(RESEARCH SCIENTIST)
Org Code: 610.1
NASA/GSFCEmployer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO
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
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II (GESTAR2), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
2021 - Present
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association (USRA), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
September 2021 - December 2021
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association (USRA) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
October 2015 - September 2021
Sustainability Science Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
October 2012 - September 2015
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / Center for Global Change Science, MIT - Cambridge, MA
November 2011 - August 2012
Department of Economic and Social Affairs - United Nations Headquarters, New York City
February 2005 - July 2005
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
Integrating remote sensing observations with NASA’s GEOS-5 modeling framework in support of retrospective analyses and seasonal prediction of biosphere-atmosphere CO2 flux
NASA Interdisciplinary Science (NNH16ZDA001N-IDS) - NASA - Awarded: 2016-10-01
Improved hydrometeorological prediction in an S2S system through improved treatments of evapotranspiration, runoff, and carbon cycle processes
NASA Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Hydrometeorological Prediction (NNH21ZDA001N-S2SHYD) - NASA - Awarded: 2022-08-01
Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecasting for Informed Decision-Making in the Mekong River Valley
NASA SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (NNH21ZDA001N-SERVIR) - NASA - Awarded: 2022-08-23
Lee, E., R. D. Koster, L. E. Ott, et al. J. Joiner, F. Zeng, J. Kolassa, R. H. Reichle, K. R. Arsenault, A. Hazra, and S. Shukla. 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. C. M. McCullough, E. Lee, and J. Sauber. 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. C. M. McCullough, E. Lee, and J. Sauber. 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. D. Barahona, M. Chin, P. R. Colarco, A. Darmenov, S. Mahanama, M. Manyin, P. Norris, J. Shilling, H. Yu, and F. Zeng. 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. L. E. Ott, S. P. Mahanama, B. Weir, B. Poulter, and T. Oda. 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. A. Livino, J. Briscoe, and P. R. Moorcroft. 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. M. Longo, F. F. Pereira, A. Livino, P. R. Moorcroft, and J. Briscoe. 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. B. Weir, L. E. Ott, and B. Poulter. 2018. The impact of spatiotemporal variability in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> 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. K. Zhang, J. Briscoe, J. Kelman, and P. Moorcroft. 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. E. Lee, J. Briscoe, and P. R. Moorcroft. 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]
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
Effect of Land Initialization on the Skill of Forecasting Carbon Fluxes on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales
July 2021
Tackling Technical Challenges in Land Data Assimilation workshop
Response of the global terrestrial carbon cycle to spatiotemporal variability of the atmospheric CO2 concentration
May 2017
AOES Seminars, George Mason University
An Integrative Approach for the Hydrology, Land-Use, and Climate: Cases for the Amazon and its surrounding area
April 2014
Department of Geographical Sciences Seminar Series, University of Maryland
Linking Water and Climate Change: a Case for Brazil
September 2013
Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis workshop, Harvard University
Incorporating a meteorological constraint to plant migration in a dynamic vegetation model: projections of future vegetation distribution in the Pan-Arctic
April 2010
State of the Arctic conference, Miami, FL