Monitoring crop production and farmer decision-making in central Kenya
NSF WSC grant culminates in deployment of ca. 60 Arable Marks and social surveys involving several universities in Kenya’s Mount Kenya region
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Collaboration
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab SURP grant received
PhD student Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi was recently awarded a 1-year award from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
New “Campus as a Lab” project
Kelly Caylor, and Forrest Meggers, assistant professor of architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, just got selected for a new ‘...
Arable featured in PAW
The Caylor Lab and Arable were recently featured in an article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine.
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Teaching the TBI Field School students
Students from the Turkana Basin Institute Field School recently spent some time at Mpala, learning about the field ecology of African savanna.
New article in Science
Adam Wolf from the Caylor Lab, along with researchers at Princeton University and other institutions, just published a new article in Science
Collaboration with Textit for crop failure early warning system
Researchers from the Caylor Lab and the University of Indiana’s Ostrom Workshop worked with Textit, a company that builds SMS and voice applications, to desi...
Where does water go when it doesn’t flow?
Former lab member Stephen Good just published an article in Science
Lixin Wang’s interview with the IUPUI Newsroom
Lixin Wang, former member of the EcoHydrology Lab, was recently interview to discuss his work on the effects of drought on global production of legumes.
New paper in Ecosphere
Drew Gower and Kelly Caylor co-authored a paper that was recently published in Ecosphere.
New paper in Nature Climate Change
Lyndon Estes is the co-lead author on a paper that was recently published in Nature Climate Change and is currently highlighted on the front page of the jour...
New paper in Nature Geoscience
Kaiyu Guan, Kelly Caylor, and Adam Wolf recently published an article in Nature Geoscience and the article is currently on the front page of the journal’s we...
New paper in Science
Kelly and a group of scientists from Princeton University recently published a paper in Science on the influence of termite mounds in dryland ecosystems.
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Workshop
Stephanie Debats and Drew Gower attended a modeling workshop series through SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland.
First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotopes
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi gave a presentation at the First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric ...
Visit by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, JPL machine learning expert
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Thomas Fuchs from the Jet Propulsion Lab on October 2nd and 3rd.
Two JPL SURP grants received
We are very proud that we were recently awarded two separate 1-year awards from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
Conferences
AGU Fall Meeting 2020
WAVES lab members presents at virtual AGU Fall Meeting.
WAVES lab at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019
AGU is back in San Francisco, and so are WAVES lab members and friends.
Caylor Lab at AGU 2016 Fall Meeting
It’s that time of year again where we all convene in San Francisco for the AGU Fall Meeting!
EcoHydrology Lab at AGU 2015
The Caylor Lab will once again be taking over the AGU Fall Meeting in a couple of weeks.
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
PulsePod wins third place at the Keller Center’s 10th annual Innovation Forum
Kelly recently received the third place for the PulsePod at the Keller Center 10th annual Innovation Forum.
AAAS Session on New Earth Observing Methods
Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor recently came back from San Jose, where they attended the AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting to convene a session on ‘Advances in Earth O...
EcoHydrology Lab at the AGU 2014 Fall Meeting
The Caylor Lab will be taking over the AGU Fall Meeting next week.
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Workshop
Stephanie Debats and Drew Gower attended a modeling workshop series through SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland.
First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotopes
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi gave a presentation at the First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric ...
Visit by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, JPL machine learning expert
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Thomas Fuchs from the Jet Propulsion Lab on October 2nd and 3rd.
First International Conference on Global Food Security
Stephanie just came back from the 1st Global Food Security Conference, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands from Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd.
AGU Meeting of the Americas 2013
Frances and Cynthia attended the AGU Meeting of the Americas, held in Cancun, Mexico from May 14th to May 17th 2013.
AGU Chapman Conference on Ecohydrology
Kelly is on the program committee at the upcoming AGU Chapman Conference in Ecohydrology.
Group presentations at the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting
Our group gave three presentations at this fall’s AGU meeting.
Invited talk at the 2008 Soil Science Society of America
Kelly was invited to give a talk at the 2008 SSSA Meeting in Houston, TX.
Talks & abstracts at the 2008 ESA Meeting
Members of our group gave two presentations at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Milwaukee, WI.
Student talks at the 2008 American Association of Geographers Meeting
Two (i.e. both) members of the former ecohydrology group at Indiana University presented their Masters thesis research at the 2008 AAG meeting in Boston, MA.
2008 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Kelly will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion on “Eco-friendly Development” in Africa and the tradeoffs that exist between development and conserv...
Group activity at the 2007 Fall AGU Meeting
The first presentation ever given by one of our group’s students occurred at this fall’s AGU Meeting!
Invited talk at the 2007 AGU Joint Assembly
Kelly was invited to give a talk at the 2007 AGU Joint Assembly.
Session Co-chair at the 2005 AGU Meeting
Kelly is a co-convenor for two sessions at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA.’
Ecohydrology
WAVES Lab Recieves Funding for Riparian Ecohydrology Projects
The WAVES lab is part of two newly-funded projects focused on climate change and conservation of riparian forests in mediterranean drylands. The projects are...
Environmental Sensing
New paper in ERL
We recently published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that examines changes in the water available for growing maize in sub-Saharan Africa between ...
Field Work
Lab summer plans
What are the members of the lab up to this summer?
Rain gauge and soil moisture probe deployment in Zambia
Last month Stephanie, Diana, and Molly were in Zambia deploying a suite of rain gauges and soil moisture probes as part of our NSF-funded collaboration on cl...
Princeton Grand Challenge Interns, Summer 2011
From June through August 2011 the Caylor Lab in Kenya hosted three undergraduate interns from the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Grand Challenges Intern...
Evapotranspiration experiment at the Biosphere 2 facility
During Sep 18-Oct 29, 2008, Lixin Wang stayed at Biosphere 2 (University of Arizona) to collaborate with Juan Villegas, Travis Huxman and David Breshears in ...
Water vapor isotope observations at the Morgan Monroe State Forest
During July 5-Sep 5, 2008, Lixin Wang worked at Morgan-Monroe State Forest Ameriflux tower site.
Water in Africa art exhibit opens
Trenton Franz and Alex Lester put together a series of photos and display text as part of a new art exhibit that is now on display in the E-quad café.
Rainfall-runoff experiment installed at the Mpala Research Center
Group members Trenton Franz, Alex Lester, and Lizzie King are off on a 3 week field campaign to install runoff experiment at Koija Group Ranch.
Initial research visit to Kenya
Trenton Franz and Kelly Caylor are spending 2 weeks field campaign to central Kenyan highlands.
Field work
Arable Mark deployments in Zambia’s Southern Province
Water Sustainability Climate work wraps up with close to 60 Arable Marks deployed in Zambia’s southern province.
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Mpala from the sky
Giraffes, elephants, zebras, camels, hippos: check out the splendid views of Mpala that Vinicius Amaral, a research intern this summer, shot from a drone ove...
Collaboration with Textit for crop failure early warning system
Researchers from the Caylor Lab and the University of Indiana’s Ostrom Workshop worked with Textit, a company that builds SMS and voice applications, to desi...
New paper in Ecosphere
Drew Gower and Kelly Caylor co-authored a paper that was recently published in Ecosphere.
Marcus Spiegel receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Marcus Spiegel‘s project, Modeling Agricultural Expansion in Zambia to Predict and Minimize Tradeoffs has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Sch...
