Yaping Chen

|| NEW RESEARCH || Upland forest retreat lags behind sea-level rise in the mid-Atlantic coast 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @YapingChen5 @theswampboss @VIMS_News

"Existing carbon budgets may overstate the magnitude of the coastal carbon sink" because eroding carbon stocks along the VA Atlantic coast are dominated by deep, UNvegetated sediments (nope, not marsh, not seagrass). New paper by @MaryBryanBarks1

Detailed estimates of coastal forest retreat in the mid-Atlantic. More than 55,000 acres of forest converted to marsh since 1984, mostly controlled by sea level rise and topography, but less rapid than you would predict.

@famingw Thank you for the support, and hope things are working well for you and your group😀

@YapingChen5 congrats!

Very excited to share with you our latest work published today! The study suggests that although coastal forests retreated upslope, the rate of forest retreat is half of sea-level rise rate, pointing to a pronounced lag in upland conversion by ~50 years. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17…

@Ruikun_Gou Thanks for the sweet words, and glad that you find the study interest :). Hope to see more of your important works soon, and best wishes to your career! Best, Yaping

The study also shows that lateral forest retreat was strongly mediated by topography and salinity, but not directly explained by RSLRR, climate, or disturbance. Together, these findings suggest a multi-decadal lag between RSLRR and land conversion that implies coastal resistance.

The Coastal Ecogeomorphology Lab @VIMS_News, William & Mary, is seeking a fully funded PhD student to investigate the ecological and geomorphic impacts of sea level rise on coastal landscapes in collaboration with USGS Woods Hole. kirwan@vims.edu for details.

Looking for a postdoc to join our group at VIMS! Postdoc will use remote sensing, alongside ecological and geomorphological monitoring data, to quantify landscape evolution in the mid-Atlantic sea-level rise hotspot. Details + application here: jobs.wm.edu/postings/56899

Mary Bryan wowed the crowd with her blue carbon & barrier island research today at the @IGCP725 Annual Meeting in Florianópolis, Brazil! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Way to go, @MaryBryanBarks1!

Our recent analysis of land cover change revealed that nearly 200 Gg of carbon were lost from a portion of the coast in ~40 years BUT compensatory mechanisms in the coastal landscape replaced this loss in <7 years! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A huge congratulations to two of our Early-Career Research Fellows, Dr. Kendall Valentine and Dr. Siyu Yu, for being named #OceanDecade Champions! These women are leaders at the frontier of research and innovation in ocean and coastal science. Learn more:ow.ly/RYez50PU05T

great few days in the field with Wenwen, our visiting scholar from China. We are looking at how various management techniques affect invasive #Phragmites biomass allocation. #saltmarsh #invasionecology #saltyscience #BlackwaterWildlifeRefuge

It’s more than just preserving nature. Protecting Maryland’s Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge means safeguarding the land for present and future generations. Refuge Manager Marcia Pradines Long explains 👇#WorldAnimalDay

This is us! Come join our lab at @VIMS_News! Full details on both positions are available here: vims.edu/research/units…

New paper: It took only 7 years for surviving #bluecarbon ecosystems to replace 36 years worth of degradation across the entire @vcrlter coast. Led by @SaltMudVegHeat @VIMS_News. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great non-technical story on East Coast ghost forests, explaining interesting new research in DE, MD, VA and NC. by @amygmcdermott pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Hike the marshy backroads of the #MidAtlantic, and you'll find an insidious thumbprint of #ClimateChange. Some 40,000 acres of dead trees spear the sky. I wrote about efforts to map these #GhostForests and what's at stake for #CoastalCommunities. @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Here is a new PNAS story featuring some of our works on ghost forest, exciting! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

If you are intested in remote sensing and wetland, please apply for this #postdoc postion. You will get a great supervisor and an awsome team to work with! ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/64750 @DLagomasino @SwampDrCharles @sgmoreno @CoastalECU @EcuGeology @earth_jobs @UHEAS