Jon Warland
Associate Professor and Director
Environmental Sciences
Guelph University
Canada
Biography
Education B.S. Cornell University, United States M.Sc. University of British Columbia Ph.D. University of Guelph
Research Interest
My fundamental objective is to further the understanding of land-air interactions, particularly as modified by vegetation. Specific questions of interest to me include trace gas exchange in plant canopies, the effects of vegetation on weather and climate, and plant canopy modelling. My present research focuses on both the theory of turbulent dispersion within plant canopies as well as the practice of measuring trace gas exchange over vegetated surfaces. This necessarily involves combining theoretical, laboratory and field work; I strongly believe that theory and experiment progress best when walking hand-in-hand. In the long term I would like to tackle issues of scale interaction and complex terrain. This area is essential not only for fully developed models of climate change and more accurate long-range forecasting, but also for developing reliable adaptation strategies for possible climate change scenarios.
