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| Scott V. Ollinger | Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Ollinger is an assistant professor with joint academic appointments in Complex Systems Research Center and the UNH Department of Natural Resources. His research interests include ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests, effects of air pollution and climate change and relationships between foliar chemistry and ecosystem processes. His work involves a combination of field studies, remote sensing and ecological modeling. Dr. Ollinger is an investigator with the North American Carbon Program, the White Mountain MAPBGC project and is a developer of the PnET ecosystem models.
email: scott.ollinger@unh.edu |
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| Mary E. Martin | Research Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Martin is a research assistant professor working on the White Mountain AVIRIS remote sensing project and the MAPBGC integrated research effort. Dr. Martin is also interested in applications of remote sensing to the study of forest health with respect to the spread of non-native insect pests such as the hemlock wooly adelgid and the emerald ash borer. |
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| Erik A. Hobbie | Research Assistant professor |
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Dr. Hobbie is a research assistant professor whose research centers around nitrogen cycling and the use of stable isotopes as a means of examining below-ground processes. His interests involve the understanding role of mycorrhizal fungi in nitrogen cycling and organic nitrogen use by forests. He is also the director of the stable isotope laboratory at UNH. |
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| Andrew Richardson | Research Scientist |
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Dr. Richardson studies the forest-atmosphere exchange of CO2, water vapor and energy using the eddy covariance approach and is the lead investigator of the northern hardwood AmeriFlux site at the Bartlett Experimental Forest in the White Mountains, NH. He also conducts research at the spruce-dominated boreal transition forest site in Howland, ME) and is interested in leaf-level physiology, and the application of optical methods (e.g. spectroscopy) to study leaf and canopy properties. |
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| John D. Aber | Professor |
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Dr. Aber is a professor of Natural Resources and Director of the NRESS interdepartmental Ph.D. program. Dr. Aber is the principle developer of the PnET terrestrial ecosystem model. Dr. Aber has been serving as Vice President for Research and Public Service of UNH since Fall 2003. |
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| Alison Magill | Research Scientist |
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Alison Magill supervises the Forest Ecosystem Research Group laboratory and conducts field manipulations and other research at the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Site. Her research interests include litter decomposition nutrient cycling, soil N retention and other belowground processes. Most of her time is spent on the Chronic Nitrogen Amendment experiment at the Harvard Forest.
email: alison.magill@unh.edu |
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| Julian P. Jenkins | Research Scientist |
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Julian Jenkins' principle interests are scaling ecosystem dynamics to broad scales using hyperspectral, multi-view angle and other remote sensing, ecosystem and radiative transfer modeling and eddy co-variance carbon flux towers. He is currently a part-time graduate student in the NRESS Ph.D. Program.
email: julian.jenkins@unh.edu |
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| Lucie Plourde | Research Scientist |
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Lucie Plourde is a remote sensing/GIS specialist whose research involves hyperspectral and multispectral image analysis as well as GIS manipulations and applications. Her work includes integration of remote sensing, canopy chemistry and species composition for landscape-level forest ecosystem analysis.
email: lucie.plourde@unh.edu |
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| Andy Ouimette | Research Scientist |
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Andy Ouimette is working with Erik Hobbie to setup a Stable Isotope Mass Spec lab at UNH. He is also involved in projects which use stable isotopes to understand C and N cycling in forest ecosystems. email:apo@solo.sr.unh.edu |
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| Michelle Day | Research Technician |
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Michelle Day manages the Forest Ecosystem Group laboratory and coordinates fieldwork research. email:m.day@unh.edu |
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| Rita Freuder | Information Technologist |
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Rita Freuder is the principle maintainer of the PnET model code base. She is also involved with the design and development of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space ESIP earth science data archive and is working with the GLOBE-Carbon education initiative.
email: rita.freuder@unh.edu |
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| Jeanne Anderson | Graduate Student |
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Jeanne Anderson is a Doctoral student researching the capability of waveform lidar to accurately depict forest structure and reveal the spatial patterning of structural complexity across the landscape of the White Mountains. She is advised by Mary Martin.
email: jeanne.anderson@unh.edu |
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| Claire Hoff | Graduate Student |
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Claire Hoff is a Doctoral student working with Erik Hobbie interested in calcium cycling in forests. She is co-advised by Julie Bryce of the Department of Earth Sciences (www.unh.edu/esci/bryce.html).
email: choff@cisunix.unh.edu |
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| Rich MacLean | Graduate Student |
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Rich is a Masters students advised by Scott Ollinger who is working on isotopic approaches to studying abiotic nitrogen immobilization in forest soils.
email: rich.maclean@gmail.com | |
| Sarah Silverberg | Research Technician |
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Sarah Silverberg received a Masters degree in Natural Resources working under Scott Ollinger on patterns of soil respiration at the Bartlett Experimental Forest. She is presently a research technician working to develop educational activities that bring research on the terrestrial carbon cycle into K-12 classrooms that are part of the GLOBE education program.
email: Sarah.Silverberg@unh.edu |
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| Rich A. Hallett | Research Scientist (USDA Forest Service) |
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Dr. Hallett is a Forest Service researcher working cooperatively with the CSRC Forest Ecosystems Group on the MAPBGC project and various field research projects. A primary area of interest is the study of forest health as it is affected by acid deposition and the spread of non-native insect pests. |
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| Marie-Louise Smith | Research Scientist (USDA Forest Service) |
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Dr. Smith is a Forest Service researcher working cooperatively with the CSRC Forest Ecosystems Group on the MAPBGC project and various field research projects. She is the lead investigator on the NACP Landscape level field measurement campaign |
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| Jennifer Pontius | Research Scientist (USDA Forest Service) |
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Dr. Pontius a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service. Her research interests center around developing methods to predict and monitor forest health using hyperspectral remote sensing instruments.
email:jennifer.pontius@unh.edu |
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| David Hollinger | Senior Scientist |
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Dave Hollinger is a USDA Forest Service Scientist with interests in ecosystem metabolism, forest CO2 exchange and tree physiology. He is the principal investigator of the Howland, Maine AmeriFlux site.
email:davidh@hypatia.unh.edu |