FACE Investigators
Home Fall Meeting - 1998

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NAME
FIELD
AREAS OF STUDY
C. Awmack (UK)
Ecological Entomologist
Insect biodiversity and community ecology
C. Blackwood (UMich)
Soil Microbiologist
Soil microorganism communities
Forest Ecologist
Carbon and nutrient cycling, physiological ecology of global change, belowground processes
Physiologist
VOC emissions
Pathologist
Foliar diseases, diagnostics
Physiologist
Understory vegetation quality
R. Cox (CFS)
Ecologist
Passive O3 sampling
D. Ellsworth (UMich)
Ecophysiologist
Stomatal conductance, stomatal density
Ecophysiologist
Nitrogen budgets
Ecophysiologist
Canopy dynamics
Modeller
Scaling responses
Micrometeorologist
Characterization of micro climate inside and outside of FACE rings
G. Hendrey (QC-CUNY)
Ecologist
Engineering CO2 and O3 delivery systems
Entomologist
Bronze birch borer occurance
B. Holmes (UMich)
Microbial
C and N cycling
Ecologist
Ecosystem N dynamics, whole-canopy gas exchange
Pathologist
Foliar pathogen occurrence and affects
Modeler/Ecologist
Growth process modeling - single tree to patch scale. Co-developer of ECOPHYS model. 
FACTS II Web Site Moderator
J. Jastrow (ANL)
Mycorrhizal specialist
C storage
E. Jepsen (WDNR)
Ecologist
O3 monitoring and O3 bioindication
S. Kaakinen (UHelsinki/Finland)
Wood Anatomist
Wood quality and chemistry
J. Kangasjarvi (UHelsinki/Finland)
Physiologist
Birch gene expression

D. Karnosky (MTU) deceased

Geneticist
Steering Committee. Project Director. Genetic interactions, gene expression, project operations.
Ecophysiologist
Soil respiration and soil carbon dynamics
Physiologist
Ecosystem C flux, respiration
Ecophysiologist
Responses of photosynthesis and plant water relations, science coordination

O. Kull (UTartu/Estonia) deceased

Ecologist
Gas exchange/Ozone uptake
Research Engineer FACE Specialist
Facility development and maintenance, equipment-manufacturer liaison
T. Lewis (EPA)
Physiologist
Humming bird behavior
Mycorrhizal specialist
Mycorrhizae
Entomologist
Chemical Ecologist
Plant chemistry, insect herbivory, litter decomposition
Physiologist
Modelling and scaling
Physiologist
Crown architecture
B. Mankovska (Slovakian Acad. of Science)
Electron Microscopist
Impacts of gases on leaf surfaces
Physiologist
Gene expression
Entomologist
Shoot boring insects, root feeders
Ecophysiologist
Canopy dynamics, competitive interactions
Mycorrhizal Specialist
Carbon storage dynamics
Forest Entomologist
Insect behavior
Physiologist
Understory vegetation quality
Physicist
Facility development, software development, exposure controlling systems, technical consultant
Tree Physiologist
Steering Commitee. Gas Exchange Dynamics
Ecophysiologist
Gas exchange dynamics, carbon gain
Ecophysiologist
Biochemistry and gene expression for assimilation, rubisco, chlorophyll
K. Percy (Air Quality Effects Consulting, Ltd./Alberta, Canada)
Ecophysiologist
Steering Committee. Leaf surface structure, chemistry, and function; O3 distribution via passive samplers; O3 metrics

G. Podila (UAla-H) deceased

Molecular Biologist
Oversee biochemical and molecular studies of antioxidant gene expression
Forest Ecologist
Steering Committee. Coordinate studies of roots and C and N cycling
Quantitative Geneticist
Experimental analyses and interpretation
Physiologist
Birch gas exchange
Ecophysiologist
Steeing Committee. Gas exchange dynamics
Physiologist
Wood quality and structure
Plant Physiologist
Volitile Organic Compounds (VOC) produced by Aspen
Physiologist
Gas exchange
A. Sober (Estonia)
Physiologist
Gas exchange, O3 uptake
Molecular Biologist
DNA dynamics
Physiologist
Gene expression
R. Thakur (MTU)
Biotechnologist
Gene expression
Entomologist
Insect interaction
Molecular Biologist
Genomics of CO2 and O3 responses in Aspen
Physiologist
Canopy-level transpiration
Physiologist
Wood quality and chemistry
D. Weinstein (Boyce Thompson Institute)
Modeler
Scaling up AspenFACE results to the regional level
Physiologist
Leaf temperature dynamics
Microbial Ecologist
Study mechanisms of C and N cycling; soil microorganisms

                                                           * denotes steering committee members

 
The Northern Forest Ecosystem Experiment (NFEE) is funded by the US Forest Service. The Aspen FACE Experiment is funded principally by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Additional support is from the USFS Global Change Program, Michigan Technological University, the Canadian Forest Service and the USFS Northern Research Station.
For more information on this project, contact Dr. Andrew J. Burton (Michigan Technological University) at (906) 487-2566 or mailto:ajburton@mtu.edu, or Dr. Mark E. Kubiske (Northern Research Station) at (715) 362-1108 or mailto:mkubiske@fs.fed.us.
For questions or suggestions regarding this website, please contact Janet Pikkarainen at mailto:jmpikkar@mtu.edu.
Last updated: July, 2010