• Ph D, Biology (Ecology), University of Toledo, 2011
• MA, Remote Sensing, Michigan State University, 2005

• Remote Pilot, Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS; Part 107), Federal Aviation Administration

• Monitoring of Invasive Yellow Sweet Clover Using Landsat/Sentinel-2, UAV Imagery and Machine Learning, NSF, (2023 - 2024)
• Monitoring of invasive Russian Olive using aerial photography, Sentinel-2, UAV imagery and machine learning, NASA SD Space Grant Consortium 'Project Innovation Grant (PIG)', (2023 - 2024)
• Multiscale mapping of prediction of Till/NoTill crop mapping using Landsat/Sentinel, UAV imagery and machine learning, SDBOR, (2023 - Present)
• Advancing Key Curriculums of Ecology and Environmental Sciences for Regional Universities in Kazakhstan & Beyond, US State Department, American Councils for International Education, (2022 - 2022)
• The effects of excessive water use and agricultural intensification on Aral Sea shrinkage: socioeconomic-environmental systems (SES) dynamics within the Syr Darya River Basin, U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and USAID , (2021 - 2023)
• Multiscale monitoring and prediction of invasive yellow sweet clover using harmonized Landsat/Sentinel 2, UAV imagery and machine learning , SDBOR FY 22 Competitive Research Grant (CRG), (2021 - 2022)
• ASD FieldSpec 4 Hyperspectral Spectroradiometer, SDBOR FY 21 Research and Development Innovation (RDI), (2021 - 2022)
• Interdependent dynamics of food, energy and water in Kazakhstan and Mongolia: Connecting LULCC to the transitional socioecological systems, NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program, (2020 - 2023)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Shirkey, Gabriela, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Kolluru, Venkatesh, Goljani Amirkhiz, Reza, Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra S., Cooper, Lauren L., and Collins, Michael. Land cover change and socioecological influences on terrestrial carbon production in an agroecosystem. Landscape Ecology, 2023. (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01647-5)
• Amirkhiz, Reza R., John, Ranjeet, and Swanson, David. A Bayesian approach for multiscale modeling of the influence of seasonal and annual habitat variation on relative abundance of ring-necked pheasant roosters, 102003. Ecological Informatics, 2023. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102003)
• Saraf, Sakshi, John, Ranjeet, Goljani Amirkhiz, Reza, Kolluru, Venkatesh, Jain, Khushboo, Rigge, Matthew, Giannico, Vincenzo, Boyte, Stephen, Chen, Jiquan, Henebry, Geoffrey, and Lafortezza, Raffaele. Biophysical drivers for predicting the distribution and abundance of invasive yellow sweetclover in the Northern Great Plains, 1--17. Landscape Ecology, 2023. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01613-1)
• Ouyang, Zutao, Sciusco, Pietro, Jiao, Tong, Feron, Sarah, Lei, Cheyenne, Li, Fei, John, Ranjeet, Fan, Peilei, Li, Xia, Williams, Christopher C., and others. Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming, 1--9. Vol. 13, Iss. 1 Nature communications, 2022. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31558-z)
• Shirkey, Gabriela, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Dahlin, Kyla, Abraha, Michael, Sciusco, Pietro, Lei, Cheyenne, and Reed, David D.. Fine resolution remote sensing spectra improves estimates of gross primary production of croplands, 109175. Vol. 326 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109175)
• Yuan, Jing, Chen, Jiquan, Sciusco, Pietro, Kolluru, Venkatesh, Saraf, Sakshi, John, Ranjeet, and Ochirbat, Batkhishig. Land Use Hotspots of the Two Largest Landlocked Countries: Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Vol. 14, Iss. 8 Remote Sensing, 2022. (DOI: 10.3390/rs14081805)
• Venkatesh, Kolluru, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Xiao, Jingfeng, Amirkhiz, Reza R., Giannico, Vincenzo, and Kussainova, Maira. Optimal ranges of social-environmental drivers and their impacts on vegetation dynamics in Kazakhstan, 157562. Vol. 847 Science of The Total Environment, 2022. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157562)
• Kolluru, Venkatesh, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Jarchow, Meghann, Amirkhiz, Reza R., Giannico, Vincenzo, Saraf, Sakshi, Jain, Khushboo, Kussainova, Maira, and Yuan, Jing. Untangling the impacts of socioeconomic and climatic changes on vegetation greenness and productivity in Kazakhstan. Environmental Research Letters, 2022.
• Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Yuan, Jing, Mack, Elizabeth, Groisman, Pavel, Allington, Ginger, Wu, Jianguo, Fan, Peilei, de Beurs, Kirsten, Karnieli, Arnon, Gutman, Garik, Kappas, Martin, Dong, Gang, Zhao, Fangyuan, Ouyang, Zutao, Pearson, Amber, Şat, Beyza, Graham, Norman, Shao, Changliang, and Qi, Jiaguo. Sustainability challenges for the social-environmental systems across the Asian drylands belt. Environmental Research Letters, 2021. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac472f)
• Amartuvshin, Amarjargal, Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Zhang, Yaoqi, and Lkhagvaa, Dansranbavuu. How does mining policy affect rural migration of Mongolia?, 105474. Vol. 107 Land Use Policy, 2021. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105474)
• Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Shao, Changliang, Ouyang, Zutao, Mack, Elizabeth E., Henebry, Geoffrey G., Dong, Gang, Allington, Ginger G., Pearson, Amber A., Zhao, Fangyuan, Roy, David D., Fan, Peilei, Shirkey, Gabriela G., Tian, Li, Kussainova, Maira, Chen, Jingyan, Reed, David D., and Abraha, Michael. Towards a Single Integrative Metric on the Dynamics of Social-Environmental Systems. Vol. 13, Iss. 20 Sustainability, 2021. (DOI: 10.3390/su132011246)
• Groisman, Pavel P., Bulygina, Olga O., Henebry, Geoffrey G., Speranskaya, Nina N., Shiklomanov, Alexander A., Chen, Yizhao, Tchebakova, Nadezhda N., Parfenova, Elena E., Tilinina, Natalia N., Zolina, Olga O., Dufour, Ambroise, Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, and Fan, Peilei. Dry Land Belt of Northern Eurasia: Contemporary Environmental Changes. In Landscape Dynamics of Drylands across Greater Central Asia: People, Societies and Ecosystems, editors Gutman, Garik; Chen, Jiquan; Henebry, Geoffrey M.; Kappas, Martin, 11--23. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30742-4_2)
• Henebry, Geoffrey G., de Beurs, Kirsten K., John, Ranjeet, Owsley, Braden B., Kariyeva, Jahan, Chymyrov, Akylbek, and Mirzoev, Mirasil. Recent Land Surface Dynamics Across Drylands in Greater Central Asia. In Landscape Dynamics of Drylands across Greater Central Asia: People, Societies and Ecosystems, editors Gutman, Garik; Chen, Jiquan; Henebry, Geoffrey M.; Kappas, Martin, 25--47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30742-4_3)
• Chen, Jiquan, Ouyang, Zutao, John, Ranjeet, Henebry, Geoffrey G., Groisman, Pavel P., Karnieli, Arnon, Pueppke, Steven, Kussainova, Maira, Amartuvshin, Amarjargal, Tulobaev, Askarbek, Yespolov, Tlektes T., Crank, Connor, Kadhim, Ameen, Qi, Jiaguo, and Gutman, Garik. Social-Ecological Systems Across the Asian Drylands Belt (ADB). In Landscape Dynamics of Drylands across Greater Central Asia: People, Societies and Ecosystems, editors Gutman, Garik; Chen, Jiquan; Henebry, Geoffrey M.; Kappas, Martin, 191--225. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30742-4_10)
• Sciusco, Pietro, Chen, Jiquan, Abraha, Michael, Lei, Cheyenne, Robertson, G. G., Lafortezza, Raffaele, Shirkey, Gabriela, Ouyang, Zutao, Zhang, Rong, and John, Ranjeet. Spatiotemporal variations of albedo in managed agricultural landscapes: inferences to global warming impacts (GWI), 1385-1402. Vol. 35, Iss. 6 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 2020. (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-020-01022-8)
• Chen, Jiquan, Sciusco, Pietro, Ouyang, Zutao, Zhang, Rong, Henebry, Geoffrey G., John, Ranjeet, and Roy, David. D.. Linear downscaling from MODIS to landsat: connecting landscape composition with ecosystem functions, 2917--2934. Vol. 34, Iss. 12 Landscape Ecology, 2019. (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-019-00928-2)
• Park, Hogeun, Fan, Peilei, John, Ranjeet, Ouyang, Zutao, and Chen, Jiquan. Spatiotemporal changes of informal settlements: Ger districts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 103630. Vol. 191 Landscape and Urban Planning, 2019. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103630)
