Presented by Howard Epstein discusses environmental sensing in Utqiagvik Alaska and how urban areas and infrastructure interact with the surrounding water, air and soil. The goal of Epstein's project is to generate better standards to protect the environment where infrastructure will be built.
Howard Epstein - My current research efforts are in the arctic tundra of North America and Russia, and the temperate forests of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. In the Arctic, we are examining the recent dynamics of arctic tundra vegetation in response to changing climate and disturbances, and the effects that these vegetation changes have on other arctic ecosystem properties. In the U.S. Mid-Atlantic we are examining carbon cycling along successional gradients from old-field to old-growth, as well as carbon-water interactions in topographically complex watersheds.
