Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research SYMPOSIUM 2002

 

Friday, October 18, 2001

Room 401, IARC bldg., University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

8:30-8:40                       Welcome and Announcements

8:40-9:00                       Terry Chapin “Controls over successional change and feedbacks to climate”

9:00-9:20                       Knut Kielland “Herbivory and nutrient cycling on the Tanana River floodplain”

9:20-9:40                       Roger Ruess “Fine roots dynamics: belowground allocation and cycling of fine root C and N”

9:40-10:00                     David Valentine “Does wildfire increase C losses from boreal forest soils?”

10:00-10:30                   Coffee break

10:30-10:50                   Larry Hinzman, “Hydrologic Process Studies in the Alaskan Boreal Forest”

10:50-11:10                   Jeremy Jones "Hydro-biogeochemical investigations in interior Alaska"

11:10-11:30                   Glenn Patrick Juday “Climate variability and interior Alaska spruces - what does it all mean?”

11:30-11:50                   Elena Sparrow

11:50-1:00                     Lunch

1:00-1:20                       Andrea Lloyd "Paleoecological investigations of black spruce at its northern range limit in the Brooks Range". 

1:20-1:40                       Mary Edwards “Interaction of fire, climate and vegetation from a long-term perspective”

1:40-2:00                       Daniel Mann and Scott Rupp “Initial work on a UAF-Interagency fire dynamics model for Interior Alaska”

2:00-2:20                       Richard Boone “Fire, fertilization and floodplain succession: how do soil N dynamics respond?”

2:20-2:40                       Vladimir Romanovsky "Temperature Regime of the Active Layer and Permafrost in Fairbanks Area"

2:40-3:00                       David McGuire “Carbon cycling in extratropical terrestrial ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th Century: A modeling analysis of the influences of soil thermal dynamics”

3:00-3:20                       Coffee break

3:20-3:40                       Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson “Bryophytes and lichens in boreal forests -environmental and genetic control on occurrence, biomass and productivity"

3:40-4:00                       Dave Verbyla “Assessment of the MODIS Leaf Area Index Product in Alaska”

4:00-4:20                       Marilyn Walker “Recent progress on regional vegetation patterns and monitoring”

4:20-4:40                       Richard Werner “Effects of disturbance on population dynamics of bark beetles and wood borers in boreal ecosystems”

4:40-5:00                       Tricia Wurtz “Logging and Fire on the Floodplain: Willow Island after 20 years”

 

Dinner and Social

Friday October 18,

Mushers Hall, 7:00 pm

 

Poster session and Continental Breakfast

 

Saturday October 19, 2001

Room 501, IARC bldg., University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

Desmond Johns "Growth response of Picea mariana along an elevation gradient: implications for response to climate change"

William Bolton, Larry Hinzman, and Kenji Yoshikawa  "Long term" hydrologic analysis of three small watersheds in an area of discontinuous permafrost.”

Nan Werdin, Knut Kielland and Rich Boone “Floodplain Buried Organic Horizons:  Enhanced Zones of Microbial Activity and Plant Nutrition?”

Maier, J.A.K., J. VerHoef, A.D. McGuire, H.A. Maier, L. Saperstein, R.T. Bowyer. “Landscape analysis of moose density and distribution relative to fire history in Interior Alaska”.

SLTER presentation

Knut Kielland and Jerry Belant

 

 

 

Science talks

 

Saturday, October 19, 2001

Room 401, IARC bldg., University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

10:00-10:15                   Valerie Barber “Future growth of white and black spruce under GCM scenarios”

10:15-10:30                   Martin Wilmking “Treelines in the Brooks Range and Alaska Range: Environmental gradients and tree growth history”

10:30-10:45                   Dave Hughes  “Wireless radio communications for Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest”

10:45-11:00                   Kevin Petrone “Chemical budgets of three boreal forest watersheds”

11:00-11:15                   Mike Anderson “Relating Frankia genomic species diversity to 15N2 uptake in Alnus crispa and Alnus tenuifolia”

11:15-11:30                   Monika Calef 'Factors controlling vegetation distribution in Interior Alaska and implications for climate change: a hierarchical logistic regression approach'

11:30-12:30                   Lunch Break

                                    LTER Graduate students meeting, 501 IARC bldg

12:30-12:45                   Justin Epting “Burn severity mapping of the Survey line fire using satellite imagery”

12:45-1:00                     Dorte Dissing “Chasing the feedback mechanism between wildfire burn scars and local thunderstorms-does it exist?”

1:00-1:15                       Jill Johnstone "Patterns of post-fire tree establishment in relation to burn severity in upland black spruce: results from long-term observations at Wickersham Dome"

1:15-1:30                       Sarah Masco

1:30-1:45                       Jason Vogel "Carbon cycling in similar black spruce forests: variations along an elevation gradient"

1:45-2:00                       Bjorn Flora “The relationship of snowshoe hare pellet counts and hare densities in interior Alaska”

 

 

LTER Group Meeting

Program Integration:  Synthesis Volume and Future Research

2:00 pm to 4 pm, IARC 401