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Name: Clark, James
Telephone: 919.660.7402 Fax: 919.660.7425
Email: jimclark@duke.edu
Organization:
Duke University
Botany Department
Durham, North Carolina 27706
USA

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principle Investigator
Specialty: Forest Processes
Habitat: Forest
Organism: Trees
Core Area(s): Modeling/Synthesis, Organic Matter/Decomposition

Education:
B.S., North Carolina State, Entomology, 1979
M.S., University of Massachusetts, Forestry, 1984
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Ecology, 1988

Appointments:
Professor, Duke University, 1992-Present
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, 1990-1992
Senior Scientist, New York State Museum, 1988-1990

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Clark, J.S., S.R. Carpenter, M. Barber, S. Collins, A. Dobson, J. Foley, D. Lodge, M. Pascual, R. Pielke, Jr, W. Pizer, C. Pringle, W.V. Reid, K.A. Rose, O. Sala, W.H. Schlesinger, D. Wall, and D. Wear. 2001. Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. Science 293:657-660.

Camill, P., J.A. Lynch, J.S. Clark, J.B. Adams and B. Jordan. 2001. Changes in biomass, aboveground NPP, and peat accumulation following permafrost thaw in the boreal peatlands of Manitoba, Canada. Ecosystems 4:461-478.

Clark, J.S., E.C. Grimm, J.J. Donovan, S.C. Fritz, D.R. Engstrom, and J.E. Almendinger. 2001. Drought cycles and landscape responses to past aridity on prairies of the Northern Great Plains, USA. Ecology, in press.

LaDeau, S. and J.S. Clark. 2001. Rising CO2 and the fecundity of forest trees. Science 292:95-98.

Clark, J.S., Lewis, M., and L. Horvath. 2001. Invasion by extremes: variation in dispersal and reproduction retards population spread. American Naturalist 157:537-554.

Synergistic Activities:
1. Teaching and training: Developed new program in Ecology at Duke University; Organized the Center for Global Change with graduate training workshops as part of working group activities; ESA Symposium and Discussion session on forecasting techniques (Annual meeting, 2002).

2. Computation methodologies: developing new computational methods for ecological forecasting through NSF-BDEI grant.

3. Service to the scientific and engineering community: Directing ESA's ecological forecasting initiative.