Embark on a journey into the heart of “Nature-based Solutions for Carbon Management: Opportunities and Challenges.” In a world grappling with urgent environmental issues, this seminar is a beacon of knowledge, offering innovative approaches to address carbon emissions.
Led by Dr. Sana Sevanto from Los Alamos National Lab, our speaker brings expertise to unravel the complexities of nature-based solutions. This seminar explores the potential and challenges these solutions present, providing insights into their role in carbon sequestration and environmental conservation.
Join us in this intellectual exploration, fostering dialogue and collaboration towards a more sustainable future. Discover the opportunities and navigate the challenges that shape our path to a carbon-neutral world.
About Sanna Sevanto is a physicist-turned-plant physiologist with broad expertise in transport phenomena in complex natural systems. She has a master’s degree in Material Science and a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her interests in biomechanics and the environment have led her to apply the knowledge of physics to studying plant physiology and plant responses to environmental stress. Before beginning her career at LANL in 2009, she spent three years studying plants at Harvard University and teaching atmospheric thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at the University of Helsinki. Her research has focused on measurements and modeling of plant-atmosphere interactions, ecosystem energy, water and carbon cycles, plant hydraulics, plant responses to stress, as well as mechanistic understanding of plant structure and function. She has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has collaborated with researchers from various disciplines ranging from applied and theoretical physics and global-scale vegetation modeling, to cellular and ecosystem-scale biology, ecology, meteorology, atmospheric sciences and material sciences, applying techniques from these fields for understanding plant function and vegetation influence on climate. These techniques include neutron radiography of water flow in plants and plant-root systems, soft-tissue x-ray tomography for studying plant anatomy, ultra-low field NMR for measuring plant drought responses, and linear displacement transducers for measuring pressure changes in plant tissues.