Dr. Matt Dannenberg has received an NSF award for a new project, "Collaborative Research: NSF-SNSF: SCALE-UP - Understanding VPD impacts on forests across scales to advance the next generation of Earth-system models.' Congratulations, Matt!

The public abstract below details the project goals:

The dryness of the atmosphere (vapor pressure deficit, or VPD) is rising around the world, but its effects on many plant processes – from leaf photosynthesis to tree growth and mortality to forest production and water use – remain poorly known. This project, called SCALE-UP, is a multi-national collaboration between plant scientists and ecologists in both the U.S. and Switzerland that will examine the effects of rising VPD from leaf to tree to forest and from daily to decadal scales using a cutting-edge combination of experiments, observations, and models.