
N. Michele Holbrook
Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Harvard Forest, Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum, Affiliate of Environmental Science and Engineering
Professor Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook is currently working on questions relating to cavitation, stomatal mechanics, leaf hydraulic design, and xylem evolution.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so.