Biology / Ecology is one of more than 16 discipline tags that we use to categorize and aggregate our interdisciplinary information within and across CZOs. Much of our information has been tagged with 2-3 disciplines.
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Garner Run - Sap Flow - Garner Run Sap Flow Data (2016-2018)
1 components •
Garner Run - Sandstone Forested •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
National - LiDAR, Land Cover, GIS/Map Data - OpenTopography (2010-2017)
18 components •
Boulder Creek Watershed, Eel River Watershed, Jemez River Basin, Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Northeastern Puerto Rico and the Luquillo Mountains, Sangamon River Basin, Clear Creek Watershed, Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, Providence Creek Headwater Catchments (1660 - 2115 m elevation) •
Geomorphology, GIS / Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Biology / Ecology •
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping; Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory; Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory; University of Arizona; University of California Merced; Valles Caldera National Preserve; Bandelier National Monument; National Park Service; Jemez River Basin and Santa Catalina Mountains Critical Zone Observatory; Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory; Reynolds Creek CZO; Eel River CZO; Shale Hills CZO
National - Soil Gas - CO2 and O2 (2014-2017)
2 components •
Bigelow Site (High-Elevation), Jemez 2013 Burned ZOB, Jemez Unburned Site, Calhoun CZO Research Area 1, Garner Run - Sandstone Forested, Northeastern Puerto Rico and the Luquillo Mountains •
Biogeochemistry, Climatology / Meteorology, Soil Science / Pedology, Biology / Ecology •
Brecheisen, Zachary; Chorover, Jon; Kaye, Jason; Silver, Whendee; Abramson, Nate; Barron-Gafford, Greg; Condon, Katherine E.; Cook, Charles W.; Hill, Lillian; Losleben, Mark; Minor, Rebecca; O'Connell, Christine; Richter, Daniel deB.; Durcik, Matej
National - Stream Water Chemistry - Cations, Anions, Metals (1982-2015)
1 components •
Bisley, Betasso, East Peak, Marshall Gulch (High-Elevation), Providence Creek Subcatchment P301, Providence Creek Subcatchment P303, Providence Creek Subcatchment P304, Eel River Watershed, Puente Roto, Rio Blanco, Rio Icacos, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biogeochemistry, Biology / Ecology, Hydrology, Water Chemistry •
Hyojin, Kim; Bishop, Jim; Dietrich, William; Fung, Inez; McDowell, William H.; Brantley, Susan L.; Hoagland, Beth; Sullivan, Pamela L.; Cain, Molly; Neal, Andrew; Fisher, Jessica; Russo, Tess; Niwot Ridge LTER; Liu, Fengjing; Chorover, Jon; Troch, Peter; McIntosh, Jennifer; Brooks, Paul; Abramson, Nate; Heidbuechel, Ingo; Amistadi, Mary Key; Alexander Pedron, Shawn; Chorover, Jon; Troch, Peter; Corley, Timothy; Zapata-Rios, Xavier; Losleben, Mark; Condon, Katherine
Shale Hills - LiDAR, Vegetation (2010)
2 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology, GIS / Remote Sensing •
Qinghua Guo
Shale Hills - Sap Flow - Shale Hills Sap Flow Data (2016-2018)
1 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Sap Flow - Shale Hills Sap Flow Data (2009-2014)
13 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Soil Moisture, Hydropedologic Properties (2006-2015)
1 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Hydrology, Soil Science / Pedology, Biology / Ecology •
Naithani, Kusum; Baldwin, Doug
Shale Hills - Vegetation, Stable Isotopes, Soil Water Chemistry (2009-2014)
2 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology, Hydrology •
Gaines, Katie; Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Vegetation, Stable Isotopes (2012)
1 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology, Hydrology •
Gaines, Katie; Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Vegetation - Root Length Density (2013)
2 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Vegetation - Litter & Dendroband Data (2011-2013)
1 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Kaye, Margot; Smith, Lauren
Shale Hills - Vegetation - Survey to Validate LiDAR (2010)
5 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Vegetation - Leaf Area Index (2010)
4 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
Shale Hills - Vegetation - Tree Survey (2008-2012)
3 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.; Kaye, Margot
Shale Hills - Tree Growth & Physiology, GIS/Map Data - Tree Falls (2014)
1 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Geomorphology, Biology / Ecology •
White, Tim
Shale Hills - Tree Growth & Physiology, Vegetation - Above-Ground Tree Biomass Data (2008-2012)
1 components •
Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Kaye, Margot; Smith, Lauren
Shale Hills, Garner Run (Sandstone Forested) - Vegetation, Tree Growth & Physiology (2014)
2 components •
Garner Run - Sandstone Forested, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Kaye, Margot
Shale Hills, Garner Run (Sandstone Forested) - Vegetation (2015)
1 components •
Garner Run - Sandstone Forested, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Brubaker, Kristen
Shaver's Creek Watershed - Vegetation - Leaf Litter Collection Data (2015)
1 components •
Garner Run - Sandstone Forested, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.; Kaye, Margot
Shaver's Creek Watershed - Tree Growth & Physiology - Root Distribution Data (2015)
1 components •
Garner Run - Sandstone Forested, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory •
Biology / Ecology •
Eissenstat, David M.
