LEMONTREE at AGU 2025: New Orleans

The AGU Annual Meeting 2025 will take place 15–19 December in New Orleans, Louisiana, bringing together researchers from around the world to share advances across the Earth and space sciences. For LEMONTREE, AGU is a particularly important meeting: with four U.S. university partners—Berkeley, Columbia, Texas Tech and the University of Pittsburgh—this conference is always a natural home for our science. We have regularly featured at AGU in previous years (see our 2022 and 2024 highlights) and are delighted to continue this tradition in 2025.

This year, thirteen members of the LEMONTREE community will represent the project, spanning institutions across the U.S. and also Seoul National University and Tsinghua University. Their contributions reflect the breadth and ambition of LEMONTREE’s research, from plant functional ecology and ecohydrology to land–atmosphere interactions, carbon cycle science, and next-generation modelling frameworks.

Invited Talks

We are proud to have three invited talks this year:

• Professor Youngryel Ryu (Seoul National University) will present new insights from long-term satellite observations revealing sustained global greening and improved understanding of tropical seasonality.
• Professor Pierre Gentine (Columbia University) will give two invited contributions, including work on global model data fusion to unravel land carbon sinks and an exploration of parsimony versus complexity in Earth system modelling.

These invited talks recognise the influential role LEMONTREE researchers play in advancing theory, modelling and global-scale data integration.

It’s going to be a busy week for the team. Here’s our line up and you can click on the links for the abstracts and room details:

Monday 15^th

• Youngryel Ryu, 08:54- 09:06. Session B11C-03. Invited Talk: Refined Long-Term Satellite Leaf Area Index Reveals Sustained Global Greening and Accurate Tropical Seasonality
• 08:30-12:00, Nick Smith (Texas Tech University) will be convening and chairing the poster session for Session: B11J Vegetation Canopies: Physiology, Structure, Function I Poster
• In the afternoon from 13:00-14:00, Trevor Keenan (Berkeley), will be one of the presenters for Session TH131 AmeriFlux: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Landscape
• You’ve then got time to nip over to see Nick Smith who will again be convening and chairing the associated oral presentation session after the mornings posters (from 14:15-15:45) in session .B11J-Vegetation Canopies: Physiology, Structure, Function II Oral

 

Tuesday 16^th

• Ngoc Nguyen (Berkeley) will kick start our day, from 10:40-10:50 for an in person talk in Session B22G-02 Modeling rain-induced soil carbon pulses from global drylands with FLUXPULSE
• Then Han Zhang (Tsinghua) will be giving a talk from 11:20-11:30 in session B22A-06: Thermal Acclimation of Stem Respiration Implies a Weaker Carbon-climate Feedback
• In the afternoon, Nick Smith will present his poster in session B23R-1986 : Global patterns of optimal photosynthetic strategies
• Finishing the day for our team is Jianing Fang (Columbia), with his talk at 16:45 in session: NG24A-04: Differentiable Land Model Reveals Global Environmental Controls on Latent Ecological Functions­

 

Wednesday 17^th

• Pierre Gentine will give his first invited talk at 9:10 in session B31B- 05: Global model data fusion to unravel land carbon sinks and their changes
• Trevor Keenan will be convening and chairing the morning poster session GC31G: Data-Driven Approaches to Improve Climate Impact Accounting for Nature-Based Carbon Removal II Poster
• Also from Berkeley, Maoya Bassiouni will be giving her talk her 08:45 in session B31A-02: Advancing Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using Soil Moisture Energy Spectra
• In the afternoon poster session, Jianing Fang will present his poster in session B33j-2006: DifferBESS: Uncovering the Role of Canopy Temperature in Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes Using a Hybrid Modeling Approach
• Finishing the day with Pierre Gentine for his 2^nd invited talk of the conference in session B34A-03: Parsimony versus complexity

Thursday 18^th

• At 10:50, Jisu Han (Columbia) will be presenting her research in session B42A-03: Understanding the sensitivity of stomatal conductance to heat and drought using Physics-Informed Neural Network
• In the afternoon we have Yitong Yao (Columbia) presenting in session B44D-05: Topographic Regulation of Vegetation Productivity Uncovered by Causality-Guided Machine Learning
• We also have two posters being presented in the afternoon. One from Isabella Beltran (TTU) Eutrophication decreases soil respiration via nutrient co-limitation in a semi-arid grassland
• The second poster is online by Amin Hassan (University of Pittsburgh): Variability in Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) Products: Root Causes and Alternate Priestley-Taylor Formulation

 

Friday 19^th

• And last but not least, closing our LEMONTREE @ AGU week, we have Snehanjana Chatterjee (TTU) presenting her poster from 08:30-12:00 in Hall EFG: The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant resource use economics

 

 

What a line up! If you are heading to AGU, go and check out these presentations and say hi! Follow up on our socials for more AGU updates. Bluesky: @Lemontree-uofr.bsky.social  or X: @Lemontree_UofR