Lin Meng
ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Researchers Find Ozone Influences Growing Season
Jun. 21, 2026—Lin Meng’s few short years at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø have been productive in advancing understanding of the factors that influence the changing growing seasons of plants. Meng is an assistant professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø. She posits that the most widely assumed external factor influencing the growing season of plants is global warming driven...
City Lights Are Rewriting the Calendar: ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Researchers Show Artificial Light Extends Urban Growing Seasons
Sep. 23, 2025—By Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies scientific coordinator City lights are rewriting the calendar. A new global study from ºÚÁÏÉçÇø researchers Lin Meng and Huidong Li shows that artificial light at night is more powerful than temperature in extending urban growing seasons — keeping trees greener longer, with consequences for carbon cycling, frost risk, and even...
VU Graduate Student Uses Satellites to Provide Critical ALAN Data for Public Policy
Aug. 9, 2024—By: Alexandria Leeper, Evolutionary Studies Graduate Communications Assistant Imagine you are trying to stargaze. You live in a suburban area where there are little streetlamps, and the darkness of the night envelops most of the sky, making the stars visible. However, you are adjacent to a major city. When you turn your gaze towards that...