• Ouyang, Zutao, Fan, Peilei, Chen, Jiquan, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Messina, Joseph J., Giannico, Vincenzo, and John, Ranjeet. A Bayesian approach to mapping the uncertainties of global urban lands, 210-218. Vol. 187 LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING, 2019. (DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.07.016)
• Xu, Yecheng, Zhang, Yaoqi, Chen, Jiquan, and John, Ranjeet. Livestock dynamics under changing economy and climate in Mongolia, 104120. Vol. 88 Land Use Policy, 2019. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104120)
• Giannico, Vincenzo, Chen, Jiquan, Shao, Changliang, Ouyang, Zutao, John, Ranjeet, and Lafortezza, Raffaele. Contributions of landscape heterogeneity within the footprint of eddy-covariance towers to flux measurements, 144-153. Vol. 260 AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 2018. (DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.06.004)
• Groisman, Pavel, Bulygina, Olga, Henebry, Geoffrey, Speranskaya, Nina, Shiklomanov, Alexander, Chen, Yizhao, Tchebakova, Nadezhda, Parfenova, Elena, Tilinina, Natalia, Zolina, Olga, Dufour, Ambroise, Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Fan, Peilei, Mayas, Csaba, Yesserkepova, Irina, and Kaipov, Ildan. Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences. Vol. 13, Iss. 11 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2018. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae43c)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Giannico, Vincenzo, Park, Hogeun, Xiao, Jingfeng, Shirkey, Gabriela, Ouyang, Zutao, Shao, Changliang, Lafortezza, Raffaele, and Qi, Jiaguo. Grassland canopy cover and aboveground biomass in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia: Spatiotemporal estimates and controlling factors, 34-48. Vol. 213 REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 2018. (DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.002)
• Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Sun, Ge, Fan, Peilei, Henebry, Geoffrey G., Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria M., Zhang, Yaoqi, Park, Hogeun, Tian, Li, Groisman, Pavel, Ouyang, Zutao, Allington, Ginger, Wu, Jianguo, Shao, Changliang, Amarjargal, Amartuvshin, Dong, Gang, Gutman, Garik, Huettmann, Falk, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Crank, Connor, and Qi, Jiaguo. Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian plateau: five critical issues. Vol. 13, Iss. 12 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2018. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf27b)
• Chu, Housen, Baldocchi, Dennis D., John, Ranjeet, Wolf, Sebastian, and Reichstein, Markus. Fluxes all of the time? A primer on the temporal representativeness of FLUXNET, 289-307. Vol. 122, Iss. 2 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES, 2017. (DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003576)
• Shao, Changliang, Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Dong, Gang, Abraha, Michael, Batkhishig, Ochirbat, John, Ranjeet, Ouyang, Zutao, Zhang, Yaoqi, and Qi, Jiaguo. Grassland productivity and carbon sequestration in Mongolian grasslands: The underlying mechanisms and nomadic implications, 124-134. Vol. 159 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, 2017. (DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.08.001)
• Shao, Changliang, Chen, Jiquan, Li, Linghao, Dong, Gang, Han, Juanjuan, Abraha, Michael, and John, Ranjeet. Grazing effects on surface energy fluxes in a desert steppe on the Mongolian Plateau, 485-502. Vol. 27, Iss. 2 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, 2017. (DOI: 10.1002/eap.1459)
