Prof. Cesar Moreno Terrer

Professor Terrer's group investigates some of the grand challenges in Earth system science and climate-change research. We employ a holistic view of Earth’s dynamics at a global scale, with a focus on plant-soil interactions. We synthesize field observations and satellite data to pursue two main coupled goals:

(*) Carbon ecology -- The goal is to improve our ecological understanding of the dynamics modulating the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to store carbon in a climate-change context (CO2 rising, warming, nitrogen deposition, changes in water regimes). The final goal is to make climate models more realistic by focusing on model uncertainties.
(*) Solutions -- The goal is to identify and implement data-driven strategies to maximize carbon uptake in terrestrial ecosystems to slow global warming.