Scholar
Brendan M Rogers
Google Scholar ID: FpUUmkwAAAAJ
Associate Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center
Citations & Impact
Citations
9,974
H-index
48
i10-index
82
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published in Nature Climate Change (2025): 'Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO₂ uptake'.
- Published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2024): 'Permafrost region greenhouse gas budgets suggest a weak CO₂ sink and CH₄ and N₂O sources...'
- Published in Science Advances (2022): 'Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest wildfires and the climate mitigation potential of fire management'.
- Research cited in NOAA’s 2024 Arctic Report Card, which states tundra is now a net carbon source.
- Work frequently featured in major media outlets (NPR, PBS News) on topics like permafrost threats to Alaskan villages and Canadian wildfire drivers.
Research Experience
- Senior Scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center.
- Leads or contributes to key projects including:
- - 'Changing Boreal Fire Regimes': Understanding intensifying boreal fires and their role in driving climate change.
- - 'Permafrost Pathways': Connecting science, people, and policy for Arctic justice and global climate action.
- Engages diverse stakeholders—from local communities and fire managers to international policymakers—to explore societal implications of his research.
Background
- Studies the vast boreal forests and Arctic tundra across Earth’s northern high latitudes.
- Focuses on how these ecosystems both influence and are affected by global climate change, particularly permafrost ecosystems.
- Especially interested in disturbances like wildfire and abrupt permafrost thaw, and their impacts on global climate and Arctic communities.
- Combines field measurements, satellite remote sensing, and modeling to understand rapidly changing carbon/energy cycles, vegetation dynamics, and disturbance regimes.
- Uses science to inform natural resource management and policies for climate mitigation, adaptation, and ecosystem protection.
- Recognized expert who serves on multiple working groups, steering committees, and editorial teams focused on high-latitude ecosystem changes.
- Co-lead of 'Permafrost Pathways', an initiative funded by the TED Audacious Project addressing local-to-global impacts of permafrost thaw.