The contrast in weather was extreme for 2020 and 2021 at our flux sites located in the semiarid shrublands, grasslands, savannas, and forests of southern Arizona. This was especially… More
Coastal forested wetlands in the southeastern US provide important ecosystem services, including the conservation of biodiversity, supplying clean, abundant water resources, and the cycling and storage of carbon, which feeds… More
I have a love-hate relationship with winter. As manager of the Niwot Ridge US-NR1 AmeriFlux site (Blanken et al., 1998-present), located in a subalpine forest on the east side of… More
Feature photo: Jeff Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison Communications The English word “scale” has a surprisingly broad range of definitions. Whether you think of the scales of a fish, the scale… More
We all know the importance of soil as a CO2 source to the atmosphere, even in high latitude/altitude ecosystems with persistent snow cover. Before the days of automated soil respiration… More
To Be or Not to Be…that is the Question One of the challenging questions facing bio-geoscientists is whether the hydrological cycle is changing in a warming world with more CO2…. More
The Rosemount AmeriFlux sites are located at the University of Minnesota, Rosemount Research and Outreach Center (RROC) – a 3,500 acre research farm (https://rroc.cfans.umn.edu/). Our eddy covariance sites were established… More
Thank you for attending the 2021 AmeriFlux Annual Meeting! All of you made possible a wonderful 3 day conference, in which we enjoyed catching up with colleagues, meeting new ones,… More
Congratulations to the several AmeriFlux community members who have been awarded DOE funding for eddy-covariance flux research! In total, $11 million in funding was announced “to Study Critical Ecosystems and… More
Natural climate solutions (NCS) refer to a variety of land conservation and restoration actions that increase carbon storage (or reduce greenhouse gas emissions) in forests and agricultural operations (Fargione et… More