Marcos Longo

Marcos Longo is an Earth System scientist whose research combines vegetation demography model, field observations and remote sensing to study how structurally and functionally diverse forest ecosystems respond to climate change and land-use/land-cover change. He is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he integrates airborne lidar measurements in the Amazon with the ED2 model to understand the impacts of tropical forest degradation on the energy, water, and carbon cycles. Prior to JPL he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), and obtained his PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Beginning in May, he will join LBNL as a research scientist, where he will work with the NGEE-Tropics team to study the regional impacts of droughts, deforestation and degradation on the dynamics and functioning of tropical forests using FATES.