- 8/2007~ 5/2011: PhD, University of Oklahoma
- 8/2001~2/2005: PhD, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 8/1998~ 7/2001: Master of Science, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 9/1993-7/1997: Bachelor of Science, Department of Biology, Shaanxi Normal University
Ensheng Weng
(Associate Research Scientist)
Email: | ensheng.weng@nasa.gov |
Org Code: | 611 |
Address: |
NASA/GISS Mail Code 611 New York, NY 10025 |
Employer: | TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY |
Research Interests
Terrestrial ecosystem and carbon cycle modeling
Earth Science: Ecosystem functionMy research focuses on the modeling of terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, and their responses to climate change. I use mathematical modeling, simulation of ecosystem processes, and game theory to understand plant demographic and eco-physiological processes and their effects on ecosystem structure, carbon, nutrient, and water cycles across various scales. I also use data assimilation approaches to improve model parameterization and analyze model structure and uncertainty.
Positions/Employment
Associate Research Scientist
Columbia University/NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies - 2880 Broadway, New York, NY
October 2016 - Present
Vegetation modeling
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Princeton University - Princeton, NJ 08540
June 2011 - September 2016
Modeling forest dynamics based on competition and plant traits
Education
Selected Publications
Refereed
2021. "CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850‐2014) with GISS‐E2.1." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 13 e2019MS002034 [10.1029/2019ms002034] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Improving collaborations between empiricists and modelers to advance grassland community dynamics in ecosystem models." New Phytologist 228 (5): 1467-1471 [10.1111/nph.16900] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "GISS‐E2.1: Configurations and Climatology." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12 (8): [10.1029/2019ms002025] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Competition alters predicted forest carbon cycle responses to nitrogen availability and elevated CO2: simulations using an explicitly competitive, game-theoretic vegetation demographic model." Biogeosciences 16 (23): 4577-4599 [10.5194/bg-16-4577-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change." Nature Climate Change 9 (12): 948-953 [10.1038/s41558-019-0630-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Carbon–nitrogen coupling under three schemes of model representation: a traceability analysis." Geoscientific Model Development 11 (11): 4399-4416 [10.5194/gmd-11-4399-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities." Global Change Biology 24 (1): 35-54 [10.1111/gcb.13910] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Predicting vegetation type through physiological and environmental interactions with leaf traits: evergreen and deciduous forests in an earth system modeling framework." Global Change Biology 23 (6): 2482-2498 [10.1111/gcb.13542] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models." Nature Climate change 5 (6): 528-534 [10.1038/nclimate2621] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Scaling from individual trees to forests in an Earth system modeling framework using a mathematically tractable model of height-structured competition." Biogeosciences 12 (9): 2655-2694 [10.5194/bg-12-2655-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Ecosystem carbon storage capacity as affected by disturbance regimes: A general theoretical model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 117 (G3): n/a--n/a [10.1029/2012JG002040] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Assimilation of multiple data sets with the ensemble Kalman filter to improve forecasts of forest carbon dynamics." Ecological Applications 21 (5): 1461--1473 [10.1890/09-1234.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Uncertainty analysis of forest carbon sink forecast with varying measurement errors: a data assimilation approach." Journal of Plant Ecology 4 (3): 178-191 [10.1093/jpe/rtr018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Relative information contributions of model vs. data to short- and long-term forecasts of forest carbon dynamics." Ecological Applications 21 (5): 1490--1505 [10.1890/09-1394.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Lagged effects of experimental warming and doubled precipitation on annual and seasonal aboveground biomass production in a tallgrass prairie." Global Change Biology 14 (12): 2923--2936 [10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01703.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Soil hydrological properties regulate grassland ecosystem responses to multifactor global change: A modeling analysis." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 113 (G3): n/a--n/a [10.1029/2007JG000539] [Journal Article/Letter]