Rose Abramoff

Before arriving to UMaine in 2025, Rose Abramoff held staff or postdoctoral positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Le Laboratoire des Science du Climate et de l’Environnement. 

Her current focal areas are belowground carbon cycling, forest ecology, and climate feedbacks, but she has an expanding interest in climate impacts and decision science.

Her research focuses on how climate change and human land use affect the land carbon cycle, particularly belowground components like plant roots and soil. She uses field and laboratory measurements, large dataset synthesis, machine learning, and computer simulation modeling. She has worked in a variety of ecosystems, including the Arctic tundra, fire-prone Mediterranean forests, Eastern forests, and agricultural fields on topics related to climate change impacts, soil microbial modeling, plant-soil interactions, and carbon sequestration.