Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018
Ph.D. Student, Department of Geosciences
Research Summary: I study the physical processes that store carbon in river systems. Carbon in greenhouse gases, both natural and human-produced, drives climate change. However, over half of the world’s carbon is stored on the land, and land management will determine whether that carbon will keep accumulating in soils or be released to the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. River systems modify the landscape and store large amounts of carbon on floodplains and as downed wood. I study how that storage varies across different river systems, and how land management can maximize the storage of carbon on the landscape to mitigate climate change.