Title: Research Scientist
Institution: Woodwell Climate Research Center
Address: 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540
Email: karndt@woodwellclimate.org
Phone: (585) 208-4011
Research Interests: eddy covariance, remote sensing, carbon cycle, methane, carbon dioxide, energy flux
Biographical Sketch:
I am interested in understanding climate change impacts on trace gas exchange from natural and
managed ecosystems. My primary experience focuses on trace gas fluxes from Arctic and highlatitude
ecosystems. I am currently leading a build out a greenhouse gas monitoring network
targeting the most underrepresented areas of the Arctic-boreal region. In my postdoc I used the
process-based denitrification and decomposition (DNDC) model to understand carbon and
nitrogen exchanges in agricultural ecosystems. My research there sought to build soil carbon while
limiting greenhouse gas emissions from organic dairy systems. For my PhD dissertation, I
researched non-growing season carbon flux dynamics at Arctic tundra sites on the Alaska North
Slope working with eddy flux covariance, remote sensing, while providing support on eddy
covariance projects in various ecosystems from mangroves and chaparral to coral reefs. I have
worked on toxicology and environmental risk assessments of superfund sites from my time as an
environmental consultant in the private sector and am interested in interdisciplinary work and
outreach to remedy and understand global climate and pollutant issues.