Luwen Wan

Luwen Wan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford University

Biography

Hi! I am Luwen, a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Kate Maher in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. My research focuses on mapping beaver wetland complexes and quantifying beaver-induced water storage, with funding from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. I received my Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Science from Michigan State University, where I worked on nutrient transport modeling across the Great Lakes Basin and agricultural tile drainage mapping across the US Midwest region at MSU Hydrogeology Lab.

If you want to collaborate on research or project, please feel free to reach out! Email: luwenwan AT stanford.edu

Interests
  • Nutrient Fate and Transport
  • Watershed Modeling
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Remote Sensing and Earth Observations
  • Agricultural Practice Management
  • Climate adaptation and mitigation
  • Nature-based Climate Solutions
  • Beavers
Education
  • PhD in Earth and Environmenntal Science, 2018 - 2023

    Michigan State University

  • Visiting Student in Agricultural & Biological Engineering, 2016 - 2017

    Purdue University

  • MS in Geography, 2014 - 2017

    South China Normal University

  • BMgmt in Land Resource Management, 2010 - 2014

    Hunan Normal University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sep 2023 – Present Stanford, California
 
 
 
 
 
Michigan State University
Research Assistant
Feb 2018 – Aug 2023 East Lansing, Michigan

Selected Publications

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Projects

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Assessing the impacts of beaver reintroduction
This project seeks to develop tools for assessing these impacts, integrating topographic and remote sensing data with computer vision techniques. We aim to measure surface water storage, evaluate beavers' role in drought resistance and forest fire refugia, and devise methods for assessing floodplain water storage.