Yu Zhou

Dr. Yu Zhou is Lecturer at ETH Zurich's Department of Environmental Systems Science, specializing in carbon cycle modeling and remote sensing applications. Her research bridges ecological processes with computational approaches to address climate change challenges.

Key research areas include:

• Integration of remote sensing data with ecosystem models
• Machine learning applications in carbon flux estimation
• Vegetation-climate interactions in dryland systems
• Continental-scale carbon budget assessments

Her work develops novel methodologies for monitoring forest carbon dynamics and quantifying surface biogenic fluxes across North America and Central Asia. Recent publications demonstrate advances in scaling field observations to regional assessments using multi-source data integration.

She contributes to projects at the intersection of climate physics and ecosystem science, leveraging satellite data and AI techniques to improve predictions of vegetation responses to environmental change.