Dafeng Zhang
Postdoctoral fellow
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Dafeng is broadly interested in understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystems to changing climate and intensified human activities from the perspective of ecosystem structure and carbon. She finished her PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown University in 2024. At UCLA’s IoES, she will investigate the response of coastal forests by mapping their carbon stocks and changes globally.