TAI

The Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales - Field Measurements and Experiments project aims to understand how interactions among water, soils, sediments, and plants drive carbon and nutrient fluxes and transformations across the coastal interface

My team explores the mechanisms of a recently discovered phenomenon - emission and/or uptake of methane and other trace gases like nitrous oxide from trees. We use a range of field and laboratory techniques to understand, and ultimately predict the magnitude and drivers of tree trace gas cycling in upland and wetland forests.

This project seeks to unravel the sequence of processes and sources of terrestrially-derived organic matter that culminate in the immense carbon dioxide outgassing to the atmosphere from tropical rivers worldwide.