Sparkle Malone

Dr. Sparkle Malone is an Assistant Professor at Yale University's School of the Environment and a core faculty member of The Forest School. She leads the Malone Disturbance Ecology Lab, focusing on climate, hydrology, and land management impacts on ecosystem resilience. Her work integrates remote sensing, eddy covariance, and machine learning to develop natural climate solutions for carbon sequestration and biodiversity preservation.

Education: PhD and MS from the University of Florida, BS also from the University of Florida. She teaches ENV 730a: Environmental Data Science in R and The Role of Methane in Global Climate Disruption.

Research Interests: Carbon dynamics in wetlands, fire ecology, methane emissions, and ecosystem adaptation to climate extremes. Her lab emphasizes big data analytics and cross-scale modeling to inform sustainable land management practices.

Labs/Teams: Malone Lab (Yale), Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture. Collaborations include NASA's BlueFlux campaign and the AmeriFlux network.

Advising & Grants: Actively mentoring doctoral students, with grant support from NSF (CAREER award) and environmental agencies focusing on coastal resilience and methane mitigation.