"Yushu Xia is an assistant research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a research institute of the Columbia Climate School, where she leads the Soil Systems Lab. Her research focuses on the assessment and modeling of soil health, with the overarching goal of simultaneously advancing agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability, and ecosystem benefits. By improving soil health, Xia aims to reduce negative environmental impacts, while also encouraging key positive outcomes such as carbon storage, water retention, and biodiversity."
"Her work bridges field-based science and advanced modeling-including artificial intelligence and process-based models-to inform more resilient land management strategies that benefit farmers, ranchers, communities and the planet. Xia came to Columbia in 2024 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she developed a fusion model to estimate carbon dynamics by combining remote sensing with process-based simulations."
Yushu Xia leads the Soil Systems Lab at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and focuses on assessing and modeling soil health to advance agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability, and ecosystem benefits. Her work aims to reduce negative environmental impacts while promoting carbon storage, water retention, biodiversity, and resilient ecosystems that benefit farmers, ranchers, and communities. Research methods combine field-based science with advanced modeling, including artificial intelligence and process-based models, and integrate empirical field data, lab work, surveys, remote sensing, and high-performance computing. Prior work developed a fusion model blending remote sensing with process-based simulations to estimate carbon dynamics.
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