I am a Research Scientist at California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Affiliate in California, USA mainly interested in land-atmosphere interactions and their responses to global change, with an emphasis on the global carbon cycle. My research aims to better represent mechanistic processes in land-surface models with the goals of:
(1) understanding fundamental controls of photosynthesis including transfer of radiation in vegetation canopies and nutrients uptake by plants;
(2) using state-of-the-art process-based models to refine local and global representations of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles;
(3) developing more informed projections of plant growth, especially under future climate scenarios.
Wordcloud from my PhD thesis.
“Both, enthusiasm and work, and above all both of them jointly, can entice the idea.” – Max Weber
Dr. Renato K. Braghiere 