Photo: Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant Contact info Email: pete36@uga.edu Office: Geography-Geology, Room 313 Phone Number: 706-542-2926 Research Interests: Modeling atmospheric carbon exchange using micrometeorology and remote sensing to examine the effects of environmental gradients on primary production and light use efficiency of coastal salt marshes across the Southeastern United States. Education Education: B.L.ACollege of Environment + DesignUniversity of Georgia GIS CertificateDepartment of GeographyUniversity of Georgia Research Selected Publications: Hawman, P. A., Cotten, D. L., & Mishra, D. R. (2024). Canopy Heterogeneity and Environmental Variability Drive Annual Budgets of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange in a Tidal Marsh. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(4), e2023JG007866. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007866 Richardson, J. L., Desai, A. R., Thom, J., Lindgren, K., Laudon, H., Peichl, M., et al. (2023). On the Relationship Between Aquatic CO2 Concentration and Ecosystem Fluxes in Some of the World’s Key Wetland Types. Wetlands, 44(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01751-x Mao, L., Mishra, D. R., Hawman, P. A., Narron, C. R., O’Connell, J. L., & Cotten, D. L. (2023). Photosynthetic Performance of Tidally Flooded Spartina alterniflora Salt Marshes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007161 Hawman, P. A., Mishra, D. R., & O’Connell, J. L. (2023). Dynamic emergent leaf area in tidal wetlands: Implications for satellite-derived regional and global blue carbon estimates. Remote Sensing of Environment, 290, 113553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113553 Narron, C. R., O’Connell, J. L., Mishra, D. R., Cotten, D. L., Hawman, P. A., & Mao, L. (2022). Flooding in Landsat across tidal systems (FLATS): An index for intermittent tidal filtering and frequency detection in salt marsh environments. Ecological Indicators, 141, 109045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109045 Gaiser, E. E., Kominoski, J. S., McKnight, D. M., Bahlai, C. A., Cheng, C., Record, S., et al. (2022). Long-term ecological research and the COVID-19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance. Ecosphere, 13(4), e4019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4019 Hawman, P. A., Mishra, D. R., O’Connell, J. L., Cotten, D. L., Narron, C. R., & Mao, L. (2021). Salt Marsh Light Use Efficiency is Driven by Environmental Gradients and Species‐Specific Physiology and Morphology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006213 Salmi, R., Presotto, A., Scarry, C. J., Hawman, P., & Doran-Sheehy, D. M. (2020). Spatial cognition in western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): an analysis of distance, linearity, and speed of travel routes. Animal Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01358-3