Mingyue Xie

Mingyue Xie joined the USDA California Climate Hub as a Postdoctoral Fellow in September 2024. Her research focuses on deepening the understanding of the complex relationships between climate change, land use, and hydrology within coupled nature-human system (CNHS). She completed her PhD in the Water Resources Engineering and Science area from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2024. With an emphasis on the dynamic interactions between natural processes and anthropogenic activities, her dissertation focused on synergistic and coevolutionary features of climate-land-sediment dynamics in high mountain watersheds in the context of CNHS by proposing a novel, multi-faceted methodology approach that integrates Cellular Automata-Agent-Based Models with a hydrologic-agronomic model. By illuminating the feedback mechanisms and emergent properties, her work offers critical insights for policymakers and environmental managers aiming to fortify the resilience and sustainability of river basin systems amid ongoing climatic and land use transformations.