Henry Gholz died tragically in a mountain climbing accident September 30, 2017, in Rocky Mountain National Park. Henry earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Oregon State University, and was a faculty member specializing in forest ecosystems ecology in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida from 1979 until 2000. In… More
Prof. Gaby Katul, PI of the Duke Forest Ameriflux sites and Professor at Duke, was awarded the Dalton Medal in Hydrological Sciences by the European Geophysical Union. Congratulations. https://www.egu.eu/news/359/egu-announces-2018-awards-and-medals/
Margaret Torn is among this year’s class of scientists who have been elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Only 0.1% of the membership is elected each year and are elected on the basis of breakthroughs, innovations and sustained excellence in science and research. Congratulations! 2017 Class of AGU Fellows Announced
We are happy to announce that Prof. Jose Fuentes of Penn State, is the 2018 recipient of the American Meteorology Award for OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOMETEOROLOGY. ‘For uncovering the significance and workings of key interactions among flora, fauna, and the atmosphere and their role in regional and global environmental change.’ Congratulations, Jose.
Dennis Baldocchi recommends reading: Guan, K. et al., 2015. Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence. Global Change Biology: DOI:10.1111/gcb.13136
From the AmeriFlux-Community listserv. Thanks to Joydeep Bhattacharjee for asking, and David for this answer Joydeep: How do PIs across the network protect their equipment on towers against damage from lighting? David: This question ought to unleash a flood of information and opinions, since lightning protection of sensitive instruments is a black art, similar to… More
(Dennis Baldocchi, author.) I have a new graduate student who is taking introductory classes with a diverse group of environmental science students. In their discussions, they are comparing how each one does their science. So in our weekly discussions, the question came back to me as to “What is our Method?” This is a good… More
Three AmeriFlux scientists were recent recipients of awards from the American Meteorological Society THE CLARENCE LEROY MEISINGER AWARD Ankur Desai For innovative contributions toward improving the observation and modeling of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges across a range of spatial and temporal scales. THE CHARLES E. ANDERSON AWARD José Fuentes For outstanding, sustained efforts to promote diversity in… More
Yue, X., N. Unger, T. F. Keenan, X. Zhang, and C. S. Vogel. 2015. Probing the past 30-year phenology trend of US deciduous forests. Biogeosciences 12:4693-4709. doi:10.5194/bg-12-4693-2015 “Phenology is experiencing dramatic changes over deciduous forests in the USA. Estimates of trends in phenology on the continental scale are uncertain, however, with studies failing to agree on… More
The 8th Colorado Flux Course (#fluxcourse; http://www.fluxcourse.org/) was recently convened up at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Twenty-five students from across the US and globe came to hear lectures on eddy covariance, flux instrumentation, leaf cuvette systems, land surface modeling, remote sensing and data fusion modeling. Students also toured the Niwot Ridge AmeriFlux site (US-NR1) and visited NEON…. More