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Xueyuan Gao

Postdoctoral researcher @ Princeton University. Work on carbon dioxide removal, nature-based climate solutions, BECCS, carbon offsetting and voluntary carbon markets,

integrity of carbon credits from emission reduction and removal, digital monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV), science-policy interaction. I am an avid reader of Quantum Commodity Intelligence daily carbon market report and actively share carbon market news on my LinkedIn profile.

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Positions

Postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University, US, October 2024 - now

  • Research with the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, associated with the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

  • Advisor: Jonathan Levine

Visiting Student, Cambridge Center for Carbon Credits (4C), University of Cambridge, UK, May - June 2024

  • Hosts: Andrew Balmford, David Coomes, Thomas Swinfield

  • Supported by 2024 UMD Graduate Fellowship for International Collaboration

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Education

University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, U.S., 2019-Aug 2024 

Ph.D.: Remote Sensing and Carbon Cycle

Thesis: Exploring and assessing land-based climate solutions using Earth observations, Earth system models, and integrated assessment models

 

NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (selected as alternate), 2024

Dean's Research Initiative Grant, UMD, 2024

Graduate Fellowship for International Collaboration (at University of Cambridge, UK), UMD, 2024

Graduate School Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, UMD, 2023

American Association of Geographers Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, AAG, 2023

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UMD, 2022

National Center for Atmospheric Research Graduate Student Small-Allocation Computing Award, NCAR, 2021

Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, UMD, 2021

Geographical Science Summer Research Fellowship, UMD, 2020

Graduate School Jacob K. Goldhaber Award, UMD, 2024, 2019

Graduate School Dean's Fellowship, UMD, 2019

Geography Graduate Student President, 2022-2023
Departmental representative in Graduate Student Government, 2020-2022

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