Team

Lydia’s research focuses on improving restoration success in the Mojave Desert, particularly though the use of biological soil crust (biocrust). She is investigating methods for restoring biocrust in highly disturbed soils, and how increased biocrust impacts soil function and vascular plant communities. She also works on developing methods to support Read more…

Jeremy Forsythe’s research focuses on the ecological mechanisms behind terrestrial plant community assembly, disturbance recovery, and the patterns of biodiversity. He combines field-based measurements of plant demographics & carbon stocks, in-situ greenhouse gas exchange observations from eddy covariance, vegetation indices from satellite remote sensing, and advanced quantitative/statistical methodologies from ecoinformatics Read more…

Mostafa’s research focuses on understanding the complex responses of the terrestrial biosphere to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change, and land-use change across broad temporal and spatial scales through the application of multi-scale remote sensing techniques, eddy covariance flux tower measurements, and climate data. Selected Publications Javadian, M., Scott, R.L., Read more…

Long-term ecological time series are essential for evaluating the biological impacts of global change. Continuity and consistency in available time series is absolutely critical for valid inference. We ask “Can existing AmeriFlux data be used to extend, back in time, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) datasets that did not begin Read more…

Research area of Dishant revolves around environmental microbiology, microbial genomics and metagenomics. His previous research work uncovered the complexity of enriched bacterial community to devise self-sustainable bio-electrochemical systems for textile wastewater bioremediation. Now in Navarro lab, he investigates the trophic interactions between bacteria and protists and the impact of these Read more…

Jon aims to improve our understanding of global carbon cycling through data-model integration. His previous work investigated carbon flow in tropical agroecosystems, including soil carbon protection mechanisms and conversion of bioenergy grasses to fuel. He now focuses on quantifying US land carbon sequestration potential and uncertainty using matrix models and Read more…