Josh Gray received the Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, in 2012. Since then, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. His research interests include remote sensing and ecosystem modeling with a particular emphasis on integrating improved land surface characterizations into ecosystem models to better understand the consequences of climate and land-use/land-cover change.