Dr. Lingling Liu is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the Natural Capital Project (NatCap). She is currently leading a NASA-funded project entitled “Investing in equity and environmental justice: an urban decision-support tool integrating earth observations, socioeconomic data, and ecosystem service models” as PI. She is also collaborating with multiple teams within MSP Urban LTER to investigate how tree canopy, bee lawns, and ash tree removal impact urban ecosystem services benefits. Dr. Liu's research interests include linking ecosystem services, land use change models including SEALS with macroeconomic models including GTAP and MANAGE, assessment of ecosystem services benefits including carbon, water, urban cooling, climate-terrestrial ecosystem interaction, and developing remote sensing algorithms and products for investigating land cover and land use change. Dr. Liu previously worked as a remote sensing data scientist on research for the NatCap at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) and in collaboration with Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE) of South Dakota State University, where she focused on the development and evaluation of a VIIRS global land surface phenology product for NASA. Dr. Liu earned her Ph.D. in cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).