Month: August 2026

Postdoc Mostafa Javadian is now Professor Dr. Javadian: he is starting a tenure-track position at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. To celebrate, lab members went out to lunch at Fratelli Pizza.

Holy Cross is just 20 minutes from Harvard Forest, and Mostafa expects to conduct research there. His teaching will be in the areas of general environmental science and remote sensing.

Mostafa had been with the lab since 2023, and his warmth, kindness, and good humor will be missed. Mostafa published a number of important papers during his time in Flagstaff. In one study, he applied the PT-JPL model to estimate individual tree transpiration from thermal images. In another, he carefully documented the performance of the NetCam Live2 as a suitable camera for PhenoCam use. He also contributed to the curation and publication of the PhenoCam V3 dataset, and put together another paper (not yet published) on changes in land surface temperature.

Good luck with your new position, Mostafa!

From left: Yujie Liu, Darby Bergl, Cara Fields, Jacob Blais, Delaney Watkins, Mostafa, Perry Giambuzzi, and Ben Wiebe.

Oscar drove up to Salt Lake City to participate in the 111th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. He presented two posters, “Stem freeze-thaw cycles in an evergreen woodland and its control on winter water use and photosynthesis” and “Using open-access PhenoCamimagery and data for science outreach and education in elementary to university-level classrooms.” Visitors to his posters included friends and collaborators Drew Peltier and his group from UNLV, Barry Logan from Bowdoin, Marguerite Mauritz from UTEP, and Lin Meng from Vanderbilt. After the meeting, Oscar commented that “I felt more ‘at home’ than I thought I would, due to the large number of ecophys sessions.”

Next year’s ESA meeting is in Andrew’s hometown of Toronto, Canada!