Summer at Mpala: plant physiological response to water stress
This summer, Hilary and her intern Kathy joined Drew and Keita in Laikipia, Kenya to collect data on plant physiological response to water stress.
PulseLab in California and New Mexico
Group members went out to California in June to install sensors in agricultural fields with the goal of realtime monitoring of crop growth and microclimate i...
First successful copter flight for Eric Principato
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
Jackie’s summer featured on the frontpage of PU website
Jackie Jones, a rising senior at Lawrenceville High School, spent her summer working with Adam on photosynthesis of different species.
Climbing trees
Over the past week, Kelly, Adam, Molly, Cynthia, and the undergraduate students who will be working in the lab this summer all took a two-days long tree clim...
Article on patterns of soil N published in Landscape Ecology
An article, “Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas”, written by Lixin Wang has been published in Land...
Article published in Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
An article written by Lixin Wang has been published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Funding
Scholarships, fellowships, and grants awarded to WAVES lab students
WAVES lab students win awards to support dissertation research, science communication, and outreach.
Ryan Avery developing ML system for Omidyar Network at Clark Labs
Ryan is working as a Researcher at Clark Labs to develop the scalable machine learning component of an active learning system to detect smallholder agriculture
WAVES Lab Recieves Funding for Riparian Ecohydrology Projects
The WAVES lab is part of two newly-funded projects focused on climate change and conservation of riparian forests in mediterranean drylands. The projects are...
Cascade Tuholske awarded Borlaug Fellowship to research urban food security in Ghana & Zambia
Cascade was named a Borlaug Fellow in Global Food Security to examine urban food security in Accra, Ghana and Lusaka, Zambia.
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi named to Michigan Society of Fellows
Cynthia has been selected as one of nine new fellows out of 949 applications to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professo...
Natasha Krell wins Fulbright award to Kenya
Natasha was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Kenya to continue research on smallholder agriculture around Mount Kenya.
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab SURP grant received
PhD student Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi was recently awarded a 1-year award from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute
New “Campus as a Lab” project
Kelly Caylor, and Forrest Meggers, assistant professor of architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, just got selected for a new ‘...
Marcus Spiegel receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Marcus Spiegel‘s project, Modeling Agricultural Expansion in Zambia to Predict and Minimize Tradeoffs has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Sch...
Drew Gower receives EPA STAR Fellowship
Drew Gower just received a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Stephanie Debats receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Stephanie Debats just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Two New Grants Awarded
We are very happy to have been awarded new grants from both NSF and NASA!
Stephanie Debats and Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receive PEI awards
Stephanie Debats and Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi both received awards from the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Cynthia Gerlein just received NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF).
Elliot Chang receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Elliot Chang</a>‘s project, The Use of Alginate and Chitosan to Purify Leaf Distillates of Organic Contaminants has been selected for support from the ...
Two JPL SURP grants received
We are very proud that we were recently awarded two separate 1-year awards from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
Stephanie receives PEI-STEP fellowship
Stephanie was just awarded a PEI-STEP fellowship!
Princeton Grand Challenge Interns, Summer 2011
From June through August 2011 the Caylor Lab in Kenya hosted three undergraduate interns from the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Grand Challenges Intern...
Interdisciplinary Science award from NASA
We have just received support from NASA’s Interdisciplinary Science program to examine multiscale effects of fire on long-term climate and precipitation.
Coupled Natural & Human Systems award from the National Science Foundation
Our group has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation for a new project.
Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund for Integrated Food Security Research
The Caylor group has received support from the Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund to develop an integrated approach to investigating climate change ...
NSF grant awarded for resilience research in Zambia
Our group is beginning a new research program regarding links between climate variability, social decision making, and resilience in subsistence dryland agri...
Caylor group receives Princeton Grand Challenges Seed Grant
Our group has been awarded a seed grant through Princeton University’s ‘Grand Challenges’ program.
Kelly receives faculty advancement award
Kelly has received the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr. / Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award from the School of Engineering.
Trenton Recieves DDEP Award from NSF
Our group has received support from an award from the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Kelly receives NSF CAREER award
Kelly has received a prestigious and highly competitive National Science Foundation CAREER grant.
Caylor lab receives LEEF III Award
Li-Cor Biosciences has awarded the Caylor Lab with a Li-Cor 6400XT Photosynthesis Analyzer system to support inquiry-based learning in Princeton’s Undergradu...
New NSF DEB Grant – Distribution and dynamics of belowground carbon in savannas
Along with Greg Okin (UCLA, Department of Geography), Paolo D’Odorico (UVA, Department of Environmental Sciences), Natalie Mladenov (University of Colorado, ...
General
AGU Fall Meeting 2020
WAVES lab members presents at virtual AGU Fall Meeting.
Cascade Tuholske Defends Disseration via Zoom
Cascade Tuholske Succesfully Defends Disseration.
Finding support in a time of physical distancing
With campus shut down and our lives on hold, WAVES lab members stay connected.
WAVES lab at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019
AGU is back in San Francisco, and so are WAVES lab members and friends.
Caylor Lab at AGU 2016 Fall Meeting
It’s that time of year again where we all convene in San Francisco for the AGU Fall Meeting!
New “Campus as a Lab” project
Kelly Caylor, and Forrest Meggers, assistant professor of architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, just got selected for a new ‘...
Arable featured in PAW
The Caylor Lab and Arable were recently featured in an article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine.
Elliot Chang’s thesis published in RCMS
Elliot Chang‘s senior thesis on a new method to remove organic contaminants from water samples for isotope analysis was featured today on the CEE department’...
Lixin Wang’s paper in Nature and interview
Lixin Wang, former member of the EcoHydrology Lab, recently published an article in the journal Nature.
Princeton Studies Food new class launched
A new Princeton freshman seminar on science, society and food was launched this semester.
EcoHydrology Lab at AGU 2015
The Caylor Lab will once again be taking over the AGU Fall Meeting in a couple of weeks.
First course on UAS for environmental monitoring
Last week Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor were in Italy to help teach a new course on UAS for Environmental Monitoring.
Collaboration with Textit for crop failure early warning system
Researchers from the Caylor Lab and the University of Indiana’s Ostrom Workshop worked with Textit, a company that builds SMS and voice applications, to desi...
AGU Fellows program
Kelly Caylor was on the team that worked for the past year to analyze and improve the AGU Fellows program.
EcoHydrology Lab at the AGU 2014 Fall Meeting
The Caylor Lab will be taking over the AGU Fall Meeting next week.
First successful copter flight for Eric Principato
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
Adam’s interview by the Center for Data Innovation
Adam presented a talk to Strata NYC last week.
Kelly Caylor
AGU Fellows program
Kelly Caylor was on the team that worked for the past year to analyze and improve the AGU Fellows program.
Labwork
Summer in the lab: foliar uptake in Colocasia esculenta
This summer, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi and her intern Craig Sinkler spent the summer in the lab in Princeton to conduct an experiment looking at foliar water upt...
Link
Teaching the TBI Field School students
Students from the Turkana Basin Institute Field School recently spent some time at Mpala, learning about the field ecology of African savanna.
Lyndon Estes
New paper in ERL
We recently published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that examines changes in the water available for growing maize in sub-Saharan Africa between ...
Media
Princeton Studies Food new class launched
A new Princeton freshman seminar on science, society and food was launched this semester.
