Liza Jenkins completed her PhD degree from SEAS in May 2019. Dr. Jenkins works at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, where she is continuing her research applying satellite remote sensing to study global change in the Arctic.

Liza recently led a paper published in Ambio with results from some of her dissertation research: “Satellite-based decadal change assessments of pan-Arctic environments”, 2019 Ambio (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01249-z). This research studied trends in a newly-available 17-year satellite record of the circumpolar Arctic region, including a wide range of standardized terrestrial and marine variables at resolutions from 500 m to 25 km. Some key results from the paper are that over this time period, land surface temperature, growing season length, and NDVI have increased, while in the Arctic ocean, ice cover has decreased and marine productivity (measured by chlorophyll presence) has increased.

The full paper can be downloaded here: