Bio
Mark De Guzman is an ecologist whose research interest is in carbon and water dynamics of woody plant responses to environmental conditions. His research interests led him to work in both arid and tropical ecosystems contributing insights on diverse drought hydraulic strategies and functional traits of plants in both natural and agricultural systems. Mark’s interest in the interface between academia and environmental regulation brings him from the Oregon Department of Agriculture to UC Davis as a postdoctoral scholar in the Safford lab to study the carbon dynamics of chaparral shrublands in Southern California under the framework of ecosystem services evaluation.