Evidence for clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern Madagascar. Research led by UCI ESS Prof Angela Rigden Angela Rigden may help policymakers respond to the crisis.

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New paper! We used remotely sensed variables (SM & NDVI) & climate model simulations to investigate the role of climate change in driving the recent drought in Madagascar, and found a clear link to climate change that is strongly seasonal.

nature.com/articles/s4161…

Proud to have contributed to incredible effort led by Angela Rigden and with Peter Huybers and Duo Chan. There was an existing controversy over whether climate change was responsible for the ongoing droughts in Southern Madagascar that have led to widespread food insecurity.

New paper in Nature Water led by postdoc Lucas Vargas Zeppetello. Are plants really more sensitive to drying of the air than to drying of the soil? Lots of interesting debate on this topic in the last few years. 1/x
nature.com/articles/s4422…

The first-ever #HarvardClimateActionWeek kicks off on Monday 5/8, and so does our program that looks at the relationship between food and climate change—with Kimberly Oremus, Angela Rigden, Nix Rust 🌻, and Divya Solomon. Registration is open!
radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-nex…

My love for hydrology started in CornellSoil&WaterLab investigating the efficacy of stormwater detention basins. 10+ years later, the data has been published in a study led by Bishwodeep Adhikari. Nice work!

Feeling grateful for those who shared their love of science with my undergrad self 🙏

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 Angela Rigden Onoriode Coast Jonas Jägermeyr Megan Konar If you're interested in these topics, check out our #AGU22 session:

'The Effects of Climate on Land, Water, and Vegetation in the Food System' Wednesday from 12:00-13:30

Talks by Dr. Deepti Singh Lindsey Sloat Angela Rigden Jessica McCarty and more!

Increasing occurrence of extreme heat and moisture means agriculture will need to be resilient to multiple stressors at once 🌾🥵

Read more in the new Review by Lesk et al.

Weston Anderson Angela Rigden Onoriode Coast Jonas Jägermeyr Megan Konar

nature.com/articles/s4301…

Join us TOMORROW (10/05) at 3:30 PM PST as we have Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh from Stanford University for his talk on quantifying causes and consequences of historical changes in extreme climate conditions.

Meeting in CRH 3101, OR DM/check your emails for the zoom link.

I'm hiring a postdoc to join my group at ☀️UC Irvine☀️ in the UCI ESS department. Hoping to help push forward questions like... how will our changing water cycle affect crop yields across the globe? Email or DM me with any questions. 🌧️🌾

Ad here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07922

New comment in NatureClimate, on the use and misuse of indices of 'dryness', 'aridity' and 'drought' in climate impact studies. Builds on arguments made previously by Mike Roderick, Alexis Berg and Jack Scheff (co-authors) and also many others.

nature.com/articles/s4155…

Our Article:
'Plant sizes and shapes above and belowground and their interactions with climate'
in New Phytologist has now been published in the August 2022 issue

Check it out 👇
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18…

Satellite soil moisture retrievals are actually more relevant to global plant water uptake than commonly appreciated. Our perspective article, available as a preprint, argues why. 1/7
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Yes!! Very excited to have Chris Chalmers join my research group at UCI ESS in the fall!

Check out our new paper using remotely sensed soil moisture to estimate rice & staple crop production in Madagascar. Rice is ~half of all calories consumed in Madagascar, and it strongly depends on SM. Next ?s... is there a climate change signal in SM? What about the future?

Please check out this incredible opportunity for postdoctoral training here at Harvard University, directed toward African citizens, and sponsored by the Harvard Center for African Studies.

africa.harvard.edu/african-studie…

Big news! I will be joining the Department of Earth System Science UCI ESS at UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor in July 2022! Thanks to all who have supported me along the way!