Effect of climate on plants, underground water, and surface heat,
moisture and carbon exchanges; impact of plants on precipitation and
temperature patterns; hydrology and biogeochemistry of sustainable
agriculture and building; carbon isotopes as tracers of fossil fuel
burning, ocean carbon uptake, and respiration; inferring the effect
of past climate on ecology from tree-ring and coral records;
providing useful climate forecasts through statistical and physical
downscaling; distributed sensor networks for environmental
monitoring; data assimilation in carbon and hydrology models;
parameter estimation and uncertainty assessment
