Current and past project funding:
Kumar, P (PI), "Interactions between Water, Energy and Carbon Dynamics as Predictors of Canopy to Ecosystem Scale Vegetation Pattern and Function in a Changing Environment", NSF, $1,650,000, 2008 - 2012
Ekblad, A (PI), "Effects of Elevated CO2 on the Production and Turnover of Mycorrhizal Mycelium and the Formation and Priming of Soil Organic Matter", Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial planning, undisclosed amount, 2009 - 2011
Lichter, J (PI), "RUI: Soil carbon sequestration and turnover after twelve years of CO2 fertilization and the Duke Forest FACE experiment.", NSF, $185,092, 2008 - 2011
Phillips, R (PI), "Rhizosphere priming effects on soil N availability: the role of root exudates in coupling ecosystem C and N cycles under elevated CO2", USDA Soil Processes, $385,000, 2008 - 2010
Kiang, N (PI), "A global dynamic terrestrial ecosystem model for climate interactions at seasonal to century time scales through coupled water, carbon, and nitrogen dynamics", NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP), undisclosed amount, 2006 - 2009
Simpson, M (PI), "Molecular-level changes in soil organic matter structure with global warming", Ontario PREA, CFCAS and NSERC of Canada, $272,399, 2006 - 2009
Sun, G (PI), "Coupling the Effects of Management and Climate on Carbon and Water Fluxes in the Forests of Eastern U.S. and P.R.C.", USDA Forest Service, Southern Global Change Program, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2009
Billings, S (PI), "Linking microbial activity and soil organic matter transformations in forest soils under elevated CO2.", DOE, NIGEC, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2008
Bodine, A (PI), "Expression profiling of ecosystem response to climate change.", Potentially - Department of Energy (proposal will be submited to Notice - DE-FG01-05ER05-04), undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2008
Friedlingstein, P (PI), "Constraining the response of a global coupled carbon-water-nitrogen ecosystem model to enhanced CO2 concentrations by observations.", European Union 6th framework programme, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2008
Kolber, Z (PI), "SST: Integrated Network-Based Observatory for Monitoring Photosynthesis Across Marine and Terrestrial Environments", NSF, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2008
Moorcroft, P (PI), "Calibration of a regional ecosystem/atmosphere model to eddy-flux data.", DOE, undisclosed amount, 2006 - 2008
Pregitzer, K (PI), "Soil C formation in forest soils in a changing environment", Submitted to USDA-NRI Soils and Soil Biology, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2008
Pritchard, S (PI), "Effects of CO2 enrichment on mycorrhizae in an intact pine forest.", NIGEC/NICCR, $245,949, 2005 - 2008
van Kessel, C (PI), "Quantifying the bacterial and fungal contribution to C-sequestration under elevated atmospheric CO2", NSF, $50,000, 2003 - 2008
Whalen, S (PI), "Reduced Atmospheric Methane Consumption by Temperate Forest Soils Under Elevated Atmospheric CO2: Causative Factors", Environmental Protection Agency, Science To Achieve Results (STAR), $613,030, 2004 - 2008
Williams, C (PI), "Predicting Gene Flow for Transgenic Conifers", USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Program, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2008
Wingenter, O (PI), "Biogenic VOC emissions under present and elevated CO2 conditions: Implications for future air quality and climate", National Science Foundation, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2008
Xu, Z (PI), "Impacts of Global Climate Change on Soil Bacterial Communities and Functional Biodiversity in Pine Plantations.", Australian Research Council, undisclosed amount, 2006 - 2008
Baldocchi, D (PI), "Detection and quantification of photosynthetic signal in soil respiration of contrasting biomes", Kearney soil Foundation, undisclosed amount, 2007 - 2007
Band, L (PI), "Scaling Up Forest Ecosystem Carbon Budget from Stands to Landscape: Impacts of Canopy Structure", NSF, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2007
BassiriRad, H (PI), "Do Internal N pools regulate interspecies difference in N uptake responses to elevated CO2?", NSF, $274,000, 2002 - 2007
Bohrer, G (PI), "Introducing a statistical approach for the representation of vegetation patches in a meso-scale climatic model", NSF, undisclosed amount, 2003 - 2007
Chanton, J (PI), "Controls on the isotopic composition of fixed CO2 and ecosystem respired CO2 in southeastern pine forests", NSF, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2007
