Sihi Biogeochemistry Lab specializes in measuring and modeling Soil Organic Matter (or Carbon) dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from natural and managed ecosystems. We enjoy coupling data generated from empirical studies and environmental networks with process-based (aka mechanistic) and machine learning models. We use biogeochemical models to evaluate the fate of soil (and ecosystem) carbon (and nutrient) in the face of climate change in systems ranging from the tropics and subtropics to temperate and temperate-boreal transition zones and soils from forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural landscapes.
We are funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Valent U.S.A./Valent Biosciences, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, University Research Council, and Halle Institute for Global Research at Emory University.
If you are interested in joining our group, please email the PI (Debjani Sihi) at debjani.sihi@emory.edu.
Funding source: University Research Council, Emory University
Funding source: Program to Enhance Research and Scholarship, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Funding source: Valent Biosciences/Valent U.S.A. (Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, https://www.halo.science/research/agriculture/carbon-sequestration)
Funding source: Halle Institute for Global Research, Emory University and The Halle Foundation Collaborative Research Grant
Funding source: National Science Foundation, Macrosystem Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (Award #: DEB-2106137)
Funding source: US Department of Energy Office of Science, Environmental System Science (Award #: DE-SC0022314)