My research interests focus on:
 
1. Terrestrial ecosystem processes, especially energy, water, and carbon exchange among soil, vegetation, and atmosphere
 
2. Ecosystem respiration and belowground processes
 
3. Ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling and global change
 
4. Measuring and modeling ecological patterns and processes from cell to globe
 
5. Applying remote sensing and GIS techniques in ecosystem/spatial modeling.
 
 
Research Projects:
 
1. Measuring soil surface CO2 and NOx efflux in different ecosystems in New Jersey. (For the pine barrens project website, click here.)
 
2. Landuse change and carbon sequestration in the terrestrial ecosystems in New Jersey.
 
3. Carbon balance in the terrestrial ecosystems in China from 1982 to 1999 (Collaborating with Drs. Peng Gong and Ye Qi at UC Berkeley).

4. Ecosystem carbon measurement, modeling, and management in young ponderosa pine plantation in the Sierra Nevada, California (Collaborating with Drs. Ye Qi and Allen Goldstein at UC Berkeley).
 
5. Biodiversity and microclimate across a forest landscape in the southeastern Missouri Ozarks (Collaborating with Dr. Jiquan Chen at the University of Toledo).