Conant, R (PI), "Characterization of key resource areas in Kenya.", NASA, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2007
DeLucia, E (PI), "Investigation of the temperature dependence of root respiration.", DOE, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007 (Subcontract from Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 3)
Harman, I (PI), "A unified framework for the flow over a dense canopy", CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007
Katul, G (PI), "Continuous Measurements and Modeling of Subsurface CO2 Production Rates.", DOE, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007 (Subcontract from Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 3)
Khlystov, A (PI), "Investigation of intraday variations of aerosol chemical composition in support of the biogenic emissions project", ARCADIS / EPA, undisclosed amount, 2006 - 2007
Kucharik, C (PI), "Improving and Evaluating Dynamic Models of Natural and Managed Ecosystems over the Central and Southern US using AmeriFlux and MODIS data.", Dept. of Energy, NIGEC South Central Regional Center/NICCR, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007
Lerdau, M (PI), "CO2 enrichment effects on trace metal uptake and assimilation in plants", NSF, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2007
Lichter, J (PI), "Soil carbon sequestration, turnover, and chemistry after nine years of CO2 fumigation at the Duke Forest FACE experiment.", NSF (DEB-0235576), $352,071, 2003 - 2007
Luo, Y (PI), "Analysis of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Under Elevated CO2 at the Duke Forest FACE Site", DOE, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2007
MacDicken, K (PI), "Use of multispectral 3D aerial digital imagery to design, measure, and monitor land use and forestry carbon sequestration projects", U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Lab, undisclosed amount, 2007 - 2007
Ollinger, S (PI), "Scaling forest carbon flux measurements from sites to landscapes: a hyperspectral remote sensing analysis of FLUXNET research sites along a boreal to tropical gradient", NSF, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2007
Oren, R (PI), "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 3", DOE, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007
Palmroth, S (PI), "Short-term physiological adjustments to increased N availability in mature trees.", Office of Science (BER) Program, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007
Palmroth, S (PI), "Quantification of the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and nutrient amendments on forest floor CO2 efflux.", Office of Science (BER), U.S. Department of Energy, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2007 (Subcontract from Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 3)
Varner, R (PI), "A Coupled Measurement-Modeling Approach to Improve Biogenic Emission Estimates: Application to Future Air Quality Assessments", U.S. EPA, undisclosed amount, 2003 - 2007
Varner, J (PI), "Predicting fire behavior and fire effects resulting from elevated atmospheric [CO2]", Humboldt State University RSCA Grant, $4,700, 2006 - 2007
DeLucia, E (PI), "Herbivory and photosynthesis under elevated atmospheric CO2", NSF, $585,002, 2003 - 2006
Finzi, A (PI), "Effects of elevated CO2 on forest N cycling: Assessment with large-scale 15N tracers and modeling", NSF, $790,000, 2003 - 2006
Jackson, R (PI), "Direct assessment of organic nitrogen use by fungi under ambient and elevated CO2", NSF Microbiology Postdoctoral Fellowship (PI: Henn), NSF Continental Drying & Carbon Sequestration/ Elevated CO2 Gradient (PI: Jackson), $150,000, 2003 - 2006
Mao, H (PI), "Leaf level emissions of biogenic VOC's", EPA, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2006
Melillo, J (PI), "Biocomplexity: Feedbacks between Ecosystems and the Climate System", NSF, $2,600,000, 2001 - 2006
Montaldo, N (PI), "Parsimonious Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics for Ecohydrologic Studies of Water-Limited Ecosystems", Ministero dell Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e tecnologica of Italy, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2006
Reynolds, J (PI), "The Role of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and New Carbon Availability in the Turnover and Storage of Soil Organic Carbon: Investigating Unexplored Mechanisms Underlying Impacts of Global Environmental Change", NIGEC's SERC, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2006
