Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Energy & Resources Group


Faculty URL
https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/kueppers-lara/

Email
lmkueppers@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
agriculture, climate change, ecology, forests, tropics

Research Description
Lara Kueppers is an Assistant Professor in the Energy and Resources Group, with a Faculty Scientist appointment at Berkeley Lab. She is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, whose research focuses on ecological responses and feedbacks to climate change. She uses field experiments and observations, as well as models, to understand climate-ecosystem interactions in forests and agroecosystems. Dr. Kueppers is deputy director of?Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments—Tropics, a long-term, multi-institution project funded by the Department of Energy, to better understand and project tropical forest feedbacks to climate change.
Previously, Dr. Kueppers was a Research Scientist in the?Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division?at Berkeley Lab and an Assistant Professor at?UC Merced. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, and MS and BS degrees from Stanford University.