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Welcome to the Caylor lab website.

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. My lab group’s research addresses the coupled feedbacks between terrestrial vegetation and surface hydrological dynamics, with a focus on the causes and consequences of spatial patterns in plants and their accompanying root systems within water-limited landscapes. Our research approaches integrate theoretical development, field observations, and simulation modeling to develop new insight into the complex ecohydrological controls on water balance in water-limited landscapes. We examine these topics at a number of spatial and temporal scales; from patch-level experimental and obsevational work to regional-scale investigations that rely heavily on numerical modeling and the application of remote sensing technologies.