• Ouyang, Zutao, Shao, Changliang, Chu, Housen, Becker, Richard, Bridgeman, Thomas, Stepien, Carol C., John, Ranjeet, and Chen, Jiquan. The Effect of Algal Blooms on Carbon Emissions in Western Lake Erie: An Integration of Remote Sensing and Eddy Covariance Measurements. Vol. 9, Iss. 1 REMOTE SENSING, 2017. (DOI: 10.3390/rs9010044)
• Qi, Jiaguo, Xin, Xiaoping, John, Ranjeet, Groisman, Pavel, and Chen, Jiquan. Understanding livestock production and sustainability of grassland ecosystems in the Asian Dryland Belt, 22. Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Ecological Processes, 2017. (DOI: 10.1186/s13717-017-0087-3)
• Park, Hogeun, Fan, Peilei, John, Ranjeet, and Chen, Jiquan. Urbanization on the Mongolian Plateau after economic reform: Changes and causes, 118-127. Vol. 86 APPLIED GEOGRAPHY, 2017. (DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.06.026)
• Fan, Yi, Chen, Jiquan, Shirkey, Gabriela, John, Ranjeet, Wu, Susie S., Park, Hogeun, and Shao, Changliang. Applications of structural equation modeling (SEM) in ecological studies: an updated review, 19. Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Ecological Processes, 2016. (DOI: 10.1186/s13717-016-0063-3)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Kim, Youngwook, Ou-yang, Zu-tao, Xiao, Jingfeng, Park, Hoguen, Shao, Changliang, Zhang, Yaoqi, Amarjargal, Amartuvshin, Batkhshig, Ochirbat, and Qi, Jiaguo. Differentiating anthropogenic modification and precipitation-driven change on vegetation productivity on the Mongolian Plateau, 547-566. Vol. 31, Iss. 3 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 2016. (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0261-x)
• Giannico, Vincenzo, Lafortezza, Raffaele, John, Ranjeet, Sanesi, Giovanni, Pesola, Lucia, and Chen, Jiquan. Estimating Stand Volume and Above-Ground Biomass of Urban Forests Using LiDAR. Vol. 8, Iss. 4 REMOTE SENSING, 2016. (DOI: 10.3390/rs8040339)
• Xie, Jing, Chen, Jiquan, Sun, Ge, Zha, Tianshan, Yang, Bai, Chu, Housen, Liu, Junguo, Wan, Shiqiang, Zhou, Caixian, Ma, Hong, Bourque, Charles P. -A., Shao, Changliang, John, Ranjeet, and Ouyang, Zutao. Ten-year variability in ecosystem water use efficiency in an oak-dominated temperate forest under a warming climate, 209-217. Vol. 218 AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 2016. (DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.12.059)
• Liu, Zhanyu, Chen, Jiquan, Qi, Jiaguo, John, Ranjeet, Cheng, Jiaan, and Zhu, Zengrong. The Effect of Landscape Composition on the Abundance of Laodelphax striatellus Fallen in Fragmented Agricultural Landscapes. Vol. 5, Iss. 4 LAND, 2016. (DOI: 10.3390/land5040036)
• Fan, Peilei, Chen, Jiquan, and John, Ranjeet. Urbanization and environmental change during the economic transition on the Mongolian Plateau: Hohhot and Ulaanbaatar, 96-112. Vol. 144 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, 2016. (DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.09.020)
• Shao, Changliang, Chen, Jiquan, Stepien, Carol C., Chu, Housen, Ouyang, Zutao, Bridgeman, Thomas T., Czajkowski, Kevin K., Becker, Richard R., and John, Ranjeet. Diurnal to annual changes in latent, sensible heat, and CO2 fluxes over a Laurentian Great Lake: A case study in Western Lake Erie, 1587-1604. Vol. 120, Iss. 8 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES, 2015. (DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003025)
• Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Zhang, Yaoqi, Shao, Changliang, Brown, Daniel D., Batkhishig, Ochirbat, Amarjargal, Amartuvshin, Ouyang, Zutao, Dong, Gang, Wang, Dan, and Qi, Jiaguo. Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau, 559-570. Vol. 65, Iss. 6 BIOSCIENCE, 2015. (DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv050)
