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The Ecosystem Science Center

2011-2012 Annual report

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Table of Contents

This document summarizes the activities of the Ecosystem Science Center for the period from July 1, 2011 ─ July 1, 2012

Message from the Director ................................................................................................ 3

Mission and Summary of Activities for FY12 ..................................................................... 4

ESC Members 2011-2012 ................................................................................................. 5

FY12 ESC Graduate Degrees Awarded ............................................................................ 9

ESC Award and Expenditure Synopsis .......................................................................... 10

ESC Member Publications for Calendar Year 2011 through Fall 2012 ........................... 11

ESC Active Awards for Fiscal Year 2012 ........................................................................ 25

Graduate Training Grants 2011-2012 .............................................................................. 38

Graduate Research Grants 2011-2012 ........................................................................... 40

Graduate Travel Grants ................................................................................................... 41

Distinguished Ecologist Lecture Series Fall 2011 ........................................................... 43

8th Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum March 2012 .......................................... 44

ESC Faculty International Exchange Initiative ................................................................. 45

REF Grant purchase and update on ICP-OES ............................................................... 46

Global Change Teachers Institute ................................................................................... 47

USFS NASP Classes Spring 2012 .................................................................................. 48

The collection of photos on the cover shows the research of PhD candidate Ashley Coble's research entitled "Nutrient Spiraling and Export responses to seasonal changes in a 1st order tributary of Lake Superior". Ashley and her advisor, Amy Marcarelli, are housed in Biological Sciences and are active members of the Ecosystem Science Center who supported this research project in Calumet watershed with a graduate research grant awarded fall semester of 2011.

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A Message from the ESC Director The Ecosystem Science Center (ESC) has now completed its eighth successful year. ESC members have been incredibly productive in terms of attracting extramural funds for research and student training, mentoring graduate and undergraduate researchers, and publishing in high impact journals, as described in the Summary of Activities on the following page and the details provided throughout this report. Highlights from the last years include research expenditures that rank near the top of Michigan Tech’s centers and institutes, continued support for the Distinguished Ecologist Lecture Series, the largest ESC/BRC Student Research Forum yet, a complete reworking of our web page, and, of course, many successful new awards, such as NSF funding of research at the PEATcosm facility, NASA funding of fuel consumption and carbon cycling in northern peatlands, and DOE funding of the effects of climate change and decomposer communities on wood decomposition. ESC members also have put tremendous effort into student training, outreach activities, and University and national service, including hosting the ecological systems module of the National Advanced Silviculture Program, presenting several Teacher Institutes and sending twenty of our graduate students to national and international scientific meetings. The success of the ESC during the past eight years is a direct result of the hard work of our members, and I look forward to continued interaction with this outstanding group of ecologists during the coming year.

I hope you enjoy the report. Michigan Tech is a great place to conduct research, education and outreach in ecosystem science, and the ESC looks forward to creating new opportunities for all of these in the coming year. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the report or the Center.

For more information or to see past annual reports, visit our recently updated website at: http://www.mtu.edu/forest/esc/

Andrew Burton Professor & Director, Ecosystem Science Center School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science Michigan Tech University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931 USA ajburton@mtu.edu phone: 906-487-2566 fax: 906-487-2915

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Mission Statement & Summary of Activities for FY2012

Mission Statement: "To promote understanding of ecosystem function through education and research at Michigan Technological University."

The Ecosystem Science Center (ESC) is designed to advance our understanding of how ecosystems function and how human activities influence ecosystem processes. The Center's two main objectives are to: (1) foster ecosystem research and (2) educate graduate and undergraduate students in the area of ecosystem science. These two objectives will be met through collaboration among faculty, staff and students interested in ecosystem science.

Summary of Activities: During the past year, the Ecosystem Science Center (ESC) accepted three new members, increasing the total membership to 48. The ESC remained very active in research, ranking first among the eighteen Centers and Institutes at Michigan Tech in terms of number of research awards (98) and number of projects (166). The ESC also ranked third overall in research expenditures ($5,992,989) and third overall in new research funds awarded ($3,938,609). ESC funds have supported the development of interdisciplinary research proposals involving multiple units across campus and collaborations with government and university partners both nationally and internationally. Details of our ongoing research can be found in the ESC web page, which has been revised by Jill Fisher, Trish Burton and Carrie Richards to highlight the wide range of research projects conducted by our members (http://www.mtu.edu/forest/esc/). The ESC also supports research through purchases of equipment, including the purchase and pending installation of a liquid water isotope analyzer for the assessment of 18O and 2H in water and water vapor samples. The instrument is being purchased using Michigan Tech Research Excellence Funds awarded to the ESC, in conjunction with ESC and member funds. The availability of the analyzer will aid existing research projects and allow ESC members to propose new avenues of research, such as investigating sources of soil water available to and used by species known to differ in drought tolerance. All ESC equipment is available to ESC members and to the entire campus community through analytical use charges.

Research awards to ESC members are supporting numerous graduate students, including three PhD students and five MS students who completed their degrees during the past year. The ESC has directly enhanced graduate and undergraduate education and training by awarding: 1) $21,187 in ESC research grants to 25 students to either expand their existing research project or allow for new additional research; 2) $10,000 in travel grants for 20 students to present research results at national and international scientific meetings; and 3) $2,512 in training grants to allow two graduate students to receive training in cutting edge research methods and techniques that are not yet available at Michigan Tech. In addition, the ESC has supported the Distinguished Ecologist Lecture Series and the largest ever ESC/BRC Research Forum, which give our graduate and undergraduate students opportunities to discuss their research with both peers and internationally renowned experts. The combined efforts of our members and their students have resulted in 147 peer-reviewed publications in print or in press in from January 2011 through October 2012.

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ESC Members 2011-2012 continued page 1 of 4 Member Name Title Research Interests Joseph Bump Assistant Professor

SFRES Predators & ecological hotspots Aquatic-terrestrial links Stable isotopes in wildlife ecology Wind energy-wildlife issues

Kim Brosofske (new member this year)

Research Assistant Professor, SFRES

Landscape and spatial ecology Quantitative ecology & ecological modeling Disturbed land mosaics

Andrew Burton Associate Professor and Director of ESC SFRES

Forest responses to global change factors Belowground processes Carbon and nutrient cycling Physiological ecology of tree roots

Trish Burton Financial Manager for the ESC, SFRES

Banner and Incentive Accounts Open disclosure of ESC accounting on Blackboard

Patricia Butler

Research Scientist I SFRES

Climate change adaptation strategies for forests Climate change vulnerability assessment Climate change outreach and training

Molly Cavaleri Assistant Professor SFRES

Forest canopy structure and function Forest response to global change Carbon and water cycling through forests Tree ecophysiology

Rod Chimner Assistant Professor SFRES

Applied wetland ecology Peatland and wetland restoration Temperate and Tropical Peatlands Ecosystem carbon cycling

Paul Doskey Professor SFRES, Civil & Enivron. Engineering

Atmospheric Sciences Environmental Engineering Environmental Biogeochemistry & Sustainability

Jennifer Eikenberry

Assistant Research Scientist SFRES

Stable isotopes Forest ecology Mass spectrometry

Michael Falkowski

Assistant Professor SFRES

Remote sensing of vegetation structure & composition LiDAR remote sensing Forest mensuration and biometrics Landscape ecology

Jill Fisher Research Associate SFRES

Program Manager for the ESC

David Flaspohler Professor SFRES

Conservation biology Avian ecology and reproduction Cascading effects of deer over browse Island ecology

John Forsman Assistant Research Scientist, SFRES

Wood composites decomposition studies

Robert Froese Associate Professor SFRES

Sampling, inventory and monitoring program design Biomass harvesting and forest productivity Intensive silviculture esp. Populus plantation mgt. Empirical, process and hybrid forest modeling

Oliver Gailing Assistant Professor SFRES

Ecological genetics and genomics Population & conservation genetics of forest trees Genetic mapping and QTL analyses Forensic genetics

ESC members 2011-2012

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ESC Members 2011-2012 continued page 2 of 4 Member Name Title Research Interests Kathleen Halvorsen

Professor SFRES & Social Sciences

Woody bioenergy Climate change Natural resource policy Water resource policy

Ericka Hersch-Green (new member this year)

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Plant Population and Community Ecology Ecological genetics Eco-evolutionary dynamics

Casey Huckins Associate Professor Biological Sciences

Impacts of land use on communities Restoration of native communities Aquatic community ecology Functional morphology and life history of fish

Mike Hyslop Senior Academic Consultant/Lecturer SFRES

Geographic information systems Global positioning systems Great Lakes Quaternary (glacial) geomorphology

Maria Janowiak Forest Service Scientist USFS

Climate change adaptation and carbon management Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science Climate change synthesis and outreach

Martin Jurgensen Professor SFRES

Forest soil productivity, management and sustainability Global climate change impact on soil biology Organic matter decomposition & ecosystem nutrient cycling

Evan Kane Research Assistant Professor USFS

Soil carbon Plant/soil relationships Decomposition Dissolved organic carbon

Peter Laks Professor SFRES

Fungal and insect resistance of wood-based composites Decomposition Field-testing of wood products for biodegradation resistance

Glenn Larkin Senior Research Scientist I SFRES

Wood protection and composites Forest natural products

Erik Lilleskov Adjunct Professor USFS

Fungal ecology Soil ecology Global environmental change impacts on forest ecosystems Invasive species impacts

Ann Maclean Professor SFRES

Remote sensing Digital image processing Geographic information systems Spatial modeling

Amy Marcarelli Assistant Professor Biological Sciences

Aquatic ecology Ecosystem and Community Ecology of Streams and Rivers Biogeochemistry

Alex Mayer Professor Civil & Environ. Eng.

Groundwater flow and transport Subsurface remediation

Audrey Mayer Assistant Professor SFRES

Environmental policy and environmental science Sociology of natural resources Natural resource and environmental policy Sustainability science

Linda Nagel Associate Professor SFRES

Forest vegetation dynamics Silviculture of the Great Lakes region Invasive plant species in forested ecosystems Adaptive silviculture in the face of climate change

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ESC Members 2011-2012 continued page 3 of 4 Member Name Title Research Interests Rolf Peterson Research Professor—

Robbins Chair, SFRES

Mammalian ecology Predator-prey relationships Ecology and behavior of gray wolves

Judith Perlinger Associate Professor Civil & Environ. Eng.

