AGCI Workshop Participation
Biography
As a global change ecologist, Dr. Keenan’s work spans from individual organisms (primarily phototrophs) to ecosystems, landscapes and the globe. His interests are centered on understanding the terrestrial carbon sink, by examining the impacts of climate variability and long-term change on terrestrial ecosystem function and land surface dynamics. His work combines large ecological data sets (e.g., eddy-covariance, remote sensing), models of ecosystem state and function, and data assimilation/mining tools, with results from in-situ field studies and experiments, to gain a mechanistic understanding of key physical and biological processes. Dr. Keenan uses methods from diverse disciplines, including ecophysiology and biogeochemistry, micrometeorology, atmospheric science, mathematics, statistics and high-performance computing.