Research

Bill Emanuel Research Interests
Global environmental change presents an array of challenging problems and research opportunities. I continue to be particularly interested in and focused on land processes and the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems as these affect rising greenhouse gas levels while responding to disturbance by natural phenomena and human activiites as well as to enviornmental change. Integration and synthesis within an earth system perspective are critical and this is an equally interesting and important aspect of my research. My major interests and initiatives include:
  • Modeling and analysis of the fundamental processes that are responsible for terrestrial biogeochemistry, land-surface processes in weather and climate, and disturbance regimes and associated ecosystem responses and recovery;
  • Design, development, and implementation of field and remote sensing observation networks coordinated with intensive and long-term field experiments and studies;
  • Integration and sysntesis of environmental change observations within comprehensive regional and global models; and
  • Assessment of the regional and global impacts of environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems.
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