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Mpala from the sky
Giraffes, elephants, zebras, camels, hippos: check out the splendid views of Mpala that Vinicius Amaral, a research intern this summer, shot from a drone ove...
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
PulsePod wins third place at the Keller Center’s 10th annual Innovation Forum
Kelly recently received the third place for the PulsePod at the Keller Center 10th annual Innovation Forum.
Mpala Live! website launched
The Mpala Research Center just launched Mpala Live!, an interactive website featuring a round-the-clock view of the hippos, elephants, and other incredible s...
News
AGU Fall Meeting 2020
WAVES lab members presents at virtual AGU Fall Meeting.
Cascade Tuholske Defends Disseration via Zoom
Cascade Tuholske Succesfully Defends Disseration.
Finding support in a time of physical distancing
With campus shut down and our lives on hold, WAVES lab members stay connected.
WAVES lab at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019
AGU is back in San Francisco, and so are WAVES lab members and friends.
Scholarships, fellowships, and grants awarded to WAVES lab students
WAVES lab students win awards to support dissertation research, science communication, and outreach.
Sharing data science skills with the DataUp program and Software Carpentry
Ryan visited Old Domion University to teach research computing skills in a two day workshop.
Monitoring crop production and farmer decision-making in central Kenya
NSF WSC grant culminates in deployment of ca. 60 Arable Marks and social surveys involving several universities in Kenya’s Mount Kenya region
Ryan Avery developing ML system for Omidyar Network at Clark Labs
Ryan is working as a Researcher at Clark Labs to develop the scalable machine learning component of an active learning system to detect smallholder agriculture
WAVES Lab Postdoctoral Positions Available
The WAVES Lab has two postdoctoral research associate positions available starting in the fall of 2018.
IFPRI Researcher, Dr. Kwaw Andam, Visits WAVES Lab
Dr. Kwaw Andam, a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institutes’s Ghana Strategy Support Program in Accra visited our lab at UCSB to c...
WAVES Lab Recieves Funding for Riparian Ecohydrology Projects
The WAVES lab is part of two newly-funded projects focused on climate change and conservation of riparian forests in mediterranean drylands. The projects are...
WAVES Lab Contributes to 2017 FAO State of Food & Agriculture Report
Cascade Tuholske contributed to urbanization and urban food security sections in FAO’s 2017 State of Food and Agriculture Report.
Arable Mark deployments in Zambia’s Southern Province
Water Sustainability Climate work wraps up with close to 60 Arable Marks deployed in Zambia’s southern province.
WAVES Lab researchers participate in Kenyan National Science Week Exhibition
WAVES Lab researchers working at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya were participants in the 6th Annual National Science Week Exhibition at the KICC, in Nair...
Cascade Tuholske awarded Borlaug Fellowship to research urban food security in Ghana & Zambia
Cascade was named a Borlaug Fellow in Global Food Security to examine urban food security in Accra, Ghana and Lusaka, Zambia.
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi named to Michigan Society of Fellows
Cynthia has been selected as one of nine new fellows out of 949 applications to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professo...
Natasha Krell wins Fulbright award to Kenya
Natasha was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Kenya to continue research on smallholder agriculture around Mount Kenya.
Caylor Lab at AGU 2016 Fall Meeting
It’s that time of year again where we all convene in San Francisco for the AGU Fall Meeting!
Article published in Environmental Research Letters
A new article was published in Environmental Research Letters by researchers from the CaylorLab, the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and the National S...
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab SURP grant received
PhD student Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi was recently awarded a 1-year award from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute
Frances O’Donnell starting as assistant professor at Auburn University
Caylor Lab alum Frances O’Donnell will be starting this fall as an assistant professor of hydrologic engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Au...
New “Campus as a Lab” project
Kelly Caylor, and Forrest Meggers, assistant professor of architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, just got selected for a new ‘...
Article published in Remote Sensing of Environment
A new article was published by the Stephanie Debats and members of the CaylorLab in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Arable featured in PAW
The Caylor Lab and Arable were recently featured in an article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine.
Elliot Chang’s thesis published in RCMS
Elliot Chang‘s senior thesis on a new method to remove organic contaminants from water samples for isotope analysis was featured today on the CEE department’...
Lixin Wang’s paper in Nature and interview
Lixin Wang, former member of the EcoHydrology Lab, recently published an article in the journal Nature.
Princeton Studies Food new class launched
A new Princeton freshman seminar on science, society and food was launched this semester.
EcoHydrology Lab at AGU 2015
The Caylor Lab will once again be taking over the AGU Fall Meeting in a couple of weeks.
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Teaching the TBI Field School students
Students from the Turkana Basin Institute Field School recently spent some time at Mpala, learning about the field ecology of African savanna.
Mpala from the sky
Giraffes, elephants, zebras, camels, hippos: check out the splendid views of Mpala that Vinicius Amaral, a research intern this summer, shot from a drone ove...
First course on UAS for environmental monitoring
Last week Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor were in Italy to help teach a new course on UAS for Environmental Monitoring.
New article in Science
Adam Wolf from the Caylor Lab, along with researchers at Princeton University and other institutions, just published a new article in Science
Collaboration with Textit for crop failure early warning system
Researchers from the Caylor Lab and the University of Indiana’s Ostrom Workshop worked with Textit, a company that builds SMS and voice applications, to desi...
Where does water go when it doesn’t flow?
Former lab member Stephen Good just published an article in Science
Lixin Wang’s interview with the IUPUI Newsroom
Lixin Wang, former member of the EcoHydrology Lab, was recently interview to discuss his work on the effects of drought on global production of legumes.
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
New paper in Ecosphere
Drew Gower and Kelly Caylor co-authored a paper that was recently published in Ecosphere.
Marcus Spiegel receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Marcus Spiegel‘s project, Modeling Agricultural Expansion in Zambia to Predict and Minimize Tradeoffs has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Sch...
New paper in Nature Climate Change
Lyndon Estes is the co-lead author on a paper that was recently published in Nature Climate Change and is currently highlighted on the front page of the jour...
New paper in Nature Geoscience
Kaiyu Guan, Kelly Caylor, and Adam Wolf recently published an article in Nature Geoscience and the article is currently on the front page of the journal’s we...
AGU Fellows program
Kelly Caylor was on the team that worked for the past year to analyze and improve the AGU Fellows program.
PulsePod wins third place at the Keller Center’s 10th annual Innovation Forum
Kelly recently received the third place for the PulsePod at the Keller Center 10th annual Innovation Forum.
AAAS Session on New Earth Observing Methods
Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor recently came back from San Jose, where they attended the AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting to convene a session on ‘Advances in Earth O...
New paper in Science
Kelly and a group of scientists from Princeton University recently published a paper in Science on the influence of termite mounds in dryland ecosystems.
EcoHydrology Lab at the AGU 2014 Fall Meeting
The Caylor Lab will be taking over the AGU Fall Meeting next week.
New paper in Biogeosciences
We recently published a paper in Biogeosciences.
New paper in GRL
We recently published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that investigates the relationship between the ratio of transpiration over evapotranspiration (...
Summer at Mpala: plant physiological response to water stress
This summer, Hilary and her intern Kathy joined Drew and Keita in Laikipia, Kenya to collect data on plant physiological response to water stress.
Summer in the lab: foliar uptake in Colocasia esculenta
This summer, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi and her intern Craig Sinkler spent the summer in the lab in Princeton to conduct an experiment looking at foliar water upt...
