Department of Geography
University of South Carolina
Alexandria Gartside McCombs, Ph.D.
Research Interests
My research interests focus on land-air interactions, carbon fluxes, ecological climatology, and remote sensing/GIS. More specifically on the synthesis and upscaling of micro-scale meteorological measurements to for comparisons and modeling larger scale carbon, and water flux dynamics. She focuses primarliy in the scaling of observations between different platforms. Below are some highlights of my current work.
Degraded Swamp Carbon Dynamics
In collaboration with colleagues from Clemson University, Lousiana State University, and the US Geological Survey, the carbon dioxide flux and evapotranspiration were obsrved from April 2015 to February 2016 in a degraded coastal swamp that is located near Winyah Bay in coastal South Carolina. As a team we are evaluating the ecological and meteorological drivers of carbon cycling and evapotranspirattion in this changing ecosystem.
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Upscaling of Carbon Footprints
My dissertation research focuses on synthesizing remote sensing and eddy covarinace carbon observations in agricultural fields located in the US Great Plains.