Much of his research agenda involves management of the RFF Domestic Adaptation Project, a multi-year effort to synthesize current scientific understanding of anticipated climate change impacts and develop a set of feasible policy recommendations to guide the federal government in its responses. Related to this work, Morris investigates the nexus between climate change and freshwater resources. He also manages the RFF Forest Carbon Index, which synthesizes economic, biological, and risk data to estimate a country’s potential capacity for carbon storage in forest sinks, primarily in the tropical regions of the world. Similarly, Morris focuses on the relatively new field of “blue carbon,” which investigates the carbon storage potential of coastal and marine ecosystems.