Our work focuses on improving the ways we predict plant responses to climate change and our understanding of environmental stress physiology.
We are based in the departments of Botany & Plant Pathology and Forest Ecosystems & Society at Oregon State University.
We work across systems exploring the factors mediating water use, drought tolerance, and community physiological diversity.
We work in Costa Rica in the largest continuous of tropical dry forest in the Central American Dry Corridor. Part of our long-term ecological monitoring project that takes place in Santa Rosa and Palo Verde national parks.
We collaborate with the International Institute of Tropical Forestry and USDA Forest Service to leverage Forest Inventory Analysis data.
We study the physiological variation of ponderosa pine & trembling aspen and its consequences on montane forests resilience to drought.