Research Interests

I am an ecosystem ecologist with broad research interests that include: 1) nutrient biogeochemical interactions across trophic levels in coastal ecosystems; 2) ecosystem response to global environmental change, and 3) land use and biogeochemical cycling. While my area of expertise is in phosphorus biogeochemistry and its link to carbon and other biolimiting elements, my research is driven by the desire to understand how earth’s natural systems are functionally interrelated and modified by human behavior. These research efforts integrate ecosystem processes at multiple scales – from nutrient transformations to response of ecosystem components such as plants and microbes leading to reciprocal feedbacks to climate and environmental change. I am also interested in building integrated environmental monitoring networks for studying global environmental change (see Indoflux Initiative).

Ecosystem response to global environmental change