Hydrologic Flowpaths and Hydropedology
Vertical and lateral flowpaths provide a "short-circuit" for water flux in the shallow subsurface.
2019
Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons. Brewer, Tess E., Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O’Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer (2019): mBio Oct 2019, 10 (5) e01318-19 Cross-CZO National
2019 (In Review)
Observing and Simulating Spatial Variations of Forest Carbon Stocks in Complex Terrain. He, Yuting, Kenneth Davis, Yuning Shi, Dave Eissenstat, Jason Kaye, Margot Kaye (2019): Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (submitted)
2019
No “Gadgil effect”: Temperate tree roots and soil lithology are effective predictors of wood decomposition. Malik, Rondy J. (2019): Forest Pathology
2019 (In Review)
What Controls Above- and Belowground Partitioning Patterns in Temperate Forests?. Orr, A., T.S. Adams, K. Naithani, M. McCormack, J. Kaye, D. Baldwin, Y. Shi and D.M. Eissenstat (2019): Functional Ecology, submitted
2019
Exploring the effect of aspect to inform future earthcasts of climate-driven changes in weathering of shale. Sullivan, P., Godderis, Y., Shi, Y., Gu, X., Schott, J., Hasenmueller, E.A., Kaye, J., Duffy, C., Jin, L., and Brantley, S.L. (2019): Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface
2019 (In Review)
Lithology differentially shifts root distribution of co-occurring tree species. Szink, Ismaiel, Hasenmueller, Elizabeth A., Orr, Alexandra S., Adams, Thomas S., Long, Robert S., Eissenstat, David M. (2019): Ecology (submitted)
2018
Multi-disciplinary Insights in to the Effects of Vegetation Change on Hydrologic Partitioning (Invited). Brooks, P.D., Barnard, H.R., Biederman, J.A., Harpold, A., Singha, K., Swetnam, T.L., Tai, X. (2018): Abstract H21A-06 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec Cross-CZO
2018
Spatial patterns of tree and shrub biomass in a deciduous forest using leaf-off and leaf-on lidar. Brubaker Kristen M., Johnson Quincey K., and Kaye Margot W. (2018): Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 48: 1–14
2018
Root morphology and mycorrhizal type strongly influence root production in nutrient hot spots of mixed forests . Chen, W., Koide, R. T., Eissenstat, D. M. (2018): Journal of Ecology, 106:148-156
2018
Nutrient foraging by mycorrhizas: From species functional traits to ecosystem processes. Chen, Weile, Koide, Roger T., and Eissenstat, David M. (2018): Functional Ecology, 00:1–12
2018
Biomass Partitioning to Absorptive Roots in the Context of Multiple Resource Limitation. David M Eissenstat*, Alexandra S. Orr, Ismaiel Szink, Kusum J. Naithani, Jason P Kaye, Thomas S Adams (2018): Abstract B41K-2856 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec
2018
Tree-driven redistribution of mineral nutrients in a temperate forested shale catchment. Fiona Soper*, Samuel Chamberlain, Louis A Derry, Jed P Sparks (2018): Abstract B21I-2439 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14
2017
Reviews and syntheses: on the roles trees play in building and plumbing the critical zone. Brantley, Susan L., David M. Eissenstat, Jill A. Marshall, Sarah E. Godsey, Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, Diana L. Karwan, Shirley A. Papuga, Joshua Roering, Todd E. Dawson, Jaivime Evaristo, Oliver Chadwick, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Kathleen C. Weathers (2017): Biogeosciences, 14, 5115-5142 Cross-CZO National
2017
Weathering of rock to regolith: The activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures. Hasenmueller, E., Gu, X., Weitzman, J., Adams, T., Stinchcomb, G., Eissenstat, D., Drohan, P., Brantley, S., and Kaye, J. (2017): Geoderma 300:11-31
2017
WEATHERING OF ROCK TO REGOLITH: THE ACTIVITY OF DEEP ROOTS IN BEDROCK FRACTURES. Hasenmueller, E.A., Gu, X., Weitzman, J.N., Adams, T.S., Stinchcomb, G.E., Eissenstat, D.M., Drohan, P.J., Brantley, S.L., and Kaye, J.P. (2017): 2017 Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, Seattle, WA, 22-25 October
