The Silver Lab seeks to determine the biogeochemical effects of climate change and human impacts on the environment, and the potential for mitigating these effects.
The Silver Lab is currently working on climate change mitigation potential of working lands, drought and hurricane impacts on tropical forests, and greenhouse gas dynamics and carbon sequestration potential of peatlands and wetlands. We use continuous automated sensing as well as manual approaches and models to study the biogeochemical dynamics of natural and human-modified ecosystems.