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Monika Calef
Telephone (primary): (518) 591-8563
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E-mail1 (primary): mcalef@albany.edu
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Web URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mc969295/

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Department of Geography and Planning 1400 Washington Avenue University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
United States
Official position at
address above:		 Bonanza Creek LTER Personnel
Educational Institutions
attended:		 B.A. 1993 Geography Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
M.S. 1996 Enviromental Studies Ohio University, Athens, OH
Ph.D. 2003 Ecology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Roles/Affiliations: Institute of Arctic Biology

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  • Analysis of vegetation distribution in interior Alaska and sensitivity to climate change using a logistic regression approach
  • Aspect raster layer for interior Alaska
  • Digital Elevation Model (DEM) raster layer for interior Alaska
  • Firescars with distance from highways in Interior Alaska (1988-1993)
  • Firescars with distance from highways in Interior Alaska (1994-1999)
  • Firescars with distance from highways in Interior Alaska (2000-2005)
  • Firescars with distance from major rivers in Interior Alaska (1994-1999)
  • Firescars with distance from major rivers in Interior Alaska (1988-1993)
  • Firescars with distance from major rivers in Interior Alaska (2000-2005)
  • Firescars with distance from towns in Interior Alaska (1988-1993)
  • Firescars with distance from towns in Interior Alaska (1994-1999)
  • Firescars with distance from towns in Interior Alaska (2000-2005)
  • Human influences on wildfire in Alaska from 1988 through 2005-Shapefile Outline for Interior Alaska
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    Publications (8)

    Journal Articles:

    Calef, M.P., A.D. McGuire, H.E. Epstein, T.S. Rupp, and H.H. Shugart. 2005 Analysis of vegetation distribution in Interior Alaska and sensitivity to climate change using a logistic regression approach. Journal of Biogeography. 32:863-878.

    Clein, J.S., A.D. McGuire, S.E. Euskirchen, and M. Calef. 2007 The effects of different climate input data sets on simulated carbon dynamics in the western Arctic. /Earth Interactions/ Volume 11, paper 12, 24 pages [available online at http://earthinteractions.org]

    Kimball, J.S., M. Zhao, A. D. McGuire, F. A. Heinsch, J. Clein, M. Calef, W. M. Jolly, S. Kang, E. S. Euskirchen, K. C. McDonald, and S. W. Running. 2007 Recent climate-driven increases in vegetation productivity for the Western Arctic: Evidence of an acceleration of the northern terrestrial carbon cycle. Earth Interactions 11(4):1-30. 2007. DOI:10.1175/EI180.1

    Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. P. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2007 Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society 12 (1): 7. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art7/.

    Calef, M.P., A.D. McGuire, F.S. Chapin, III. 2008 Human influence on wildfire in Alaska from 1988 through 2005: An analysis of the spatial patterns of human impacts. Earth Interactions 12(1)1-17. doi:10:10.1175/2007EI220.1.

    Chapin, F. S., III, S. F. Trainor, O. Huntington, A. L. Lovecraft, E. Zavaleta, D. C. Natcher, A. D. McGuire, J. L. Nelson, L. Ray, M. Calef, N. L. Fresco, H. Huntington, T. S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, and R. L. Naylor. 2008 Increasing wildfire in the boreal forest: Causes, consequences, and pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem. BioScience. Vol. 58 No. 6 p531-540 doi:10.1641/B580609

    McGuire, A.D., J. Walsh, J.S. Kimball, J.S. Clein, S.E. Euskirchen, S. Drobot, U.C. Herzfeld, J. Maslanik, R.B. Lammers, M.A. Rawlins, C.J. Vorosmarty, T.S. Rupp, W. Wu, and M. Calef.. 2008 The Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE): Overview and Synthesis. Earth Interactions, Vol. 12, Paper No. 7, pp 1-13, DOI: 10.1175/2008EI239.1.

    Trainor, S.F., M. Calef, D. Natcher, F.S. Chapin III, A.D. McGuire, O. Huntington, P. Duffy, T.S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, M. Kwart, N. Fresco, and A.L. Lovecraft. 2009 Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska. Polar Research 28: 100-118. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00101.x


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    The Bonanza Creek LTER, including this website, is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards DEB-0620579, DEB-0423442, DEB-0080609, DEB-9810217, DEB-9211769, DEB-8702629 and by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station through agreement number RJVA-PNW-01-JV-11261952-231. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting agencies or the program as a whole.

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