Beyond the lab

Community Services

Editorial, review, and professional service to the broader research community.

Editorial service

  • Editorial Advisor, Plants, People, Planet (PPP), New Phytologist Foundation, 2026–present
  • Topic Editor, Geoscientific Model Development, European Geosciences Union, 2026–present
  • Associate Editor, Agronomy Journal, American Society of Agronomy (ASA), 2020–present
  • Associate Editor (2022–present) and Guest Associate Editor (2020–2022), Frontiers in Big Data
  • Topic Editor and Review Board Member, Remote Sensing, 2020–present
  • Guest Editor, Sensors, 2022–present
  • Young Editorial Board member, Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022–present

Grant review

  • Panelist for NSF, NASA, and USDA
  • Proposal reviewer for the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
  • Proposal reviewer for universities, state agencies, and research institutes

Professional Services

  • NASA Carbon Monitoring System Science Team member since 2017
  • Illinois NLRS Science Team member and chair, 2025–2026
  • SERA-46 Illinois representative
  • Academic Sector Representative board member, Sustainable Corn Exports of the U.S. Grains Council, 2024–2028
  • AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award judge

Conference Organization

  • Primary convener and session chair, AGU Fall Meeting sessions on water, agriculture, and conservation, 2024–present
  • Primary convener and session chair, AGU Fall Meeting sessions on sustainable agricultural and global agrifood systems, 2019–present

Peer Review

  • 100+ manuscript reviews
  • Reviewer for Science, Nature journals (Nature Food, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change), PNAS, and 30+ domain-leading journals
  • Publons Top Reviewer Award, Geoscience category

Working with us

If you're a grower, extension educator, or agency partner interested in collaborating on watershed or on-farm work, get in touch at binpeng@illinois.edu.