Sara Knox
Title:
Assistant Professor
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Research areas:
Micrometeorology
Ecosystem Ecology
Biogeochemistry
Climate change
Wetlands
Current research:
I am broadly interested in the impacts of climate variability and land-use change on land-atmosphere exchanges of water, energy, and trace gases. I also seek to understand how ecosystem responses to global change can feedback to slow or accelerate future climate change. My research and training is in micrometeorology, hydrology, and ecosystem ecology. I focus on biosphere-atmosphere interactions in a variety of climates and ecosystems, with a current focus on wetland ecosystems. We collaborate with a broad group of researchers and institutions to help inform and advance climate policy.
Degree(s):
Education:
University of California, Berkeley, PhD (2016)
Carleton University, MSc (2011)
McGill University, BSc (2009)
Selected publications:
Satriawan, T., M. Nyberg, S.-C. Lee, A. Christen, T. A. Black, M. S. Johnson, Z. Nesic, M. Merkens, S. H. Knox. 2023. Interannual Variability of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane (CH4) Fluxes in a Rewetted Temperate Bog. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 324, 109696, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109696
Russell, S., L. Windham-Myers, E. J. Stuart-Haëntjens, B. A. Bergamaschi, F. Anderson, P. Oikawa, and S. H. Knox. 2023. Increased salinity decreases annual gross primary productivity at a Northern California brackish tidal marsh. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 034045
Masahito, U., S. H. Knox, K. B. Delwiche, […]T. Sachs. 2023. Modeled production, oxidation and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions. Global Change Biology, 29 (8), 2313-2334
Nyberg, M., T. A. Black, M. Johnson, M. Merkens, R. Ketler, S. H. Knox. 2022. Impacts of active vs. passive re-wetting on the carbon balance of a previously drained bog. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (9), e2022JG006881
*Featured in EOS: Derouin, S. (2022), Exploring carbon emissions in peatland restoration, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220457.
Lee, S. C., T. A. Black, M. Nyberg, M. Merkens, Z. Nesic, D. Ng, S. H. Knox. 2021. Biophysical impacts of historical disturbances, restoration strategies, and vegetation types in a peatland ecosystem. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006532
Knox, S. H., S. Bansal, G. McNicol, K. Schafer, C.Sturtevant, Ma. Ueyama, A. C. Valach, D. Baldocchi, K. Delwiche, A. R. Desai, E. Euskirchen, J. Liu, A. Lohila, A. Malhotra, L. Melling, W. Riley, B. R. K. Runkle, J. Turner, R. Vargas, Q. Zhu, T. Alto, E. Fluet-Chouinard, M. Goeckede, J. R. Melton, O. Sonnentag, T. Vesala, E. Ward, Z. Zhang, S. Feron, Z. Ouyang, P. Alekseychik, M. Aurela, G. Bohrer, D. I. Campbell, J. Chen, H. Chu, H. J. Dalmagro, J. P. Goodrich, P. Gottschalk, T. Hirano, H. Iwata, G. Jurasinski, M. Kang, F. Koebsch, Ivan Mammarella, M. B. Nilsson, K. Ono, M. Peichl, O. Peltola, Y. Ryu, T. Sachs, A. Sakabe, J. P. Sparks, E.-S. Tuittila, G. L. Vourlitis, G. Xhuan Wong, L. Windham-Myers, B. Poulter, R. B. Jackson. 2021. Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15661
*Featured on the cover of Global Change Biology, Volume 27, Issue 15
Chang, K., W. J. Riley, S. H. Knox, R. B. Jackson, G. McNicol, B. Poulter, M.a Aurela, D. Baldocchi, S. Bansal, G. Bohrer, D. I. Campbell, A. Cescatti, H. Chu, K. B. Delwiche, A. Desai, E. Euskirchen, T. Friborg, M. Goeckede, M. Kang, T. Keenan, K. W. Krauss, A. Lohila, I. Mammarella, A. Miyata, M. B. Nilsson, A. Noormets, D. Papale, B. R. K. Runkle, Y. Ryu, T. Sachs, K. V. R. Schäfer, H. Peter Schmid, N. Shurpali, O. Sonnentag, A. C. I. Tang, M. S. Torn, C. Trotta, M. Ueyama, R. Vargas, T. Vesala, L. Windham-Myers, Z. Zhang, and D. Zona. 2021. Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions. Nature Communications, 12, 2266, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22452-1
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