Current Research
As part of an NSF-funded Math and Science Partnership grant, Dr. Keeling is working with collaborators across a network of US sites to define and improve environmental literacy in the middle and high schools, and to provide teaching resources and professional development to teachers. His current work is primarily focused on assessing student thinking and learning about the carbon cycle and using the findings of these assessments to design innovative teaching strategies and professional development programs for improving student and teacher literacy about the global carbon cycle and climate change.
In addition to his current work on ecological literacy, Dr. Keeling continues his ecological research investigating how forests are changing, and how these changes affect the growth and physiology of trees and the structure and function of forests. His PhD dissertation addressed the interactive effects of wildfire, climate, and age-related processes on old-growth ponderosa pine trees and forests in wilderness areas of Idaho and Montana.
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