Air and water quality Technologies for treatment of environmental media Measurement and modeling of contaminant concentrations Contaminant fluxes and impacts in the Great Lakes region

Matt Powers (new this year)

Research Associate SFRES

Adaptive Ecosystem Management Forest Stand Dynamics Tree Ecophysiology

Tom Pypker Assistant Professor SFRES

Forest hydrology Micrometeorology Carbon cycling Stable isotopes

Sigrid Resh Research Assistant Professor SFRES

Forest carbon dynamics Soil carbon sequestration Forest restoration Isotope applications in forests

Carrie Richards Web Coordinator SFRES

Web specialist

Dana Richter Research Scientist II SFRES

Forest mycology, pathology, fungal ecology Tree and forest disease diagnosis and assessment Wood decay & mold/stain testing Mycorrhizae, plants and mushrooms

Kristin Schmitt

Research Scientist I SFRES

Ecosystem response to climate change Web-based outreach on climate change adaptation and mitigation Science synthesis and communication

Karena Schmidt

Carbon, Water and Soils Research Lab Manager SFRES

Carbon isotope analysis High quality graphite production for radiocarbon analysis

Amy Schrank

Adjunct Assistant Professor SFRES

Aquatic ecology Aquatic-terrestrial links Conservation and management of aquatic systems Long-term monitoring

Andrew Storer Professor SFRES

Forest insect ecology Insect/fungus/plant interactions in forest ecosystems Impacts of exotic species on forest ecosystems Interactions among fire, insects and disease in forests

Christopher Swanston

Adjunct Assistant Professor SFRES

Soil organic carbon stabilization and cycling Radiocarbon analysis and interpretation Forest response and adaptation to climate change Landscape scale conservation

Catherine Tarasoff Assistant Professor SFRES

Invasion ecology Road ecology Applied restoration and weed control Stress tolerance and competition

Noel Urban Professor Civil & Environ. Eng.

Wetland biogeochemistry Environmental impact and fate of pollutants Influence of organisms on the chemical environment The role of chemical environment in controlling populations

Ken Vrana Director of the Isle Royale Institute, SFRES

Support and coordination of research, outreach and management of the Institute on Isle Royale National Park

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ESC Members 2011-2012 continued page 4 of 4 Member Name Title Research Interests John Vucetich Associate Professor

SFRES

Demographic and genetic elements of population biology Ecology of wolves and moose Environmental ethics

Leah Vucetich Research Assistant Professor, SFRES

Isle Royale wolf genetics Field research methods

Christopher Webster

Associate Professor SFRES

Gap dynamics and disturbance ecology Invasion biology of exotic species Restoration silviculture Wildlife habitat relationships

Hairong Wei Assistant Professor SFRES

I.D. of genes regulating traits via systems biology Gene expression data analysis Gene network construction and decomposition Developing software for mining large-scale biological data

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FY12 ESC Graduate Degrees Awarded

These students have been supported by ESC travel and/or research grants during their program.

Doctoral Dissertations Harless, Meagan L. 2012. Effects of chemical deicers on amphibian communities. (C.J. Huckins and T. Pypker)

Roth, Amber. 2012. Retention of Canopy Trees as Biological Legacies for Maintaining Biodiversity in Managed Aspen Forests of the Great Lakes Region (D.J. Flaspohler and C. Webster)

Shartell, Lindsey M. 2012. Dissertation title: Invasion Patterns of Emerald Ash Borer and European Earthworms in Forested Ecosystems (A.J. Storer)

Master’s Theses Ebel, Jonathan. 2012. Biofilm responses to salmon carcass analog addition in central Idaho streams. (A. Marcarelli)

Forgette, Kyle. 2011. The Relationship between Instream Habitat Characteristics, Emergent Insects, and Riparian Bird Communities (C. J. Huckins and D.J. Flaspohler)

Jarvi, Mickey. 2011. The Effects of a Changing Climate on Root Respiration of Woody Plants in Sugar Maple Forests and Northern Peatlands (A.J. Burton) Tahtinen, Betsy. 2012. Influence of White-Tailed Deer on Nitrogen Cycling and Vegetative Community Change in Canopy Gaps in a Northern Hemlock-Hardwood Forest. (C. Tarasoff)

Yatso, Kassidy. 2012. Planting and Production of Switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum L .) as a Bioenergy Crop in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (C. Tarasoff and P. Nygren).

Amber Roth measuring an endangered Golden-winged warbler in the field.

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FY12 ESC Award and Expenditure Synopsis

Previous FY11 FY12

Number of Awards: 88 98

Award Amount: $4,936,287 $3,938,609

Number of Projects: 138 166

Expenditures: $5,598,304 $5,992,989

Assistant Professor Joseph Bump worked with undergraduate Alex Sullivan, Laura Kruger (MS '05) and Rolf Peterson to develop a stable-isotope method for determining probable origins of bats within hibernacula. This method can be used to infer hibernacula connectivity, an application that could inform spatial modeling of white-nose syndrome.

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ESC Member Publications for Calendar year 2011 through fall 2012

Note that ESC members are in bold type, ESC supported graduate students are underlined, and ESC supported undergraduate students are asterisked.

2012 Abood, S.A., A.L. Maclean, and L.A. Mason 2012. Modeling Riparian Zones Utilizing DEMS

and Flood Height Data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 78(3):259-269.

Bardhan, S., S. Jose, M.A. Jenkins, C.R. Webster, R. Udawatta, and S.E. Stehn. 2012. Microbial community diversity and composition across a gradient of soil acidity in spruce-fir forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Applied Soil Ecology. in press

Bechtold, H A., A.M. Marcarelli, C.V. Baxter, and R.S. Inouye. 2012. Effects of N, P and organic carbon on stream biofilm nutrient limitation and uptake in a semi-arid watershed. Limnology and Oceanography 57: 1544-1554.

Bodenes, C., E. Chancerel, O. Gailing, G.G. Vendramin, F. Bagnoli, J. Durand, P.G. Goicoechea, C. Soliani, F. Villani, C. Mattioni, H.P. Koelewijn, F. Murat, J. Salse, G. Roussel, C. Boury, F. Alberto, A. Kremer, and C. Plomion. 2012. Comparative mapping in the Fagaceae and beyond with EST-SSRs. BMC Genomics 12:153. Doi:10.1186/1471-2229-12-153

Brandt, L.A., C.W. Swanston, L.R. Parker, M.K. Janowiak, R.A. Birdsey, L.R. Iverson, D.J. Mladenoff, and P.R. Butler. 2012. Climate change science applications and needs in forest ecosystem management: a workshop organized as part of the northern Wisconsin Climate Change Response Framework Project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-95. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 53 p.

Burton, A.J., J.C. Jarvey*, M.P, Jarvi, D.R. Zak, and K.S. Pregitzer. 2012. Chronic N deposition alters root respiration-tissue N relationship in northern hardwood forests. Global Change Biology 18:258-266.

Butler, P.R., C.W. Swanston, M.K. Janowiak, L.R. Parker, M.J. St. Pierre, and L.A .Brandt. 2012. Adaptation Strategies and Approaches. In: C.W. Swanston and M.K. Janowiak, editors. Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate change tools and approaches for land managers. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-87. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, p 15-34.

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Campione, M.A., L.M. Nagel and C.R. Webster. 2012. Herbaceous-layer community dynamics along a harvest-intensity gradient after 50 years of consistent management. Open Journal of Forestry 2(3):97-109.

Cooper, D.J., R.A. Chimner, and D.M. Merritt. 2012. Mountain Wetlands of North America. In: Wetland Habitats of North America: Ecology and Conservation Concerns (eds: Batzer D. and Balswin A.). pp. 313-328.

LeDuc, S.D., E.A. Lilleskov, T.R. Horton, and D.E. Rothstein. 2012. Ectomycorrhizal fungal succession and nitrogen availability in Michigan jack pine forests. Oecologia. in press

Fan, Z., A.D. McGuire, J.W. Harden, J.M. Waddington, and E.S. Kane. 2012. The response of soil organic carbon of a rich fen peatland in interior Alaska to projected climate change. Global Change Biology, in press.

Frelich, L.E., R.O. Peterson, M. Dovčiak, P.B. Reich, J.A. Vucetich, and N. Eisenhauer. 2012. Trophic cascades, invasive species and body-size hierarchies interactively modulate climate change responses of ecotonal temperate-boreal forest. Phil Trans R Soc B 367:2955-2961. doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0235.

Gailing, O., E. Hickey, E. Lilleskov, K. Szlavecz, K. Richter, and M. Potthoff. 2012. Genetic comparisons between North American and European populations of Lumbricus terrestris. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 45: 23-30.

Gailing, O., Lind, J. and E. Lilleskov. 2012. Leaf morphological and genetic differentiation between Quercus rubra L. and Q. elliposidalis E. J. Hill populations in contrasting environments. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298: 1533-1545. DOI 10.1007/s00606-012-0656-y.

Haskell, D. D.J. Flaspohler, C. Webster, and M. Meyer. 2012. Variation in soil temperature, moisture, and plant growth with the addition of down woody material on lakeshore restoration sites. Restoration Ecology 20:1:113-121.

Haskell, D.E., M.W. Meyer, C.R. Webster, D.J. Flaspohler. 2012. Relationship between carnivore distribution and landscape features in the Northern Highlands ecological landscape of Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist. in press

Hazard, C., E.A. Lilleskov, T.R. Horton. 2012. Is rarity of pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea) in eastern North America linked to rarity of its unique fungal symbiont? Mycorrhiza 22: 393-402.

Hess, A.N., M.J. Falkowski, C.R. Webster, A.J. Storer, A. Pocewicz, and S. Martinuzzi. 2012. Employing LiDAR and optical data to identify butterfly habitat characteristics for four contrasting butterfly species across a diverse landscape. Remote Sensing Letters: 4(4) 354- 363, in press

Hurley, P., C. Webster, D.J. Flaspohler, and G. Packer. 2012. Untangling the landscape of deer overabundance: Reserve size vs. landscape context in the agricultural Midwest. Biological Conservation 146:62-71.

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Janowiak, M. 2012. An Introduction to Forest Carbon Management. In Swanston and Furniss et al. (eds): Forest and Grassland Carbon in North America: A Short Course for Land Managers. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-93. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/carboncourse/index.html

Janowiak, M.K. , P.R. Butler, C.W. Swanston, L.R. Parker, M.J. St. Pierre, and L.A. Brandt. 2012. Adaptation Workbook. . In: C.W. Swanston and M.K. Janowiak, eds. Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate change tools and approaches for land managers. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-87. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, p 35-56.