Drew Gower receives EPA STAR Fellowship
Drew Gower just received a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency.
New paper in ERL
We recently published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that examines changes in the water available for growing maize in sub-Saharan Africa between ...
Stephanie Debats receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Stephanie Debats just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
PulseLab in California and New Mexico
Group members went out to California in June to install sensors in agricultural fields with the goal of realtime monitoring of crop growth and microclimate i...
Two New Grants Awarded
We are very happy to have been awarded new grants from both NSF and NASA!
Field Ecohydrology at Mpala
Kelly’s Field Ecohydrology class at the Mpala Research Center was recently highlighted on the National Science Foundation website
Mpala Live! website launched
The Mpala Research Center just launched Mpala Live!, an interactive website featuring a round-the-clock view of the hippos, elephants, and other incredible s...
Stephanie Debats and Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receive PEI awards
Stephanie Debats and Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi both received awards from the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Cynthia Gerlein just received NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF).
First successful copter flight for Eric Principato
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
Elliot Chang receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Elliot Chang</a>‘s project, The Use of Alginate and Chitosan to Purify Leaf Distillates of Organic Contaminants has been selected for support from the ...
Anticipating the ecological impacts of agricultural adaptation to climate change
Global change research in the fields of ecology and conservation biology primarily focuses on how changing climatic variables will directly impact species an...
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Workshop
Stephanie Debats and Drew Gower attended a modeling workshop series through SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland.
First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotopes
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi gave a presentation at the First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric ...
Adam’s interview by the Center for Data Innovation
Adam presented a talk to Strata NYC last week.
Visit by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, JPL machine learning expert
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Thomas Fuchs from the Jet Propulsion Lab on October 2nd and 3rd.
Two JPL SURP grants received
We are very proud that we were recently awarded two separate 1-year awards from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
First International Conference on Global Food Security
Stephanie just came back from the 1st Global Food Security Conference, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands from Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd.
Congratulations Dr. Guan!
Earlier today, Kaiyu successfully defended his PhD thesis on hydrological variability on vegetation seasonality, productivity and composition in tropical eco...
Jackie’s summer featured on the frontpage of PU website
Jackie Jones, a rising senior at Lawrenceville High School, spent her summer working with Adam on photosynthesis of different species.
Nature Comment Published
“Climate change must not blow conservation off course”, by Morgan Tingley, Lyndon, and David Wilcove was published in the comment section of this week’s Natu...
Article published in Global Change Biology
“Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches”, written by Ly...
Lab summer plans
What are the members of the lab up to this summer?
Climbing trees
Over the past week, Kelly, Adam, Molly, Cynthia, and the undergraduate students who will be working in the lab this summer all took a two-days long tree clim...
AGU Meeting of the Americas 2013
Frances and Cynthia attended the AGU Meeting of the Americas, held in Cancun, Mexico from May 14th to May 17th 2013.
Article published in Proc. Royal Soc., Series A
A chapter of Steve Good’s dissertation – Analytical expressions of variability in ecosystem structure and function obtained from three-dimensional stochastic...
Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam
Molly attended the Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam this past weekend at NYU.
Stephanie receives PEI-STEP fellowship
Stephanie was just awarded a PEI-STEP fellowship!
NYC Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference
Cynthia was up in NYC on Thursday, April 18th for the NYC Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference.
Article on patterns of soil N published in Landscape Ecology
An article, “Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas”, written by Lixin Wang has been published in Land...
Article published in Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
An article written by Lixin Wang has been published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Two articles published in Ecosphere
Two articles authored by members of our lab are appearing in the March 2013 issue of Ecosphere, a relatively new on-line only and open-access journal publish...
Two articles recently accepted in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
A review article led by Lixin Wang on issues related to dryland ecohydrology and an educational article by Lizzie King, Frances O’Donnell and Kelly on teachi...
Article accepted in JGR-Atmospheres
Stephen’s article, ‘Error estimates in the assessment of the isotopic composition of surface fluxes: A direct comparison of techniques using laser-based wate...
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A review article led by Keir Soderberg on methods for soil water vapor isotopic characterization and analysis has just been accepted for publication in Vados...
Article accepted in PLoS One
An article based on our studies of root structure in the Kalahari desert has been accepted in PLoS ONE.
Article accepted in Water Resources Research
A research article written by Trenton Franz et al., has been accepted for publication in Water Resources Research.
Article accepted in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
A research article written by Lixin Wang, Stephen Good, Kelly, and Lucas Cernusak will soon appear in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2nd Mpala-based COSMOS probe now calibrated
Our 2nd COSMOS probe is now operational at our flux tower site located at the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya.
Professor Dave Breshears visits the Mpala Research Center
In August and September, the Caylor Lab in Kenya hosted Dave Breshears from the University of Arizona during his sabbatical trip around the globe.
Article to be published in Ecohydrology
We’ve just gotten news that an article written by Lizzie King (along with co-authors Trenton Franz, and Kelly) has been accepted for publication in the journ...
COSMOS soil moisture probe now operational at the Mpala Research Center
Our first of two COSMOS probes (and the first probe deployed in Africa) is now operational at our flux tower site located at the Mpala Research Center in cen...
Rain gauge and soil moisture probe deployment in Zambia
Last month Stephanie, Diana, and Molly were in Zambia deploying a suite of rain gauges and soil moisture probes as part of our NSF-funded collaboration on cl...
Princeton Grand Challenge Interns, Summer 2011
From June through August 2011 the Caylor Lab in Kenya hosted three undergraduate interns from the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Grand Challenges Intern...
Interdisciplinary Science award from NASA
We have just received support from NASA’s Interdisciplinary Science program to examine multiscale effects of fire on long-term climate and precipitation.
Coupled Natural & Human Systems award from the National Science Foundation
Our group has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation for a new project.
Lizzie King accepts a faculty position at the University of Georgia
ostdoctoral Research Associate Lizzie King has accepted an Assistant Professor position in Ecosystem Management at the University of Georgia in the Odum Scho...
Ecohydrology sessions at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting
Kelly is a co-convener for four sessions at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA.
Commentary to be published in Ecohydrology
A commentary written by Lizzie King and Kelly will soon appear in the journal Ecohydrology.
Caylor group’s research highlighted on Princeton Grand Challenges Website
Our research and teaching in Kenya is affiliated with the Princeton Grand Challenges Program. A summary of that work is now presented on the Grand Challenges...
Article published in PNAS
An article authored by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Kelly, and Andrea Rinaldo has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Molly O’Connor receives thesis prize
Graduating CEE major and long-time group member Molly O’Connor has been awarded the 2011 Christine Traml Prize.
Article accepted in Water Resources Research
An article authored by Trenton Franz in collaboration with Lizzie King on the use of EMI has been accepted for publication in WRR. Kelly and David Robinson (...
Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund for Integrated Food Security Research
The Caylor group has received support from the Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund to develop an integrated approach to investigating climate change ...
Article published in PNAS
An article authored by Stephen Good and Kelly has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Caylor group’s research highlighted on NBCLearn.com
Kelly’s research is highlighted in a new video from NBClearn.com on climate change and crops
Article published in Vadose Zone Journal
An article authored by Trenton Franz in collaboration with colleagues at Princeton and Rutgers has been published in Vadose Zone Journal.
