Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground: The 50-year carbon and nitrogen budgets of the Calhoun Experimental Forest
I am a doctoral student of Duke's Ecology program and Nicholas School of the Environment. I am interested in how forest ecosystems sequester carbon from the atmosphere, the longevity of that storage, and how forest management may promote or disrupt carbon storage. In my dissertation, I am quantifying carbon storage in a southeastern US forest, with the goal of informing emerging carbon markets, offset protocols, and forest management. I work at the Calhoun Experimental Forest, one of the world's longest-running forest experiments, where above- and belowground carbon have been estimated for five decades.
