: Compound events like wildfires, droughts weaken carbon sink |  |
| Aug 02, 2023 | Singapore |
| Gave an oral presentation on “Comparative Analysis of Climate-driven Carbon Cycle Extremes Using Observations and CMIP6 Earth System Models” in Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 30 July–4 Aug 2023, SUNTEC, Singapore. |  |
| Jul 04, 2023 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Consider submitting your abstract to “B059 - New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Predicting Global Biogeochemical Cycles under Climate Change and Intervention” in American Geophyisical Union 2023 in San Francisco (Dec 11-15, 2023) |  |
| Jun 28, 2023 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Completed the course “Introduction to FORTRAN”! #FORTRAN #LinkedInLearning |  |
| May 22, 2023 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Our Paper “Carbon cycle extremes accelerate weakening of the land carbon sink in the late 21st century” got published. |  |
| May 16, 2023 | Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Presented poster titled “Investigating the CO2 Response of Secondary-Succession Forests at Duke and Oak Ridge FACE Experiments Simulated with ELM-FATES-CNP” in the 2023 ESS PI Meeting symposium in Bethesda, MD, USA. May 16-17, 2023. |  |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Potomac, MD, USA |
| Presented poster titled “Investigating the CO2 Response of Secondary-Succession Forests at Duke and Oak Ridge FACE Experiments Simulated with ELM-FATES-CNP” in the Anthromes, CO2, and Terrestrial Carbon symposium in Potomac, MD, USA. Mar 27-31, 2023. |  |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Knoxville, TN, USA |
| Took an invited lecture/tutorial in UTK to teach students how to access the CMIP6 data and use Python to analyze the simulation outputs. |  |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Our Paper “Using Image Processing Techniques to Identify and Quantify Spatiotemporal Carbon Cycle Extremes” became online. |  |
| Jan 9, 2023 | Denver, CO, USA |
| Presented poster titled “Increased Intensity of Carbon Cycle Extremes Driven by Land Use and Land Cover Change (Poster ID 45)” in American Meteorological Society’s 36th Conference on Climate Variability and Change in Denver, CO. #AMS2023. |  |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| Pragya received Best Student Presenter award for her work in Drought susceptibility across different natural biomes in AGU fall meeting 2022 in Chicago. |  |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| Presented my paper “Carbon Cycle Extremes Accelerate Weakening of the Land Carbon Sink in the Late 21st Century” in American Geophysical Union 2022 annual meeting in Chicago, IL. #AGU2022. |  |
| Dec 6, 2022 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Participated in the Hour of Code event in partnership with ORNL and interacted with 4th graders from Woodland Elementary School. The students created games at hourofcode. #HourOfCode @ORNL @ORNLCommunity. |  |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Orlando, FL, USA |
| Presented my recent paper titled “Using Image Processing Techniques to Identify and Quantify Spatiotemporal Carbon Cycle Extremes” at the 10th Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2022), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2022) in Orlando, FL, USA. |  |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| Defended my Ph.D. titled “Analysis Of Global Carbon Cycle Extremes, Their Compound Climate Drivers, And Implications For Terrestrial Carbon Cycle.” |  |
