Elizabeth Agee
Resolving plant functional biodiversity to quantify forest drought resistance in the Amazon
(baez)Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
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Elizabeth Agee: Quantifying the Contributions of Root System Function to Forest Drought Resilience in the Amazon Rainforest
Blue Waters Symposium 2017, May 17, 2017
Blue Waters Graduate Fellow: Elizabeth Agee
Oct 3, 2016
My research is focused on the interactions between forest ecosystems and hydrology. Over 50% of global evapotranspiration comes from forested ecosystems, so this represents a significant pathway for understanding global water and energy cycling. The question that drives my research is how these pathways will respond to climate change. Using Blue Waters, I will explore how tree species in the Amazon rainforest use water in different ways and how those differences influence community resilience to drought events. It is my hope that this work will improve the representation of tropical forests in the current suite of land surface models and provide mechanistic insights into forest community dynamics.
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Ten PhD students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows
Apr 19, 2016
Ten outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2016-2017. The fellowship program, now in its third year, provides substantial support and the opportunity to leverage the petascale power of National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois’s Blue Waters supercomputer to advance their research. The awards are made to outstanding PhD graduate students who have decided to incorporate high performance computing and data analysis into their research.
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