Janowiak, M.K., P.R. Butler, C.W. Swanston, M.J. St. Pierre, and L.R. Parker. 2012. Illustrations. In: C.W. Swanston and M.K. Janowiak, eds. Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate change tools and approaches for land managers. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-87. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, p 57-77.

Juneau, K.J. and C.S. Tarasoff. 2012. Leaf Area and Water Content Changes after Permanent and Temporary Storage. PLOS ONE 7(8) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0042604

Jurgensen, M.F., R.A. Tarpey, J. Pickens, R.K. Kolka, and B.J. Palik. 2012. Long-term effect of silvicultural thinnings on soil carbon and nitrogen pools. Soil Science Society of America Journal 76:1418–1425

Johnson, K.D., J. Harden, A.D. McGuire, N.B. Bliss, J.G. Bockheim, M. Clark, T. Nettleton-Hollingsworth, M.T. Jorgenson, E.S. Kane, M. Mack, J. O’Donnell, C-L Ping, E.A.G. Schuur, M.R. Turetsky, and D.W. Valentine. 2011. Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors. Geoderma, 160(3-4):71-84.

Kasischke, E.S., M.R. Turetsky, and E.S. Kane. 2012. Effects of trees on the burning of organic layers on permafrost terrain. Forest Ecology and Management, 267: 127-133.

Khalyani, A.H., M.J. Falkowski, and A.L. Mayer. 2012. Classification of Landsat images based on spectral and topographic variables for land cover change detection in Zagros forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33(21):6956-6974.

Khalyani, A.H., A.L. Mayer, M.J. Falkowski, and D. Muralidharan. 2012. Deforestation and landscape structure changes in relation to socioeconomic dynamics and climate change in Zagros forests. Journal of Land Use Science, in press

Khalyani, A.H., A.L. Mayer, C.R. Webster, and M.J. Falkowski. 2012. Protection impact assessment at two scales in the Bozin and Marakhil protected area, Iran. Ecological Indicators 25:99-107.

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Khalyani, A.H., A.L. Mayer, C.R. Webster, and M.J. Falkowski. 2012. Ecological indicators for protection impact assessment at two scales in the Bozin and Marakhil protected area, Iran. Ecological Indicators, in press

Klingsporn, S., C.R. Webster, and J.K. Bump. 2012. Influence of legacy-tree retention on group-selection opening persistence. Forest Ecology and Management. in press

Kozich, A.T. , and K.E. Halvorsen. 2012. Compliance with Wetland Mitigation Standards in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. Environmental Management 50:97-105.

LeDuc S.D., E.A. Lilleskov, T.R. Horton, and D.E. Rothstein. (in press) Ectomycorrhizal fungal succession and nitrogen availability in Michigan jack pine forests. Oecologia doi:.1007/s00442-012-2471-0

Nizzetto, L., and J.A. Perlinger. 2012. Climatic, biological and land cover controls on the exchange of gas-phase semivolatile chemical pollutants between air and forest canopies. Environmental Science and Technology 46: 2699-2707.

Ma, H., M. Hostuttler, H. Wei, C.E. Rexroad, and J.B. Yao. 2012. Characterization of the Rainbow Trout Egg MicroRNA Transcriptome. PLOS ONE 7(6) doi:0.1371/journal.pone.0039649

MacNulty D., D. Smith, D. Mech, J.A. Vucetich, and C. Packer. 2012. Nonlinear effects of group size on the success of wolves hunting elk. Behavioral Ecology 23(1): 75-82. doi:10.1093/beheco/arr159.

Marucco, F., L.M. Vucetich, R.O. Peterson, J.R. Adams, and J.A. Vucetich. 2012. Evaluating the efficacy of non-invasive genetic methods and estimating wolf survival during a ten-year period. Conservation Genetics. doi: 10.1007/s10592-012-0412-4.

Mayer, A.L., W.D. Shuster, J.J. Beaulieu, M.E. Hopton, L.K. Rhea, A.H. Roy, and H.W. Thurston. 2012. Building green infrastructure via citizen participation – a six-year study in the Shepherd Creek (Ohio, USA). Environmental Practice 14(1):57-67.

Metz, M., D. Smith, J. Vucetich, D. Stahler, and R. Peterson. 2012. Seasonal patterns of predation for gray wolves in the multi-prey system of Yellowstone National Park. Journal of Animal Ecology 81(3):553-563. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01945.x .

Mineau, M.M., C.V. Baxter, A.M. Marcarelli, and G.W. Minshall. 2012. An invasive riparian tree reduces stream ecosystem efficiency via a recalcitrant organic matter subsidy. Ecology 93: 1501-1508.

Murray, B.D., S.A. Holmes, C.R. Webster, J.C. Witt. 2012. Post-disturbance plant community dynamics following a rare natural-origin fire in a Tsuga canadensis forest. PLOS ONE 7(8): 1-10.

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Pandey, M., O. Gailing, H.H. Hattemer, and R. Finkeldey. 2012. Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.). European Journal of Forest Research. 131(3):739-746. doi 10.1007/s10342-011-0546-9.

Patterson, S.L., D.R. Zak., A.J. Burton, A.F. Talhelm, and K.S. Pregitzer. 2012. Simulated N deposition negatively impacts sugar maple regeneration in a northern hardwood ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:155-163.

Peterson, R.O., J.A. Vucetich, D. Beyer, M. Schrage, and J. Räikkönen. 2012. Phenotypic variation in moose: the island rule and the moose of Isle Royale. Alces 47:125-133. in press

Potvin, L.R., D.L. Richter, M.F. Jurgensen, and K. Dumroese. 2012. Association of Pinus banksiana Lamb. and Populus tremuloides Michx. seedling fine roots with Sistotrema brinkmannii (Bres.) J. Erikss. (Basidiomycotina). Mycorrhiza , in press

Powers, M.D., R.K. Kolka, J.B. Bradford, B.J., Palik, S. Fraver, and M.F. Jurgensen. 2012. Carbon stocks across a chronosequence of thinned and unmanaged red pine (Pinus resinosa) stands. Ecological Applications 22: 1297–1307.

Previant, W.J., S.A. Pugh, L.M. Nagel and C.W. Woodall. 2012. Forest Resource Attributes of Isle Royale National Park 2010. USDA Forest Service Resource Bulletin, In Print.

Pypker, T.G., C.S. Tarasoff and H-S Koh. 2012. Quantifying the canopy variables associated with interception loss of rainfall on a per storm basis for a northern hardwood forest. Open Journal of Modern Hydrology 2, 29-40.

Reed, S.C., T.E. Wood, and M.A. Cavaleri . 2012. Tropical forests in a warming world. New Phytologist, 193: 27–29. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03985.x.

Richter, D.L. 2012. The sugar maple sapstreak fungus (Ceratocystis virescens (Davidson) Moreau, Ascomycota) in the Huron Mountains, Marquette County, Michigan. Michigan Botanist, in press

Richter, D.L., A.B. Berns, and C.F. Frederick. 2012. Resistance of Canada Yew (Taxus canadensis) branch wood to two wood decay fungi. Canadian Field-Naturalist. in press

Robles Morua, A., K.E. Halvorsen, A.S. Mayer, and E.R. Vivoni. Can Hydrologic Models Change Water-related Risk Perceptions? Results of a Participatory Modeling Workshop in the Sonora River Basin, Mexico. Submitted to Environmental Modeling and Software Revised and resubmitted April 2012.

Rowe, M.D., and J.A. Perlinger. 2012. Micrometeorological measurements of hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyl compound air-water gas exchange in Lake Superior and comparison to model predictions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12:4607-4617.

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Sand, H., J.A. Vucetich, B. Zimmermann, P. Wabakken, C. Wikenros, H. Pederson, R. Peterson, and O. Liberg. 2012. Assessing the influence of prey–predator ratio, prey age structure and packs size on wolf kill rates. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-706.2012.20082.x.

Schubert, J.R. and A.L. Mayer. 2012. Peer influence of nonindustrial private forest owners in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Open Journal of Forestry 2(3):147-155.

Scribner, K., C.J Huckins, E. Baker, and J. Kanefsky. 2012. Genetic relationships and gene flow between resident and migratory brook trout in the Salmon Trout River. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38(1):152-158.

Scott, J.T., and A.M. Marcarelli. 2012. Cyanobacteria in freshwater benthic environments, pp 271-289 In The Ecology of Cyanobacteria II: Their Diversity in Time and Space, Ed. Whitton, B. A. Springer, Dordrecht.

Shartell, L.M., L.M. Nagel and A.J. Storer. 2012. Efficacy of Treatments against Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and Effects on Forest Understory Plant Diversity. Forests 3:605-613.

Stehn, S.E., M.A. Jenkins, C.R. Webster, and S. Joes. 2012, Regeneration responses to exogenous disturbance gradients in southern Appalachian Picea-Abies forests. Forest Ecology and Management . in press

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Whittinghill, K.A., W.S. Currie, D.R. Zak, A.J. Burton, and K.S. Pregitzer. 2012. Anthropogenic N deposition increases soil C storage by decreasing the extent of litter decay: analysis of field observations with a biogeochemical model. Ecosystems 15:450-461.

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Darbah, J.N.T., W.S. Jones, A.J. Burton, J. Nagy, and M.E. Kubiske. 2011. Acute O3 damage on first year coppice sprouts of aspen and maple sprouts in an open-air experiment. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 13:2436-2442.

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Ekue, M.R.M., O. Gailing, B. Vornam, and R. Finkeldey. 2011. Assessment of the domestication state of ackee (Blighia sapida K.D. Koenig) in Benin based on AFLP and microsatellite markers. Conservation Genetics 12: 475-489. doi: 10.1007/s10592-010-0155-z.

Eliades, N., O. Gailing, L. Leinemann, B. Fady, and R. Finkeldey. 2011. High genetic diversity and significant population structure in Cedrus brevifolia Henry, a narrow Mediterranean endemic tree from Cyprus. Plant Systematics and Evolution 294:185-198. doi:0.1007/s00606-011-0453-z

Flaspohler, D.J. and C.R. Webster. 2011. Plantations for bioenergy or carbon sequestration: Principles for maintaining biodiversity in intensively managed forests. Forest Science 57:516-524.