Lixin Wang joining Ecohydrology group at UNSW
Lixin will soon be leaving the Caylor group for a trip around the sun in the southern hemisphere at UNSW in Sydney, Australia
Article accepted in Ecohydrology
A research article by Lixin Wang and coauthored by group members Frances O’Donnell, Stephen Good, Trenton Franz, and Kelly has just been accepted for publica...
Holden Caylor joins the team!
Holden Grey Caylor became the newest, youngest, and smallest member of the Caylor group last month.
NSF grant awarded for resilience research in Zambia
Our group is beginning a new research program regarding links between climate variability, social decision making, and resilience in subsistence dryland agri...
Keir Soderberg joins our group
Keir Soderberg has recently joined the Princeton EcoHydrology Lab as a postdoctoral research associate.
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A research article by PhD student Trenton Franz has just been accepted for publication Vadose Zone Journal.
Article published in New Phytologist
A research letter authored by Lizzie King and Kelly has just been published in New Phytologist.
Article published in Geophysical Research Letters
An article authored by Lixin Wang has been published in Geophysical Research Letters. The manuscript provides an experimental verification of the utility of ...
Mpala Research Center Flux Tower Operational
Our NSF-funded ecohydrological observatory is now up an running at the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya.
Article accepted in Advances in Water Resources
An article by Ph.D. candidate Trenton Franz that uses ecohydrological optimality theories to predict woody species distribution in central Kenya has been pub...
Kelly receives early career award from the American Geophysical Union
The American Geophysical Union has selected Kelly as the inaugural recipient of the Early Career Award in Hydrology.
Caylor group receives Princeton Grand Challenges Seed Grant
Our group has been awarded a seed grant through Princeton University’s ‘Grand Challenges’ program.
Article published in Ecohydrology
An article examining the impact of infiltration excess flow on models of soil moisture and plant water stress has been published in the journal Ecohydrology
Article published in Journal of Arid Environments
An article examining the role of P availability on plant nutrition and above ground herbaceous productivity has been published in the Journal of Arid Environ...
Evapotranspiration experiment at the Biosphere 2 facility
During Sep 18-Oct 29, 2008, Lixin Wang stayed at Biosphere 2 (University of Arizona) to collaborate with Juan Villegas, Travis Huxman and David Breshears in ...
Article published in Plant and Soil
An article examining nutrient limitations on grass productivity in water-limited ecosystems is published in Plant & Soil
Kelly receives faculty advancement award
Kelly has received the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr. / Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award from the School of Engineering.
Trenton Recieves DDEP Award from NSF
Our group has received support from an award from the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Kelly receives NSF CAREER award
Kelly has received a prestigious and highly competitive National Science Foundation CAREER grant.
Caylor lab receives LEEF III Award
Li-Cor Biosciences has awarded the Caylor Lab with a Li-Cor 6400XT Photosynthesis Analyzer system to support inquiry-based learning in Princeton’s Undergradu...
AGU Chapman Conference on Ecohydrology
Kelly is on the program committee at the upcoming AGU Chapman Conference in Ecohydrology.
Trenton receives AGU Student Paper award
Trenton has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award,for his presentation at the 2008 Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Lixin to present at the EGU General Assembly
Lixin will present a talk titled “Integrating hydrology and biogeochemistry in drylands: the Kalahari Transect as a model ecosystem” at the EGU general assem...
Article published in Water Resources Research
An article authored by Kelly, Todd Scanlon at the University of Virginia, and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton University) has just been published in Wate...
Article published in Geoderma
An article authored by Lixin Wang is appearing in the most recent issue of Geoderma.
Alex Lester brown bag seminar
Alex will present a talk about his research for the brown bag series in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Articles published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Two articles by our group on sap velocity measurements have been published in the March 2009 issue of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Lixin brown bag seminar
Lixin will present a brown bag seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
David Robinson visits the Princeton Ecohydrology Lab
The Ecohydrology lab group was pleased to host David Robinson for a visit to Princeton University.
New experiment begun on subsurface water redistribution
Ph.D. student Trenton Franz has begun a new experiment to investigate the potential of sub-surface gravity driven mounds to contribute to hillslope water bal...
Article accepted in Rapid Communications of Mass Spectrometry
Our group’s first manuscript using the LGR Water Vapor Isotope Analyzer has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘Rapid Communications in Mass Spectr...
Group presentations at the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting
Our group gave three presentations at this fall’s AGU meeting.
Invited talk at the 2008 Soil Science Society of America
Kelly was invited to give a talk at the 2008 SSSA Meeting in Houston, TX.
Stephen Good joins our group
The newest member of our group is Stephen Good, who is beginning work on a Ph.D.
Talks & abstracts at the 2008 ESA Meeting
Members of our group gave two presentations at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Milwaukee, WI.
Ewaso Water Project video
Trenton Franz, a fourth-year graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, studies hydrology through the Ewaso Water Project, the field research c...
Water vapor isotope observations at the Morgan Monroe State Forest
During July 5-Sep 5, 2008, Lixin Wang worked at Morgan-Monroe State Forest Ameriflux tower site.
Water in Africa art exhibit opens
Trenton Franz and Alex Lester put together a series of photos and display text as part of a new art exhibit that is now on display in the E-quad café.
Student talks at the 2008 American Association of Geographers Meeting
Two (i.e. both) members of the former ecohydrology group at Indiana University presented their Masters thesis research at the 2008 AAG meeting in Boston, MA.
2008 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Kelly will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion on “Eco-friendly Development” in Africa and the tradeoffs that exist between development and conserv...
Group activity at the 2007 Fall AGU Meeting
The first presentation ever given by one of our group’s students occurred at this fall’s AGU Meeting!
Article published in JGR-Biogeosciences
The December 2007 issue of JGR-Biogeosciences contains an article that Kelly co-authored with Paolo D’Odorico, Greg Okin, and Todd Scanlon.
Article published in Nature
This week’s issue of Nature magazine contains an article authored by Todd Scanlon, Kelly, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and Simon Levin.
Article published in Ecosystems
An article Kelly co-authored with Christelle Hély and others was published on-line in the journal Ecosystems today.
Rainfall-runoff experiment installed at the Mpala Research Center
Group members Trenton Franz, Alex Lester, and Lizzie King are off on a 3 week field campaign to install runoff experiment at Koija Group Ranch.
News from Mpala
WAVES Lab researchers participate in Kenyan National Science Week Exhibition
WAVES Lab researchers working at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya were participants in the 6th Annual National Science Week Exhibition at the KICC, in Nair...
Article published in Environmental Research Letters
A new article was published in Environmental Research Letters by researchers from the CaylorLab, the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and the National S...
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Teaching the TBI Field School students
Students from the Turkana Basin Institute Field School recently spent some time at Mpala, learning about the field ecology of African savanna.
Mpala from the sky
Giraffes, elephants, zebras, camels, hippos: check out the splendid views of Mpala that Vinicius Amaral, a research intern this summer, shot from a drone ove...
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
New paper in Ecosphere
Drew Gower and Kelly Caylor co-authored a paper that was recently published in Ecosphere.
Summer at Mpala: plant physiological response to water stress
This summer, Hilary and her intern Kathy joined Drew and Keita in Laikipia, Kenya to collect data on plant physiological response to water stress.
