Diyang Cui is a Ph.D. student in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds B.S. in Geographical Information Sciences from Beijing Normal University. She has worked with Prof. Shunlin Liang on developing climate maps and detecting climate relocations and their implications on terrestrial ecosystems. In her time at UMD, she has served as a research assistant working on coal power phase-out in China at the Centre for Global Sustainability (CGS). Her current research interests include climate change and biogeography, assessment of climatic exposure and strategies for conservation and sustainable development.