Research, carbon science and selected publications.
I’ve more than 10 years of experience leading research on the numerical modeling of carbon sinks and sources in ocean and coastal ecosystems and their contribution to the global carbon budget.
- Land–Ocean Carbon Fluxes & Carbon Sink/Source Quantification
I led the implementation of riverine carbon and nutrient fluxes into a data-assimilative global ocean biogeochemistry model, enabling quantification of land-to-ocean carbon fluxes and their impact on the ocean carbon cycle. I delivered new global-to-regional estimates of ocean carbon cycle response to terrestrial inputs, directly informing uncertainty in the global carbon budget.
Selected publication:
Supported by following programs:
- NASA Carbon Monitoring System
- ECCO-Darwin
- Carbon Transformation Across Estuaries & the Aquatic Continuum
I am leading the development of an integrated land-to-ocean module representing sources, sinks, and transformations of carbon and nutrients across rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. This work reduces uncertainty in the global carbon budget by resolving land–ocean feedbacks and the leakage of carbon through connected systems.
Selected publication:
Supported by following programs:
- NASA Carbon Monitoring System
- NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science
- Carbon Fluxes in Coastal Ecosystems Under Environmental Change
I am developing process-based numerical models of tidal flats, kelp forests, and mangrove ecosystems to quantify environmental controls on carbon fluxes. I apply these models to assess ecosystems sensitivity to acute disturbances and long-term climate change, with direct implications for evaluating nature-based carbon removal solutions.
Selected publication:
Supported by following programs:
- NASA Coastal Resilience
- NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change
- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique LEFE-EC2CO