Current position
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Spring 2025-Current
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Associate Professor
Rutgers University Environmental Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences, and Geography |
Education
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PhD, Geography
Winter 2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Terrestrial-Atmospheric Exchange of Reduced Sulfur Compounds in Natural Ecosystems |
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BA, Chemistry and Political Science
Spring 2004 |
New College of Florida
The honors college of the Florida state university system |
Appointments
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Assistant Professor
2019-2025 |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Environmental Sciences
Surface-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange |
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Postdoctoral Researcher
2017-2019 |
University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Carbonyl Sulfide Exchange over the Amazon Basin |
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NSF-AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2015-2017 |
Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology
Stable Isotope Investigations of Soil Trace Gas Exchange for Better Quantification of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes |
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Postdoctoral Scholar
2014-2015 |
Sierra Nevada Research Institute & Livermore National Laboratory Natural C Group
Deciphering Urban and Natural Exchanges of Carbon in the San Francisco Bay Area |
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Researcher, Facilitator
2013-2015 |
NSF Geoscience Education Program
Future Scientists Improving the Public’s Climate Literacy |
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Graduate Student Instructor
2007-2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Promoting Climate Literacy Global Warming Introduction to Ocean Sciences Introduction to Earth Science World Regions, Peoples, and States |
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Graduate Student Researcher
2007-2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Atmospheric Sustainability Laboratory |
Research Interests
biosphere-atmosphere interactions
biogeochemical cycling of S, C, and water
novel approaches for estimating carbon uptake
biogeochemical cycling of S, C, and water
novel approaches for estimating carbon uptake
publications
Honors and awards
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Rutgers Democracy Lab Program Award
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2025
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Workshop
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2024
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Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute Groundwork Grant
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2024
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Rutgers Early Career Research Award
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2023
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NSF CAREER Award
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2023
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AGU Caregiver Award
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2018
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Carnegie Postdoc Innovation Award
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2017
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NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
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2015 - 2017
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Janet Witter Award for Environmental Science Research
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2013
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Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
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2012
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Martin Foundation Research Funding Award
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2012
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UC Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant
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2012
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Graduate Student Association Community Leader Award
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2010
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Invited Seminars
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NASA Decadal Survey Planetary Boundary Layer Incubation
Community Meeting Silver Spring, MD Mutually Beneficial Wind and Trace Gas Measurements |
April 2025
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NOAA NASA Joint Workshop on Space-based 3D Winds
College Park, MD Exploring the shared information in greenhouse gas and wind measurements |
February 2025
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Rutgers Newark Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Newark, NJ Hot spots, remote sensing, and soil trace gas exchange |
Nov 2024
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University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA Land carbon uptake for the masses |
Oct 2024
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Rutgers Department of Marine Sciences
New Brunswick, NJ The past and future of the carbon and sulfur cycles |
Oct 2022
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Rutgers Camden Department of Biology
Camden, NJ What happened to plants during the last glacial maximum? |
Oct 2022
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Keynote talk: 3rd International OCS Workshop
Utrecht, Netherlands Questions we are poised to answer |
Sept 2022
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Rutgers Department of Ecology and Evolution
New Brunswick, NJ What do plants do all day? |
Apr 2021
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University of Delaware
Department of Geography and Geosciences The Persistent Mystery of Land Carbon Uptake |
Mar 2021
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Lamont-Doherty Observatory
Palisades, NY Unraveling the Carbon Cycle with Carbonyl Sulfide |
Oct 2020
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NASA Goddard GISS Group
New York, New York Tracers in the Trees: Innovations in Carbon Cycle Tools |
Mar 2020
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NASA ECOSTRESS Science Team Meeting
Ventura, CA New Estimates of Terrestrial Carbon and Water Fluxes |
Feb 2020
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Keynote talk: 2nd International OCS Workshop
Obergurgl, Austria What we don’t know about OCS-specific uncertainties |
Nov 2019
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ORNL Integrating Evidence for CO2 Fertilization, Biosphere II
Oracle, AZ Carbon fertilization from the ice core record |
Sept 2018
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USGS Rocky Mountain Research Science Seminar
Golden, CO Three ways to evaluate how well we know the carbon cycle |
Mar 2018
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Carbonyl Sulfide Research Group Workshop
Hyytiälä, Finland Many paths to GPP estimates |
Sep 2016
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Biogeochemistry Seminar Series New approaches to evaluate land carbon models |
Sep 2016
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Wayne State University
Department of Geology Seminar Series Intertwining the fast C and S cycles |
Apr 2016
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Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Plant Biology Round Table Seminar Better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake using measurements of COS exchange |
Feb 2015
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Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Global Ecology Seminar Soils, complexity, and ecosystem carbon exchange |
Oct 2014
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Connecting C and S biogeochemical cycles: GPP, mineralization in soil and rainfall events |
Jun 2013
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Synergistic Activities
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Mentoring. Trained 20 undergraduate research assistants in laboratory-based and field-based gas analyses; advised 4 undergraduate students in the completion of their honors theses.
