Scientist have traditionally been limited in their measurement capabilities to what's local and current. With computational modeling, we are capable of using those point measurements to scale up to global biogeochemical cycling, to unearth cycling from the past, and to project future cycling. We use a combination of rate and isotopic measurements to inform our models; to look at how the earth functioned prior to human industrialization and how it will function moving forward, as we continue to alter biogeochemical cycling.

 

Selected publications:

• Wang, C., Houlton B. Z., Dai W., and Bai E.* Growth in the global N2 sink attributed to nitrogen fertilizer inputs over 1860 to 2000. Science of the Total Environment (2016).

• Bai, E.*, Houlton, B. Z., and Wang, Y. P., Global nitrogen hotspots across terrestrial ecosystems.Biogeosciences (2012).

• Bai, E.* and Houlton, B. Z., Coupled isotopic and process-based modeling of gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23 (GB2011) (2009).