April 2013 -Welcome Dr. Runhe Shi, a visiting scholar from the Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University. His research interests include leaf and canopy optical modeling, climate change and retrieval of crop biochemical information.
March 2013 - Dr. Wei Gao attended the February 2013 SPIE Photonics West Conference. He presented ultraviolet ground and space-based measurements, numerical modeling/simulation and radiation effects research on behalf of the USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program.
January 2013 - Several new publications are available from 2012, published in Agronomy Journal. Please see our Research Publicationslink.
December 2012 - George Janson went to Southern University Ag Center in Baton Rouge, LA to assist Dr. Yadong Qi and two of her graduate students with assembling their shadowband and other solar monitoring instruments onto a mobile cart. Dr. Qi and her students Meng Wang and Lan Gong are researching the effects of UV radiation which penetrates the forest canopy and individual trees on their campus. Said Dr. Qi, “It has been a dream coming true for me to have this station finally installed at SU. We have had all these lifeless pieces sitting on our lab bench for so long, now George has put them together and made them working, and they are finally coming to life. Now we can expand our research collaboration to the outdoor, to investigate how urban forest filters UV radiation? How much UV radiation can forest intercept? How differences in species, forest coverage, leaf area index can affect UV radiation on the ground? And how we can link this to outdoor recreation and to human health, such as UV induced skin diseases, etc.? Now we can start to explore these questions and begin to look for collaborative research funding.” Read the full story.
November 2012- Dr. Wei Gao attended the SPIE annual meeting in San Diego, CA, August 12-16, 2012, and chaired the Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability IV conference. Maosi Chen, Ph.D. candidate, presented 6 posters and 1 oral presentation at this conference.
Welcome Dr. Chaoshun Liu, a visiting scientist from the Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University. His research includes work in the scientific areas of climate change impact on eco-systems, atmospheric radiation, mathematical modeling and data assimilation.
October 2012- Carolyn Ownby, Research Associate and Amanda West, Student Coordinator, represented ColoradoView at the AmericaView Winter Business Meeting held in Sioux Falls, SD, September 23-25.
September 2012-Our new web page is here! For information on the data download section please click here.
Dr. John Davis retired at the end of July after 10 years of commitment to our research and maintaining the quality of our data processing. He is largely responsible for our langley processing procedure and our new calibration facility. We thank John for his years of service, wish him a fond farewell, and happiness in his retirement. Have fun cycling!
Welcome aboard Dr. Mike Coughenour, a Senior Research Scientist/Scholar. Dr. Coughenour will be working on the agricultural/climate modeling program's economic impact as well as helping us study the impact of UV radiation on agriculture.
June 2012 - Dr. Paul Evangelista, Co-PI, represented ColoradoView at the AmericaView Winter Business Meeting held in Arlington, VA, March 5-6. ColoradoView is administered by the UV-B Monitoring and Research Program; Dr. Wei Gao is the Principal Investigator.
April 2012 - Changes to our web page will be coming in July. For more information click here.
Welcome aboard Carolyn Ownby. Carolyn will be working on the climate modeling program as a GIS programmer.
March 2012 - Dr. Wei Gao attended the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 4-7, 2011. He participated in the Biogeodynamics and Earth System Sciences session, and presented Regional Climatic Effects of Crop Growth Modeled by the Coupled CWRF-CROP System.
Dr. Paul Evangelista, Co-PI, represented ColoradoView at the AmericaView Winter Business Meeting held in Arlington, VA, March 5-6. ColoradoView is administered by the UV-B Monitoring and Research Program; Dr. Wei Gao is the Principal Investigator.
January 2012 - Dr. Wei Gao was invited to attend the scientific meeting of Data-Intensive Science and Discovery held by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2011. Dr. Gao gave a plenary talk on Scientific Data and Earth Science. Meeting details are available here.
December 2011 - PostDoc position available. The USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University seeks a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow. The successful applicant will join a team of scientists, engineers, and programmers and conduct research related to the interaction of aerosols and gases with UV and visible solar radiation.
September 2011 - Dr. Wei Gao attended the SPIE annual meeting in San Diego, CA, August 20-24, 2011, and chaired the Conference on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability VIII. Dr. Gao also presented scientific progress on ultra-violet ground and space-based measurements, and agriculture modeling on behalf of the USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program, and attended the Board of Editors meeting.
August 2011 - Dr. Wei Gao attended a Project Directors/Principal Investigators meeting in Washington DC, July 19-21, 2011, a USDA-EPA joint meeting on Ecological Impacts from the Interactions of Climate Change, Land Use Change, and Invasive Species. Dr. Wei Gao, Dr. Shuyan Liu, and Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang provided research progress on .Integrated Bioclimatic-Dynamic Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural and Invasive Plant Distributions in the United States,. funded by USDA NRI.
June 2011 - Dr. Wei Gao visited China with a CSU Delegation led by Presidene Tony Frank where Colorado State University and East China Normal University, Shanghai, to establish a Joint Research Institute for New Energy and the Environment. The Joint Institute will capitalize on strengths of the two institutions to develop new energy solutions and help deal with the impact of energy on climate, air quality, land use and water resources. Details and photos can be found here.
Mr. Hongzhao Tang, PhD student under Dr. Gao, is visiting with Dr. Allen Huang at the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, collaborating on aerosol data and numeric models research during July and August.
March 2011 - Dr. Wei Gao attended the January 22-27, 2011 SPIE Photonics West Meeting. He presented ultraviolet ground and space-based measurements, numerical modeling/simulation and radiation effects research on behalf of the USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program. Also he attended committee meetings and additional SPIE meetings during the conference.
February 2011 - Dr. Wei Gao, was invited to participate and present at the workshop entitled, "Mitigation, Adaptation, and Integration for Climate Change Science and Agriculture," hosted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, November 9-11, 2010, San Diego, California.
Congratulations to our director, Dr. Wei Gao who received the prestigious 2010 Most Publications award at the annual NREL awards banquet.
Dr. Wei Gao attended the January 22-27, 2011 SPIE Photonics West Meeting. He presented ultraviolet ground and space-based measurements, numerical modeling/simulation and radiation effects research on behalf of the USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program. As a SPIE Symposia Committee Member, he attended committee meetings and additional SPIE meetings during the conference.
January 2011 - The USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program is taking applications for a full-time solar UV radiation scientist. The position will be responsible for providing scientific expertise regarding the quality of the UV atmospheric radiation data. It will be filled at the RA-III or RS-I level depending on the applicants qualifications. Deadline is January 17, 2011.
Congratulations to our director, Dr. Wei Gao who received the prestigious 2010 Most Publications award at the annual NREL awards banquet.
Dr. Wei Gao, was invited to participate and present at the workshop entitled, "Mitigation, Adaptation, and Integration for Climate Change Science and Agriculture," hosted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, November 9-11, 2010, San Diego, California.