Dr. Ammara Talib is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Agroecology Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, working in collaboration with the USDA-ARS Adaptive Crops and Systems Laboratory. Her research focuses on soil hydrology and crop systems modeling in coastal agricultural landscapes affected by saltwater intrusion and flooding. She is working to adapt process-based soil-crop models to better understand water and salt movement in agricultural soils and their effects on root water uptake, plant physiological responses, and crop performance. Her research examines how climate extremes, biotic disturbance, salinity, and land-use change affect ecosystem water and carbon cycling, greenhouse-gas dynamics, plant responses, and resilience across agricultural, forest, wetland, and coastal systems.

Ammara received her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied agricultural water use, evapotranspiration, groundwater dynamics, and irrigation management using eddy covariance measurements, process-based models, and machine-learning approaches. She later completed postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the Yale School of the Environment, examining long-term forest water and carbon dynamics and hydroclimatic stress across coastal ecosystems. Her work combines long-term environmental observations, and numerical and data-driven modeling to understand how ecosystems respond to environmental change and to support more resilient land and water management.