Daryl Yang joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2024 as a Liane B. Russell Distinguished Staff Fellow (DSF). He is working in the Plant-Soil Interactions group in the Environmental Sciences Division, Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate (BESSD). Daryl’s overall research is in integrating novel Earth observations, ecological theories, and process models to understand the interconnections between ecosystem dynamics and climate change. He will focus his DSF research on combining multiscale remote-sensing and numeric models to understand fire-driven ecosystem transition and its impacts on soil-land-atmosphere interactions across Arctic and boreal ecosystems. His work is expected to improve our ability to monitor and model fire-impacted ecosystems in the circumpolar Arctic. Daryl is a member and task lead of DOE’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment Arctic (NGEE Arctic) project. He is also a co-lead of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Community of Practice for Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), a User Working Group member of ORNL’s Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and NASA’s Spectral Imaging Working Group.
Daryl received his Ph.D in Ecology and Evolution from Stony Brook University, during which he was a Future Investigator in NASA’s Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program.