Field Ecohydrology at Mpala
Kelly’s Field Ecohydrology class at the Mpala Research Center was recently highlighted on the National Science Foundation website
Mpala Live! website launched
The Mpala Research Center just launched Mpala Live!, an interactive website featuring a round-the-clock view of the hippos, elephants, and other incredible s...
Photos
Arable Mark deployments in Zambia’s Southern Province
Water Sustainability Climate work wraps up with close to 60 Arable Marks deployed in Zambia’s southern province.
Princeton Studies Food new class launched
A new Princeton freshman seminar on science, society and food was launched this semester.
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
Summer at Mpala: plant physiological response to water stress
This summer, Hilary and her intern Kathy joined Drew and Keita in Laikipia, Kenya to collect data on plant physiological response to water stress.
Summer in the lab: foliar uptake in Colocasia esculenta
This summer, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi and her intern Craig Sinkler spent the summer in the lab in Princeton to conduct an experiment looking at foliar water upt...
PulseLab in California and New Mexico
Group members went out to California in June to install sensors in agricultural fields with the goal of realtime monitoring of crop growth and microclimate i...
First successful copter flight for Eric Principato
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
Policy
WAVES Lab Contributes to 2017 FAO State of Food & Agriculture Report
Cascade Tuholske contributed to urbanization and urban food security sections in FAO’s 2017 State of Food and Agriculture Report.
Programming
Sharing data science skills with the DataUp program and Software Carpentry
Ryan visited Old Domion University to teach research computing skills in a two day workshop.
Publications
Article published in Environmental Research Letters
A new article was published in Environmental Research Letters by researchers from the CaylorLab, the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and the National S...
Article published in Remote Sensing of Environment
A new article was published by the Stephanie Debats and members of the CaylorLab in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Elliot Chang’s thesis published in RCMS
Elliot Chang‘s senior thesis on a new method to remove organic contaminants from water samples for isotope analysis was featured today on the CEE department’...
Lixin Wang’s paper in Nature and interview
Lixin Wang, former member of the EcoHydrology Lab, recently published an article in the journal Nature.
New article in Science
Adam Wolf from the Caylor Lab, along with researchers at Princeton University and other institutions, just published a new article in Science
Where does water go when it doesn’t flow?
Former lab member Stephen Good just published an article in Science
Lixin Wang’s interview with the IUPUI Newsroom
Lixin Wang, former member of the EcoHydrology Lab, was recently interview to discuss his work on the effects of drought on global production of legumes.
New paper in Ecosphere
Drew Gower and Kelly Caylor co-authored a paper that was recently published in Ecosphere.
New paper in Nature Climate Change
Lyndon Estes is the co-lead author on a paper that was recently published in Nature Climate Change and is currently highlighted on the front page of the jour...
New paper in Nature Geoscience
Kaiyu Guan, Kelly Caylor, and Adam Wolf recently published an article in Nature Geoscience and the article is currently on the front page of the journal’s we...
New paper in Science
Kelly and a group of scientists from Princeton University recently published a paper in Science on the influence of termite mounds in dryland ecosystems.
New paper in Biogeosciences
We recently published a paper in Biogeosciences.
New paper in GRL
We recently published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that investigates the relationship between the ratio of transpiration over evapotranspiration (...
New paper in ERL
We recently published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that examines changes in the water available for growing maize in sub-Saharan Africa between ...
Anticipating the ecological impacts of agricultural adaptation to climate change
Global change research in the fields of ecology and conservation biology primarily focuses on how changing climatic variables will directly impact species an...
Nature Comment Published
“Climate change must not blow conservation off course”, by Morgan Tingley, Lyndon, and David Wilcove was published in the comment section of this week’s Natu...
Article published in Global Change Biology
“Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches”, written by Ly...
Article published in Proc. Royal Soc., Series A
A chapter of Steve Good’s dissertation – Analytical expressions of variability in ecosystem structure and function obtained from three-dimensional stochastic...
Article on patterns of soil N published in Landscape Ecology
An article, “Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas”, written by Lixin Wang has been published in Land...
Article published in Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
An article written by Lixin Wang has been published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Two articles published in Ecosphere
Two articles authored by members of our lab are appearing in the March 2013 issue of Ecosphere, a relatively new on-line only and open-access journal publish...
Two articles recently accepted in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
A review article led by Lixin Wang on issues related to dryland ecohydrology and an educational article by Lizzie King, Frances O’Donnell and Kelly on teachi...
Article accepted in JGR-Atmospheres
Stephen’s article, ‘Error estimates in the assessment of the isotopic composition of surface fluxes: A direct comparison of techniques using laser-based wate...
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A review article led by Keir Soderberg on methods for soil water vapor isotopic characterization and analysis has just been accepted for publication in Vados...
Article accepted in PLoS One
An article based on our studies of root structure in the Kalahari desert has been accepted in PLoS ONE.
Article accepted in Water Resources Research
A research article written by Trenton Franz et al., has been accepted for publication in Water Resources Research.
Article accepted in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
A research article written by Lixin Wang, Stephen Good, Kelly, and Lucas Cernusak will soon appear in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Article to be published in Ecohydrology
We’ve just gotten news that an article written by Lizzie King (along with co-authors Trenton Franz, and Kelly) has been accepted for publication in the journ...
Commentary to be published in Ecohydrology
A commentary written by Lizzie King and Kelly will soon appear in the journal Ecohydrology.
Article published in PNAS
An article authored by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Kelly, and Andrea Rinaldo has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Article accepted in Water Resources Research
An article authored by Trenton Franz in collaboration with Lizzie King on the use of EMI has been accepted for publication in WRR. Kelly and David Robinson (...
Article published in PNAS
An article authored by Stephen Good and Kelly has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Article published in Vadose Zone Journal
An article authored by Trenton Franz in collaboration with colleagues at Princeton and Rutgers has been published in Vadose Zone Journal.
Quantifying transient soil moisture dynamics using multi-point direct-current resistivity in homogeneous sand
*Franz, T., Nolan, J., Nordbotten, J., Caylor, K.K., Slayter, L. (2011) “Quantifying transient soil moisture dynamics using multi-point direct-current res...
Article accepted in Ecohydrology
A research article by Lixin Wang and coauthored by group members Frances O’Donnell, Stephen Good, Trenton Franz, and Kelly has just been accepted for publica...
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A research article by PhD student Trenton Franz has just been accepted for publication Vadose Zone Journal.
Article published in New Phytologist
A research letter authored by Lizzie King and Kelly has just been published in New Phytologist.
Article published in Geophysical Research Letters
An article authored by Lixin Wang has been published in Geophysical Research Letters. The manuscript provides an experimental verification of the utility of ...
Article accepted in Advances in Water Resources
An article by Ph.D. candidate Trenton Franz that uses ecohydrological optimality theories to predict woody species distribution in central Kenya has been pub...
Article published in Ecohydrology
An article examining the impact of infiltration excess flow on models of soil moisture and plant water stress has been published in the journal Ecohydrology
Article published in Journal of Arid Environments
An article examining the role of P availability on plant nutrition and above ground herbaceous productivity has been published in the Journal of Arid Environ...
Article published in Plant and Soil
An article examining nutrient limitations on grass productivity in water-limited ecosystems is published in Plant & Soil
Article published in Water Resources Research
An article authored by Kelly, Todd Scanlon at the University of Virginia, and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton University) has just been published in Wate...
Article published in Geoderma
An article authored by Lixin Wang is appearing in the most recent issue of Geoderma.
