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Dr. David D. Breshears - University of Arizona
Determining vegetation responses to global-change-type drought extremes: will warming amplify tree die-off? (abstract)

Dr. Neil S. Cobb - Northern Arizona University
Regional Dynamic Vegetation Model for the Colorado Plateau: A Species- Specific Approach. (abstract)

Dr. Matthew Germino - Idaho State University
Climatic and biotic co-limitation of conifer establishment at treelines: addressing uncertainty in bio-climatic model forecasts of forest change. (abstract)

Dr. Kevin Gurney - Purdue University
Exploration of the mechanistic relationship between improved regional North American inverse carbon fluxes and climate variability/trends. (abstract)

Dr. Daniel Kashian - Wayne State University
Carbon storage responses of subalpine forests to mountain pine beetle outbreaks under current and altered climate regimes in western North America. (abstract)

Dr. Michael E. Loik - University of California, Santa Cruz
Climate Change Impacts on Shrub-Forest Ecotones in the Western US (abstract)

Dr. Russell K. Monson - University of Colorado , Boulder
The Response of a Subalpine Forest Ecosystem to Earlier Spring Warm-up. (abstract)

Dr. Michael Notaro - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ecosystem response to future climate change and the impact of vegetation feedbacks in the Southwest United States (abstract)

Dr. Walter C Oechel - San Diego State University
Controls on Carbon and Methane flux Across a Complex Coastal Arctic Landscape (abstract)

Dr. Kiona Ogle - University of Wyoming
Synthesis of existing datasets to explore the implications of altered precipitation for carbon and water dynamics in desert ecosystems of the southwestern US. (abstract)

Dr. William Pockman - University of New Mexico
Ecosystem consequences of precipitation variability and extremes in semiarid grassland and shrubland. (abstract)

Dr. Edward A.G. Schuur - University of Florida
The Effect of Moisture and Temperature Manipulation on Plant Allocation and Soil Carbon Dynamics in Black Spruce Forests: Using Radiocarbon to Detect Multiple Climate Change Impacts on Boreal Ecosystem Carbon Cycling. (abstract)

Dr. David G. Williams - University of Wyoming
Direct and indirect effects of warming, elevated CO2 and non-native plant invasion on carbon and water cycling in semiarid grassland (abstract)

Continuation Projects - Western Region

Dr. Paul DeMott- Colorado State University
Hygroscopicity and Cloud-and-Ice Nucleating Activities of Combustion Aerosols

Dr. Allen Goldstein - UC Berkeley
Carbon Exchange in a Ponderosa Pine Plantation: Strategies of Water Use, Seasonality of Plant Physiology, and the Impact of Aerosols on Photosynthesis

Dr. Niall Hanan - Colorado State University
Carbon, weather and land-use in Conservation Reserve Program lands of the shortgrass prairie

Dr. Sandra Kreidenweiss-Dandy - Colorado State
Laboratory Measurements of aerosol scattering and extinction properties

Dr. Lynn Russell - Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Organic Aerosol Effects on Radiative Forcing of Climate

Dr. Lloyd Stark - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The effects of global change and disturbance on the health and regeneration of the Mojave Desert biological soil crust

Dr. Jeffrey Stone - Oregon State University
Factors influencing the distribution of a foliar fungal pathogen and its effect on carbon dioxide flux in multiple-aged Douglas-fir forests.

last updated: 28 February 2008 PLH