Human-induced changes in land cover and climate are leading to a myriad of environmental responses including: loss of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, altered water supply and quality, shifting disturbance regimes, erosion and aggradation, and changing frequencies of ‘extreme’ events. These environmental responses have direct impacts on human health, infrastructure, and governance. Our group specifically focuses on how historic and future trends in environmental forcing propagates through ecosystems and landscapes.

Earth Lab is committed to open, reproducible science. We recognize that there is a spectrum of open science practices from publishing your code/data/publications in free online repositories and journals to creating a fully reproducible workflow. While a fully reproducible workflow is the gold standard, we encourage Earth Lab members and collaborators to make any effort to make their science open and reproducible.

Earth Lab researchers and themes span the natural and social sciences including Ecology, Geology, Geography, Atmospheric Science, Human Health, and Behavioral Science and Risk Analysis, among others. Earth Lab hosts incubators, Science Summits, and other workshops to convene diverse teams to work on today's most pressing environmental challenges.

Earth Lab values diverse perspectives and aims to be a model for efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM. Earth Lab provides tools and training opportunities to capitalize on open environmental data for all.