{"id":578,"date":"2024-10-24T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:44:07","slug":"qiong-gao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/faculty\/qiong-gao\/","title":{"rendered":"Qiong Gao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:29% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/IMG_3459-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-678 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/IMG_3459-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/IMG_3459-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/IMG_3459-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/IMG_3459-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/IMG_3459-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Expertise: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Land cover and land use changes, assessment of hurricane impact on mangrove canopy using LiDAR data, statistical modeling to explore the legacy effects of pre-hurricane drought on forest responses to major hurricanes and process-based modeling to explore how land changes affect the flooding risks in tropical watersheds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Publications:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Gao, Q., and Yu, M. 2021. Elevation and distribution of freshwater and sewage canals regulate canopy structure and differentiate hurricane damages to a basin mangrove forest, Remote Sensing 13, 3387. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs13173387.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Gao. Q., Yu, M., and Xu, HM 2020. Directional climate trend, intensified intra-annual variability, and changes in land cover drive the dynamics of degetation greenness in peri\u2010urban China during 2001\u20132015. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125(2), DOI:10.1029\/2019JG005336.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Gao, Q., Yu, M. 2017. Reforestation-induced changes of landscape composition and configuration modulate freshwater supply and flooding risk of tropical watersheds. PLOS One 12(7):e0181315. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0181315.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Wang C., Gao, Q., Yu, M. 2019. Quantifying Trends of Land Change in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during 2001\u20132015. Remote Sensing 11(20), 2435, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs11202435.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Wang, X. Gao, Q., Wang, C., Yu, M. 2017. Spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation phenology change and relationships with climate in the two transects of East China, Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 206-219. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.gecco.2017.01.010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Contact information:<\/strong> qiong.gao@upr.edu<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":202,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-578","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions\/839"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}