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Ben Bond-Lamberty, PhD
Earth scientist
Ben Bond-Lamberty, PhD
Earth scientist
Biography
Earth scientist Ben Bond-Lamberty started his career as a forest ecologist amid smells of spruce trees and moist earth. Twenty years in, he studies forests near his home in Maryland and the Arctic. Some of Bond-Lamberty's studies are field-oriented, but he also works in the modeling world, leading the "energy/land" developments for the U.S. Department of Energy's massive Energy Exascale Earth System Model. Recently, his work has been focusing on coastal forests, exploring how vulnerable trees and soils are to disturbances that come from humans, from storms, or that are part of natural ecological succession.
"Forests react to these changes variably," said Bond-Lamberty. "They tend to be pretty resilient in lots of ways, but a really interesting question is how long can they keep that up? If you flood the whole forest with saltwater, for instance, it's probably going to have a tough time."
Bond-Lamberty is based at theJoint Global Change Research Institute, a collaborative venture between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. He finds insights as new questions arise from synthesizing research, stitching together different databases. In 2019, Bond-Lamberty became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Bond-Lamberty has analyzed 25 years of soil respiration studies.
He has curated reviews of ecology for PLOS One, serves as an editor for the journals Ecosystems, Biogesciences, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Global Biochemical Cycles, and has been recognized for his work reviewing peer-reviewed papers.