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Gore, M.L., M.P. Nelson, J.A. Vucetich, A. M. Smith, and M.A. Clark. 2011. Exploring the ethical basis for conservation policy: the case of inbred wolves on Isle Royale, USA. Conservation Letters 4(5):394-401.

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Hedrick, P., J. Adams, and J.A. Vucetich. 2011. Genetic Rescue: Re-evaluating and Broadening the Definition. Conservation Biology 25(6):1069–1070.

Holmes, S.A, and C.R. Webster. 2011. Herbivore-induced expansion of generalist species as a driver of homogenization in post-disturbance plant communities. Plant Ecology 212:753-768.

Hopkins, J.H., A.M. Marcarelli, and H.A. Bechtold. 2011. Ecosystem structure and function are complementary measures of water quality in a polluted, spring-influenced river. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 214: 409-421.

Janowiak, M.K., C.W. Swanston, L.M. Nagel, C.R. Webster, B.J. Palik, M.J. Twery, J.B. Bradford, L.R. Parker, A.T. Hille, and S.M. Johnson. 2011. Silvicultural decision making in an uncertain climate future: a workshop-based exploration of considerations, strategies, and approaches. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-81. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 14 p.

Jensen, J.E., K.E. Halvorsen, and D.R. Shonnard. 2011. Cellulosic Ethanol, U.S. Federal Energy and Agricultural Policy, and the Diffusion of Innovation. Special Issue: Socioeconomic Dimensions of U.S. Bioenergy. Biomass and Bioenergy 35(4)1454-1464.

Jensen, N.R., C.R. Webster, J.C. Witt, and J.B. Grant. 2011. Ungulate winter habitat selection as a driver of heterogeneity in ground-layer plant communities. Ecosphere 2(6):1-16.

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Lilleskov, E.A., E.A. Hobbie and T.R. Horton TR. 2011. Conservation of ectomycorrhizal fungi: exploring the linkages between functional and taxonomic responses to anthropogenic N deposition. Fungal Ecology 4:174-183.

Marcarelli, A.M., C.V. Baxter, M.M. Mineau, and R.O. Hall. 2011. Quantity and quality: unifying food web and ecosystem perspectives on the role of resource subsidies in freshwaters. Ecology 92: 1215-1225.

Mayer, A.L. and R.D. Lopez. 2011. Use of remote sensing to support forest and wetlands policies in the USA. Remote Sensing 3(6):1211-1233.

Mayer, A.L. and A. Henareh Khalyani. 2011. Grass trumps trees with fire (Perspectives). Science 334(6053):188-189.

McLaughlin, J.W., E.B.W. Calhoon, M.R. Gale, M.F., Jurgensen, and C.C. Trettin. 2011. Biogeochemical cycling and chemical fluxes in a managed northern forested wetland, Michigan, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 649-661.

Melillo, J.M., S. Butler, J. Johnson, J. Mohan, P. Steudler, H. Lux, E. Burrows, F. Bowles, R. Smith, L. Scott, C. Vario, T. Hill, A. Burton, Y. Zhou, and J. Tang. 2011. Soil warming, carbon-nitrogen interactions and forest carbon budgets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:9508-9512.

Metz, M.C., J.A. Vucetich, D.W. Smith, D.R. Stahler, and R.O. Peterson. 2011. Effect of Sociality and Season on Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Foraging Behavior: Implications for Estimating Summer Kill Rate. PLoS ONE 6(3)e17332.

Mineau, M.M , C.V. Baxter, and A.M. Marcarelli. 2011. A non-native riparian tree (Elaeagnus angustifolia) changes nutrient dynamics in streams. Ecosystems 14:353-365.

Morris, P., S. Lebow, and P.E. Laks. 2011. Naturally Durable Wood Species. Proceedings of the AWPA Annual Conference. American Wood Protection Association, Birmingham AL, 107:154-164.

Nave L., E. Vance, C. Swanston, and P. Curtis. 2011. Fire effects on temperate forest soil C and N storage. Ecological Applications 21: 1189-1201.

Nelson, M.P., J.A. Vucetich, P.C. Paquet, and J.K. Bump. 2011. North American Model: An Inadequate Construct? The Wildlife Professional 58-60.

Nelson, M.P., J.A. Vucetich, R.O. Peterson, and L.M. Vucetich. 2011. The Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project (1958-present) and the Wonder of Long-Term Ecological Research. Endeavour 35(1):30-38.

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Pardo, L.H., L.H Geiser, M.E. Fenn, C.T. Driscoll, C.L. Goodale, E.B.Allen, J.S. Baron, R. Bobbink, W.D. Bowman, C.M. Clark, B. Emmett, F.S. Gilliam, T. Greaver, S.J. Hall, E.A. Lilleskov, L. Liu, J.A. Lynch, K. Nadelhoffer, S.S. Perakis, M.J. Robin-Abbott, J.L. Stoddard, and K.C. Weathers. 2011. Synthesis, Chapter 19. In: Pardo, L.H.; Robin-Abbott, M.J.; Driscoll, C.T., eds. Assessment of Nitrogen deposition effects and empirical critical loads of Nitrogen for ecoregions of the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-80. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 229-284.

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Pardo, L.H., M.E. Fenn, C.L. Goodale, L.H. Geiser, C.T. Driscoll, E.B. Allen, J. Baron, R. Bobbink, W.D. Bowman, C. Clark, B. Emmett, F.S. Gilliam, T. Greaver, S.J. Hall, E.A. Lilleskov, L. Liu, J. Lynch, K. Nadelhoffer, S.S. Perakis, M.J. Robin-Abbott, J. Stoddard, K. Weathers, and R.L. Dennis. 2011. Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States. Ecological Applications 21:3049–3082.

Perakis, S.S.; L.H. Geiser and E.A. Lilleskov. 2011. Marine west coast forests, Chapter 9. In: Pardo, L.H.; Robin-Abbott, M.J.; Driscoll, C.T., eds. Assessment of Nitrogen deposition effects and empirical critical loads of Nitrogen for ecoregions of the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-80. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 89-98.

Powers, M., R. Kolka, B. Palik, R. MacDonald, and M.F. Jurgensen. 2011. Long-term management impacts on carbon storage in Lake States forests. Forest Ecology and Management 262: 424-431.

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Robinson, S.C. and P.E. Laks. 2011. The effects of copper in large-scale single-fungus and dual-fungi wood systems. Forest Products Journal 60(6): 490-495.

Robinson, S.C., P.E. Laks, and D.L. Richter. 2011. Stimulating Spalting in Sugar Maple Using Sub-lethal Doses of Copper. European Journal of Wood and Wood Products 69(4): 527-532.

Robles, M., A., K.E. Halvorsen, and A.S. Mayer. 2011. Waterborne Disease-Related Risk Perceptions in the Sonora River Basin, Mexico. Risk Analysis 35(5):866-878.

Rowe, M.D., C.W. Fairall, and J.A. Perlinger. 2011. Chemical sensor resolution requirements for near-surface measurements of turbulent fluxes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11:5263-5275.

Rowe, M.D., J.A. Perlinger, and C.F. Fairall. 2011. A Lagrangian model to predict modification of near-surface scalar mixing ratios and air-water exchange fluxes in offshore flow. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 140: 87-103.

Sertse, D. Gailing, O., Eliades N.G. and R. Finkeldey. 2011. Anthropogenic and natural causes influencing population genetic structure of Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl. in the Ethiopian highlands. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 58:849-859.. doi:10.1007/s10722-010-9623-z.

Shartell, L.M., L.M. Nagel and A.J. Storer. 2011. Multi-criteria risk model for garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. American Midland Naturalist 165:116-127.

Silvia, W.J., R.O. Peterson, W.F. Silvia, J.A. Vucetich, and A.W. Silvia. 2011. The occurrence and morphology of a lateral metatarsal splint bone in moose (Alces alces). The Anatomical Record 294(2):231-235.

Stehn, S.E., C.R. Webster, M.A. Jenkins, and S. Joes. 2011. High-elevation ground-layer plant community composition across soil chemistry and vegetation gradients in spruce-fir forests. Ecological Research 26:1089-1101.

Swanston, C., M. Janowiak, L. Iverson, L. Parker, D. Mladenoff, L. Brandt, P. Butler, M. St. Pierre, A. Prasad, S. Matthews, M. Peters, D. Higgins, and A. Dorland. 2011. Ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Climate Change Response Framework Project in northern Wisconsin. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-82. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 142 p.

Talhelm, A.F., K.S. Pregitzer, and A.J. Burton. 2011. No evidence that chronic nitrogen additions increase photosynthesis in mature sugar maple forests. Ecological Applications 21:2413-2424.

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van Diepen, L.T.A., E.A. Lilleskov and K.S. Pregitzer. 2011. Simulated nitrogen deposition affects community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in northern hardwood forests. Molecular Ecology 20:799-811.

Van Grinsven, M., A. Mayer, and C. Huckins. 2011. Estimation of Streambed Groundwater Fluxes Associated with Coaster Brook Trout Spawning Habitat. Ground Water. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00856.x

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Total Award to

Date Title

Bump, Joseph USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2009 9/30/2012 $21,000 Top-down Control of Biogeochemical Hotspots in Forest Ecosystems

Bump, Joseph Michigan Dept of Environmental Quality 1/18/2011 9/30/2012 $55,500 Offshore Bat Activity over Lake Michigan Wind

Resource Areas

Bump, Joseph Little River Band of Ottawa Indians 5/1/2011 12/31/2013 $90,187 Assessment of Suitable Elk Habitat in Manistee

Watershed, MI

Burton, Andrew US Dept of Energy 12/1/2005 11/30/2011 $576,246 Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research: Project Administration

Burton, Andrew US Dept of Energy 12/1/2005 11/30/2013 $7,766,784 Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research: Research Subawards

Burton, Andrew US Dept of Energy 4/1/2008 3/31/2013 $4,468,016

Impacts of Interacting Elevated Atmospheric CO2 & O3 on the Structure & Functioning of a Northern Forest Ecosystem: Operating and Decommissioning the ASPEN FACE Project

Burton, Andrew Erik Lilleskov

US Dept of Energy, NICCR 4/1/2008 11/30/2013 $540,387

Short and long-term temperature acclimation of roots systems in woody plants and the moderation of warming-induced enhancement of soil CO2 efflux

Burton, Andrew National Science Foundation 9/1/08 8/31/12 $151,628 Collaborative LTREB Proposal: Long-term Ecosystem

