Pacala: Lab Directory

Pacala Lab/Research Directory

Faculty
	Stephen Pacala steve@eno.princeton.edu	Population biology and community ecology of plants; theoretical and mathematical ecology; global interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

Postdoctoral Research Associates

	Stephanie Bohlman sbohlman@princeton.edu	Stephanie’s main area of research is forest canopy biology and physiology, particularly as it relates to carbon cycling. She is interested in landscape patterns of species and functional diversity in forests and their underlying physical and historical causes. One of the main tools she has used over the past few years is remote sensing, striving to link plant physiology, remote sensing and landscape patterns in tropical forests.

	Cyril Crevoisier ccrevois@princeton.edu	Crevoisier’s research focuses on improving the understanding of carbon sources and sinks at the surface through the development of new estimation methods involving data from various origins (aircrafts, towers) and different kinds of models (atmosphere, ocean and land). Complementarily, he is interested in the use of observations from space to study CO2 atmospheric distribution.

	Sergey Malyshev malyshev@princeton.edu	Surface-atmosphere interaction and its consequences for the Earth's climate; long-term climate variations and connections with long-term variations of surface properties.

	Drew Purves dpurves@princeton.edu	Spatial processes in plant communities; plant strategies in a game-theoretic context; individual, community and landscape-level interactions; vegetation boundaries.

	Elena Shevliakova elena@princeton.edu	Modeling biosphere-atmosphere interactions and applications of such models to the issues of global environmental change.

Graduate Students
	Anping Chen anpingc@princeton.edu	Anping is interested in the global carbon cycle and climate change, understanding the impact of human activity to global carbon balance, vegetation dynamics and modelling, biodiversity and biogeography.

	Jeanne DeNoyer jdenoyer@princeton.edu	Linking plant ecology to ecosystem dynamics; phylogenetic and biogeographic patterns of plant traits and plant communities; trophic cascades; savannah structure and function.

	Jeremy Lichstein jwl@princeton.edu	Origin and maintenance of species diversity; climate and vegetation; forest dynamics; biogeography