Patrick Megonigal

Pat Megonigal is associate director of research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He is an ecosystem ecologist with interests in carbon and greenhouse gas cycling in wetlands and forests, particularly as they relate to global change. He is also the lead investigator of the Global Change Research Wetland, a world-class facility dedicated to unraveling the complex ecological processes that confer stability on coastal marshes as they respond to global environmental change. His specialties include ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil science, wetland ecology, forest ecology, climate change science, and blue carbon science.