Running, S (PI), "EOS Algorithm Refinement Proposal - Global Validation and Refinement of the MOD 17 Terrestrial Net Primary Production", NASA Earth Systems Science, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2006
Arnts, R (PI), "Emissions of Biogenic Oxidant and PM Precursors- Very High Reactivity VOCs and Surface Layer Chemistry above Forests", US Environmental Protection Agency, undisclosed amount, 2003 - 2005
Cotrufo, M (PI), "Dendroecology study in FACE systems", CNR-IBIMET, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2005
Logan, B (PI), "Photosynthesis and Photoprotection in Loblolly Pine Exposed to Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Faculty Development Fund at Bowdoin College, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2005
Tans, P (PI), "Estimating Biomass in a Combined SiB and CASA Model Using Data Assimilation", National Academy of Sciences, undisclosed amount, 2005 - 2005
Thornton, P (PI), "Evaluating the Biome-BGC ecosystem process model", NASA, undisclosed amount, 2001 - 2005
Band, L (PI), "Distributed Hydrological Modeling of Urbanizing Ecosystems: Investigating the Impact of Urbanization Pattern", NASA, undisclosed amount, 2004 - 2004
DeLucia, E (PI), "Acclimation of a Forest Ecosystem to Elevated Carbon Dioxide", DOE - PER, $150,000, 2001 - 2004 (Subcontract from Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 2)
Ellsworth, D (PI), "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - Michigan subcontract", DOE, $180,000, 2001 - 2004 (Subcontract from Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 2)
Geron, C (PI), "Chemical Emission, Loss,Transformation and Interactions within Canopies (CELTIC)", U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Proposed, 2003 - 2004
Katul, G (PI), "Assessing ecological models of varying complexity for predicting carbon sequestration in managed pine plantations", NIGEC, $145,000, 2001 - 2004
Long, S (PI), "Does an elevated CO2 concentration decrease dark respiration in trees? A novel approach using differential oxygen analysis", DOE-TCP, undisclosed amount, 2001 - 2004
Ollinger, S (PI), "Scaling forest carbon flux measurements from sites to landscapes: a hyperspectral remote sensing analysis of FLUXNET research sites along a boreal to tropical gradient", NASA, undisclosed amount, 2001 - 2004
Oren, R (PI), "Measurements and Modeling of Net Carbon Exchange over Southeastern Loblolly Pine Plantation at the Duke Forest AmeriFlux Site", NIGEC, $492,000, 2002 - 2004
Potosnak, M (PI), "Effect of elevated CO2 on leaf level isoprene emission rates of an understory species (Liquidambar styraciflua)", NCAR, EPA, undisclosed amount, 2003 - 2004
Rahman, F (PI), "Innovative uses of hyperspectral imagery for modeling spatially distributed ecosystem fluxes", NASA, undisclosed amount, 2002 - 2004
Rogers, H (PI), "Carbon and nutrient flow through multiple trophic levels in CO2-enriched plant communities", NIGEC, $295,987, 2002 - 2004
Schlesinger, W (PI), "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 2", DOE, $3,211,960, 2001 - 2004
Seim, H (PI), "Year Two of Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEA-COOS) Implementation", Office of Naval Research, undisclosed amount, 2002 - 2004
Sullivan, P (PI), "Optical Remote Sensing Method to Determine Strength of Nonpoint Sources", Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, DoD, undisclosed amount, 2002 - 2004
Chanton, J (PI), "Controls of net ecosystem exchange at an old field, a pine plantation, and a hardwood forest under identical climatic and edaphic conditions", DOE - TCP, $224,784, 2000 - 2003
Clark, J (PI), "Forest succession in elevated CO2", NSF, $480,000, 1999 - 2003
Crous, K (PI), "Educational grant", Belgian-American Educational Foundation (Brussels, Belgium), $31,000, 2002 - 2003
McLain, J (PI), "Measurement of soil gas diffusivity at the FACE site", USDA Soils and Soil Biology Program, undisclosed amount, 2003 - 2003
McMurtrie, R (PI), "Modeling plant-soil feedbacks at elevated CO2", Australian Research Council, $120,000, 2000 - 2003
Oren, R (PI), "Controls of net ecosystem exchange at an old field, a pine plantation, and a hardwood forest under identical climatic and edaphic conditions", DOE - TCP, $493,139, 2000 - 2003
Oren, R (PI), "Reducing Uncertainty In Current And Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US", Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, $125,000, 2002 - 2003
Schlesinger, W (PI), "Regional prediction of plantation loblolly pine net ecosystem productivity: Merging knowledge and information from an intensive research site", USDA, $489,231, 2001 - 2003