Community. Proposed and led a Keck Institute for Space Studies workshop "Forging Community Consensus for an Integrated GHG and Winds Program" in 2024. Initialized and authored a comprehensive review paper for best practices applying the carbonyl sulfide tracer technique. Organized an international organization of researchers to focusing on new approaches to measuring photosynthesis. Maintain community website (cosanova.org) and facilitate semi-annual meetings. Peer Review. Review papers for PNAS, Frontiers in Ecology, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (EGU), and Biogeosciences (EGU) among others. Public educational institutions. Subject specialist for NSF-sponsored Promoting Climate Literacy Project with the Lawrence Hall of Science; developed course curriculum to teach climate change outreach to informal audiences by undergraduate and graduate students. An updated version of this course was taught at Rutgers in Spring 2024. University educational outreach. Delivered physical science-focused guest lectures in 4 social sciences courses to promote cross-discipline dialogue; developed a new course on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle (upper division undergrads/grads); developed a new course on Terrestrial Ecosystems and Climate (incoming college freshmen); revitalized and reformulated the required department journal club (graduate students), planning to teach the Climate Literacy to Informal Audiences (e.g. the general public) in Spring 2024 (upper division undergraduates, graduates) |
Teaching experience
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As Instructor
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Atmospheric Chemistry
Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Promoting Climate Literacy Environmental Sciences Journal Club Academic Advising |
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As Teaching Assistant
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Introduction to Earth Science
Introduction to Oceans World Regions, Peoples, and States Global Warming |
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As Guest Lecturer
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Ecophysiology and Land Surface Processes (Stanford)
California Landscapes Gender and Climate Change The Ocean World |
FieldWORK Experience
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Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA: 2024-continuing
Installation of IR cameras, laser spectrometer, and wind sensors. Collection of litter and moss samples from forest floor; in collaboration with Jackie Matthes at Harvard University. Howland Forest, Orono, ME: 2021-continuing Installation of laser spectrometer, soil chambers, gradient method OCS, CH4, CO2, and N2O; in collaboration with Daniel Oberst at UMass Lowell and Roisin Commane at Columbia University. Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil: INPE, 2018-continuing Installation and calibration of laser spectrometer; method development for programmable flask sampling for flights over the Amazon, in collaboration with Joe Berry of the Carnegie Institution, Elliott Campbell of UC Santa Cruz, Luciana Gatti of INPE, and John Miller of NOAA. Boulder Creek, CA: Big Basin State Park, 2016-2020 Design and construction of instrument platform, installed 65 m up at the top of redwood tree, for continuous observation of OCS, CO, and CO2. Soil, litter, and lichen collection and incubation. Urbana, IL: Bondville FLUXNET site, 2015-2016 Deployment of re-designed soil auto-sampling chambers to assess agricultural soil COS fluxes in situ, supported by lab incubation experiments, in collaboration with Max Berkelhammer at the University of Illinois Chicago. Big Sur, CA: Big Creek UC Reserve, 2015-2016 Design and construction of “Trees-not-Towers” gas sampling device, diurnal observation of trace gases from different canopy heights in a coastal redwood forest in collaboration with Todd Dawson of University of California, Berkeley and Elliott Campbell, current advisor Wind River, WA: Wind River Experimental Forest, 2015 Re-design of Li-Cor autosampling chambers for COS soil sampling, continuous surface COS fluxes in old growth forest, in collaboration with Chris Still and Bharat Rastogi of Oregon State University Santa Cruz, CA: Wilder Ranch State Park, 2012-2014 Conducted monthly trace gas sampling campaigns on marine terraces in collaboration with USGS scientist Marjorie Schulz Puerto Rico: Luquillo Experimental Forest, 2010 Design and construction of chemically inert chambers for reduced sulfur compound sampling, in situ rainforest soil trace gas measurements with Whendee Silver of University of California, Berkeley Sacramento Bay Delta, CA: Sherman Island, 2009-2010 Conduct year-long monthly field campaign with 4 research assistants, chamber sampling halogenated compounds using isotope tracer technique Port Aransas, TX: Mollie Beattie Coastal Habitat, 2008-2009 Wetland sampling of sulfur and halogenated compounds with Dong-Ha Min of the University of Texas at Austin Manhattan, KS: Konza Prairie Long Term Ecological Research Station, 2007 Diurnal sampling of halogenated gases using chamber technique Barrow, AK: Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, 2007 Construction and deployment of ebullition chambers, high frequency chamber sampling of methane with laser technique, coastal permafrost erosion methane sampling with Joe von Fischer of Colorado State University Gulf of Mexico: Mote Marine Laboratory, 2005-2006 Deep and surface water sampling, trace element sampling (e.g. Fe), in situ sample prep, boat piloting/trailering in inter-coastal waters |