• Abraha, Michael, Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, Zenone, Terenzio, John, Ranjeet, Su, Yahn-Jauh, Hamilton, Stephen S., and Robertson, G. G.. Evapotranspiration of annual and perennial biofuel crops in a variable climate, 1344-1356. Vol. 7, Iss. 6 GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY, 2015. (DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12239)
• Chen, Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Shao, Changliang, Fan, Yi, Zhang, Yaoqi, Amarjargal, Amartuvshin, Brown, Daniel D., Qi, Jiaguo, Han, Juanjuan, Lafortezza, Raffaele, and Dong, Gang. Policy shifts influence the functional changes of the CNH systems on the Mongolian plateau. Vol. 10, Iss. 8 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2015. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/085003)
• Lafortezza, Raffaele, Tanentzap, Andrew A., Elia, Mario, John, Ranjeet, Sanesi, Giovanni, and Chen, Jiquan. Prioritizing fuel management in urban interfaces threatened by wildfires, 342-347. Vol. 48 ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, 2015. (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.08.034)
• Ouyang, Zutao, Chen, Jiquan, Becker, Richard, Chu, Housen, Xie, Jing, Shao, Changliang, and John, Ranjeet. Disentangling the confounding effects of PAR and air temperature on net ecosystem exchange at multiple time scales, 46-58. Vol. 19 ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY, 2014. (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2014.04.005)
• Zhang, Feng, John, Ranjeet, Zhou, Guangsheng, Shao, Changliang, and Chen, Jiquan. Estimating Canopy Characteristics of Inner Mongolia's Grasslands from Field Spectrometry, 2239-2254. Vol. 6, Iss. 3 REMOTE SENSING, 2014. (DOI: 10.3390/rs6032239)
• Xie, Jing, Chen, Jiquan, Sun, Ge, Chu, Housen, Noormets, Asko, Ouyang, Zutao, John, Ranjeet, Wan, Shiqiang, and Guan, Wenbin. Long-term variability and environmental control of the carbon cycle in an oak-dominated temperate forest, 319-328. Vol. 313 FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 2014. (DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.032)
• Xie, Jing, Sun, Ge, Chu, Hou-Sen, Liu, Junguo, McNulty, Steven S., Noormets, Asko, John, Ranjeet, Ouyang, Zutao, Zha, Tianshan, Li, Haitao, Guan, Wenbin, and Chen, Jiquan. Long-term variability in the water budget and its controls in an oak-dominated temperate forest, 6054-6066. Vol. 28, Iss. 25 HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, 2014. (DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10079)
• Chu, Housen, Chen, Jiquan, Gottgens, Johan J., Ouyang, Zutao, John, Ranjeet, Czajkowski, Kevin, and Becker, Richard. Net ecosystem methane and carbon dioxide exchanges in a Lake Erie coastal marsh and a nearby cropland, 722-740. Vol. 119, Iss. 5 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES, 2014. (DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002520)
• Deal, Michael M., Xu, Jianye, John, Ranjeet, Zenone, Terenzio, Chen, Jiquan, Chu, Housen, Jasrotia, Poonam, Kahmark, Kevin, Bossenbroek, Jonathan, and Mayer, Christine. Net primary production in three bioenergy crop systems following land conversion, 451-460. Vol. 7, Iss. 5 JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY, 2014. (DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtt057)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Noormets, Asko, Xiao, Xiangming, Xu, Jianye, Lu, Nan, and Chen, Shiping. Modelling gross primary production in semi-arid Inner Mongolia using MODIS imagery and eddy covariance data, 2829-2857. Vol. 34, Iss. 8 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, 2013. (DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.746483)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Ou-Yang, Zu-Tao, Xiao, Jingfeng, Becker, Richard, Samanta, Arindam, Ganguly, Sangram, Yuan, Wenping, and Batkhishig, Ochirbat. Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010. Vol. 8, Iss. 3 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2013. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035033)
