Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Geography


Faculty URL
http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/regular-faculty/laurel-larsen/

Research Group
http://esdlberkeley.com

Email
laurel@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 529-5574


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Research Expertise and Interest
hydroecology, geomorphology, complex systems, restoration ecology, environmental modeling, wetlands, sediment transport, environmental fluid mechanics

Research Description
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Dr. Larsen’s work focuses primarily on how flowing water structures the form and function of landscapes, with emphases on the Florida Everglades, wet meadows across the US, and intermittent streams in coastal California. Larsen’s Environmental Systems Dynamics Laboratory takes a complex-systems approach to environmental problems, seeking to understand the set of interactions and feedbacks that produce emergent phenomena. The lab’s approach to problems integrates field work and numerical modeling to identify the most critical drivers of landscape-scale change and generate predictions about how landscapes will respond to climate change or changes in management.