Response to Chronic Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition

Burton, Andrew National Science Foundation 9/1/08 8/31/13 $14,000

REU supplements to: Collaborative LTREB Proposal: Long-Term Ecosystem Response to Chronic Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition

Burton, Andrew US Forest Service 5/12/2010 4/12/2015 $534,139 The Northern Forest Ecosystem Experiment

Burton, Andrew USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $28,000 Ecosystem Constraint of Belowground Autotrophic Respiration: Maintaining Positive NPP in a Changing World

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Burton, Andrew & Jennifer Eikenberry University of Idaho 6/20/2011 12/31/2011 $955 15N Analysis of Leaf Samples

Burton, Andrew & Jennifer Eikenberry US Geological Survey 9/1/2011 12/31/2011 $491 13C Analysis of Marine Sediments

Butler, Patricia US Forest Service 6/23/2009 6/16/2014 $246,999 Coordination and Support of the National Soil Carbon Network

Butler, Patricia, Andrew Burton, Linda Nagel, Andrew Storer, Robert Froese, & Thomas Pypker

US Forest Service 8/25/2009 8/15/2014 $1,010,702 Climate Change Science, Delivery, Adaptation, and Ecological Assessment

Cavaleri, Molly USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2009 9/30/2012 $21,000 Investigating Vertical Canopy Gradients of Foliar Morphology in a Northern Hardwoods Forest

Cavaleri, Molly. US Dept of Agriculture 6/01/2010 4/01/2015 $87,943 Ecophysiological Monitoring on the Marcell Experimental Forest

Chimner , Rodney US Forest Service 7/27/2009 6/16/2014 $284,132 Ecological and Biogeochemical Response of Peatlands to Environmental Change

Chimner , Rodney USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2009 9/30/2012 $21,000 Development of a Long-term Ecohydrological Study of Northern White Cedar Forested Peatlands

Chimner , Rodney US Forest Service 8/9/2010 7/1/2015 $87,605 Development of New Organic Soil Survey Methods for Determining Carbon Storage in Northern Great Lakes Peatlands

Chimner , Rodney & Evan Kane US Forest Service 9/7/2010 12/31/2014 $74,690 Initiating Peatland Research at the Houghton Mesocosm

Facility: Graduate Student Funding

Chimner , Rodney & Sigrid Resh National Park Service 4/10/2010 9/30/2011 $14,999

Assess Vernal Pools of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore by Determining Distribution, Abundance, and Ecological Significance

Chimner , Rodney & Sigrid Resh US Forest Service 8/31/2010 8/30/2011 $749 Analyzing Peat Soils for Soil Organic Matter

Chimner, Rodney & James Bess US EPA 10/1/2010 5/31/2013 $148,649 Restoring Peatlands from Large Scale Ditching

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Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title Chimner, Rodney, Casey Huckins, Michael Abbott & James Bess

Michigan Dept of Environmental Quality 1/1/2012 3/31/2013 $31,328 Enhancing Aquatic and Wetland Habitat Along The

Portage Waterway

Falkowski, Michael USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $14,000 Large Area Characterization of Wildland Fire Fuels Across Space and Time Via Biophysical Modeling and LiDAR Remote Sensing

Falkowski, Michael Michigan Chapter of The Nature Conservancy

5/8/2011 12/31/2011 $40,000 Remote Sensing of Conifer Encroachment in Historical Sage Habitats

Falkowski, Michael University of Idaho 10/1/2011 4/1/2013 $12,012 Remote Sensing for Biomass Inventory and Assessment in Idaho, USA

Falkowski, Michael & Evan Kane

Florida Atlantic University 1/12/2012 12/31/2013 $32,730 Black Carbon Formation During Combustion of Boreal

Peat Fuels Under Various Moisture Regimes

Flaspohler, David National Science Foundation 9/1/2010 8/31/2015 $296,207

Collaborative Research: Interactive Effects of Predation and Ecosystem Size on Arthropod Food Webs in Hawaiian Forests Fragmented by Lava Flows

Flaspohler, David USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $14,000 The Conservation of Native Hawaiian Forests and Birds in a Naturally Fragmented Landscape

Flaspohler, David Amber Roth

US Fish & Wildlife Service 9/21/09 4/30/12 $52,740 Assessing Dispersal Dynamics and Genetic Introgression

of Golden-winged Warblers in the Upper Midwest

Flaspohler, David & Amber Roth

American Bird Conservancy 1/2/2012 12/31/2013 $56,291 Developing Quality Early Successional Habitat for

Golden-Winged Warbler and American Woodcock

Flaspohler, David, Christopher Webster & Daniel Haskell

WISCONSIN DNR 7/1/2011 6/30/2013 $161,992 Measuring the Value of Fish & Wildlife Restoration on Northern Wisconsin Lakes: The Wisconsin Lakeshore Restoration Project

Forsman, John Viance LLC 1/1/2011 12/31/2011 $881 Various Sponsors: Cutting 5/4 x 6" Wide x 48" Long Scotch Pine Boards

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Forsman, John Connor Hardwood Courts 6/1/2011 7/31/2012 $9,976 Various Sponsors: Testing Hardwood Flooring

Components

Forsman, John Creative Composites Inc 11/21/2011 12/31/2011 $2,326 Various Sponsors: Pressing Five - 4'x8' Composite

Panels

Forsman, John & John Erickson US Forest Service 6/5/2012 9/30/2013 $11,700 Evaluation of the Properties of Ironwood

Froese, Robert USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $14,000 A Carbon Budget for Retired Farmland Conversion to Energy Crops

Froese, Robert Frontier Renewable 10/01/09 12/31/11 $345,557 Increasing Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Availability -project 2

Froese, Robert US Forest Service 10/25/2010 6/30/2012 $24,000 LS and CS-FVS Model Development and Validation

Froese, Robert Wolverine Power Cooperative 1/1/2011 12/31/2011 $29,572 Energy Crop Trials 2011 for the Wolverine Clean Energy

Venture

Froese, Robert Western UP Planning and Development Region

4/1/2011 9/30/2011 $10,000 Optimal Energy Crop Production in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Froese, Robert US Forest Service 8/16/2011 12/31/2013 $75,002 Carbon Implications of Poplar Energy Crops Throughout the Energy Supply Chain

Froese, Robert & Linda Nagel

Plum Creek Timber Co Inc 12/1/2010 5/13/2013 $55,000 Effects of Biomass Harvest on Forest Productivity

Froese, Robert & Linda Nagel

Nat.Council for Air & Stream Improv. -Forest Carbon Consortium

7/1/2011 6/30/2012 $66,413 Evaluating the Long Term Effect of Logging Residue Harvest in Great Lakes Aspen Stands

Gailing, Oliver Penn State University 2/1/2011 1/31/2012 $1,746 DNA Isolation and Primer Test in Honey Locust

Gailing, Oliver The Hanes Trust 2/16/2011 2/15/2012 $10,870 Hybridization and Local Adaptation in Quercus Rubra L. and Q. Ellipsoidalis E.J. Hill in Michigan

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Gailing, Oliver Inter. Centre for Research in Agroforestry

3/1/2012 9/30/2012 $7,300 Development of Techniques for Accelerated Seed Germination in Allanblackia Species

Gailing, Oliver & Erik Lilleskov

Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation 2/29/2012 2/28/2013 $2,400

Hybridization Between Quercus rubra and Quercus ellipsoidalis in Sympatric Oak Forests and the Adaption to Changing Environments

Halvorsen, Kathleen USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2011 9/30/2012 $7,000 Resources and Cellulosic Ethanol

Huckins , Casey US Forest Service 5/24/2007 9/30/2011 $10,432 Evaluating Riparian Timber Harvesting Guidelines: Phase 3, Result 2 Evaluate Aquatic Habitat Impacts

Huckins , Casey Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District 5/1/2011 9/30/2013 $45,999 Fish and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Hills Creek,

MI Before and After Restoration

Huckins , Casey & Amy Marcarelli

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 7/1/2011 12/31/2013 $59,999 Salmon Trout River Coaster Brook Trout Restoration

(MI)

Jurgensen, Martin US Forest Service 4/26/2011 9/30/2014 $68,000 Below Ground Processes Associated with Fire Management and Naturally Occurring Charcoal or Application of Biochar

Jurgensen, Martin US Forest Service 7/15/2011 8/31/2013 $151,200 Climate Change, Native Plant Production, and Restoration

Jurgensen, Martin US Forest Service 8/19/2011 10/31/2013 $80,881 Below-ground Impacts of Pile Burning in the Inland Northwestern U.S.

Jurgensen, Martin US Forest Service 8/30/2011 6/30/2016 $37,800 Wood Stake Decomposition in Northern and Urban Forests

Jurgensen, Martin US Dept of Ag., USFS 12/23/2008 7/31/2012 $80,561 Effects of Red Pine Thinning and Stand Age on Ecosystem Carbon Pools and Fluxes - supplement

Jurgensen, Martin US Dept of Ag., USFS 7/29/2008 7/31/2013 $108,400 Evaluating Fire Impacts on Wood Decomposition

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title Jurgensen, Martin & James Pickens US Forest Service 8/29/2011 12/20/2013 $66,780 Reburns: Their Impact on Woody Debris, Carbon

Storage, Soil Properties, and Vegetative Response

Kane, Evan US Forest Service 9/6/2007 8/31/2011 $223,513 Interactions of Fungi, Plant Nutrition and Growth

Kane, Evan US Forest Service 6/27/2008 6/29/2013 $596,332 Below-Ground Ecosystem Ecologist

Kane, Evan, Rodney Chimner & Thomas Pypker

National Science Foundation 5/1/2012 4/30/2015 $560,115

Collaborative Research: PEATcosm: Understanding the Interactions of Climate, Plant Functional Groups and Carbon Cycling in Peatland Ecosystems

Laks, Peter USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2011 9/30/2012 $7,501 Fungal stimulation in wood from sub-lethal fungicide doses

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/1/2010 12/31/2013 $29,150 Ground Proximity Test of Louisiana-Pacific Composite Trim Products - November 2010

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/1/2010 12/31/2013 $26,050 Ground Proximity Decay and Depletion, and Above Ground Depletion Tests of Louisiana-Pacific Composite Trim Products - November 2010

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Bell Lumber and Pole Company 7/1/2010 12/31/2013 $29,999 Ground-Contact Decay Test of Pentachlorophenol

