Jeff is a research associate in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville where he is a member of the lightning research group. His primary work is with sensors that detect lightning-caused changes in the atmospheric electric field; it is this work that led to Jeff’s affiliation with the DEAD lab. As part of the DEAD lab’s effort to study the effects of lightning on tropical forests, he is a member of the team that operates a network of these lightning sensors in central Panamá. And from data collected by this network, the locations and strengths of lightning strikes to the forest are calculated.
DEAD Lab
Disturbance Ecology and Decomposition