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Kuno Kasak is a Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tartu (2016) and specializes in ecosystem ecology with focus on wetland biogeochemistry, greenhouse gas fluxes, and climate change impacts on peatlands.
His research quantifies carbon and nitrogen cycling across natural and managed ecosystems, particularly examining methane and nitrous oxide dynamics in restored wetlands, tropical peat forests, and agricultural landscapes. Recent work integrates microbial ecology to understand drivers of greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Kasak has authored over 50 publications since 2019, with recent studies examining: microbial controls on methane cycling in cloud forests; greenhouse gas trade-offs in wetland restoration; and nutrient reclamation from treatment wetlands. His work informs climate-smart ecosystem management and restoration practices.
Field investigations span global ecosystems including Estonian bogs, Bornean peatlands, Californian wetlands, and Amazonian forests. Methodologies combine eddy covariance, chamber-based flux measurements, isotopic tracing, and molecular microbiology.
