The UBC Biometeorology and Soil Physics Group
The UBC Biometeorology and Soil Physics Group studies the effects of climate variability and disturbance on the carbon and water cycles in forests, wetlands and agricultural fields in Western Canada. The main focus of our group is to better understand the micrometeorological and physiological processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (CH4, N2O), water vapor, and energy between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Research is ongoing in the following settings: west-coast temperate Douglas-fir stands, mountain pine beetle attacked lodgepole pine stands in the BC Interior, blueberry, potato and forage fields in the Lower Fraser Valley, and monitoring of fugitive CH4 emissions from liquid natural gas pads in northeast British Columbia.