Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Geography


Faculty URL
https://geography.berkeley.edu/jeffrey-q-chambers

Research Group
http://www.chambersberkeleylab.com/

Email
jqchambers@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
forests, climate change, trees, tropical forests, remote sensing, Drought, hurricanes, fires

Research Description
Jeff Chambers is a?Professor in the Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, a Senior Faculty Scientist at Berkeley Lab (LBNL), and Director of DOE’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics:
http://esd.lbl.gov/ngee-tropics/
His research is focused on forest impacts?from climate change and other disturbances (drought, fire, hurricanes), biogeography,?and biosphere-climate system interactions.? Methods employed to address these questions include ecological and physiological field measurements, remote sensing image analyses, and simulation modeling.? Much of his work has taken place in Amazon forests, with >25?years of research experience in close collaboration with Brazil’s National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA). ?
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