Bio
Eugénie Mas is a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow specializing in tree physiology, water relations, and drought vulnerability. This goal brought her to explore numerous tree species and forest ecosystems in Europe from the temperate in France and Switzerland to the arid Mediterranean forests in Spain. Her work with ForestGEO focuses on tropical forests in Southeast Asia (Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia) where she’s monitoring water-related physiological traits and the growth of diverse tree species. Using a combination of intensive field observations and long-term forest dynamics datasets, her goal is to identify the main drivers of tree growth and mortality in ever-wet tropical forests in order to improve future climate predictions.
