Debjani Sihi
North Carolina State University · Microbiology
Active 2014–2026
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About
Debjani Sihi is an Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology and Crop & Soil Sciences at NC State University, having joined the CALS AI cluster in the fall of 2024. She is a biogeochemist whose research program focuses on the plant-soil-microbe-atmosphere continuum, integrating field and laboratory data with machine learning (AI) and process-based (mechanistic) models. Her specialization lies in soil and ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycle processes, as well as greenhouse gas emissions from managed agricultural and natural ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, and grasslands. Her work aims to leverage cutting-edge technologies, including sensors, imaging, and molecular technologies, to address grand challenges related to climate change, food security, and environmental sustainability through multi-scale modeling and big data analytics. Her research projects are funded by federal agencies like USDA, NSF, DOE, and industry partners such as Valent Biosciences. Sihi has a background that includes doctoral research at the University of Florida and postdoctoral appointments at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her contributions are centered on understanding and predicting biogeochemical processes and greenhouse gas fluxes in various ecosystems.
Research topics
- Environmental science
- Business
- Computer Science
- Ecology
- World Wide Web
- Chemistry
- Geography
- Forestry
- Environmental planning
- Medicine
Selected publications
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2026-05-23 · 1 citations
articleOpen accessMethane (CH 4 ) is a potent greenhouse gas, and tropical forests account for roughly one–third of global atmospheric CH 4 uptake by soils. Projected warming and more frequent hurricanes in these ecosystems may alter soil CH 4 sink strength, as warmer and wetter soils enhance methanogenesis activity. We measured soil CH 4 and CO 2 efflux during the calendar summer months of 2023 and 2024 alongside continuous records of soil moisture, soil and air temperature, and precipitation in an in–situ warmi…
Data for EMSL Project 60398 from October 2024
DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Repository · 2026-05-02
datasetOpen accessData for EMSL Project 60398 from October 2024
DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Repository · 2026-05-02
datasetOpen accessData for EMSL Project 60398 from October 2024
DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Repository · 2026-05-02
datasetOpen accessData for EMSL Project 60398 from October 2024
DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Repository · 2026-05-02
datasetOpen access
Recent grants
Frequent coauthors
- 94 shared
Melanie A. Mayes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 93 shared
C. López-Lloreda
- 92 shared
Christine S. O’Connell
Macalester College
- 89 shared
Ryan K. Quinn
- 89 shared
Whendee L. Silver
University of California, Berkeley
- 88 shared
Jana R. Phillips
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 88 shared
Julia Brenner
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 86 shared
Brent D. Newman
Education
- 2009
Ph.D., Plant Biology
University of California, Berkeley
- 2005
M.S., Plant Biology
University of California, Berkeley
- 2003
B.S., Botany
University of California, Davis
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