September 6, 2019
Science Magazine highlighted recent research on ways that large trees are more vulnerable to mortality, including work led by former Enviromnetal Sciences Ph.D. student and post-doc Atticus Stovall. The project, which used LIDAR data on 2 million trees and started in Professor Xi Yang's Advanced Remote Sensing class, found that tall trees in the Sierra Nevada mountains were twice as likely to die during the 2014-2015 drought as smaller trees. Read more at Science Magazine.