Lin Meng
91³Ô¹ÏÍø Researchers Find Ozone Influences Growing Season
Jun. 21, 2026—Lin Meng’s few short years at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 91³Ô¹ÏÍø. 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: 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 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 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 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...