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Dr Sunitha Pangala

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow

Sunitha Pangala

LEC Building

LA1 4YQ

Lancaster

Research overview

I study plant soil interactions and greenhouse gas exchanges from carbon-dense forests and determine the effects and feedbacks of global change, climate and land use. Peat swamp forests of Borneo and Brazilian Amazon feature heavily in my work and in these ecosystems, I have been studying the role of trees in transporting methane produced in the soil to the atmosphere and quantifying the role of tree transport in methane cycling in pristine and disturbed peatlands/wetlands, as well as the loss of stored carbon in peat following disturbance. 

PhD supervision

Fully funded international PhD studentship available to start in Oct 2018. The PhD ‘The role of Amazon wetland trees in methane production and emissions’ will continue the work that was recently published in Nature. The student will be part of field campaigns in one of the most beautiful ecosystems on the planet - Amazonian floodplains. Please get in touch if you are interested. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/graduate-school/phd/current-opportunities/index.php?phd_id=363

Career Details

Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Open University, UK (Aug 2013 – Nov 2017)

Responsible for:

Investigating the capacity for tropical trees to emit soil-produced methane and nitrous oxide.

Understanding the mechanisms responsible for methane and nitrous oxide transport in trees and their controls and inter-seasonal and spatial variability.

Supervision of 2 PhD students as a secondary supervisor (ongoing) and a master’s students as a primary supervisor (completed).    

Research Grants

Ongoing grants

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship: 2017-2022 

Royal Society Enhancement Grant: 2018-2021

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