My research program involves applying a range of techniques from eco-physiology and ecosystem ecology to study how plants and ecosystems acclimate to environmental change. This includes field studies with plants growing in their native habitats, in addition to lab and controlled environment studies.

Understanding these fundamental processes provides the basis for modelling and predicting plant and ecosystem response to global climate change.

Current projects include:

Study of the eco-physiological responses of plants and ecosystems to experimental warming and modified precipitation patterns using infrared heating and rain shelters in a native grassland ecosystem.

Analyses of riparian cottonwood forest evapo-transpiration based on a combination of eddy covariance flux measurements and stable isotope analyses of tree water source use.

Development of improved linkages between vegetation reflectance measurements and plant eco-physiological characteristics to aid interpretation of remote sensing measurements and to scale-up plant eco-physiological measurements to larger spatial scales.