2017
Lithological controls on soil properties of temperate forest ecosystems in central Pennsylvania. Hill, L. (2017): Master of Science, Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 89
2017
Atmospheric mercury deposition to forests in the eastern USA. Risch, Martin R., DeWild, John F., Gay, David A., Zhang, Leiming, Boyer, Elizabeth W., and Krabbenhoft, David P. (2017): Environmental Pollution 228(8-18)
2017
Variability in aboveground carbon dynamics driven by slope aspect and curvature in an eastern deciduous forest, USA. Smith, L., Eissenstat, D., and Kaye, M. (2017): Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 47: 149–158
2017
Earthcasting controls of vegetation on solute fluxes and soil development in the critical zone. Sullivan, P.L., Goddéris, Y., Li, L., Billings, S., Macpherson, G.L., Shi, Y., Schott, J., Brantley, S.L. (2017): Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017 Cross-CZO
2017
Slope position and Soil Lithological Effects on Live Leaf Nitrogen Concentration. Szink, I., Adams, T., Orr, A., Eissenstat, D. (2017): 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec
2016
Exploring lag times between monthly atmospheric deposition and stream chemistry in Appalachian forests using cross correlation. DeWalle, David R., Boyer, Elizabeth W., and Buda, Anthony R. (2016): Atmospheric Environment, vol. 146, p. 206-214
2016
Plant Functional Traits Associated with Mycorrhizal Root Foraging in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees. Eissenstat, D.M., Chen, W., Cheng, L., Liu, B., Koide, R.T., and Guo, D. (2016): 2016 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
2016
Rapid tree water transport and residence times in a Pennsylvania catchment. Gaines KP, FC Meinzer, CJ Duffy, EM Thomas, and DM Eissenstat (2016): Ecohydrology, 9 (8): 1554–1565
2016
Reliance on shallow soil water in a mixed-hardwood forest in central Pennsylvania. Gaines KP, JW Stanley, FC Meinzer, KA McCulloh, DR Woodruff, W Chen, TS Adams, H Lin and DM Eissenstat (2016): Tree Physiology, 36 (4): 444-458
2016
Investigating the Effects of Soil Moisture on Net Ecosystem Exchange in Shale Hills. Griffiths, Z.G., Davis, K.J., and He, Y. (2016): 2016 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
2016
TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROLS ON ROOT PARTITIONING PATTERNS IN A TEMPERATE FOREST . Orr, Alexandra (2016): Master of Science, Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 36
2016
Comparing Rooting Depth and Niche Partitioning Between Shale and Sandstone Derived Soils in Central Pennsylvania Mixed Forests. Szink, I., Adams, T.S., Orr, A.S., Ruppel, M., Donnelly, S., Brazil, L.I., and Eissenstat, D.M. (2016): 2016 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
2015
Downscaling Satellite Data for Predicting Catchment-scale Root Zone Soil Moisture with Ground-based Sensors and an Ensemble Kalman Filter. Baldwin, Douglas C., Henry Lin and Erica Smithwick (2015): H43H-1635 Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle II Posters, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2015
Influence of Topography on Root Processes in the Shale Hills Susquehanna Critical Zone Observatory (Invited). Eissenstat, David M, Alexandra S. Orr, Thomas S Adams, Weile Chen and Katie Gaines (2015): H23J-02 Ecohydrology in the Critical Zone II, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2015
The tree water isoscape of a central Pennsylvania catchment: ecohydrologic patterns and processes. Gaines, Katie and Kristen Marie Brubaker (2015): H21C-1387 Ecohydrology in the Critical Zone I Posters, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2015
FOREST ECOHYDROLOGY IN A CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CATCHMENT: A STABLE ISOTOPE APPROACH . Gaines, Katie P. (2015): Doctor of Philosophy, Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 126
