Research Highlights

Dozens of UAlbany Researchers Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists (press released by UAlbany on Nov-20-2025)

UAlbany Climate Scientists Among World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers (press released by UAlbany on Nov-18-2025)

UAlbany Researchers Make Top 2% Worldwide List (press released by UAlbany on Dec-3-2024)

Floods differ in a warmer future (News & Views by Nature Climate Change on Nov 28, 2022)

Study: Decreasing Wildfires Observed Over Central Africa (press released by UAlbay on Sep-24-2020)

Study: Decreasing Wildfires Observed Over Central Africa (press released by UAlbay on Sep-24-2020)

Decreasing wildfires observed over Central Africa (featured by phys.org on Sep-16-2020)

A Longer Dry Season in the Congo Rainforest (featured by NASA on Jul-3-2019)

Study: Longer Summer Dry Season Observed in Congo Rainforest (press released by UAlbay on Jul-2-2019)

Modeling Wind Power’s Impact on Local Climate (press released by UAlbany on Jan-11-2018)

Solving the Puzzle: Drought in Central Africa (press released by UAlbany on Dec-14-2016)

Heart of Drought featured in Sensing Our Planet, NASA Earth Science Research 2015 (featured by NASA on October 13, 2015)

Potential Impacts of Long-term Drought on Congo Rainforest (press released by Nature, NASA, and UAlbany on Apr-23-2014)

Possible Impacts of Wind Farms on Local Land Surface Temperature (press released by Nature, NASA, NSF and UAlbany on Apr-30-2012)

Satellite Images Reveal Link Between Urban Growth, Changing Rainfall Patterns (press released by Stanford University on Jul-2-2007)

Zhou et al. 2001: One of the Most Cited Papers in the Field of Geosciences
(acknowledged by Thomson-ISI on Sep-01-2005)

Heating Up: Study Shows Rapid Urbanization in China Warming the Regional Climate
Faster than Other Urban Areas (press released by GT on Jun-22-2004)

Vegetation's Effect on Summer Warming May Not Last (highlighted by AGU on Nov-15-2003)

Scientific American Top Science Stories of 2001 (released on Dec-24-2001)

Biomass Carbon Stocks, Sources and Sinks (press released by NASA, EFI and BU on Dec-18-2001)

Earth is Becoming a Greener Greenhouse (press released by NASA, AGU and BU on Sep-04-2001)