Search: Environmental Science Policy and Management, Climate Change
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Fung, Inez
Submitted by cmjones on March 16, 2007 - 1:39pm.Name of Person:
Inez Fung
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Climate and biogeochemical cycles. Geophysical fluid dynamics. Large scale numerical modeling. Remote sensing of earth systems. Atmosphere-ocean interactions, and atmosphere-biosphere interactions.
Achievements:
A principal research activity of Inez Fung is the carbon dioxide cycle. Fung’s lab uses details of the atmospheric CO2 distribution (e.g. the difference in hemispheric loading, the changes in the seasonal amplitude over time), together with atmospheric transport models to deduce the location of the carbon sink. Fung hypothesizes that the terrestrial biosphere of the northern hemisphere may be as important as the oceans as a repository for anthropogenic CO2. Another research focus is the dust cycle. Fine dust particles lofted from arid surfaces are transported long distances. While airborne, they reflect sunlight, but may, depending on their sizes and composition, absorb terrestrial radiation. When deposited to the surface oceans, the iron in the dust may be the critical limiting micronutrient for marine productivity in some ocean regions. To tackle this problem, she is combining mineralogic information about soil particles, satellite and in-situ observations, atmospheric circulation models and ocean biology models to gain an appreciation of the many roles of dust.
Stephens, Scott
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:24am.Name of Person:
Scott Stephens
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Department:
ESPM, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Scott Stephens is interested in the interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems. This includes how prehistoric fires once interacted with ecosystems, how current wildland fires are affecting ecosystems, and how future fires and management may change this interaction. He is also interested in wildland fire policy and how it can be improved to meet the challenges of the next decades. How fire will be affected by climate change is a new area of research.
Moritz, Max
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:52pm.Name of Person:
Max Moritz
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Department:
ESPM, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Maintenance of natural fire regimes in fire-prone ecosystems, while at the same time ensuring sustainable development of wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas; climate change impacts on natural fire regimes; spatial analysis of controls on fire patterns (e.g., relative importance of vegetation characteristics versus climate/weather patterns)
Fung, Inez
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:03pm.Name of Person:
Inez Fung
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Department:
Earth and Planetary Science, Professor
Research Interests:
Climate and biogeochemical cycles. Geophysical fluid dynamics. Large scale numerical modeling. Remote sensing of earth systems. Atmosphere-ocean interactions, and atmosphere-biosphere interactions.
Achievements:
A principal research activity of Inez Fung is the carbon dioxide cycle. Fung’s lab uses details of the atmospheric CO2 distribution (e.g. the difference in hemispheric loading, the changes in the seasonal amplitude over time), together with atmospheric transport models to deduce the location of the carbon sink. Fung hypothesizes that the terrestrial biosphere of the northern hemisphere may be as important as the oceans as a repository for anthropogenic CO2. Another research focus is the dust cycle. Fine dust particles lofted from arid surfaces are transported long distances. While airborne, they reflect sunlight, but may, depending on their sizes and composition, absorb terrestrial radiation. When deposited to the surface oceans, the iron in the dust may be the critical limiting micronutrient for marine productivity in some ocean regions. To tackle this problem, she is combining mineralogic information about soil particles, satellite and in-situ observations, atmospheric circulation models and ocean biology models to gain an appreciation of the many roles of dust.