Alex Lester brown bag seminar
Alex will present a talk about his research for the brown bag series in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Articles published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Two articles by our group on sap velocity measurements have been published in the March 2009 issue of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Article accepted in Rapid Communications of Mass Spectrometry
Our group’s first manuscript using the LGR Water Vapor Isotope Analyzer has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘Rapid Communications in Mass Spectr...
Article published in JGR-Biogeosciences
The December 2007 issue of JGR-Biogeosciences contains an article that Kelly co-authored with Paolo D’Odorico, Greg Okin, and Todd Scanlon.
Article published in Nature
This week’s issue of Nature magazine contains an article authored by Todd Scanlon, Kelly, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and Simon Levin.
Article published in Ecosystems
An article Kelly co-authored with Christelle Hély and others was published on-line in the journal Ecosystems today.
Article in New Phytologist
Julianno Sambatti and Kelly published an article in New Phytologist.
Research
Scholarships, fellowships, and grants awarded to WAVES lab students
WAVES lab students win awards to support dissertation research, science communication, and outreach.
Monitoring crop production and farmer decision-making in central Kenya
NSF WSC grant culminates in deployment of ca. 60 Arable Marks and social surveys involving several universities in Kenya’s Mount Kenya region
Ryan Avery developing ML system for Omidyar Network at Clark Labs
Ryan is working as a Researcher at Clark Labs to develop the scalable machine learning component of an active learning system to detect smallholder agriculture
WAVES Lab Postdoctoral Positions Available
The WAVES Lab has two postdoctoral research associate positions available starting in the fall of 2018.
IFPRI Researcher, Dr. Kwaw Andam, Visits WAVES Lab
Dr. Kwaw Andam, a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institutes’s Ghana Strategy Support Program in Accra visited our lab at UCSB to c...
WAVES Lab Recieves Funding for Riparian Ecohydrology Projects
The WAVES lab is part of two newly-funded projects focused on climate change and conservation of riparian forests in mediterranean drylands. The projects are...
WAVES Lab Contributes to 2017 FAO State of Food & Agriculture Report
Cascade Tuholske contributed to urbanization and urban food security sections in FAO’s 2017 State of Food and Agriculture Report.
Arable Mark deployments in Zambia’s Southern Province
Water Sustainability Climate work wraps up with close to 60 Arable Marks deployed in Zambia’s southern province.
Cascade Tuholske awarded Borlaug Fellowship to research urban food security in Ghana & Zambia
Cascade was named a Borlaug Fellow in Global Food Security to examine urban food security in Accra, Ghana and Lusaka, Zambia.
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi named to Michigan Society of Fellows
Cynthia has been selected as one of nine new fellows out of 949 applications to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professo...
Natasha Krell wins Fulbright award to Kenya
Natasha was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Kenya to continue research on smallholder agriculture around Mount Kenya.
Article published in Environmental Research Letters
A new article was published in Environmental Research Letters by researchers from the CaylorLab, the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and the National S...
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute
Summer at Mpala: water use and agriculture
This summer Drew Gower traveled to Kenya for a three-week mission wrapping up one project and launching another.
New article in Science
Adam Wolf from the Caylor Lab, along with researchers at Princeton University and other institutions, just published a new article in Science
Collaboration with Textit for crop failure early warning system
Researchers from the Caylor Lab and the University of Indiana’s Ostrom Workshop worked with Textit, a company that builds SMS and voice applications, to desi...
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
New paper in Nature Climate Change
Lyndon Estes is the co-lead author on a paper that was recently published in Nature Climate Change and is currently highlighted on the front page of the jour...
New paper in Nature Geoscience
Kaiyu Guan, Kelly Caylor, and Adam Wolf recently published an article in Nature Geoscience and the article is currently on the front page of the journal’s we...
New paper in Science
Kelly and a group of scientists from Princeton University recently published a paper in Science on the influence of termite mounds in dryland ecosystems.
New paper in Biogeosciences
We recently published a paper in Biogeosciences.
New paper in GRL
We recently published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that investigates the relationship between the ratio of transpiration over evapotranspiration (...
Summer at Mpala: plant physiological response to water stress
This summer, Hilary and her intern Kathy joined Drew and Keita in Laikipia, Kenya to collect data on plant physiological response to water stress.
Summer in the lab: foliar uptake in Colocasia esculenta
This summer, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi and her intern Craig Sinkler spent the summer in the lab in Princeton to conduct an experiment looking at foliar water upt...
Drew Gower receives EPA STAR Fellowship
Drew Gower just received a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency.
New paper in ERL
We recently published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that examines changes in the water available for growing maize in sub-Saharan Africa between ...
Stephanie Debats receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Stephanie Debats just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
PulseLab in California and New Mexico
Group members went out to California in June to install sensors in agricultural fields with the goal of realtime monitoring of crop growth and microclimate i...
Two New Grants Awarded
We are very happy to have been awarded new grants from both NSF and NASA!
Stephanie Debats and Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receive PEI awards
Stephanie Debats and Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi both received awards from the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Cynthia Gerlein just received NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF).
Anticipating the ecological impacts of agricultural adaptation to climate change
Global change research in the fields of ecology and conservation biology primarily focuses on how changing climatic variables will directly impact species an...
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Workshop
Stephanie Debats and Drew Gower attended a modeling workshop series through SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland.
First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotopes
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi gave a presentation at the First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric ...
Adam’s interview by the Center for Data Innovation
Adam presented a talk to Strata NYC last week.
Visit by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, JPL machine learning expert
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Thomas Fuchs from the Jet Propulsion Lab on October 2nd and 3rd.
Two JPL SURP grants received
We are very proud that we were recently awarded two separate 1-year awards from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
Nature Comment Published
“Climate change must not blow conservation off course”, by Morgan Tingley, Lyndon, and David Wilcove was published in the comment section of this week’s Natu...
Article published in Global Change Biology
“Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches”, written by Ly...
Lab summer plans
What are the members of the lab up to this summer?
Article on patterns of soil N published in Landscape Ecology
An article, “Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas”, written by Lixin Wang has been published in Land...
Article published in Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
An article written by Lixin Wang has been published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
2nd Mpala-based COSMOS probe now calibrated
Our 2nd COSMOS probe is now operational at our flux tower site located at the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya.
COSMOS soil moisture probe now operational at the Mpala Research Center
Our first of two COSMOS probes (and the first probe deployed in Africa) is now operational at our flux tower site located at the Mpala Research Center in cen...
Rain gauge and soil moisture probe deployment in Zambia
Last month Stephanie, Diana, and Molly were in Zambia deploying a suite of rain gauges and soil moisture probes as part of our NSF-funded collaboration on cl...
Princeton Grand Challenge Interns, Summer 2011
From June through August 2011 the Caylor Lab in Kenya hosted three undergraduate interns from the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Grand Challenges Intern...
Ecohydrology sessions at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting
Kelly is a co-convener for four sessions at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA.
Caylor group’s research highlighted on Princeton Grand Challenges Website
Our research and teaching in Kenya is affiliated with the Princeton Grand Challenges Program. A summary of that work is now presented on the Grand Challenges...
Molly O’Connor receives thesis prize
Graduating CEE major and long-time group member Molly O’Connor has been awarded the 2011 Christine Traml Prize.
Mpala Research Center Flux Tower Operational
Our NSF-funded ecohydrological observatory is now up an running at the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya.
