2008 - Projects
Brian Beckage, University of Vermont - Using historical change to predict future distribution of high elevation forests in northern New England
Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory - Effects of soil warming on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and their interactions in temperate forests: implications for land-atmosphere feedbacks
Paul Moorcroft, Harvard University - Predicting the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystem structure, composition, and function in the Northeastern United States
Scott Saleska, University of Arizona - Isotope ratio partitioning of ecosystems CO2 fluxes to understand forest response to climate change: long-term measurements with novel instrumentation
2007 - Completed Research Projects
D. Bryan Dail - University of Maine, Eric Davidson - Woods Hole Research Center, and David Hollinger, - USDA Forest Service - Long-term CO 2 exchange and biomass measurements in a spruce-hemlock stand near Howland, Maine, supporting regional-scale studies and ecosystem manipulation experiments
David R. Foster and Julian Hadley - Harvard University - Effects of Forest Age, Soil Drainage and Interannual Climate Variation on Deciduous Forest Carbon Exchange: A Comparison to Long-term Harvard Forest Measurements, in a Contrasting Forest Type
Xuhui Lee - Yale University - Response of soil respiration to rain
Paul R. Moorcroft - Harvard University - Past, present and future rates of terrestrial CO2 flux in North-Eastern Forests: the role of ecophysiological responses, land-use history & disturbance legacies
J. William Munger and Steven Wofsy - Harvard University - Long-term response by the carbon budget of a midlatitude deciduous forest to ecological processes, climate variations, and air pollutants
Ruth K. Varner and Patrick Crill, University of New Hampshire - High Frequency Measurements of CO 2 Efflux from Forest Soil
2007 - Projects
Andrew D. Richardson - University of New Hampshire - Reducing uncertainty about the effects climatic variation on forest ecosystems by measuring, modeling, and analyzing intermediate-turnover carbon pools
Margot W. Kaye - Pennsylvania State University - Northeastern forest regeneration in a warmer and wetter climate
Klaus Keller and Ken Davis - Pennsylvania State University - Which observation would best reduce hindcast and projection uncertainties about U.S. Terrestrial carbon sink?
Jerry M. Melillo - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory - Effects of soil warming on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and their interactions in temperate forests: implications for local-atmosphere feedbacks
J. William Munger - Harvard University - Analysis of long-term trends and anomalies in CO2 and H2O exchange at a NE U.S. mixed deciduous forest in response to climate variability
Matthew D. Wallenstein - Colorado State University - Parsing the mechanisms that drive soil decomposition responses to climate change: a test of the substrate depletion and microbrial acclimation hypotheses
2006 - Projects
Mark O. Battle - Bowdoin College- Measurements of the O2-CO2 Stoichiometry of Terrestrial Ecosystems
Eric A. Davidson - Woods Hole Research Center- Decadal-Scale Measurements of Decadal-Cycling Forest Soil Carbon
Christine Goodale - Cornell University, Scott Ollinger - University of New Hampshire- Effects of Future Changes in Climate and Atmospheric Composition on Forest Ecosystems across the Northeastern US: Model Development, Testing and Projections
J.L. Sarmiento - Princeton University- Evaluation of ecosystem carbon dynamics in North America using hourly to decadal data on local to regional scales
Charles D. Canham - Institute of Ecosytems Studies- Fundamental versus Realized Niches of Forest Trees: Spatially-explicit Analyses of the Effects of Climate on Growth and Mortality in Northeastern Tree Species
Jeffrey Dukes - University of Massachusetts, Boston - The Boston-Area Climate Experiment: A gradient-based approach for characterizing ecosystem responses to warming and precipitation change
Xuhui Lee - Yale University - Influences of Boundary Layer Flow on Vegetation - Air Exchanges of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide
Ongoing Research Projects
Kenneth Davis, Penn State University - Measurement and Modeling Component and Whole-System CO 2 Flux at Local to Regional Scales in Northern Wisconsin
Russell R. Dickerson, University of Maryland - Sulfate-Coated Soot and Its Impact on Global Climat
Geoffrey S. Dutton - CIRES/CU and Michael B. McElroy, Harvard University - Influence of Biotic Exchange and other Sources on Atmospheric CO 2 Concentrations in a New England Deciduous Forest utilizing Other Trace Gases Measurements
Jerry M. Melillo and Paul A. Steudler, Marine Biological Lab. The Ecosystems Center - Soil Warming and Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks to the Climate System
*Project Archives: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/nigec.html
