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D. Scott Mackay is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Department of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (with a Computer Science minor) from the University of Toronto (1997), an M.Sc. in Physical Geography (1991), and a B.Sc. in Biophysical Systems (1989). His research focuses on ecohydrology, land surface hydrology, and hydrologic modeling, with emphasis on plant hydraulic responses to environmental stressors. Dr. Mackay's work integrates remote sensing, GIS, and computational models to study drought impacts, climate change effects on vegetation, and water resource dynamics.
His research explores mechanisms of tree mortality under drought, hydraulic dysfunction in conifers, and root water uptake strategies. Recent studies include analyzing ecohydrological decoupling in disturbed landscapes, CO2 effects on seawater-induced mortality, and physiological trait networks in crops. He maintains active collaborations in global change research and Earth system modeling, contributing to frameworks linking plant hydraulics with climate-hydrology interactions.
Publications emphasize interdisciplinary approaches, combining field observations with advanced modeling to predict ecosystem responses to climate extremes. Key themes include compensatory mechanisms in forest ecosystems post-disturbance, genotype-specific drought tolerance in crops, and spatial variability in plant water stress mediated by topography and groundwater dynamics.
His work has advanced understanding of hydraulic safety margins in plants, root architecture adaptations, and the role of lateral subsurface flow in forest resilience. Current projects address scaling ecohydrological processes from leaf to landscape scales and improving predictive models for vegetation-climate interactions under global change scenarios.
