Professor of Biometeorology
Current Research Interests
My research aims to improve the scientific understanding of the biophysical mechanisms that govern the exchange of energy and mass between the Earth's surface and the lower atmosphere.
Current research interests include:
- Development of micrometeorological and optical stable isotope techniques to trace the flow of carbon, nitrogen, and water between the land and atmosphere
- Reactive nitrogen cycling at the biosphere-atmosphere interface
- Methane and carbon dioxide budgets of tropical and temperate peatlands
- Biophysical modeling of land-atmosphere trace gas exchange
- Atmospheric transport and fate of herbicides/pesticides
- Boundary-layer inverse analyses
Teaching
- ESPM3777: Climate Change: Physics, Myths, Mysteries, and Uncertainties
- ESPM4903: Directed Research in Atmospheric Science - undergraduate level
- ESPM 5402: Biometeorology and Boundary Layer Climates
- LAAS8195: Directed Research in Atmospheric Science - graduate level
Professional Activities and Service
Society Memberships
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society
Editorial
- Chief Editor, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2020-present)
- Editor, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2008-2020)
- Editorial Board, Atmosphere (2014-2016)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (2007-2011)
Honors, National Advisory Committees, and Affiliations
- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 2025
- The 2012 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Atmospheres, 2013
- National Science Foundation, Career Award, 2006
- CFANS Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Fundamental Instrument Unit Technical Working Group, 2009-2012
- Affiliate Member of the Yale-Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) Center on Atmospheric Environment , 2014-present
- Member, American Meteorological Society - Board on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, January 2015 - 2021
- Chair, American Meteorological Society - Board on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, January 2016 - 2020