Shuman, B (PI), "Hydrogen isotopic compositions of individual biomarkers from lake sediments: a new proxy for paleoclimate research", NSF Earth System History, undisclosed amount, 2000 - 2003
Vilgalys, R (PI), "Fungal endophytes of Pinus taeda needles and their response to elevated CO2", Howard Hughes Medical Institute, undisclosed amount, 2003 - 2003
Wielopolski, L (PI), "In situ non-invasive soil carbon measurement (SCM)", DOE, $109,017, 2000 - 2003
Ahmann, D (PI), "Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on oxidation of methane in soils.", USDA, Soils and Soil Biology Program, $125,000, 2000 - 2002
Brown, K (PI), "Stomates as keys to the past and links to the future: A variance analysis of leaf stomatal indices in forests grown under multiple climate change conditions", Ohio University, $6,000, 2001 - 2002
Clark, J (PI), "Forest succession in elevated CO2", NSF, $93,181, 2001 - 2002
Constable, J (PI), "Free Air CO2 Enrichment: Effects on Assimilatory Nitrate Reduction", USDA, $50,000, 2001 - 2002
Katul, G (PI), "The role of canopy structure in variability of water and heat fluxes from forested watersheds", NSF - Directorate for Geosciences, $305,000, 1999 - 2002
Luo, Y (PI), "Progressive Nitrogen Limitation of Plant and Ecosystem Responses to Elevated CO2", NCEAS, $38,000, 2000 - 2002
Martens, C (PI), "FACE Site Radon Gas Exchange", DOE, $54,000, 2001 - 2002
McMurtrie, R (PI), "Modeling CO2 fluxes over forest ecosystems", Australian Research Council, Aus$243,286, 2000 - 2002
Oren, R (PI), "Measurements and Modeling of Net Carbon Exchange over Southeastern Loblolly Pine Plantation at the Duke Forest AmeriFlux Site", NIGEC, $395,000, 1998 - 2002
Oren, R (PI), "Support to Facilitate Canopy Research at the Duke Forest C-H2O Research Sites", Provost Fund, Duke University, $50,000, 2001 - 2002
Oren, R (PI), "Reducing Uncertainty In Current And Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US", Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, $75,000, 2001 - 2002
Oren, R (PI), "Reducing Uncertainty In Current And Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US", Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, $24,990, 2001 - 2002
Parker, G (PI), "Measuring forest canopy structure at the Duke University Forest with a portable laser rangefinder: part of a global comparison", Global Canopy Programme (GCP), Smithsonian Environmental Sciences Program, $14,000, 2001 - 2002
Sampson, D (PI), "Assessing ecological models of varying complexity for predicting carbon sequestration in managed pine plantations", NIGEC, undisclosed amount, 2002 - 2002 (Subcontract from Assessing ecological models of varying complexity for predicting carbon sequestration in managed pine plantations)
Schlesinger, W (PI), "Nutrient cycling in response to forest growth at elevated CO2 (FACE)", NSF, $368,401, 1999 - 2002
Urban, D (PI), "Urban landscape change: Linking landscape dynamics, economic valuation, and conservation planning.", NSF/Urban Research Initiative (URI), $410,000, 1999 - 2002
Vilgalys, R (PI), "A Microbial Observatory in the Duke Forest: Exploring Fungal Diversity in Response to Environmental Change", NSF, $412,000, 2000 - 2002
Davis, M (PI), "Carbon storage in CO2-enriched plant systems: belowground processes", DOE, $222,610, 1998 - 2001
Luo, Y (PI), "Transient responses in ecosystem Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments and a deconvolution analysis.", DOE (TECO), undisclosed amount, 1998 - 2001
Oren, R (PI), "Reducing Uncertainty In Current And Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US- Phase I", Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, $100,000, 2000 - 2001
Oren, R (PI), "Reducing Uncertainty In Current And Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US", NCASI, $10,000, 2000 - 2001
Oren, R (PI), "Reducing Uncertainty In Current And Projected Carbon Sequestration In Southeastern US", Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, $11,900, 2000 - 2001
Oren, R (PI), "Hosting the Annual Meeting of SERC - NIGEC", Global Change Initiative of Duke University, $4,500, 2001 - 2001
Schlesinger, W (PI), "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 1", DOE, $3,073,063, 1998 - 2001
Sinsabaugh, R (PI), "Impact of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Rhizosphere Function", NASA/NSF/DOE/USDA/NOAA Joint Program on Terrestrial Ecology and Global Change 9804651, $298,000, 1998 - 2001
Whalen, S (PI), "Greenhouse Gas (N2O, CH4) Exchange and N Cycling Dynamics in a CO2-Fertilized (FACE) Temperate Forest", NASA, $254,765, 1997 - 2001
