Investigates environmental parameters driving net carbon sequestration efficiency in wetlands
Ate Visser
Ate will quantify fluxes of water through sediments using novel isotopic tracers to identify the source, evaporation effects, and transit times
Christina Richardson
Christina quantifies lateral organic and inorganic carbon exchange in the Delta wetlands
Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens
Studies atmospheric and lateral exchange, sequestration, and biogeochemical processes in wetland ecosystems to understand their impacts on the ecosystem carbon balance
Emilio Grande
My role on this project is to contribute to the study of surface-subsurface water exchanges and their implications for carbon budget and cycling
Karis McFarlane
Uses radiocarbon to track carbon cycling and quantify carbon accumulation in wetlands
Lisamarie Windham-Myers
Lisa's research focuses on the biogeochemistry of wetlands and estuaries, spanning from landscape-to-molecular scales, to understand how alterations of wetland structure influences wetland function
Margaret Zimmer
My role on this project is to contribute to the field-based salt marsh carbon budget and cycling research
Patty Oikawa
Patty oversees fieldwork at Edan Landing and develops methods to quantify lateral carbon loss
Xavier Mayali
Stable isotope labeling and analysis via NanoSIMS
Susan Pit
Susan is part of the subsurface biogeochemistry team and will be in charge of fieldwork and lab work to generate and analyze data for her PhD dissertation
Jessica Silberman
Jessica studies the tidal effects on ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and methane in restored tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay
Aliya Khan
Aliya quantifies lateral carbon flux and geochemistry of surface waters in the Elkhorn Slough to model carbon and nutrient movement
Marco Montemayor
Marco examines methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide fluxes in the Elkhorn Slough using eddy covariance and chamber data
Eddy Covariance
Ariane Arias Ortiz
Ariane investigates the balance between carbon sequestration, emissions, and hydrologic export in wetlands with different restoration designs
Claudie Beaulieu
Claudie develop Random Forest models to upscale greenhouse gas emissions and undergraduate student curricula focused on climate and data literacy
Dennis Baldocchi
Dennis oversees fieldwork at the Delta wetland sites with a focus on the eddy covariance tower data
Kai Zhu
Kai employs statistical and machine learning methods to estimate greenhouse gas emissions at larger scales using ecosystem models as a foundation for the analysis
Margaret Torn
Margaret shares our eddy covariance flux data by uploading it to AmeriFlux
Robert Shortt
Robert combines remote sensing data with direct measurements of GHG fluxes to better inform policy
J.J. Jabuka
J.J. analyzes eddy covariance data in Elkhorn Slough to understand how ecosystem health influences carbon dioxide and methane fluxes
Sylvain Labedens
Sylvain processes and analyzes data from multiple eddy covariance towers in Elkhorn Slough to estimate the net ecosystem carbon balance of different wetland types
Grace Pearsall
Grace develops statistical protocols to identify hotspots and hot moments of methane emission
Luna Osleger
Luna oversees the function and data collection from the eddy covariance towers at Elkhorn Slough
Microbiology
Buck Hanson
Buck studies the ecology of wetland sediment microbes and their roles in carbon cycling
Jennifer Pett-Ridge
Jennifer is identifying microorganisms and linking their carbon turnover and activity to biogeochemical process rates at a high taxonomic resolution
Chad Saltikov
Chad characterizes microbial communities in wetland soils using molecular techniques
Rhona Stuart
Rhona utilizes stable isotope probing to quantify microbial activity
Ty Samo
Ty applies stable isotope probing and microscopy to quantify microbial activity, biomass, and taxa in wetland environments
Leah VanDyke
Leah examines the role of microbial ecology in carbon sequestration for her PhD dissertation
Ecosystem Services Team
Andrew Platinga
Andrew is working on the economics of coastal wetlands, particularly the valuation of ecosystem services generated by restoration projects
David Zilberman
David uses economic models to assess carbon market values for sequestration
Ashley Larsen
Ashley is analyzing the effects of land use changes on the environment by evaluating ecosystem services and disservices, as well as ecological drivers and impacts
Katherine Seto
Katherine evaluates environmental justice and equity implications of wetland restoration for carbon sequestration
Robert Shortt
Robert combines remote sensing data with direct measurements of GHG fluxes to better inform policy
Carolina Bueno
Carolina Studies wetland restoration policy and socioeconomic impacts, focusing on decarbonization and environmental justice
Policy, Governance, and Justice
Team
Gwen Arnold
Gwen identifies factors that encourage or discourage policy decision-makers from developing and implementing policies relevant to wetlands carbon sequestration
Richard Matthew
Richard assesses barriers to effective and fair community participation in decision-making and develops guidelines for facilitating procedural justice
Avipsa Roy
Avipsa helps develop spatial analysis methods to generate policy/governance framework for carbon sequestration using quantifiable metrics to determine exposure of vulnerable populations in California
Hillary Angelo
Hillary focuses on the social science aspects of wetland restoration projects and contributes to the conceptualization and study of equity and justice considerations within them
Jessica Garrison
Jessica examines the interactions between climate change, historical inequality, and social change in shaping environmental justice
Mark Lubell
Mark analyses the interactions among policy institutions, human behavior, and political decisions
James Sirigotis
James works to conceptualize historical justice in the context of coastal wetland projects and their valuation
Kyra Gmoser-Daskalakis
Kyra studies collaborative governance and stakeholder decision-making in wetland restoration project implementation
Stephanie Martinez
Stephanie studies the intersection of environmental justice and equitable approaches to decision-making in wetlands governance
Modeling Climate & Restoration Effects Team
Bhavna Arora
Bhavna is the model integration lead
Zelalem Mekonnen
Zelalem models the impacts of climate change and restoration options on wetland carbon balance
Yu Zhang
Yu works on coastal hydrologic and geochemical modeling
David Moulton
David is a computational scientist supporting the development of process-rich models of restoration impacts on wetland biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling
Peter Nico
Peter's research focuses on transition metal redox processes and soil carbon stabilization mechanisms using advanced synchrotron-based techniques
Qinjun Kang
Qinjun uses the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator model to investigate the impact of restoration practices on carbon sequestration
Yi Xu
Yi uses established models to investigate how different coastal wetland restoration options and climate change will affect wetland hydrology and carbon balance