2015
Laser vision: lidar as a transformative tool to advance critical zone science. Harpold, A. A., Marshall, J. A., Lyon, S. W., Barnhart, T. B., Fisher, B. A., Donovan, M., Brubaker, K. M., Crosby, C. J., Glenn, N. F., Glennie, C. L., Kirchner, P. B., Lam, N., Mankoff, K. D., McCreight, J. L., Molotch, N. P., Musselman, K. N., Pelletier, J., Russo, T., Sangireddy, H., Sjöberg, Y., Swetnam, T., and West, N. (2015): Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2881-2897 Cross-CZO National
2015
The Activity of Deep Roots in Bedrock Fractures at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, USA. Hasenmueller, Elizabeth Ann, Xin Gu, Julie N Weitzman, Thomas S Adams, Gary E Stinchcomb, David M Eissenstat, Susan L Brantley and Jason P Kaye (2015): H21C-1383 Ecohydrology in the Critical Zone I Posters, presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
2015
Importance of vegetation for manganese cycling in temperate forested watersheds. Herndon Elizabeth, Lixin Jin, Danielle Andrews, David Eissenstat, Susan Brantley (2015): Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(2):160-174
2015
Modelling long-term water yield effects of forest management in a Norway spruce forest. Yu, Xuan, Anna Lamačová, Christopher Duffy, Pavel Krám, Jakub Hruška, Tim White & Gopal Bhatt (2015): Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60:2, 174-191
2015
Hydrological model uncertainty due to spatial evapotranspiration estimation methods. Yu, Xuan, Anna Lamačová, Christopher J. Duffy, Pavel Krám, Jakub Hruška (2015): Computers & Geosciences, 90, 90–101
2014
B22A-01 Rapid Water Uptake and Limited Storage Capacity at Height of Growing Season in Four Temperate Tree Species in a Central Pennsylvania Catchment . Katie Gaines • Frederick Meinzer • Christopher Duffy • Evan Thomas • David Eissenstat (2014): 2014 AGU Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19th
2014
Model-data synthesis of the carbon and water cycles at very high resolution in complex topography. Kenneth Davis, Chris Duffy, David Eissenstat, Yuning Shi, Susan Brantley, Yuting He, Jason Kaye, Margot Kaye, Henry Lin, Andrew Neal, Xuan Yu, Fuqing Zhang (2014): AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, May 4-5, 2014
2014
MODELING, PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION, AND ECOHYDROLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF WATERSHED SYSTEMS. Xuan Yu (2014): Doctor of Philosophy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, p. 130
2014
Summary Results for Shale Hills Critical Zone Unit, Spring/Summer 2012 Benthic Macroinvertebrate Survey. Yetter, Susan E. (2014): Internal SSHCZO publication
2013
The Use of LiDAR Terrain Data in Characterizing Surface Roughness and Microtopography. Brubaker KM, WL Myers, PJ Drohan, DA Miller, and EW Boyer (2013): Applied and Environmental Soil Science, Article ID 891534, 13 pages
2013
Scaling root processes based on plant functional traits (Invited). Eissenstat, D.M., McCormack, M.L., Gaines, K., Adams, T. (2013): Abstract H14D-01 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
2013
Patterns in tree water extraction depth at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in central Pennsylvania. Katie P Gaines, David Eissenstat, and Henry Lin (2013): ESA Annual Meeting,Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 4-9, 2013
2013
Above- and belowground controls on water use by trees of different wood types in an eastern United States deciduous forest. Meinzer, F.C., D.R. Woodruff, D.M. Eissenstat, H.S. Lin, T. Adams, K.A. McCulloh. (2013): Tree Physiology, Vol 33 (4): 345-356
2013
Spatial distribution of tree species governs the spatio-temporal interaction of leaf area index and soil moisture across a forested landscape. Naithani K.J., Baldwin D., Gaines K., Lin H. & Eissenstat D.M. (2013): PLoS ONE
2013
