Skip to Main Content
You are now in the main content area

Cheryl A. Rogers, PhD

Assistant Professor
OfficeJOR 618A
Phone416-979-5000 ext.3122
Areas of Expertiseremote sensing; terrestrial carbon cycling; global change; plant ecophysiology; ecosystem ecology;
https://sites.google.com/view/cherylarogers/ (external link) 

Biography:

My research focuses on linking measurements from earth observation platforms to photosynthesis on the ground in order to better understand, map, and monitor carbon exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere. I hold an M.Sc. in Natural Resource Science from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in Physical Geography from the University of Toronto. I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University. My work involves characterizing spatial and temporal variability in vegetation structure, function, and physiology across scales ranging from individual leaves and ecosystems, to the global Earth system. My research is motivated by a desire to contribute to solving the challenges posed by climate change, in hopes that we can better monitor, predict, and mitigate the impact of this global threat.

Recent Work:

Leng, J., Chen, J.M., Li, W., Luo, X., Xu, M., Liu, J., Wang, R., Rogers, C., Li, B., Yan, Y..  Global datasets of hourly carbon and water fluxes simulated using a satellite-based process model with dynamic parameterizations. Earth System Science Data. Accepted.

·     Paper and Peer review: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-328 (external link) 

·     Data sets: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8240492 (external link) 

·     Model Code: https://github.com/JChen-UToronto/BEPS_hourly_site (external link) 

Kalamandeen, M., Gulamhussein, I., Bermudez Castro, J., Sothe, C., Rogers, C., Snider, J., Gonsamo, A.. Climate Change and Human Footprint Increase Insect defoliation across central boreal forests of Canada. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1293311 (external link) 

Zhang, J., Gonsamo, A., Tong, X., Xiao, J., Rogers, C.A., Liu, P., Yu, P., Ma, P.. (2023). Solar-induced fluorescence captures photosynthetic phenology better than traditional vegetation indices. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2023.07.021 (external link) 

Weiland, L., Rogers, C.A. (corresponding author), Sothe, C., Arain, M.A., Gonsamo, A.. (2023). Satellite-based land surface temperature and soil moisture observations accurately predict soil respiration in temperate deciduous and coniferous forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 340, 109618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109618 (external link) 

Liu, Y., Chen, J.M., He, L., Wang, R., Smith, N.G., Keenan, T., Rogers, C.A., Li, W., Leng, J.. (2023). Global photosynthetic capacity of C3 biomes retrieved from solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and leaf chlorophyll content. Remote Sensing of Environment. 287, 113457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113457 (external link) 

Rogers, C.A., Chen, J.M., Land cover and latitude affect vegetation phenology determined from solar induced fluorescence across Ontario Canada. (2022). International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geomatics. 114, 103036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103036 (external link) 

Liu, Y., Chen, J.M., He, L., Zhang, Z., Wang, R., Rogers, C., Fan, W., d’Oliviera, G., Xie, X. (2022). Non-linearity between gross primary productivity and far-red solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence emitted from major biomes. Remote Sensing of Environment. 271, 112896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.112896 (external link) 

Li, Y., Ma, Q., Chen, J.M., Croft, H., Luo, X., Zheng, T., Rogers, C., Liu, J., (2021). Fine-scale leaf chlorophyll distribution across a deciduous forest through two-step model inversion from Sentinel-2 data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 264, 112618. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RSE.2021.112618 (external link) 

Rogers, C., Chen, J.M., Croft, H., Gonsamo, A., Luo, X., Bartlett, P., Staebler, R.M. (2021). Daily leaf area index from photosynthetically active radiation for long term records of canopy structure and leaf phenology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 304-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108407 (external link) 

Rogers, C., Chen, J. M., Zheng, T., Croft, H., Gonsamo, A., Luo, X., et al. (2020). The response of spectral vegetation indices and solar‐induced fluorescence to changes in illumination intensity and geometry in the days surrounding the 2017 North American solar eclipse. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005774 (external link) 

Croft, H., Rogers, C., Maseyk, K., 2020. 1.4: Remotely sensing Arctic plant productivity, in: Callaghan, T.V., Savela, H., Johansson, M. (Eds.), INTERACT 2020. Stories of Arctic Science II. Aarhus University, Denmark, pp. 24–25.

·         PDF:  (PDF file) https://eu-interact.org/app/uploads/2021/05/SS2_web_12feb.pdf (external link) 

·         Interactive e-book: https://browserclient.twixlmedia.com/0275b2135d2c06935d4e4526b940bfb7 (external link) 

He, L., Chen, J. M., Liu, J., Zheng, T., Wang, R., Joiner, J. Chou, S., Chen, B., Liu, Y., Liu, R., Rogers, C. (2019). Diverse photosynthetic capacity of global ecosystems mapped by satellite chlorophyll fluorescence measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111344 (external link) 

Gonsamo, A., Chen, J. M., He, L., Sun, Y., Rogers, C., & Liu, J. (2019). Exploring SMAP and OCO-2 observations to monitor soil moisture control on photosynthetic activity of global drylands and croplands. Remote Sensing of Environment, 232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111314 (external link)