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.