Evapotranspiration experiment at the Biosphere 2 facility
During Sep 18-Oct 29, 2008, Lixin Wang stayed at Biosphere 2 (University of Arizona) to collaborate with Juan Villegas, Travis Huxman and David Breshears in ...
AGU Chapman Conference on Ecohydrology
Kelly is on the program committee at the upcoming AGU Chapman Conference in Ecohydrology.
Trenton receives AGU Student Paper award
Trenton has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award,for his presentation at the 2008 Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Lixin to present at the EGU General Assembly
Lixin will present a talk titled “Integrating hydrology and biogeochemistry in drylands: the Kalahari Transect as a model ecosystem” at the EGU general assem...
Article published in Water Resources Research
An article authored by Kelly, Todd Scanlon at the University of Virginia, and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton University) has just been published in Wate...
Article published in Geoderma
An article authored by Lixin Wang is appearing in the most recent issue of Geoderma.
Alex Lester brown bag seminar
Alex will present a talk about his research for the brown bag series in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Articles published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Two articles by our group on sap velocity measurements have been published in the March 2009 issue of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Lixin brown bag seminar
Lixin will present a brown bag seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
David Robinson visits the Princeton Ecohydrology Lab
The Ecohydrology lab group was pleased to host David Robinson for a visit to Princeton University.
New experiment begun on subsurface water redistribution
Ph.D. student Trenton Franz has begun a new experiment to investigate the potential of sub-surface gravity driven mounds to contribute to hillslope water bal...
Article accepted in Rapid Communications of Mass Spectrometry
Our group’s first manuscript using the LGR Water Vapor Isotope Analyzer has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘Rapid Communications in Mass Spectr...
Group presentations at the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting
Our group gave three presentations at this fall’s AGU meeting.
Invited talk at the 2008 Soil Science Society of America
Kelly was invited to give a talk at the 2008 SSSA Meeting in Houston, TX.
Stephen Good joins our group
The newest member of our group is Stephen Good, who is beginning work on a Ph.D.
Talks & abstracts at the 2008 ESA Meeting
Members of our group gave two presentations at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Milwaukee, WI.
Ewaso Water Project video
Trenton Franz, a fourth-year graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, studies hydrology through the Ewaso Water Project, the field research c...
Water vapor isotope observations at the Morgan Monroe State Forest
During July 5-Sep 5, 2008, Lixin Wang worked at Morgan-Monroe State Forest Ameriflux tower site.
Water in Africa art exhibit opens
Trenton Franz and Alex Lester put together a series of photos and display text as part of a new art exhibit that is now on display in the E-quad café.
Student talks at the 2008 American Association of Geographers Meeting
Two (i.e. both) members of the former ecohydrology group at Indiana University presented their Masters thesis research at the 2008 AAG meeting in Boston, MA.
2008 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Kelly will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion on “Eco-friendly Development” in Africa and the tradeoffs that exist between development and conserv...
Group activity at the 2007 Fall AGU Meeting
The first presentation ever given by one of our group’s students occurred at this fall’s AGU Meeting!
Article published in JGR-Biogeosciences
The December 2007 issue of JGR-Biogeosciences contains an article that Kelly co-authored with Paolo D’Odorico, Greg Okin, and Todd Scanlon.
Article published in Nature
This week’s issue of Nature magazine contains an article authored by Todd Scanlon, Kelly, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and Simon Levin.
Article published in Ecosystems
An article Kelly co-authored with Christelle Hély and others was published on-line in the journal Ecosystems today.
New NSF DEB Grant – Distribution and dynamics of belowground carbon in savannas
Along with Greg Okin (UCLA, Department of Geography), Paolo D’Odorico (UVA, Department of Environmental Sciences), Natalie Mladenov (University of Colorado, ...
Article in New Phytologist
Julianno Sambatti and Kelly published an article in New Phytologist.
Rainfall-runoff experiment installed at the Mpala Research Center
Group members Trenton Franz, Alex Lester, and Lizzie King are off on a 3 week field campaign to install runoff experiment at Koija Group Ranch.
Initial research visit to Kenya
Trenton Franz and Kelly Caylor are spending 2 weeks field campaign to central Kenyan highlands.
Research Topics
Where does water go when it doesn’t flow?
Former lab member Stephen Good just published an article in Science
Marcus Spiegel receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Marcus Spiegel‘s project, Modeling Agricultural Expansion in Zambia to Predict and Minimize Tradeoffs has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Sch...
Summer at Mpala: plant physiological response to water stress
This summer, Hilary and her intern Kathy joined Drew and Keita in Laikipia, Kenya to collect data on plant physiological response to water stress.
Summer in the lab: foliar uptake in Colocasia esculenta
This summer, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi and her intern Craig Sinkler spent the summer in the lab in Princeton to conduct an experiment looking at foliar water upt...
Elliot Chang receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Elliot Chang</a>‘s project, The Use of Alginate and Chitosan to Purify Leaf Distillates of Organic Contaminants has been selected for support from the ...
First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotopes
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi gave a presentation at the First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric ...
Visit by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, JPL machine learning expert
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Thomas Fuchs from the Jet Propulsion Lab on October 2nd and 3rd.
Stephanie receives PEI-STEP fellowship
Stephanie was just awarded a PEI-STEP fellowship!
Teaching
Sharing data science skills with the DataUp program and Software Carpentry
Ryan visited Old Domion University to teach research computing skills in a two day workshop.
Princeton Studies Food new class launched
A new Princeton freshman seminar on science, society and food was launched this semester.
Teaching the TBI Field School students
Students from the Turkana Basin Institute Field School recently spent some time at Mpala, learning about the field ecology of African savanna.
First course on UAS for environmental monitoring
Last week Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor were in Italy to help teach a new course on UAS for Environmental Monitoring.
Marcus Spiegel receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Marcus Spiegel‘s project, Modeling Agricultural Expansion in Zambia to Predict and Minimize Tradeoffs has been selected for support from the Smith-Newton Sch...
Field Ecohydrology at Mpala
Kelly’s Field Ecohydrology class at the Mpala Research Center was recently highlighted on the National Science Foundation website
First successful copter flight for Eric Principato
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
Jackie’s summer featured on the frontpage of PU website
Jackie Jones, a rising senior at Lawrenceville High School, spent her summer working with Adam on photosynthesis of different species.
Climbing trees
Over the past week, Kelly, Adam, Molly, Cynthia, and the undergraduate students who will be working in the lab this summer all took a two-days long tree clim...
NYC Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference
Cynthia was up in NYC on Thursday, April 18th for the NYC Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference.
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Congratulations Dr. Guan!
Earlier today, Kaiyu successfully defended his PhD thesis on hydrological variability on vegetation seasonality, productivity and composition in tropical eco...
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A review article led by Keir Soderberg on methods for soil water vapor isotopic characterization and analysis has just been accepted for publication in Vados...
Video
CaylorLab work featured in new short film
Mount Kenya is one of the major water towers in Kenya, but with an increase in population and water demand, the pressure on this scare commodity has been on ...
Mpala from the sky
Giraffes, elephants, zebras, camels, hippos: check out the splendid views of Mpala that Vinicius Amaral, a research intern this summer, shot from a drone ove...
Caylor group’s research highlighted on NBCLearn.com
Kelly’s research is highlighted in a new video from NBClearn.com on climate change and crops