John Knowles

I’m an ecohydrologist and assistant professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University. I’m particularly interested in how mountain and semiarid systems cycle water and carbon at a variety of scales. My collaborative research is funded through the NSF Opportunities for Research and Education in the Critical Zone (ORE-CZ) program to investigate how soil respiration and the fate of soil-produced carbon dioxide (i.e., the Apparent Respiratory Quotient) vary with changes in soil development, vegetation, and topography that mediate dynamic water storage.