Formulations-February 2010

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 7/1/2010 12/31/2013 $31,251 Siding Fence Exposure of Louisiana-Pacific Composite Trim Products - November 2010

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Dr Wolman GmbH 9/1/2010 8/31/2011 $12,501 Third Party Inspection for Dr. Wolman GmbH - 2010 Protocol

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 9/1/2010 12/31/2012 $15,799 Extended Soil Bed Decay Test of Arch Wood

Preservatives - September 2010 Protocol

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2011 12/31/2013 $17,999 Maunawili Ground-Contact Decay and Depletion Test of

Arch Wood Preservatives - January 2011

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/1/2011 12/31/2013 $23,400 Extended Field Test of Experimental Louisiana-Pacific Hardboard Siding - 1 (January 2011)

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 6/1/2011 12/31/2012 $60,000 Hawaiian Field Exposure of Louisiana-Pacific Carrara Stucco

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 6/1/2011 12/31/2017 $19,600 Modification and Continued Exposure of a Siding Demonstration Hut at the MTU Kipuka Field Test Site

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 9/1/2011 12/31/2014 $116,864 Kipuka Above Ground Decay and Depletion Test of

Arch Wood Preservatives

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 10/1/2011 12/31/2014 $40,375 Maunawili Ground Proximity Termite Test of Arch

Wood Preservatives (Series 106)

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Rio Tinto Minerals (US Borax Inc) 11/1/2011 12/31/2014 $30,000

Maunawill AWPA E26 Exposure of Southern Pine Treated with an Experimental Borate Formulation - November 2011 Protocol

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 11/1/2011 4/30/2015 $58,749 Austin Cary Above Ground Decay and Depletion Test of

Arch Wood Preservatives (Series 106)

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Lanxess Corporation 1/1/2012 12/31/2013 $17,000 Extended Ground Proximity Termite Test of Southern Pine Treated with Lanxess Termiticides-January 2012

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2015 $45,000

Extended Hawaiian Field Lap-Joint Test of Arch Wood Protection Experimental Wood Preservatives (Series X7005 and Series 7914) - 5

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $14,999 Extended Florida Inspection of AWPA E18 Specimens

for Arch Wood Protection (Series 9442FL) - 1

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $18,751 Extended Florida Above-Ground Decay Test of Arch

Experimental Wood Preservatives (Series 9959FL) -2

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $18,751 Extended Hawaiian Above-Ground Decay Test of Arch

Experimental Wood Preservatives -2

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $18,751 Extended Washington Above-Ground Decay Test of

Arch Experimental Wood Preservatives

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $18,751 Extended Washington Ground Proximity Decay Test of

Arch Experimental Wood Preservatives

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $18,751 Extended Kipuka Above-Ground Decay Test of Arch

Wood Preservatives (Series 11319HI) -1

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Arch Wood Protection Inc 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $36,750 Extended Austin Cary Above-Ground Decay Test of

Arch Wood Preservatives (Series 11319FL) -1

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Lanxess Corporation 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $18,000 Extended AWPA E16 Test of Southern Pine Treated with a Waterborne Preventol A20 Preservative System-January 2012

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $24,000 Extended Field Test of Smart Side Siding Products

Laks, Peter & Glen Larkin Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 $23,400 Extended Kipuka Exposure of Roaring River Hardboard Siding-1 (January 2012)

Laks, Peter , Glen Larkin & D. Keranen Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/1/2010 12/31/2013 $30,000 Extended Field Test of Competitive Siding Products for

Louisiana-Pacific - 3 (January 2010)

Laks, Peter , Glen Larkin &Dana Richter

Arch Wood Protection Inc 9/15/2010 9/14/2011 $73,500 Soil Block Decay Test of Southern Pine and Aspen

Treated with Arch Experimental Wood Preservatives

Laks, Peter, Glen Larkin & Erik Keranen Louisiana-Pacific Corp 5/15/2012 5/14/2013 $8,000 Laboratory Leachability Test of Louisiana-Pacific Siding

and Trim Products

Larkin, Glen & Peter Laks Osmose Inc 1/1/2012 6/30/2015 $50,800 Maunawili AWPA E21 Termite Test of Dip Treated Commercial Wood Products - February 2012

Larkin, Glen & Peter Laks Osmose Inc 1/1/2012 7/31/2015 $49,875 Marconi AWPA E21 Termite Test of Dip Treated Commercial Wood Products - April 2012

Larkin, Glen, Peter Laks & Dana Richter

Osmose Utilities Services Inc 5/1/2012 5/31/2013 $23,851 Soil Block Decay Test of Osmose Project ORD

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Larkin, Glenn Osmose Inc 1/1/2011 12/31/2015 $28,400 Extended Kipuka Ground Proximity Decay Test of Osmose Experimental Wood Preservatives 1 - January 2011

Larkin, Glenn Osmose Inc 10/1/2011 12/31/2016 $34,250 Ground Contact Decay and Depletion Test of Osmose Project OS2011-E7

Marcarelli, Amy Shoshone-Bannock Tribes 5/1/2010 12/31/2012 $71,108

Nutrient Limitation, Autotropic Response, and River Metabolism Responses to Salmon Nutrient Enrichment Treatments in the Salmon River Subbasin

Mayer , Audrey USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $14,000 Correlating Change in Landscape Scale Carbon Storage through Shifting Forest Ownership and Management Goals.

Mayer , Audrey Oak Ridge Associated Universities 6/1/2011 5/31/2012 $5,000

Regional-scale Impacts of Bioenergy and Carbon Sequestration Policies for Nonindustrial Private Forests in Michigan and Tennessee

Nagel, Linda US Forest Service 4/24/2009 3/31/2012 $15,000 Assessing vegetation of Isle Royale National Park with FIA data

Nagel, Linda US Forest Service 2/1/2011 12/31/2011 $115,498 National Advanced Silviculture Program 5 of the US Forest Service, Ecological Systems Module

Nagel, Linda US Forest Service 5/5/2011 3/31/2016 $295,455 A National Approach to Adaptive Silviculture in the Context of Climate Change

Nagel, Linda US Forest Service 3/1/2012 12/31/2012 $131,306 National Advanced Silviculture Program 6 of the US Forest Service, Ecological Systems Module

Nagel, Linda US Forest Service 4/1/2012 9/30/2012 $73,103 Lake States Silviculture Module of the US Forest Service National Advanced Silviculture Program

Pypker, Thomas USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2011 $7,000 Effect of Climate Change on the Carbon and Water Fluxes from Two Sparsely Forested Northern Peatlands

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Pypker, Thomas University of Colorado at Boulder 9/15/2011 9/14/2012 $10,700

Carbon-water Cycling in the Critical Zone: Understanding Ecosystem Process Variability Across Complex Terrain

Pypker, Thomas, & Catherine Tarasoff USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2011 9/30/2012 $14,000

Consequences of landscape scale hydrologic restoration: Implications for the hydrology and ecology of treed wetlands

Pypker, Thomas, Andrew Storer & Catherine Tarasoff US Dept of Agriculture 3/3/2011 9/30/2014 $569,090 Future of Black Ash Wetlands in the Northern Great

Lakes Region

Resh, Sigrid & Evan Kane US Dept of Energy 9/1/2011 8/31/2013 $149,396 Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Decomposer Communities on the Stabilization of Wood-derived Carbon in Soils: Catalyst for a New Study

Richter , Dana Ford Motor Co 1/1/2012 1/1/2013 $33,233 PROJECT MYCELIUM - Testing with Fiber Substrates to Produce an Environmentally Friendly Material for the Ford Motor Co.

Richter , Dana & Peter Laks Louisiana-Pacific Corp 7/15/2010 7/15/2011 $5,250 Soil Block Decay Testing of LP Canexel and Competitor Siding for Louisiana Pacific Corp. (WPG 100630A, MTU-LP30, 7/10)

Richter , Dana & Peter Laks Natural Resources Research Institute 1/19/2011 1/19/2012 $2,001 AWPA E-10 Standard Soil Block Decay Test of

Thermally Treated Wood (MTU WPG110113A)

Richter , Dana & Peter Laks Louisiana-Pacific Corp 1/25/2011 1/25/2012 $6,959 Soil Block Decay Testing of Siding with Different Substrates and Coatings for the Louisiana Pacific Corp., Canada (WPG 101223)

Richter , Dana & Peter Laks Arch Wood Protection Inc 3/1/2011 3/1/2012 $15,751 WDMA TM-1 Soil Block Decay Testing for Arch Wood

Protection (WPG 110131A)

Richter , Dana, Peter Laks & Glen Larkin

Universal Forest Products Inc 3/1/2011 3/1/2012 $2,799

Various Sponsors: Soil Block Decay Test of PVC/Wood Flour Mix with Pure PVC Capping (MTU WPG110124A)

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title Schmidt, Karena, Andrew Burton, Rodney Chimner & Thomas Pypker

US Forest Service 4/20/2009 9/30/2013 $235,549 Carbon, Water, and Soils Research Support

Schmitt , Kristen US Forest Service 5/1/2008 6/1/2012 $155,000 Sustainable Forest Management During Climate Change: Tools & Training

Schmitt , Kristen Frontier Renewable Resources 6/1/2009 12/31/2011 $39,668 Outreach, Extension and Technology: Transfer for the

feedstock supply chain center of energy excellence

Schmitt , Kristen & Linda Nagel US Forest Service 8/25/2011 8/1/2016 $150,000 Science Delivery, Education and Outreach on Climate

Change and Ecosystem Management

Storer, Andrew US Dept of Agriculture 4/01/2009 3/30/2012 $315,000 Beech Bark Disease and Resistance in American Beech

Storer, Andrew US Dept of Agriculture 12/01/2009 11/30/2011 $651,540 Forest Health Cooperative/Implementation of Mitigation Strategies Based on the Slowing Ash Mortality (SLAM) Effort in the UP

Storer, Andrew USDA APHIS 7/1/2010 6/30/2012 $75,000 Multistate Comparison of Emerald Ash Borer Trapping and Survey Tools

Storer , Andrew & Lindsey Shartell

US Fish & Wildlife Service 5/1/2010 2/1/2012 $25,000

Factors Influencing Invasive Earthworm and Plant Species Presence and Abundance in Great Lakes Biological Network Forests

Storer, Andrew USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2011 $7,000 Effects of Prescribed Fire and Wildlife on Forest Health in Upper Michigan

