If you are senior graduate student or postdoc interested in joining our group, please consider applying to
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Postdoctoral Fellowships
- NSF Atmospheric Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Or contact Róisín with an overview of your research interests to discuss proposal ideas. There are no open positions in the group at the moment.
Research Overview
We investigate surface - atmosphere fluxes of greenhouse gases and air pollutants using field measurements, atmospheric trace gas observations and various modeling tools and the ecosystem processes driving these fluxes. Our urban work is hosted on the New York Atmospheric composition and Air Quality (NYAAQ) website. We focus on carbon (CO2 and methane) fluxes for our Arctic tundra and Boreal ecosystems. Our global approach to quantifying carbon fluxes is explained in the CarbonFOX project and more recently through collaborations with the MethaneSAT mission.
Recent News
Ludda will be joining the Department of Earth and Environmental Science PhD program in the fall of 2019. Her interests are scaling methane and carbon dioxide emissions, climate change impacts on Arctic carbon cycling through wildfires and permafrost thaw, and coupled biogeochemical cycling at terrestrial-aquatic interfaces. Ludda received her M.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and B.A. in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College
Roisin presented a brown-bag (lunch) meeting on on our plans for urban carbon and air quality at the NYCParks yesterday in a beautiful building! As a thank you they presented her with her name in trees!! And a very cool NYCParks T-shirt!
Roisin wanted to know if this this officially makes her a New Yorker now... Jury is out on that one!
Roisin had a very productive trip to University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA to give a seminar on our Arctic carbon work. There was even some snow falling as Roisin and her host Xi Yang visited their measurement tower.
Róisín gave an invited seminar in the Dept of Physics at University of Toronto, with a quick side trip to visit colleagues at Environment and Climate Change Canada. Thanks to host Debra Wunch!
Roisin attended the NASA ATom Science Team meeting in Boulder, CO and presented the group’s work on African air quality.
Roisin attended the CO2-USA (CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis Network) workshop in beautiful Salt Lake CIty to learn about carbon fluxes from various urban areas in the US.
Roisin also participated in the Arctic Data Center's Permafrost carbon synthesis working group in Santa Barbara, CA (website). With researchers from Germany, Japan, Korea, US, Canada and Finland, we had a great overview of pan-Arctic flux sites and much progress was made!
Emily has joined the group as a G1 gradutate student in DEES. Welcome Emily!
Maggie is continuing her summer research on Arctic methane into her Senior Research Thesis at Harvard College.
Bronte is continuing in the group as a research assistant at Lamont for the fall semester, with a continuing focus on developing an urban carbon measurement network.
Luke is continuing as a long-distance postdoc with regular trips to NY from Boston.
Roisin spent the start of the semester traveling and presenting the group's work. She presented our Arctic carbon…
R. Commane, J. Lindaas, J. Benmergui, K. Luus, R. Chang, B. Daube, E. Euskirchen, J. Henderson, A. Karion, J. B. Miller, S. M. Miller, N. Parazoo, J. Randerson, C. Sweeney, P. Tans, K. Thoning, S. Veraverbeke, C. E. Miller, S. Wofsy, Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 114, 21, 5361-5366, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1618567114, 2017
Data: Commane, R., J. Benmergui, J.O.W. Lindaas, S. Miller, K.A. Luus, R.Y-W. Chang, B.C. Daube, S. Euskirchen, J. Henderson, A. Karion, J.B. Miller,…
