Susan (Shufen) Pan

Associate Professor

Biography

Susan (Shufen) Pan is an environmental scientist with a passion for exploring the intricate interactions within human-environment systems amid a rapidly changing world. By employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates geospatial technologies such as GIS, GPS, and remote sensing, alongside computational modeling and AI/machine learning, she addresses critical environmental challenges. Her research, supported by NSF, NASA, EPA, NOAA, and USDA, covers a range of important topics, including the impacts of climate change, adaptation and mitigation strategies, the food-energy-water nexus, and land use dynamics. With a global perspective, her work has reached diverse regions across North America, South America, Asia, and Africa, resulting in over 140 publications in respected journals such as Nature and PNAS. In addition to her research endeavors, she is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of environmental leaders through education. She aims to inspire creativity and cultivate critical thinking skills in her students, preparing them to tackle significant challenges in their academic and future careers. Currently, as the Research Director of the Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability and the Global Carbon Project 艾可直播 Office, she focuses on fostering collaborative partnerships to study the carbon cycle and develop strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Through her research and teaching, she strives to contribute to a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

Representative Publications

  • Zhang, L., S. Pan, Z. Ouyang, J.G. Canadell, J. Chang, 鈥︹ H. Tian (2024) Global nitrous oxide emissions from livestock manure during 1890鈥2020: An IPCC tier 2 inventory. Global Change Biology 30 (5), e1730聽
  • Li, Y., H. Tian, Y. Yao, H. Shi, Z. Bian, 鈥︹ R. Lauerwald, S. Pan (2024) Increased nitrous oxide emissions from global lakes and reservoirs since the pre-industrial era. Nature Communications 15 (1), 942聽
  • Gong, C., H.Tian, H. Liao, N. Pan, S. Pan, 鈥︹. Zaehle (2024) Global net climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen. Nature 632, 557-563.
  • Yu, H., N. Lu, B. Fu, L. Zhang, S. Pan (2024) The carrying capacity for vegetation of forest land across China: Near real-time monitoring and short-term forecasting based on satellite observation. Geography and Sustainability, 5 (3), 415-429聽
  • You, Y., H. Tian, S. Pan, H. Shi, C. Lu, W.D. Batchelor, 鈥︹. Reilly (2024) Net greenhouse gas balance in U.S. croplands: How can soils be part of the climate solution? Global Change Biology 30 (1), e17109聽
  • Li, X., H. Tian, C. Lu and S. Pan (2023) Four-century history of land transformation by humans in the United States (1630鈥2020): annual and 1 km grid data for the HIStory of LAND changes (HISLAND-US). Earth System Science Data, 15(2), ESSD, 15, 1005-1035,2023.聽
  • Bian, Z., G. Sun, S. McNulty, S. Pan and H. Tian (2023) Understanding the Shift of Drivers of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Based on Regional Process鈥怋ased Modeling in the Mississippi River Basin During the Past Century, Water Resources Research 59 (8), e2023WR035377.聽
  • Bian, Z., S. Pan, Z. Wang, Y. Yao, R. Xu, 鈥︹. Lohrenz and Tian (2022). A Century鈥怢ong Trajectory of Phosphorus Loading and Export from Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico: Contributions of Multiple Environmental Changes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(6), e2022GB007347.聽
  • Wang, X., S. Pan, N. Pan and P. Pan (2022). Grassland productivity response to droughts in northern China monitored by satellite-based solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Science of The Total Environment, 830, 154550.聽
  • Yao, Y., H. Tian, X. Xu, Y. Li and S. Pan (2022) Dynamics and controls of inland water CH4 emissions across the Conterminous United States: 1860-2019. Water Research, 224,119043.聽
  • Pan S., Z. Bian, H. Tian, Y. Yao, R. Najjar, Friedrichs M., 鈥︹. Zhang (2021) Impacts of Multiple Environmental Changes on Long-term Nitrogen Loading from the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2021-126(5).聽
  • Pan, S., N. Pan, H. Tian, P. Friedlingstein, S. Sitch 鈥︹ S.W. Running (2020) Evaluation of terrestrial evapotranspiration by state of the art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning, and process-based modeling, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24 (3), 1485-1509.聽
  • Pan, S., J. Yang, H., Tian, H. Shi, J. Chang, P Ciais, 鈥︹. Fang Zhao (2020) Climate extremes versus carbon extreme: Responses of terrestrial carbon fluxes to temperature and precipitation: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125 (4), e2019JG005252.聽
  • You Y. and S. Pan (2020) Urban Vegetation Slows Down the Spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID鈥19) in the United States, Geophysical Research Letter, 47 (18), e2020GL089286聽
  • Yao, Y., H. Tian, H. Shi, S. Pan, R Xu, N. Pan, J.G. Canadell (2020) Increased global nitrous oxide emissions from streams and rivers in the Anthropocene, Nature Climate Change 10 (2), 138-142.