Jonathan Gewirtzman

Jon Gewirtzman is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, currently a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. His research focuses on how plant and microbial communities shape greenhouse gas fluxes in forests, with an emphasis on methane emissions from trees. By examining these processes across different scales, he aims to better understand how ecosystems influence and respond to global biogeochemical cycles. Jon earned his bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Brown University and an MPhil from Yale. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Connecticut College and a research fellow at Harvard Forest. Before his Ph.D., he worked as a research technician in Woods Hole, Boston, and the Alaskan Arctic.