Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Todd-Brown Lab
Led by Kathe Todd-Brown · Environmental Engineering Sciences
What we study
The Todd-Brown Lab studies how soils release carbon dioxide using math and computer models. They combine global data to predict how warming climates will affect soil emissions.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Do we have globally representative data to understand soil processes?
2026 · Biogeochemistry
Checks if global soil data is enough to study how carbon moves in the soil.
- Probabilistic forecasting of coastal wetland elevation and soil carbon response to sea‐level rise
2026 · Ecological Monographs
Uses a model to predict how coastal wetlands will respond to sea-level rise and store carbon.
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- Compressing soil spectral signals while retaining organic carbon, clay, and pH prediction accuracy with Haar wavelet preprocessing
2026 · Soil Science Society of America Journal
Uses wavelet preprocessing to reduce soil spectroscopy data size without losing prediction accuracy.
- Synthesis of a National Soil Dataset Across Productive Land in Mexico: The Importance of Making Existing Data Accessible
2025 · European Journal of Soil Science
Makes a large Mexican soil dataset publicly available to help with farming and food production.
- Photodegradation of lignocellulose in plant litter – reinterpreting data from Méndez et al. (2022)
2025 · New Phytologist
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