Link­ing exper­i­ments and mod­els to advance pre­dic­tion of dynamic for­est responses to cli­mate change

Lara Kuep­pers is a Research Sci­en­tist in the Car­bon & Cli­mate Sci­ences Pro­gram at Lawrence Berke­ley National Lab­o­ra­tory. Her research exper­tise is in the areas of climate-ecosystem feed­backs, eco­log­i­cal impacts of cli­mate change, land-cover/ land-use change, regional cli­mate mod­el­ing, model-experiment inte­gra­tion, and species effects on ecosys­tem func­tion. Dr. Kuep­pers uses field obser­va­tions and exper­i­ments, as well as cou­pled climate-land sur­face mod­els, and has been funded by DOE, USDA, and the Cal­i­for­nia Energy Com­mis­sion. She is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in the cli­mate impacts of dynamic nat­ural veg­e­ta­tion and land man­age­ment, and in the key cli­mate dri­vers of veg­e­ta­tion change. She directs the Alpine Tree­line Warm­ing Exper­i­ment through her appoint­ment as Assis­tant Research Sci­en­tist at Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Merced.