The people behind the framework

Built through
collaboration.

The UC Davis Global Environmental Change Lab, led by Professor Erwan Monier, brings together model development, crop and climate science, calibration, remote sensing, and applications across scales.

Professor Erwan Monier, principal investigator of the UC Davis Global Environmental Change LabPrincipal investigator

Erwan Monier

Project leadership.

Shuaiqi Wu, former Ph.D. researcher on AquaCrop at UC DavisFormer Ph.D. researcher

Shuaiqi Wu

Python implementation, sensitivity analysis, and continental calibration and evaluation for U.S. maize. Now a postdoctoral researcher at Emory University, calibrating AquaCrop for peanut and soybean in Georgia.

Heather Childers, graduate researcher developing the AquaCrop multiscale calibration frameworkGraduate researcher

Heather Childers

Multiscale calibration framework integrating field, remote-sensing, and subnational yield data.

Zach Van Vechten, former undergraduate AquaCrop research intern at UC DavisFormer undergraduate intern

Zach Van Vechten

Investigated geoengineering impacts on crop yield using AquaCrop. Now a Ph.D. student at Boston University.