ZHOU YUCHUAN

PhD Student

Research Title: Towards Reliable, Transparent, and Spatiotemporally Explicit Forest Carbon Accounting in Southeast Asia
Research Group: Tropical Environmental Change (TEC)
Thesis Advisor: Prof David Taylor
Co-advisor: Dr Hao Tang

Yuchuan Zhou is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, specialising in remote sensing, spatial modelling, and forest monitoring. His research focuses on enhancing the understanding of forest carbon dynamics in Southeast Asia, aiming to address the challenges associated with deforestation and forest degradation, and to improve the integrity and quality of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) processes for forest-based natural climate solutions. By integrating multiple sources of data such as spaceborne LiDAR, satellite imageries, and field surveys, Yuchuan seeks to provide deeper insights into the region's forests and their role in global climate mitigation. He is affiliated with multiple research projects and institutes, such as the Carbon Governance in South East Asia project (https://cgsea.org/) and the SpEARS lab (https://www.linkedin.com/company/nus-spears-lab/) at the Centre for Natural Climate Solutions of NUS.

Before joining NUS, Yuchuan earned an MSc in Environmental Protection and Management from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Forest Sciences from the University of British Columbia.