Aboverground Carbon Distribution across a temperate watershed. Smith, Lauren A. (2013): Master of Science, Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 72
2013
Bioturbation and Erosion by Tree Throw in Forested Landscapes, Appalachian Mountains . WHITE, Timothy S., SHARKEY, Sarah, and DERE, Ashlee (2013): GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting
2012
Patterns in tree water isotopic signature at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Gaines, K., Eissenstat, D.M. (2012): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2012
Multi-scale lidar greatly improve characterization of forested headwater streams in central Pennsylvania (poster). Kristen M. Brubaker and Elizabeth W. Boyer (2012): AGU Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle, Kona, HI, February 2012
2011
Hydraulic patterns and safety margins, from stem to stomata, in three eastern US tree species. Johnson, D. M., McCulloh, K. A., Meinzer, F. C., Woodruff, D. R., and Eissenstat, D. M. (2011): Tree Physiology 31:659-68
2011
MULTI-SCALE LIDAR-BASED APPROACHES TO CHARACTERIZING STREAM NETWORKS, SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND LANDFORMS OF FOREST WATERSHEDS. Kristen M. Brubaker (2011): Doctor of Philosophy, Forest Resources, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 162
2011
LiDAR imagery improves classification of forest function in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of Pennsylvania (poster). Kristen M. Brubaker and Elizabeth W. Boyer (2011): Gordon Research Conference for Catchment Science, Bates College, ME., July 2011
2011
Bioturbation of forested shale soils by tree throw in the Appalachian Mountains. Mann, E., Downy, K., Dere, A.L., White, T. (2011): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2011
Tree transpiration at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory. Meinzer F.C., D. Woodruff, T.A. Adams & D. M. Eissenstat (2011): All Hands Meeting, Oracle, AZ, May, 2011
2011
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Vegetation Structure and Hydrology at Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in Central Pennsylvania. Naithani K.J., K. Gaines, D. Baldwin, H. Lin, & D.M. Eissenstat (2011): 1st Conference on Spatial Statistics, Enschede, Netherlands. March 23-25, 2011. Poster
2011
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Vegetation Structure and Hydrology at Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in Central Pennsylvania. Naithani, K.J., Gaines, K., Baldwin, D., Lin, H., Eissenstat, D.M. (2011): Postdoctoral Research Exhibition, PSU. April 12, 2011. Poster
2011
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Vegetation Structure and Hydrology at Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in Central Pennsylvania. Naithani, K.J., Gaines, K., Baldwin, D., Lin, H., Eissenstat, D.M. (2011): All Hands Meeting, Oracle, AZ, May, 2011 Poster
2010
Vegetation: A natural capacitor for contaminant metals input into the Critical Zone (Invited). Brantley, S.L., Herndon, E.M., Jin, L., Eissenstat, D., Raymond, P. (2010): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2010
Soil production is faster on south-facing slopes in the Susquehanna/Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory due to periglacial, vegetative, and climate factors (Invited). Jin, L., Eissenstat, D., Lin, H., Chabaux, F.J., Ma, L., Brantley, S.L. (2010): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2010
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Vegetation and Hydrological Properties at Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in Central Pennsylvania. Naithani, K.J., Gaines, K., Baldwin, D., Lin, H., Eissenstat, D.M. (2010): AGU Annual Fall Conference Proceedings
2010
Tree species distribution in relation to stem hydraulic traits and soil moisture in a mixed hardwood forest in central Pennsylvania . Wubbles, J. (2010): Master of Science, Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, p. 39.
