TERRA-PNW

TERRA - PNW Overview

The mission of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research and Regional Analysis group (TERRA-PNW) is to quantify and understand the response of terrestrial ecosystems to natural and human-induced changes such as climate, wildfire and land management practices.

Our lab has diverse interests that share a common focus: understanding the dynamics of land-based ecological communities. Our insights into climate and disturbance effects on ecological processes and global change are generated primarily by research on forest, woodland and shrubland ecosystems.

We approach questions at a variety of scales, from minutes to years and from leaf to region, and with a diversity of tools ranging from biogeochemical studies on soils, physiological studies at the leaf and whole plant level, micrometeorological studies on fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapor from whole ecosystems, and controlled field experiments, to satellite remote sensing of land characteristics and biogeochemistry modeling of carbon, nitrogen and water cycling across the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Beverly E. Law, Director and Professor