• Zhu Luping, Li Haitao, Chen Jiquan, John, Ranjeet, Liang Tao, and Yan Maochao. Emergy-based sustainability assessment of Inner Mongolia, 843-858. Vol. 22, Iss. 5 JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES, 2012. (DOI: 10.1007/s11442-012-0967-5)
• Li, Hai-tao, Gu, Chen-jie, Liang, Tao, Xu, Jian-ye, and John, Ranjeet. A new perspective of ecosystem health, 127--132. Vol. 22, Iss. 1 Journal of Forestry Research, 2011. (DOI: 10.1007/s11676-011-0138-z)
• Xu, Jianye, Chen, Jiquan, Brosofske, Kimberley, Li, Qinglin, Weintraub, Michael, Henderson, Rachel, Wilske, Burkhard, John, Ranjeet, Jensen, Randy, Li, Haitao, and Shao, Changliang. Influence of Timber Harvesting Alternatives on Forest Soil Respiration and Its Biophysical Regulatory Factors over a 5-year Period in the Missouri Ozarks, 1310-1327. Vol. 14, Iss. 8 ECOSYSTEMS, 2011. (DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9482-2)
• Sun, Ge, Caldwell, Peter, Noormets, Asko, McNulty, Steven S., Cohen, Erika, Myers, Jennifer J., Domec, Jean-Christophe, Treasure, Emrys, Mu, Qiaozhen, Xiao, Jingfeng, John, Ranjeet, and Chen, Jiquan. Upscaling key ecosystem functions across the conterminous United States by a water-centric ecosystem model. Vol. 116 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES, 2011. (DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001573)
• Lu, N, Wilske, B, Ni, J, John, Ranjeet, and Chen, J. Climate change in Inner Mongolia from 1955 to 2005-trends at regional, biome and local scales, 045006. Vol. 4, Iss. 4 Environmental Research Letters, 2009. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045006)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Lu, Nan, and Wilske, Burkhard. Land cover/land use change in semi-arid Inner Mongolia: 1992-2004. Vol. 4, Iss. 4 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2009. (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045010)
• Wilske, Burkhard, Lu, Nan, Wei, Long, Chen, Shiping, Zha, Tonggang, Liu, Chenfeng, Xu, Wenting, Noormets, Asko, Huang, Jianhui, Wei, Yafen, Chen, Jun, Zhang, Zhiqiang, Ni, Jian, Sun, Ge, Guo, Kirk, McNulty, Steve, John, Ranjeet, Han, Xingguo, Lin, Guanghui, and Chen, Jiquan. Poplar plantation has the potential to alter the water balance in semiarid Inner Mongolia, 2762-2770. Vol. 90, Iss. 8 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 2009. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.03.004)
• LaCroix, Jacob J., Li, Qinglin, Chen, Jiquan, Henderson, Rachel, and John, Ranjeet. Edge effects on fire spread in a disturbed Northern Wisconsin landscape, 1081-1092. Vol. 23, Iss. 9 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 2008. (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9265-0)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Lu, Nan, Guo, Ke, Liang, Cunzhu, Wei, Yafen, Noormets, Asko, Ma, Keping, and Han, Xingguo. Predicting plant diversity based on remote sensing products in the semi-arid region of Inner Mongolia, 2018-2032. Vol. 112, Iss. 5 REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 2008. (DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.09.013)
• Kolluru, Venkatesh, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Xiao, Jingfeng, Amirkhiz, Reza Goljani, Giannico, Vincenzo, and Kussainova, Maira. Optimal ranges of socio-environmental drivers and their impacts on vegetation dynamics in Kazakhstan. Science of the Total Environment.
• Ouyang, Zutao, Sciusco, Pietro, Jiao, Tong, Feron, Sarah, Lei, Cheyenne, Lei, Fei, John, Ranjeet, Fan, Peilei, Li, Xia, Williams, Christopher , Chen, Guangzhao, Wang, Chenghao, and Chen, Jiquan. Albedo changes caused by future urbanizationcontribute to global warming. Nature Communications.