Storer, Andrew US Forest Service 12/1/2010 11/30/2012 $107,362 Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Assistance to State Parks

Storer, Andrew MI DEPT OF AG 2/16/2011 11/30/2011 $40,000 2010-2011 EAB SLAM/APHIS Purple Traps Deployment

Storer, Andrew MI DEPT OF AG 2/16/2011 11/30/2011 $70,001 EAB SLAM/ARRA Project Coordinator Position Support

Storer, Andrew MI DEPT OF AG 2/16/2011 11/30/2011 $40,000 EAB SLAM/ARRA Forest Health Monitoring Plots

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Storer, Andrew US Forest Service 7/1/2011 12/31/2012 $27,768 Climate Controlled Reproductive Asynchrony and Mating Success in Gypsy Moth Populations: Houghton Site

Storer, Andrew US Forest Service 8/3/2011 5/31/2013 $158,836 Evaluation and Monitoring of Ash Trees Tolerant to Long-term Exposure to Emerald Ash Borer

Storer, Andrew US Forest Service 9/7/2011 6/30/2012 $98,280 Quantified Ground Survey Technologies for Emerald Ash Borer

Storer, Andrew US Forest Service 9/7/2011 11/30/2013 $468,000 The Slow Ash Mortality (SLAM) project in Upper Michigan

Storer, Andrew MI DNR 5/22/2012 9/30/2012 $42,000 Inventory and Assessment of Ash Trees

Storer, Andrew & James Rivard

MI DNR Urban & Comm Forest Program 9/15/2010 9/1/2011 $24,874

Street Tree Inventory and Management Plans for Laurium Village, Calumet, Copper City and Neighboring Areas

Storer, Andrew & Martin Jurgensen US Forest Service 4/1/2010 3/31/2013 $252,543 Sugar Maple Dieback in the Upper Great Lakes Region

Storer, Andrew & Linda Nagel

US Dept of the Interior, Nat. Park Service 6/23/2008 6/30/2011 $110,496

Multicriteria Risk Models and Management Studies for Invasive Plants at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore: Development, Validation and Implementation

Tarasoff, Catherine USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2011 $7,000 The Legacy Effect of Weed Competition on Switchgrass Biofuel Production

Tarasoff, Catherine Wyoming Game & Fish Dept 1/18/2011 6/30/2012 $24,116 Restoration of Sage-grouse Habitat on Mined Sites

Tarasoff, Catherine American Colloid Company 2/9/2011 7/1/2014 $4,000 Sagebrush Restoration on Bentonite Mines

Tarasoff, Catherine M-I Swaco 2/9/2011 7/1/2014 $7,560 Sagebrush Restoration on Bentonite Mines

Tarasoff, Catherine & Tom Pypker CDM Michigan Inc 7/15/2011 9/30/2011 $36,237 Inventory of Vegetation Communities on Select Restored

Stamp Sands within the Torch Lake Superfund Site

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Principal Investigator Sponsor Award

Start Date Award End

Date

Total Award to

Date Title

Vrana, Kenneth National Park Service 5/15/2009 5/15/2014 $152,750 Isle Royale Institute Membership and Special Projects; Cooperative Agreement with the National Park Service

Vucetich, John National Science Foundation 8/1/2009 7/31/2014 $449,500 LTREB RENEWAL: The Population Ecology of Wolves

and Moose on Isle Royale

Vucetich, John USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $14,000 Wolf/Moose Population Monitoring, Isle Royale National Park

Vucetich, John & Rolf Peterson

National Science Foundation 9/15/2006 8/31/2012 $449,999 Yellowstone Wolves: Their ecology and community

consequences

Vucetich, John & Rolf Peterson National Park Service 1/1/2011 12/31/2015 $85,700 Wolf-Moose Long-Term Monitoring on Isle Royale

National Park 2011-2016

Webster, Christopher USDA McIntire-Stennis 10/1/2010 9/30/2012 $14,000 Gap Based Strategies for the Restoration of Tree Species Diversity in Northern Forests

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Through the use of a unique cable system and arborist-style climbing techniques, graduate student Adam Coble sampled leaves from 0 to 23 meters in height in a closed-canopy sugar maple (Acer saccharum) forest in the Upper Peninsula, MI. Adam will use this data to determine the influence of height and light on leaf morphology and can then compare the influences of height and % light transmittance on leaf mass per area (LMA) and two components of LMA, leaf density and thickness. Adam’s advisor is Molly Cavaleri in SFRES.

ESC Fall Training Grants

Student amount Advisor Matching funds Mini-Course or training program Adam Coble $712 Cavaleri $238 Cavaleri

start up funds ArborMaster's Level 1 Tree Climbing Methods, Work Position & Best Practice at Taylor, MI October 19-21, 2011

total $712

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ESC Spring Training Grants

Student amount Advisor Matching funds Mini-Course or training program Shawn O’Neil $1950 Bump $650 Bump

Incentive Intermediate Level Program MARK Workshop, Ft. Collins, CO June 3-8, 2012

total $1950

6/13/12

“Hi Jill, I've attached the summary for my trip to Fort Collins for the Intermediate-level MARK workshop. Also, see the only photo that I managed to acquire during the week. To my right is Gary White, a quantitative ecologist (now retired) at Colorado State University who has been a major developer of Program MARK. To my left is William Kendall, a researcher at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center who works on much of MARK's robust design and multi-state modeling capabilities. Gary White's webpage: http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/~gwhite/ This workshop was great and I highly recommend it to anyone with some stats and/or MARK experience. Thanks for the support.

Shawn O.”

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Academic year 2011-2012 ESC Graduate Research Grants Awarded Student Advisor Project: Request

Amount Brenda Gail Bergman

Bump The effect of beaver (Castor Canadensis) on the aquatic-terrestrial transfer of toxic methylmercury via moose (Alcea alces).

$1000

Adam Coble Cavaleri An investigation of mechanisms associated with the leaf morphological canopy gradient

$1000

Ashley Coble Marcarelli Nutrient spiraling and export responses to seasonal changes in a 1st order tributary of Lake Superior

$1000

Alex Collins Cavaleri Investigating the effects of experimental warming and irrigation on source water of sugar maple trees

$1000

Stacy Cotey Audrey Mayer

Behavioral response of semi-aquatic mammals to road stream crossings

$1000

Aleta Daniels Kane Peatland plant functional types determine dissolved porewater chemistry: linking mesocosm results to field patterns

$912

Joshua Davis Pypker Changes in inorganic soil nitrogen pools following simulated emerald ash borer mortality in black ash-dominated swamps

$983

Kristina Flesher

Gailing Genetic analysis of Populus tremuloides in the Great Lakes Region Long-term soil productivity study

$1000

Matt Van Grinsven

Pypker The fate of long term soil organic carbon storage following an emerald ash borer disturbance

$1000

Andrew Kozich

Halvorsen Relationships between values, beliefs, and residential water consumption in the Great Lakes watershed

$1000

Carley Kratz Burton Effects of temperature and carbon source on soil microorganisms in a northern hardwood forest

$1000

Bethony Lyons

Burton Coarse woody debris response to chronic experimental N-addition

$1000

Karl Meingast

Kane/ Falkowski

Incorporation of field measurements into the development of remotely sensed fuel moisture characterization models for northern lowlands and boreal peatlands

$972

Cassandra Wright

Chimner Carbon type, storage and accumulation rates in NW cedar swamps

$600

Total $13,467

PhD student Bryan Murray is shown extracting an increment core from a white spruce on Isle Royale. Murray, a student of Chris Webster in the SFRES, is using tree cores to study the impact of moose herbivory on the structure and composition of Isle Royale's boreal forests. This work was supported with a graduate research grant from the ESC.

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Student Advisor To Attend: Location, date Amt

Adam Coble Cavaleri ArborMaster’s Level 1 Tree Climbing methods

Taylor, MI Oct 19-21, 20

$500 Attended training course

Ram Deo Falkowski NE Mensurationists Organization 2011 Mtg

Quebec City, Canada. October 2-4

$500 Presented talk

Rosa Flores Perlinger Amer. Geophysical Union San Francisco, Dec 5-9 $500 Presented Poster

Mickey Jarvi Burton Soil Science Soc. America National Conference

San Antonio, TX. Oct. 16-19, 2011

$500 Presented Poster

Carley Kratz Lilleskov 3rd Annual Argonne Soil Metagenomics Workshop

Bloomingdale, IL. October 5-7, 2011

$500 Presented Talk

Nan Pond Froese NE Mensurationists Organization 2011 Mtg

Quebec City, Canada. October 2-4, 2011

$500 Presented Poster

Wilfred Previant

Nagel SAF National Convention: International year of Forests

Honolulu, HI Nov. 2-4th, 2011

$500 Presented talk

Amber Roth Flaspohler The Wildlife Society 18th Annual Conference

Wailoloa, HI, Nov 5-10, 2011

$500 Presented Poster

Kassidy Yatso Tarasoff 2011 NC Weed Sci Soc. Annual Meeting

Milwaukee WI, Dec. 12-15, 2011

$500 Presented Poster

Bo Zhang Perlinger Amer. Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA Dec 5-9, 2011

$500 Attended training course

Jianqui Zheng Doskey Amer. Geophysical Union San Francisco, CA Dec 5-9, 2011

$500 Presented talk

Total $5500

Photo at left: Nan Pond at the North East Mensurationists Organization Meeting in Quebec City,

Canada

ESC Graduate Travel Grants Awarded Fall 2011

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Masters student Lilli Kaarakka attending the Eurosoil meeting in Baril, Italy with assistance from an ESC travel grant.

ESC Graduate Travel Grants Awarded Spring 2012

Student Advisor To Attend: Location, date Amt Purpose

Alex Collins Cavaleri 97th Annual Ecological Society of America Mtg.

Portland, OR Aug 5-10, 2012

$500 Presented talk

Azad Henareh Khalyani

Audrey Mayer

2012 US International Association of Landscape Ecology

Newport , RI April 9-11, 2012

$500 Presented Poster

Anna Hess Storer WI chapter of the Wildlife Society 2012 Winter meeting

Rothschild WI $500 Presented talk

Mickey Jarvi Burton 97th Annual Ecological Society of America Mtg.

Portland, OR Aug 5-10, 2012

$500 Presented talk

Bethany Lyons

Burton 97th Annual Ecological Society of America Mtg.

Portland, OR Aug 5-10, 2012

$500 Presented talk

Lilli Kaarakka Burton Eurosoil 2012 Conference Bari, Italy July 2-7, 2012

$500 Presented Poster

Laura Kangas Chimner International Peat Conference Stockholm, Sweden $500 Presented Poster

Kevyn Juneau Tarasoff Weed Science Soc of America Annual Mtg

Waikoloa, HI $500 Presented Poster

Bryan Murray Webster 97th Annual Ecological Society of America Mtg.

Portland, OR Aug 5-10, 2012

$500 Presented talk

Grand total $4500

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The Distinguished Ecologist Lecture Series The Fall 2011 Distinguished Ecologist Series (DELS) welcomed five ecologists. This unusually large showing was attributed to the postponed visit by Dr. Oz Schmidt (from Fall 2010) and boosted by the collaboratively sponsored (SFRES, LSSI, the CWS, KLT and the KUF) Stan Temple talk and film. The graduate students FW5000 attended the series and pre- and post-lecture meetings to review the research and discuss impacts in the field of ecology. Instructors were Evan Kane and Mike Falkowski.

Peter Högberg — September 29, 2011

Professor in Soil Science, Head of the Forest Ecology and Management department at SLU, Umeå, Sweden Dr. Högberg’s research concerns the cycles of nitrogen and carbon through forests, especially interactions among trees, mycorrhizal fungi, and soils.

Harri Vassander — October 6, 2011

Professor in Peatland Forestry; Department of Forest Sciences; University of Helsinki Dr. Vasander is broadly interested in peatland classification, production, and C dynamics of boreal and tropical peatlands.

Green Fire - October 20, 2011 at 7 p.m. in G002 U.J. Noblet Forestry Bldg.

The first full-length, high-def documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, highlighting how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental movement. http://www.greenfiremovie.com/

Stan Temple - October 21, 2011 Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Professor of Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Aldo Leopold, Phenology and Climate Change

Things I've learned: Insights from a 40-year Career in Conservation

Oswald J. Schmitz — October 27, 2011

Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Schmitz’s research examines the dynamics and structure of terrestrial food webs.

Virginia Dale — November 11, 2011 Landscape Ecology & Regional Analysis Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee

Dr. Dale’s research interests are in a landscape design for bioenergy, environmental decision making, land-use change, landscape ecology, and ecological modeling.

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The Eighth Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum was held March 30, 2012. A combined total of 59 graduate research awards were submitted to the forum this year. The ESC awarded two Grand Prize Awards to:

Adam Coble (SFRES) for "Investigating Vertical Gradients of Leaf Morphology and Anatomy in a Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) Forest", Adviser: Molly Cavaleri and

Jonathan Ebel (Biological Sciences) for "Biofilm Response to Nutrient Mitigation Using Salmon Carcass Analog in Central Idaho Streams", Advisor: Amy Marcarelli

The following two students received Merit awards:

Lilli Kaaraka (SFRES) for "Long-term effects of whole-tree harvest on soil properties in a Norway spruce (Picea abies (L) Karts.) stand", Advisor: Andrew Burton

Karl Romanowicz (SFRES) for: "Do Peatland Plant Communities Influence Carbon Storage Mechanisms?" Adviser: Erik Lilleskov

Each center also awarded a Grand Prize to an undergraduate researcher in a separate division with 17 submissions this year. The ESC Undergraduate Research Grand Prize went to

Nicole Matthias (SFRES) for "Nutrient Limitation of Biofilm Biomass in Streams of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan" Adviser: Amy Marcarelli

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ESC Faculty International Exchange The newest member of the Ecosystem Science Center, Dr. Erika Hersch-Green applied for and was granted an award to foster research and educational collaborations with Dr. Jeff Harvey, a senior research scientist from the Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie (NIOO). They will travel to each other’s respective institutions to finalize the framework for collaborative project(s) with the ultimate goal of Dr. Hersch-Green submitting one to two federally funded grant proposals (USDA and/or NSF) to seek funding for students to conduct research internationally. Drs. Hersch-Green and Harvey will also present research talks at each other’s respective institutions on independent research and the collaborative efforts, in hopes of fostering additional interactions with faculty, students and interested researchers. Worldwide, exotic invasions and climate changes are two major causes of extinction and loss of biodiversity. The initial planned research project will use replicated common gardens of distinct genotypes of Evening primrose species (Oenothera), which are native to the Americas but highly invasive in Europe, to test various hypotheses about the ecological and evolutionary implications of invasions and the interaction between invasive species and climate change. Proposals will explore the overarching hypothesis that invasions and climate change are associated with 1) shifts in community properties (i.e., above and below-ground natural enemies and mutualists, multitrophic interactions, and plant competitor diversity, density, and dynamics) and that this has 2) altered genetic properties (in structural and regulatory properties of genes) of invasive plants resulting in shifts in ecoevolutionary dynamics and feedbacks.

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REF Infrastructure Enhancement Grants In the spring of 2011, the ESC successfully obtained REF Infrastructure Enhancement funds towards the purchase of a liquid water isotope analyzer (LWIA). The REF-IE grant contributed $18,000 towards the purchase, with additional funds coming from the Ecosystem Science Center ($20,000), the Dean of SFRES ($5,000) and individual ESC members ($3,000). The instrument is scheduled to be delivered in February, 2013. Water isotopes are used in diverse applications including: climate studies, wetland hydrology, paleoclimate reconstructions, plant water tracers, aquifer dynamics, bird migration mapping, analytical hydrology tests, and metabolic activity monitoring. Instruments operated by the ESC have previously provided the Michigan Tech community with access to analyzing isotopes and the ability to extract water from soils, plants and other medium using a cryogenic distillation line (one of the few cryogenic distillation lines in the country was built with previous REF-IE funding to ESC 2007). However, the mass spectrometer that has been used for the last decade and a half to analyze our water isotopes is limited to only measuring δ18O and does not measure δ2H, which can limit the interpretation of results. The new instrument has will have a next-generation near-infrared laser to quickly and easily quantify both δ18O and δ2H in water and water vapor. The instrument will greatly increase the number of samples that can be run, be significantly cheaper than our current systems, and allow for both δ18O and δ2H to be analyzed simultaneously. The equipment will be used extensively for graduate research and its use will be incorporated into graduate courses.

The LWIA will join existing ESC equipment that is available not only to ESC members but to the entire campus community through analytical use charges. In 2012 equipment from recent REF-IE supported purchases was widely used. For example, our ICP-OES analyzed 4,420 elements for 11 faculty members from four units on campus (SFRES, Biological Sciences, Chem Eng, Materials Sci and Eng) and collaborators from the US Forest Service; and our TOC/TON analyzer was used to analyze 2,166 samples for 8 faculty members from three units on campus (SFRES, Biological Sciences, CEE) and collaborators from the US Forest Service. Other ESC instruments, long-available through use charges, also were extensively used in 2012 (3,384 solid samples for C and N analyses using our elemental analyzer and 1,412 solid and gas samples for stable isotopes of C and N using our Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer). We anticipate analyzing even more samples in 2013, based on the requirements of several recently funded projects and discussions researchers from other entities on campus have had with our laboratory manager, Jennifer Eikenberry. During the next five years, we wish to make the availability of our equipment more widely known across campus and be recognized as a core facility, and include additional instruments among those available for use (several GCs, including one for PLFA analyses and a rapid flow analyzer for NO3

-, NH4+, and PO4

3-). We also will actively pursue external funds to replace our aging IRMS and increase its capabilities.

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Global Change Teacher Institute, June 18-22, 2012 Once again, many ESC members collaborated with the Western U.P. Center for Science, Mathematics & Environmental Education to host the Global Climate Teacher institute In June of 2012. Twelve middle and high school teachers participated in the intensive five-day institute to study real-world current effects of global change factors.

Since 2005, the GCTI has introduced 117 middle and high school teachers to the latest science regarding the effects of global change on ecosystems. Participants are largely from the Great Lakes region, but teachers from locations such as California, New York, Mexico, and Maryland have also attended. The teachers receive an introduction to the most recent global change science and take part in hands-on activities examining the physical, chemical, and biological sciences of global change and its effects on forest, wetland, and stream ecosystems. National Content Standards for mathematics; life, earth and physical sciences; technology, and social studies are addressed in the GCTI and participants receive credit toward a Master’s degree or recertification. The teachers then apply the knowledge gained in teaching units they develop to fulfill GCTI requirements, allowing us to reach a broad K-12 audience with the latest global change science. ESC members also are active participants in the Forest Ecology & Resources Teacher Institute and the Urban Forest Stewardship Teacher Institute on Belle Isle in Detroit.

2012 Instructors: The Institute was taught by ESC members Dr. Andrew Burton, Kristen Schmitt from Michigan Tech’s Northern Institute of Applied Carbon Science, and graduate students Mickey Jarvey and Carley Kratz, with institute coordination provided by Joan Chadde K-12 Education & Outreach Program Coordinator, Western U.P Center for Science, Mathematics & Environmental Education.

Global Change Teacher Institute participants in the field at the Michigan Gradient site to observe the effects of added chronic N deposition to maple forests.

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USFS NASP Classes, May and June, 2012

NASP 6 Ecological Systems Module, May 14-25, 2012 with 36 participants from across the US The National Advanced Silviculture Program (NASP), directed by Linda Nagel and involving many ESC members, is the silviculture certification program for the US Forest Service. The program contains four core training modules led by academic institutions, and a fifth local area module developed specifically for expertise in regional forest types. This year two modules were held at Michigan.

Ecological Systems (Module One) — May 14-25, 2012

Course objectives are to educate practitioners in forest ecosystems, providing the basis for formulating ecologically defensible silvicultural prescriptions and assessing the impact of forest management on forest ecosystems. Coursework covers:

• Forestry ecology • Geology, landforms, and soils • Hydrology and watersheds • Tree physiology • Silvics of forest trees • Genetics • Fire ecology and fire behavior

Topics are covered at a variety of spatial scales (site, stand, forest, landscape, etc.), and examples are demonstrated in the field throughout the course.

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Local Lake States Silviculture Module, July 9-20, 2012 with 18 participants from across the Great Lakes Region

Local Lake States Silviculture — July 9-20, 2012

Course objectives are to provide students with the local technical information necessary to evaluate current forest ecosystem conditions and to perform analyses for silvicultural prescription development using an integrated approach. The importance of technical writing, public speaking, prescription implementation, and monitoring are also emphasized to assure that prescription objectives are explained, documented, and achieved.