Alison Hoyt

Alison Hoyt is an Assistant Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford. She studies tropical soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions and their response to climate and land use change, with a particular focus on the carbon cycle of tropical wetlands and peatlands. Her research group takes field measurement of CO₂ and CH₄ emissions from these ecosystems, as well as other biogeochemical, isotopic, and hydrological measurements, and synthesizes them with a combination of modeling and remote sensing to understand ecosystem processes and changes resulting from climate and land use change. She has conducted fieldwork across the tropics, including in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.