• Belbas Larson Teaching Award Nomination, University of South Dakota, 2021

• Swanson, David, Illeperuma, Nadeesha, Dixon, Mark, and John, Ranjeet, Impacts of redcedar invasion along the Missouri National Recreational River on winter bird richness and abundance. Presented at the Missouri River Natural Resources Conference, Helena, MT. (June 13, 2023)
• Illeperuma, Nadeesha, John, Ranjeet, Dixon, Mark, and Swanson, David, Impacts of redcedar invasion along the Missouri River on winter riparian bird richness and abundance. Presented at the Missouri River Institute Research Symposium, Vermillion, SD. (November 10, 2022)
• John, Ranjeet, "The Status and Future of Remote Sensing of Rangelands Land Use. Presented at the NASA LCLUC Program's Silver Jubilee 2022 Science Team Meeting, Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Maryland. (October 19, 2022)
• John, Ranjeet, UAS Applications. Presented at the Advancing Key Curriculums of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Rural Kazakhstan Universities, Korkyt Ata University, Kzylorda, Kazakhstan. (June 21, 2022)
• John, Ranjeet, Remote Sensing of Environment. Presented at the Advancing Key Curriculums of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Rural Kazakhstan Universities, Korkyt Ata University, Kzylorda, Kazakhstan. (June 20, 2022)
• Bollig, Madalyn C., Dixon, Mark, John, Ranjeet, and Sweeney, Mark, Ecological Changes of the Lower Niobrara River Valley and Lewis and Clark Lake Delta from Past to Present. Presented at the Missouri River Natural Resources Conference, Nebraska City, NE. (March 22, 2022)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan , Kolluru, Venkatesh , Goljani-Amirkhiz, Reza , Yuan, Jing, Kussainova, Maira, and Saraf, Sakshi, Interdependent Dynamics of Food, Energy and Water in Kazakhstan and Mongolia: Connecting LCLUC to Socioecological Systems in Central Asian transitional economies. Presented at the American Geophysical Union 2021, New Orleans. (December 17, 2021)
• Kolluru, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan , Giannico, Vincenzo, Kussainova, Maira, Saraf, Sakshi, Goljani-Amirkhiz, Reza, and Jain, Khushboo, Untangling the Role of Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes on Vegetation Greenness and Productivity in Kazakhstan. Presented at the American Geophysical Union 2021, New Orleans. (December 17, 2021)
• Shirkey, Gabriela , John, Ranjeet, Dahlin, Kyla, Sciusco, Pietro, Chen, Jiquan, Abraha, Michael, Lei, Cheyenne , and Reed, David, Improving Modeling of gross primary production through integration of high resolution remote sensing images . Presented at the Fall 2021 SpecNet Community Meeting (October 29, 2021)
• John, Ranjeet, Interdependent Dynamics of Food, Energy and Water in Kazakhstan and Mongolia: Connecting LULCC to the Transitional Socioecological Systems. Presented at the LCLUC Central Asia Webinar Series 2021, online. (June 17, 2021)
• John, Ranjeet, GIS and Application. Presented at the Key Curriculums for Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Kazakhstan and Central Asia Academic Institutions, online. (May 28, 2021)
• John, Ranjeet, Remote Sensing of Environment. Presented at the Key Curriculums for Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Kazakhstan and Central Asia Academic Institutions, Online. (May 25, 2021)
• Shirkey, Gabriela, John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan, Abraha, Michael, Sciusco, Pietro, and Reed, David , Evaluation of satellite-derived gross primary production products across managed Midwest landscapes. Presented at the 2020 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting (October 08, 2020)
• John, Ranjeet, Chen, Jiquan , and Zhao, Jinhua, GC21E-1288-Interdependent dynamics of food, energy and water in Kazakhstan and Mongolia: Connecting LULCC to the transitional socioecological systems. Presented at the AGU 2019 Annual meeting, Moscone South, San francisco. (December 10, 2019)
• Ruma, Amena B., Sweeney, Mark, John, Ranjeet, and Dixon, Mark, Patterns and Processes of Sandbar Revegetation on the Missouri National Recreational River. Presented at the 2019 Missouri River Institute Symposium, Vermillion, SD. (November 21, 2019)
• John, Ranjeet, Grassland Canopy Cover and Aboveground Biomass on the Mongolian Plateau: Spatiotemporal Estimates and Controlling Factors. Presented at the WaferX NSF EpSCOR Grant Annual meeting, University of South Dakota. (June 10, 2019)