Patrick Megonigal

Pat Megonigal 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 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.

Experience

  • –present
    Deputy Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center,, Smithsonian Institution

Honours

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, and Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists

Contact Patrick for

  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision