Eben Broadbent is a Ph.D. student with Dr. Chris Field in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.  He is also a graduate research staff member in the Asner Lab, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington.  His research interests combine remote sensing and field ecology to understand the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances and climatic change on tropical ecosystems.  His research experiences include the development of spatial pattern recognition algorithms, the use of remote sensing for detecting selective logging disturbances in the Amazon, nutrient cycling in successional forests in Bolivia, and butterfly vertical niche partitioning in disturbed and primary forests in Costa Rica.  He has participated in inter-disciplinary projects to understand the social and economic impacts of eco-tourism in Costa Rica and socio-environmental impacts of infrastructure development in the Brazilian, Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon.  Future research interests include: linking above- and below-ground carbon and nutrient cycles in recovering tropical ecosystems, the assessment (field and remote) and restoration of ecosystem services in the Amazon, the impacts of land use legacies on ecosystem function, structure and composition, and investigating the effects of climatic change on tropical forests.

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