I study the feedback between vegetation and the hydrological cycle across a range of temporal and spatial scales. I’m interested in how the interactions between plants and water inform our understanding of soil water and carbon budgeting, ecosystem health and functioning (and the response to climate extremes), as well as water management decisions around irrigation, salinization, and pollution control. These questions are especially salient in many areas of the world where rainfall is unpredictable and water is seasonally limited. I use a range of quantitative methods, including stochastic processes and information theory, to capture and analyze the variability inherent in the climate system while modeling the nonlinear dynamics within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
