Speaker: Licheng Liu, assistant professor, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, UW–Madison

Quantifying ecosystem greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes and carbon sequestration is challenging
due to strong nonlinear processes and complex land–atmosphere interactions. This talk
introduces a knowledge-integrated artificial intelligence framework that embeds ecosystem
process understanding into machine learning models to advance ecosystem GHG and carbon
sequestration estimation. Case studies from agroecosystem carbon budgeting and ecosystem
methane modeling demonstrate how this approach enhances predictive performance and
interpretability, with potential to assist climate change mitigation and ecosystem management