About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo. My research focuses on land-atmosphere interactions and carbon-water coupling. My work aims to improve the understanding and estimation of water, energy, and carbon exchanges between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Currently, I am working on peatland hydrology and carbon dynamics, with a particular interest in how peatland ecosystems respond to environmental and climate change.
I earned my M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in 2018. My master’s research investigated the responses of forest carbon-water coupling to juvenile thinning at both the leaf and individual tree scales in a 16-year-old natural Pinus contorta stand. I completed my Ph.D. in Geography (Water) at the University of Waterloo in 2025. My doctoral research focused on the role of microtopography and ground cover in evapotranspiration partitioning within high-elevation wetlands in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Selected Publications
Wang, Y., Petrone, R., & Kompanizare, M. (2024). Toward a unified understanding of estimating evapotranspiration: The linkage between three effective parsimonious models. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036910
Wang, Y., Petrone, R., & Van Huizen, B. (2023). The dependence of evaporative efficiency of vegetated surfaces on ground cover mass fractions in vegetated soils in mesic ecosystems. Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15036
Wang, Y., Wei, X., del Campo, A., Winkler, R., Wu, J., Li, Q., & Liu, W. (2019). Juvenile thinning can effectively mitigate the effects of drought on tree growth and water consumption in a young Pinus contorta stand in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117667
Papers Under Review/In Revision (Preprint Available)
Toward an Integrated Framework for Surface Energy Flux Estimation: A Refined Formulation Combining Equilibrium-Based and Maximum Entropy Production Models
Submitted to Water Resources Research, 2026Technical note: How well do evapotranspiration partitioning approaches perform in moss-covered wetlands?
Submitted to Biogeosciences via EGUsphere, 2025
Academic Activities
Poster: Adjacent Forest Harvesting Impacts on Peatland Carbon Exchange at a Single-Site Level: A Preliminary Comparison of CaMP and CLASSIC Models, Peatland Science Symposium 2026, Quebec City, Canada, 2026
Oral Presentation: How Well do Evapotranspiration Partitioning Approaches Perform in Moss-covered Wetlands?, Canadian Geophysical Union Conference 2025, Saskatoon, Canada, 2025
Blog Posts
A collection of random thoughts, life updates, travel and activities, and reflections after finishing books. These posts are personal and informal, and usually have nothing to do with academic research :)
Moving My Website from UBC Blogs to GitHub
May 01, 2026Book Reflections: 1587, a Year of No Significance by Ray Huang
April 30, 2026A Pleasant Surprise from Canadian Geophysical Union
March 20, 2026Book Reflections: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
December 30, 2025Book Reflections: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
October 11, 2025