SEPTEMBER 2023 - New paper out in Nature Food: Agricultural Diversification in Rice Production

AUGUST 2023 - Siyan's agroecology opinion paper is published in Cell Press' iScience

JULY 2023 - Our 2. UN Food System Summit Dialogue in Java, Indonesia was held successfully

JULY 2023 - Ache defended his PhD thesis and is now Dr. Ache

JULY 2023 - Our "Ecosystem monitoring with AI-based embedded devices" preprint is online

JULY 2023 - Yan Yan receives his 'Tree of Science' certificate to promote science in rural areas

JULY 2023 - President Yigong Shi and the Westlake Education Foundation visit our lab

JULY 2023 - Our UN Food System Summit Dialogue in Indonesia was successfully conducted

JULY 2023 - Our lab attends our symposium at the ATBC 2023 in India. Online.

JUNE 2023 - Estelle and Tom attend the World Food Program Seminar on China-Africa Rice Value Chain

JUNE 2023 - Sheng Dong' Bachelor of Science work on plastic effects on bees was ranked "outstanding"

MAY 2023 - Tom visits Prof. Vincenot at University of Luxembourg

MAY 2023 - Our lab is co-hosting the the International Cocoa Agroforestry Workshop in Montpellier

MAY 2023 - Manu's new paper shows that hand pollination can triple cocoa yields in Brazil

MAY 2023 - Siyan's paper on identifying spatial fallow priority areas is out

MAY 2023 - Tom gives scientific keynote at the Agriculture & Fisheries Minister's Meeting

MAY 2023 - Qianqian and Xiaohan conduct more than 450 (!) surveys with rice and cocoa farmers

APRIL 2023 - Xiaohang Huang has joined the lab as new Research Assistant

APRIL 2023 - Colleagues from the UN World Food Program are visiting our lab at Westlake University

MARCH 2023 - Dr. Yebei Li joins the lab to develop the GEMM monitoring initiative in Hangzhou Bay

APRIL 2023 - Tom speaks at the World Tropical Agricultural Science Forum in Hainan

MARCH 2023 - Tom gives talk at Zhejiang University's Smart Agriculture Lecture Series

MARCH 2023 - Qianqian, Estelle & Tom meet collaborators and farmers in Hainan

MARCH 2023 - Tom gives a talk at the 'Plant Technology Alliance – Sustainability Talks Series'

MARCH 2023 - Tom's paper on pesticide effects on amphibians and reptiles is finally out.

MARCH 2023 - Kevin's ecoSound-web paper is published

LABLIFE - Housewarming party with lab and friends

FEBRUARY 2023 - Chengcheng officially joins the lab

FEBRUARY 2023 - Manu and Estelle's Global South Leadership paper is out

FEBRUARY 2023 - Restarting the embedded camera work in collaboration with CATAS in Hainan

JANUARY 2023 - Estelle's new paper is out

JANUARY 2023 - We have officially joined the Agroecology Coalition

LAB LIFE - Posters, T-shirts, and LinXi's total team Photoshop

JANUARY 2023 - Marcel submitted 2 (!) new patents on our devices

JANUARY 2023 - We reinstate 'School of Engineering' Happy Hour

January 2022 - Our AI-based ecosystem monitoring cameras are ready for mass production

DECEMBER 2022 - Lab Cake & Christmas Dinner

NOVEMBER 2022 - Lab gossip, skateboarding, and how we recruit - Ving's love letter to the lab

DECEMBER 2022 - Tom speaks as part of the China delegation at the GEMM Asia Summit 2022

NOVEMBER 2022 - Ms. Aruhan Olhnuud from China Agricultural University gives an external lab talk

NOVEMBER 2022 - Manu wins the "World Young Scientists 2022" Award

NOVEMBER 2022 - 4th Cocoa & Coffee Forum, CATAS 65th Anniversary Lecture, and some fun a the beach

NOVEMBER 2022 - Our new paper on the recommendations of the 2nd Agrobiodiversity Congress is out

NOVEMBER 2022 - Hello Saba, Bye-Bye Kevin and Jilan

NOVEMBER 2022 - Our Brazil Project team finds exciting guest on the way

OCTOBER 2022 - We are leading the "ESG Coffee Talks" Series on Sustainable Agriculture in Hangzhou

OCTOBER 2022 - Siyuan publishes his first PhD paper on plastic detection in environmental samples

OCTOBER 2022 - Tom (almost) attends the World Food Forum in Rome

SEPTEMBER 2022 - Tom speaks at the FAO "Agroecology & Conservation Communities" Dialogue