DrAnne Griebel

Anne Griebel is a landscape ecologist specializing in land-atmosphere interactions, carbon and water cycling, and ecosystem responses to climate change and disturbances. She is the research leader of the Atmospheric Ecosystem Research & Observation (AERO) lab at UTS, where we utilize advanced techniques like eddy covariance flux measurements, remote sensing, and data-model integration to explore how ecosystems respond to climate change, extreme weather, and disturbances.

Key research themes of the AERO Lab include:

1. Biosphere–atmosphere fluxes: Understanding controls on carbon, water, and energy exchange across semi-arid, forest, and urban ecosystems using long-term eddy covariance observations.

2. Vegetation structure and ecosystem function: Linking vegetation structure, phenology, and functional traits to ecosystem productivity, water use efficiency, and resilience under climate variability.

3. Climate extremes and disturbance responses: Quantifying ecosystem responses to drought, heatwaves, and fire, and their effects on land–atmosphere coupling and ecosystem processes.

4. Scaling ecosystem processes: Integrating flux observations with remote sensing and models to scale ecosystem processes from site-level measurements to landscapes and regions.

5. Land management and ecosystem services: Assessing how land management and disturbance legacies influence ecosystem processes and services to inform climate adaptation and sustainable land use.

In addition, Anne Griebel leads the NSW Hub of Ecosystem Process sites from Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, and is Principal Investigator of the Alice Springs Mulga and Ti Tree East flux towers in central Australia. She collaborates with a range of partners including the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, NSW Health, NSW Rural Fire Service, and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Anne supervises UG Internships, Honours, Master's and PhD students, is an editor at Ecological Processes (Springer Nature) and Critical Insights in Plant Sciences (Taylor & Francis), a regular reviewer for the ARC and Q1 journals, and has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters.