On March 29th, 2024, Ziyu Zhou (undergraduate student) presented her research, “​​Near-term phenology forecasting with mechanistic and data-driven models,” at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences (MSSISS). This work, in collaboration with Drs. Yiluan Song and Kai Zhu, examines popular predictive phenological models through the lens of statistics and ecology.