Ongoing projects:

Interactions between Water, Energy and Carbon Dynamics as Predictors of Canopy to Ecosystem Scale Vegetation Pattern and Function in a Changing Environment

A global dynamic terrestrial ecosystem model for climate interactions at seasonal to century time scales through coupled water, carbon, and nitrogen dynamics

Constraining the response of a global coupled carbon-water-nitrogen ecosystem model to enhanced CO₂ concentrations by observations.

Calibration of a regional ecosystem/atmosphere model to eddy-flux data.

Coupling the Effects of Management and Climate on Carbon and Water Fluxes in the Forests of Eastern U.S. and P.R.C.

Completed projects:

Improving and Evaluating Dynamic Models of Natural and Managed Ecosystems over the Central and Southern US using AmeriFlux and MODIS data.

Characterization of key resource areas in Kenya.

Spatial analysis of differential tree growth within the CO₂ enriched and control plots of the FACE experiment.

Estimating Biomass in a Combined SiB and CASA Model Using Data Assimilation

CO₂ exchange parameters derived from a hyperbolic light response model and a carboxylase-based process model at eddy tower sites across the globe

A unified framework for the flow over a dense canopy.

Evaluating the Biome-BGC ecosystem process model.

Analysis of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Under Elevated CO₂ at the Duke Forest FACE Site

Biocomplexity: Feedbacks between Ecosystems and the Climate System

Parsimonious Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics for Ecohydrologic Studies of Water-Limited Ecosystems

Prediction of longterm stomatal conductance from stable isotope composition

Evaporation Resistance Mapping Algorythm

Modeling plant-soil feedbacks at elevated CO₂

Modeling the effects of elevated CO₂ on productivity at the Duke Forest FACE experiment with the Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ)

Modeling Studies in the Duke Forest Free-Air CO₂ Enrichment (FACE) Program

Assessing Ecological Models of Varying Complexity for Predicting Carbon Sequestration in Managed Pine Plantations

Assessing ecological models of varying complexity for predicting carbon sequestration in managed pine plantations

Historical land use impacts on the CO₂ response at the Duke FACE Site: Century model results

Urban landscape change: Linking landscape dynamics, economic valuation, and conservation planning

Innovative uses of hyperspectral imagery for modeling spatially distributed ecosystem fluxes

The role of vegetation dynamics on hydrologic balance and water resources in semi-arid regions

Integrated Method to Estimate the Carbon Budget of Forests

Introducing a statistical approach for the representation of vegetation patches in a meso-scale climatic model

EOS Algorithm Refinement Proposal - Global Validation and Refinement of the MOD 17 Terrestrial Net Primary Production

Distributed Hydrological Modeling of Urbanizing Ecosystems: Investigating the Impact of Urbanization Pattern

Interannual variability in carbon budget components

Scaling Up Forest Ecosystem Carbon Budget from Stands to Landscape: Impacts of Canopy Structure

Sensitivity of Electro-Optical Systems Performance Prediction to Background Characterization And Resolution.