Ishi D Buffam

Biography

I am an Ecosystem Ecologist, with a PhD in Forest Ecology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. My training is in aquatic chemistry and biogeochemistry, with a primary focus on carbon and nitrogen transformations and hydrological transport within boreal and temperate watersheds, and a secondary focus putting freshwater carbon cycling processes into the context of landscape and regional scale carbon cycling. I use a combination of field vegetation and soil surveys, lab-based water and soil chemistry/biogeochemistry analysis, empirical modeling and GIS-based modeling to evaluate the relationship between landscape/watershed characteristics and surface water chemistry and biotic communities.

Research Interest

Aquatic Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology; Hydrology and biogeochemical cycling in boreal and northern watersheds; Climate change and aquatic ecosystem carbon cycling; Urban aquatic ecosystems; Urban green spaces; Environmental Change and Biological Resilience (ECBR)