People
Environmental Sciences Division Staff Scientists, Students, and Interns
Rich Norby, email: rjn at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-576-5261
Project leader, aboveground growth and leaf area, plant nitrogen dynamics
Joanne Childs, email: childsj at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-241-3978
minirhizotron operation and analysis, site operations
Jeff Warren, email: warrenjm at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-576-3918
sap flow, water relations, canopy physiology
Colleen Iversen, email: iversencm at ornl.gov; tel.: 865-241-3961
fine-root production and decomposition, nitrogen dynamics
Chuck Garten, email: gartenctjr at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-574-7355
nitrogen dynamics, stable isotopes
Chris Schadt. email: schadtcw at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-576-3982
microbial genomics
Other ORNL Participants
Instrumentation and Controls Division
Jeff Riggs, email: riggsjs at ornl.gov,tel.: 865-574-5627
instrumentation, system operation
Computational Physics and Engineering Division (retired)
Lynn Tharp, email: tharpml at ornl.gov
data management
Previous ORNL Participants
Aimée Classen, email: aimee.classen at utk.edu, tel.: 865-974-7894
decomposition, soil nitrogen dynamics
Stan Wullschleger, email: wullschlegsd at ornl.gov, tel.:865-574-7839
water relations, soil respiration
Lara Souza, email: lsouza at utk.edu
understory productivity
Mac Post, email: wmp at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-576-3431
soil organic carbon
Carla Gunderson, email: gundersonca at ornl.gov, tel.:865-574-6318
leaf and canopy gas exchange
Paul Hanson, email: hansonpj at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-574-5361
soil respiration, carbon budget modeling
Tim Tschaplinski, email: t2t at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-574-4597
plant metabolites
Tony King, email: awk at ornl.gov, tel.: 865-576-3436
system modeling
Marie-Anne de Graaff, root exudation
Nelson Edwards, wood and soil respiration
Gerry O'Neill, root turnover
Sandy McLaughlin, high-resolution dendrometers, ozone interactions
Don Todd, email: todddejr atornl.gov, tel.: 865-574-7344, soil chemistry, technical assistance
Sara Jawdy, site maintenance
Carolyn Reilly, sample analysis, site maintenance, litter decomposition
Caroline DeVan, sample analysis, site maintenance
Katherine Sides, minirhizotron analysis, soil respiration, sample analysis
Emmi Felker-Quinn, soil respiration, sample analysis, site maintenance
Gloria Jimenenz, sample analysis, site maintenance
Courtney Campany, sample analysis, site maintenance
Cassie Bruno, site maintenance, sample processing, soil respiration
Collaborative Projects, current and completed
Ecosystem Modeling
Ross McMurtie and
Belinda Medlyn, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
"Model Evaluation of Root-Soil Interactions in the ORNL FACE Experiment"
Soil Carbon Dynamics
Julie Jastrow, Mike Miller, and Roser Matamala, Argonne National Laboratory
"Controls on Soil Carbon Retention under Elevated Atmospheric CO2"
Earthworm Activity and Soil Mixing
Yaniria Sanchez de Leon, University of Illinois at Chicago
Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tim Filley, Purdue University
Remote Sensing and Spectral Properties
Scott Ollinger, University of New Hampshire
Wood Properties
Jennifer Franklin, University of Tennessee
Nicole Labbé, University of Tennessee
Soil Carbon Metabolism
Jason Keller, Chapman University
Rhizosphere Studies
Rich Phillips, Indiana University
NMR analysis of Soil
Carrie Masiello, Rice University
Rapid Evolutionary Change
Kevin Rice & Judah Grossman, University of California-Davis
Isoprene
Russ Monson, University of Colorado
Ecosystem Respiration
Miquel Gonzalez-Meler and
Rebecca Trueman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tree Ring Ananlysis
Francesca Cotrufo, Daniella Piermatteo, and Giovanna Battipaglia, 2nd University of Naples, Italy
Trace Elelments in Litter
Sue Natali, Stony Brook University
Aquatic Food Webs
John Maerz, University of Georgia
"The potential effects of plant responses to rising CO2 on larval amphibian communities"
Understory Productivity
Jake Weltzin, University of Tennessee
Travis Belote, University of Tennessee
Nutrient Cycling
Dale Johnson, University of Nevada, Reno
Weixin Cheng, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dev Joslin, Belowground Forest Research, Oak Ridge
Litter Biology and Decomposition
Dave Lincoln, University of South Carolina
Randi Hansen, University of South Carolina
Ray Williams, Appalachian State University
Photosynthetic Biochemistry
David Tissue, Texas Tech University
Johnna Sholtis, Texas Tech University
Soil Enzymes
Bob Sinsabaugh, University of Toledo
Daryl Moorhead
Tammy Long
Nitrogen Uptake Kinetics
Hormoz BassiriRad, University of Illinois, Chicago
John Constable, Slippery Rock University
Root Respiration
Kate George and Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois, Urbana
FACE System Design
George Hendrey, Brookhaven National Laboratory
John Nagy
Keith Lewin