Harrison Watson
Watson’s research is on the role of large herbivore biodiversity in the exchange of carbon between soils and the atmosphere in savanna ecosystems, as well as to utilize a long-term experimental set-up established across a variable rainfall landscape with different groupings of herbivores to clarify these contributions from grasses and trees to savanna soil carbon stores. Watson is advised by Lars Hedin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute.