Rate My Professor Inke Forbrich

Inke Forbrich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences within the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Toledo. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology at the University of Greifswald, Germany, and her M.Sc. in 2005 from the Institute of Geography at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her primary research interests encompass wetland and ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem-atmosphere interactions. Forbrich examines the exchange of trace gases—such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane—between ecosystems and the atmosphere, along with the biological and environmental factors controlling these exchanges. She studies the coupling between water and carbon cycles in wetlands, utilizing techniques including chamber and eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.

Forbrich has published extensively on topics related to greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon dynamics in coastal and wetland systems. Key publications include "Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink" in Nature Climate Change (2023), "Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate" in Nature Climate Change (2020), "Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites" in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2021, 439 citations), "Tidal Wetland Gross Primary Production Across the Continental United States, 2000–2019" in Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2020), and "Marsh-atmosphere CO2 exchange in a New England salt marsh" in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2015). Recent works feature "Empirical Dynamic Modeling Reveals Complexity of Methane Fluxes in a Temperate Salt Marsh" in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2024), "Three decades of wetland methane surface flux modeling by Earth system models" in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (2023), and "Rising Water Levels and Vegetation Shifts Drive Substantial Reductions in Methane Emissions and Carbon Dioxide Uptake in a Great Lakes Coastal Freshwater Wetland" in Global Change Biology (2025). She maintains an affiliation with the UToledo Lake Erie Center.