Dryw Jones is a Research Ecologist focusing on carbon cycle science in the Northwest Climate Hub region. His research has focused on understanding carbon from the plant tissue scaled up to ecosystem levels. He also is working to understand how carbon pools and fluxes are influenced by management and disturbance. Dryw is in the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station’s Olympia Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Olympia, Washington. Dryw earned his Master’s in Forestry and Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy & Management from University of California-Berkeley. Prior to joining the Northwest Climate Hub, he was a research forester leading the carbon science synthesis component of the Pacific Northwest Carbon Dynamics Research Initiative covering all aspects of ecosystem carbon dynamics within Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawai’i. His previous research studied the effects of climate on Douglas-fir growth, and the effects of silviculture on Douglas-fir survival and growth. Dryw also has developed carbon and biomass prediction models for Sierra-Nevada mixed-conifer tree species using novel methods he developed that incorporated variation in wood density and carbon fractions.
To learn more about Dryw's work, visit the Pacific Northwest Research Station's Carbon Dynamics Research for Land and Watershed Managers page.
