- I'm in charge of the ecometeorology lab,
a group of scientists, researchers, and students
who try to understand how plants and other organisms
influence climate and weather
and how climate and weather and climate change
is influencing plants and ecosystems.
We do this primarily by making a variety
of long-term measurements in ecosystems around the world,
including here in Wisconsin and Michigan,
where we have sites where we can directly monitor
how plants are exchanging gases like carbon dioxide
or methane or water or heat with the overlying atmosphere.
Sometimes I like to joke that my job is watching trees breathe.