John Knowles

I’m an ecohydrologist and assistant professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at California State University, Chico. 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.