Ph.D. Gaby Katul

Gaby Katul, Ph.D., is the George Pearsall Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. Her research focuses on the reciprocal influences between the biosphere and the atmosphere, particularly in the context of human-induced changes in land surface characteristics. Katul's work explores the interactions between ecological and atmospheric processes, with applications in understanding climate impacts on ecosystems. She is affiliated with Duke University's Civil and Environmental Engineering department and contributes to interdisciplinary research on environmental systems.

Gabriel Katul is a scholar at Duke University specializing in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, Turbulence, Micrometeorology, Hydrology, and Atmospheric Sciences. His research focuses on understanding the exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere, with an emphasis on turbulence and micrometeorological processes. He investigates the environmental controls on vegetation exchange, the impact of deforestation on local cooling, and the mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal by wind. His work also addresses the role of soil fertility and climate feedbacks in carbon sequestration and ecosystem dynamics. Katul's research contributes to the development of analytical models for scalar fluxes and the improvement of gap-filling strategies for long-term flux data sets.