Tana Elaine Wood is a biogeochemist and ecosystem scientist with a focus in land-use and climate change.

[2] She also works for the Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment as the first on-site scientist and leads research under the ground.

[1] Her graduate research was focused around the importance and effects of litter in tropical forests.

[3] In 2007, she held a position as a postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

Her highly cited works include research on increased experimenting in tropical forests, changing soil moisture and its effect on microbial content, the effect that tropical forests have on carbon regulation, variability in litter and weather patterns affects nutrients in the soil, and how nutrient cycles can be affected by environmental changes.