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Biogeochemical Cycling

Oxygen, carbon, nutrients, and water cycle together through abiotic and biotic parts of the Earth to support life. Climate, geology, hydrology, ecosystems, and human activities all affect this cycling. The Climate R&D Program applies multidisciplinary research to document long-term patterns and drivers of biogeochemical cycling and support policymakers in developing sustainable management plan

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Drilling firn cores on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska

Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change: Fire, climate and humans

Large wildfires have raged across the western Americas in the past decade including the Las Conchas, New Mexico fire that burned 44,000 acres in a single day in 2011 (Orem and Pelletier, 2015, Geomorphology 232: 224-238, and references therein), the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta fire that required evacuating an entire city, and the 2015 Alaskan fire season that burned more than 5 million acres...
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Climate Research and Development Program, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Wildland Fire Science
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Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change: Fire, climate and humans

Large wildfires have raged across the western Americas in the past decade including the Las Conchas, New Mexico fire that burned 44,000 acres in a single day in 2011 (Orem and Pelletier, 2015, Geomorphology 232: 224-238, and references therein), the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta fire that required evacuating an entire city, and the 2015 Alaskan fire season that burned more than 5 million acres...
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