Alexandra Konings
· Associate Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, of GeophysicsStanford University · Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Active 2007–2026
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About
Alexandra Konings is an Associate Professor of Earth System Science and, by courtesy, of Geophysics at Stanford University. She is also a Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research focuses on passive and active microwave remote sensing and the global mapping of ecohydrological variables. Additionally, she works on AI-driven flood and drought forecasting, integrating advanced remote sensing techniques with environmental and climate science. Through her leadership in the Remote Sensing Ecohydrology Group, she advances understanding of the terrestrial water cycle and its interactions with plant and climate systems, employing innovative approaches that combine AI, physical models, and large datasets for hydrology and earth systems modeling.
Research topics
- Environmental science
- Geology
- Geography
- Ecology
- Atmospheric sciences
- Biology
- Meteorology
- Remote sensing
- Computer Science
- Soil science
Selected publications
Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?
Remote Sensing of Environment · 2020 · 349 citations
This paper presents a community effort to develop good practice guidelines for the validation of global coarse-scale satellite soil moisture products. We provide theoretical background, a review of state-of-the-art methodologies for estimating errors in soil moisture data sets, practical recommendations on data pre-processing and presentation of statistical results, and a recommended validation protocol that is supplemented with an example validation exercise focused on microwave-based surface s…
Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts
Nature Climate Change · 2020 · 347 citations
Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration
Nature Climate Change · 2020 · 265 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingDetecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Global Change Biology · 2021 · 206 citations
1st authorCorrespondingDroughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water stress in trees has long focused on water potential in xylem and leaves, which influences stomatal closure and water flow through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. At the same time, changes of vegetation water content (VWC) are linked to a range of tree responses, including fluxes of water and carbon, mortality, flammability, an…
Remote Sensing of Environment · 2020 · 180 citations
Recent grants
Frequent coauthors
- 86 shared
Dara Entekhabi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 43 shared
Kaighin A. McColl
Harvard University
- 43 shared
Pierre Gentine
- 39 shared
A. Anthony Bloom
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 39 shared
Hamed Alemohammad
- 32 shared
Gregory R. Quetin
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 31 shared
María Piles
Universitat de València
- 31 shared
P. R. Moorcroft
Harvard University
Labs
Remote Sensing Ecohydrology GroupPI
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Education
- 2015
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2011
M.S., Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University
- 2009
S.B., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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