Dr Martin De Kauwe
Martin's research is about understanding how plants respond to increasing CO2, temperature and changing water availability. He is also interested in how this response of the vegetation to global change, affects the rate of climate change. He is particularly interested in ways to utilise experimental and satellite data to develop evidence-based models with a predictive capacity.
Martin is the co-chair聽of the management committee for the Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) model, Australia's community land surface model.
Further information on Martin can be found聽
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- 2020鈥2023:聽US Department of Energy 鈥撀燯sing FACE Experiments and Models to Investigate Decadal Scale Processes that Govern Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to CO2. Walker, A., Norby, R., Sulman, B. and De Kauwe, M.聽(USD $350,000).
- 2020鈥2022: UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme 鈥 Building quality software packages in R. Falster, D., Nakagawa, S., Cornwell, W., Navarro, D., Warton, D., Richmond, J., Lyons, M., Lafaye De Micheaux, P., Laffan, S., Abramowitz, G.,聽De Kauwe, M., Ukkola, A. and Betbeder-Matibet, L.聽(AUD $235,453).
- 2019: Australian Academy of Science 鈥 Towards a representation of Eucalypt ecology & physiology in vegetation models: what makes Eucalypts distinct? (AUD $15,000).
- 2020鈥2023: Eucalypt Australia 鈥 Eucalypt futures: using functional traits to predict species distributions and responses to environmental change. Vesk, P., Falster, D.,聽De Kauwe, M.,聽Gallagher, R. and Guillera-Arroita, G. (AUD $450,000).
- 2019鈥2021: Australian Research Council Discovery 鈥 How vulnerable are eucalypts to future droughts? De Kauwe, M., Meir, P., Cernusak, L., Pitman, A. and Haverd, V. (AUD $430,000).
- 2019鈥2021: Australian Research Council Discovery 鈥 Lags and legacies: antecedent effects on grassland biomass response to CO2. Hovenden, M., De Kauwe, M. and Ogle, K. (AUD $461,000).
- 2018鈥2019: UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme 鈥 cFIP-Model evaluation web application. Abramowitz, G., De Kauwe, M., England, M., Evans, J., Falster, D., Johnson, F., Marshall, L., Ptiman, A. and Sharma, A. (AUD $74,776).
My Research Supervision
2020鈥2023: Melika Missen,聽Thesis: "Will rising CO2 concentrations save plants from drought stress?". University of Tasmania.
2020-2023: Jonathan Page, Thesis:聽"Lags and legacies: understanding the role of antecedent effects on grassland biomass responses to rising CO2".聽University of New South Wales.
2019鈥2022: Lina Teckentrup,聽Thesis: "The response of terrestrial ecosystems to different climate modes".聽University of New South Wales.
2018鈥2021: Mengyuan Mu,聽Thesis: "How important is groundwater to the resilience of vegetation during drought?".聽University of New South Wales.
2017鈥2021: Manon Sabot,聽Thesis: "Trading water for carbon: exploring optimality theory to improve model predictions of vegetation function during drought".聽University of New South Wales.
Alumni:
2015鈥2018: Jinyan (Jim) Yang, Thesis: "Modelling the carbon uptake of Australian evergreen ecosystems under rising [CO2] and water limitations".聽Western Sydney University.
2015鈥2018: Ned Haughton, Thesis: "On the predictability of land surface fluxes".聽University of New South Wales
My Teaching
CLIM2001: Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science聽
CLIM3001: Climate Systems Science聽
BEES3041: Big Data in the Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences