Tobias Gerken

State College, Pennsylvania Area United States

Postdoctoral Scholar

Education

I am an environmental and atmospheric scientist working on the exchange of momentum, energy, water vapor, and atmospheric trace gases between ecosystems and the atmosphere above. My work both involves going into the field and taking measurements as well as using and developing high-resolution atmospheric models (such as LES or RANS), which help us to better understand the measurements as well as the processes of surface-atmosphere exchange. Only if we improve our basic understanding of the complicated interplay, between atmospheric motion, ecosystems and human influence,we will be able to estimate the impacts of a changing world on the natural systems we depend on.