BassiriRad, H (PI), "Compensation adjustment in plant nutrient uptake: Varying responses in response to rising CO2", NSF, $500,000, 1997 - 2000
Clark, J (PI), "Forest succession in elevated CO2", DOE (TECO), $297,971, 1997 - 2000
Ellsworth, D (PI), "Stomatal response to CO2: A comparison of woody and herbacious species at four FACE sites and in arid and humid climates", DOE, $71,000, 1997 - 2000
Lincoln, D (PI), "Diversity and abundance of forest soil arthropods under elevated carbon dioxide", EPA, $332,902, 1997 - 2000
Andrews, J (PI), "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award", NSF, $10,000, 1997 - 1999
Oren, R (PI), "Responses of a loblolly pine plantation to elevated supplies of CO2 and nutrients", USDA Forest Service, $133,000, 1998 - 1999
Allen, A (PI), "Global Change Graduate Fellowship", NASA, $66,000, 1995 - 1998
Andrews, J (PI), "Global Change Graduate Fellowship", NASA, $66,000, 1995 - 1998
DeLucia, E (PI), "Acclimation of a Forest Ecosystem to Elevated Carbon Dioxide", DOE - PER, $495,824, 1995 - 1998
DeLucia, E (PI), "Remote sensing of canopy processes for a forest under experimental CO2 enrichment", NASA, $149,429, 1997 - 1998
Ellsworth, D (PI), "A molecular analysis of carbohydrate regulation in loblolly pine", DOE - PER, $145,000, 1996 - 1998
Katul, G (PI), "Measurements and Modeling of Net Carbon Exchange over Southeastern Loblolly Pine Plantation at the Duke Forest AmeriFlux Site", NIGEC, $290,000, 1995 - 1998
Lincoln, D (PI), "Interactive effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on insect consumers of forest trees", NIGEC, $185,861, 1995 - 1998
Schlesinger, W (PI), "Soil Carbon Accumulation under CO2 Enrichment (FACE)", NSF, $500,000, 1993 - 1998
Schlesinger, W (PI), "Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS)", DOE, $2,455,000, 1995 - 1998
Schlesinger, W (PI), "The effects of global climate change on carbon transport to groundwater under forest vegetation in the Free - Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment in the Duke Forest", Electric Power Research Institute, $223,540, 1996 - 1998
Oren, R (PI), "Carbon fluxes in managed pine forests under ambient and elevated CO2", NIGEC, $330,000, 1995 - 1997
Katul, G (PI), "Spatial variability in turbulent fluxes in the roughness sublayer of an even-aged pine forest.", SRC-NIGEC-DOE, $25,000, 1996 - 1996
Gonzalez-Meler, M (PI), "Effects of elevated CO2 on the components of ecosystem respiration using stable isotopes", University of Illinois, Chicago, undisclosed amount
Gonzalez-Meler, M (PI), "Effects of elevated CO2 on the components of ecosystem respiration using stable isotopes", USDA, pending
Gonzalez-Meler, M (PI), "Effects of elevated CO2 on the components of ecosystem respiration using stable isotopes", NSF, pending
Griffin, K (PI), "Plant growth in elevated CO2 alters mitochondrial number and chloroplast fine structure", NSF, undisclosed amount
Griffin, K (PI), "Plant growth in elevated CO2 alters mitochondrial number and chloroplast fine structure", Packard Foundation, undisclosed amount
Griffin, K (PI), "Plant growth in elevated CO2 alters mitochondrial number and chloroplast fine structure", CERC, undisclosed amount
Jahren, H (PI), "Relative Transipration Rates between FACE High CO2 and Control Plot Plants Using d18O and dD Measurements", Johns Hopkins University, $5,000
Kolber, Z (PI), "LIFT remote measurements of photosynthetic competence in terrestrial ecosystems", NASA, undisclosed amount
Kolber, Z (PI), "LIFT remote measurements of photosynthetic competence in terrestrial ecosystems", NSF, undisclosed amount
Liski, J (PI), "Soil carbon budget in Northern forests", Academy of Finland, Pending
Luo, Y (PI), "Modeling Studies in the Duke Forest Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Program", DOE, undisclosed amount
McElrone, A (PI), "Impacts of elevated CO2 on plant disease severity at the Duke FACE site", Not currently funded, undisclosed amount
Narayanan, R (PI), "Airborne Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring Applications", DOE, undisclosed amount
Pearcy II, C (PI), "Sensitivity of Electro-Optical Systems Performance Prediction to Background Characterization And Resolution.", US Air Force, undisclosed amount
Richter, D (PI), "Effects of elevated CO2 on soil weathering and chemistry of soil waters.", DOE, undisclosed amount (Subcontract from Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS) - renewal 2)
Rogers, A (PI), "Improving mechanistic understanding of photosynthetic acclimation", DOE, undisclosed amount
Tissue, D (PI), "Regulation of Photochemistry and Carbon Assimilation Under Elevated CO2.", USDA, undisclosed amount