2008 - Projects
Brian Beckage, University of Vermont - Using historical change to predict future distribution of high elevation forests in northern New England - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Started March '08, Last Progress Report: March '09
Margot Kaye, Penn State University - Northeastern Forest regeneration in a warmer and wetter climate - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '09
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Started July '09
Paul Moorcroft, Harvard University - Iimpacts of climate variability and change on forest structure, composition, and function in the Northeastern United States - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last updated July '09
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Started March '08, Last Progress Report: June '09
2007 - 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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
Klaus Keller and Ken Davis - Pennsylvania State University - Which observation would best reduce hindcast and projection uncertainties about U.S. Terrestrial carbon sink? - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Xuhui Lee - Yale University - Response of soil respiration to rain - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '09
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Ruth K. Varner and Patrick Crill, University of New Hampshire - High Frequency Measurements of CO 2 Efflux from Forest Soil - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '09
2006 - Projects and earlier Projects
Mark O. Battle - Bowdoin College- Measurements of the O2-CO2 Stoichiometry of Terrestrial Ecosystems - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: March '09'
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '08
Eric A. Davidson - Woods Hole Research Center- Decadal-Scale Measurements of Decadal-Cycling Forest Soil Carbon - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Kenneth Davis, Penn State University - Measurement and Modeling Component and Whole-System CO 2 Flux at Local to Regional Scales in Northern Wisconsin - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Russell R. Dickerson, University of Maryland - Sulfate-Coated Soot and Its Impact on Global Climate Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
COMPLETED
Jeffrey Dukes - University of Massachusetts, Boston - The Boston-Area Climate Experiment: A gradient-based approach for characterizing ecosystem responses to warming and precipitation change - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '07
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
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 - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '07
Xuhui Lee - Yale University - Influences of Boundary Layer Flow on Vegetation - Air Exchanges of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '08
Jerry M. Melillo and Paul A. Steudler, Marine Biological Lab. The Ecosystems Center - Soil Warming and Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks to the Climate System - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
J.L. Sarmiento, et al. - Princeton University- Evaluation of ecosystem carbon dynamics in North America using hourly to decadal data on local to regional scales - Research Highlights - Data & Models - Publications
Last Progress Report: July '09
*Project Archives: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/nigec.html
