Carol Adair
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School
Gund Fellow
Director, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory
81 Carrigan Dr
303B Aiken Center
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
- Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2005
- M.S., Colorado State University, 2000
- B.A., Allegheny College, 1991
Area(s) of expertise
- global climate change
- ecosystem ecology
- biogeochemistry
BIO
As a global change ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, Carol uses theory, experimentation, and quantitative methods to understand ecosystem responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Understanding and predicting the response of ecosystems to environmental changes is crucial for sustaining and managing important ecosystems.
She is fascinated by how and why ecosystem properties and processes respond to global changes and how these responses may feed back to amplify or diminish these changes. Because predicting and managing the effects of such changes depends on understanding and accurately depicting ecosystem processes, she combines experimental, synthetic and quantitative approaches to develop models and test hypotheses about what drives fundamental ecosystem processes like microbial respiration (decomposition).
Bio
As a global change ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, Carol uses theory, experimentation, and quantitative methods to understand ecosystem responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Understanding and predicting the response of ecosystems to environmental changes is crucial for sustaining and managing important ecosystems.
She is fascinated by how and why ecosystem properties and processes respond to global changes and how these responses may feed back to amplify or diminish these changes. Because predicting and managing the effects of such changes depends on understanding and accurately depicting ecosystem processes, she combines experimental, synthetic and quantitative approaches to develop models and test hypotheses about what drives fundamental ecosystem processes like microbial respiration (decomposition).