Location
495 Beckwourth Calpine Road
Beckwourth, California 96129
United States
Date & Time
5:00pm PDT - 6:30pm PDT
About This Event
Friday, August 7 | 5pm to 6:30pm
Join us for a talk with the CA Native Plant Society: Tahoe and Sierra Valley Chapter.
Sierra Meadows and Their Contributions to Carbon Capture and Storage
Mountain meadows are unique landscapes that form in the right geomorphic and hydrologic conditions, which are commonly found in the Sierra Nevada. Meadows support a high degree of biodiversity and provide numerous ecological services for humans from stock grazing to flood control and improved water quality. Healthy, wet meadows also absorb large amounts of atmospheric CO2 by photosynthesis each growing season and store it in meadow soils. This presentation explores mountain meadows, their ecologic contributions to capturing atmospheric carbon, and the impacts of climate and human activities on meadow health and functioning.
Meet the Speaker, Andrew Oliphant:
Greetings! My teaching and research field within the School of the Environment is Climatology, the study of our climate system, in scales ranging from microclimates of ecosystems and cities to global climate change. My research focuses on interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, particularly carbon and water cycling and surface microclimates. The methods for this study primarily involve field-based observations using micrometeorological instruments and has included a diverse range of field sites from the Antarctic Dry Valleys to a central Iranian desert, although has primarily focused on natural and managed ecosystems, including in urban environments. Current projects include mountain meadow carbon cycling in response to hydrologic restoration, monitoring GHG emissions from agricultural healthy soils practices, and ongoing projects on urban and microclimates of the San Francisco Bay Area and Black Rock City, NV.
I have served as the director of the School of the Environment since its inauguration in August 2023. Before that I was chair of the Department of Geography & Environment, where I was on the faculty since 2002.
About This Event
Friday, August 7 | 5pm to 6:30pm
Join us for a talk with the CA Native Plant Society: Tahoe and Sierra Valley Chapter.
Sierra Meadows and Their Contributions to Carbon Capture and Storage
Mountain meadows are unique landscapes that form in the right geomorphic and hydrologic conditions, which are commonly found in the Sierra Nevada. Meadows support a high degree of biodiversity and provide numerous ecological services for humans from stock grazing to flood control and improved water quality. Healthy, wet meadows also absorb large amounts of atmospheric CO2 by photosynthesis each growing season and store it in meadow soils. This presentation explores mountain meadows, their ecologic contributions to capturing atmospheric carbon, and the impacts of climate and human activities on meadow health and functioning.
Meet the Speaker, Andrew Oliphant:
Greetings! My teaching and research field within the School of the Environment is Climatology, the study of our climate system, in scales ranging from microclimates of ecosystems and cities to global climate change. My research focuses on interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, particularly carbon and water cycling and surface microclimates. The methods for this study primarily involve field-based observations using micrometeorological instruments and has included a diverse range of field sites from the Antarctic Dry Valleys to a central Iranian desert, although has primarily focused on natural and managed ecosystems, including in urban environments. Current projects include mountain meadow carbon cycling in response to hydrologic restoration, monitoring GHG emissions from agricultural healthy soils practices, and ongoing projects on urban and microclimates of the San Francisco Bay Area and Black Rock City, NV.
I have served as the director of the School of the Environment since its inauguration in August 2023. Before that I was chair of the Department of Geography & Environment, where I was on the faculty since 2002.
Getting There
Sierra Valley Preserve Nature Center
495 Beckwourth Calpine Road
Beckwourth, California 96129
United States
Location
495 Beckwourth Calpine Road
Beckwourth, California 96129
United States
Date & Time
5:00pm PDT - 6:30pm PDT