Noel Michele Holbrook
Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Director of the Harvard Forest, Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum
Affiliate of Environmental Science and Engineering
Biological Laboratories
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Professor Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook is currently working on questions relating to embolism repair, leaf hydraulic design, and xylem evolution.