By Lou Brett, University of Strathclyde
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Our Early Career Researcher (ECR) of the Month for September 2024 is Sifang Feng!
Sifang is currently in the fourth year of her PhD at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Sifang’s research topic explores high-impact extreme events like compound hot-dry events, wildfires, and co-occurrent crop failure.
Sifang’s Ph.D. work has been evaluating historical change, attribution and projection of compound dry-hot events in the hydrological cycle. Recently, she has been trying to extend her focus from climate extreme events to high-impact extreme events like co-occurrent crop failure and wildfire based on climate models and impact models. One completed piece of work quantified the influence of spatial dependence among crop production on global crop loss based on simulation from ISIMIP. Her current work is concentrating on fire attribution with a novel focus on actual fire events rather than traditional fire weather; it’s very interesting!
Outside of work, Sifang enjoys bouldering, swimming and chess.
If you are interested in reading more about Sifang’s research, you can find the links to her published work beneath and at her personal website: https://www.sifangfeng.blog/publications/.
Amplified future risk of compound droughts and hot events from a hydrological perspective (2023). Journal of Hydrology, 617, 129143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129143
Climate change impacts on concurrences of hydrological droughts and high temperature extremes in a semi-arid river basin of China (2022). Journal of Arid Environments, 202, 104768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104768
Changes in climate-crop yield relationships affect risks of crop yield reduction (2021). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 304-305, 108401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108401
A multi-index evaluation of changes in compound dry and hot events of global maize areas (2021). Journal of Hydrology, 602, 126728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126728
Thanks for reading!
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Post edited by Pauline Rivoire. Photo credits: Pauline Rivoire (top image), Sifang Feng (portrait).