07 May 2019 - On a warm and sunny day in May, the 2018-2019 cohort took to the field! Along with Centre County Pennsylvania Senior Environmental Corp member...
20 Oct 2018 - Visiting Professor of Biology, Dr. J.B. Moon (Penn State Alumna, Ecology - 2012), toured the Shale Hills catchment with BIO 323 – Ecological...
16 Jul 2018 - Trail walks on the Menominee Indian Reservation and through Pennsylvania Forestlands around the CZO (Penn State Stone Valley Forest, Rothrock State...
30 Oct 2017 - The trees in the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico were raked bare by Hurricane Maria. Grizelle Gonzalez talks with NPR's Melissa Block.
25 Apr 2017 - Ismaiel Szink, Doctoral Candidate in the intercollege graduate degree program ecology, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation...
14 Feb 2017 - David Eissenstat, professor of woody plant physiology in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn...
26 Sep 2016 - Graduate student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University
13 Jul 2016 - Over the next year (April 2016 – March 2017), the cross-CZO microbial ecology working group plans to collect soil samples during peak regional...
23 Mar 2016 - Assistant Professor of ecohydrology, Department of Geography, University of Kansas
20 Aug 2015 - The Spring 2015 Request for Seed Grant Proposals in Support of Critical Zone Science in the Susquehanna Shale Hills CZO has resulted in the...
04 Jun 2014 - PhD candidates Katie Gaines and Ashlee Frederick led a group of 6th grade students from the Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School on a field trip to the...
03 Oct 2013 - Three Graduate Research Assistantships are available at Penn State beginning Fall 2014 to study soil biogeochemistry, ecology, mapping, or hydrology...
01 Oct 2013 - Twenty students visited the CZO today from Forestry 475 with the purpose to teach the students about links between soils and forest...
18 Feb 2013 - We are pleased to announce a third award has been granted on the RFP seed grant program for complimentary research at Shale Hills. The...
29 May 2012 - Dr. Jonathan Nyquist and undergraduate student, Derek Lichtner, both of Temple University, have begun a summer research project in conjunction with...
14 May 2012 - Students from PSU Mont Alto Forestry Academy, one of the first forestry schools in the nation, were given an overview of the CZO, past and present,...
21 Mar 2012 - Dr. Andrew Richardson (http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/richardson/) has provided a high resolution video camera (StarDot NetCam SC Megapixel...
15 Mar 2012 - NSF *Science Nation* video shows how lifecycle of water in the Susquehanna River Basin may reveal answers for drought prone areas
25 May 2010 - Princeton scientists, Dr. Francois Morel and Dr. Anne Kraepiel, will collaborate at Shale Hills to advance our understanding of nitrogen fixation in...
Dr. David Eissenstat, Professor of Woody Plant Physiology, will present “Strategies of Nutrient Acquisition in Temperate Trees” from 12:00pm – 1:30pm in 217 Forest Resources Building
217 Forest Resources Building.
Improving prediction of soil carbon and fluxes at the plot to landscape scale
107 Forest Resources Building.
Improving Estimates of Root Zone Soil Moisture to Understand Ecosystem Drought Sensitivity
319 Walker Building.
Forest ecohydrology in a central Pennsylvania catchment: A stable isotope approach
105 Forest Resources Building.
MODELING, OPTIMIZATION, AND ECOHYDROLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF WATERSHED SYSTEMS
202 Hammond Building.
Effective rooting depth and water age of vegetation at the SSHCZO
102 Forest Resources Building.
Eco-Hydrological research flow at SSHCZO -- watershed heat flow modeling
301 Steidle Building.
Temporal and Spatial Scaling of Evapotranspiration Using Plant Hydraulic Theory
301 Steidle Building.