NSF Biographical Sketch - Elliott, Katherine
 

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Name: Elliott, Katherine
Telephone: 828.524.2128 x109; Fax: 828.369.6768
Email: kelliott@fs.fed.us
Organization:
USDA Forest Service
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
3160 Coweeta Lab Road
Otto, North Carolina 28763

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal Investigator
Specialty: Forest Processes
Habitat: Forest
Organism: Trees
Core Area(s): Primary Production (1)

Education:
B.S., Northern Arizona University, Forest Management, 1982
M.S., Northern Arizona University, Forest Ecology, 1985
Ph.D., University of Maine, Forest Ecology, 1991

Appointments:
Research Ecologist, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory,1991 - present
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Maine, College of Forest Resources, 1987-1991
Teaching Assistant, University of Maine, College of Forest Resources, 1987-1988
Research Associate II, Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, 1985-1987
Graduate Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, 1983-1985
Laboratory Technician, Nutrient Analysis Lab, Northern Arizona University, 1979-1982

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Elliott, K.J. and W.T. Swank. In press. Long-term changes in forest composition and diversity following early logging (1919-1923) and the decline of American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkh.). Plant Ecology  (in press).

Elliott, K.J.
, J.M. Vose, J.D. Knoepp, D.W. Johnson, W.T. Swank and W. Jackson. In press. Simulated effects of altered atmospheric S deposition on nutrient cycling in Class I Wildernesses. Journal of Environmental Quality (in press).

Elliott, K.J
. and J.D. Knoepp. 2005. Effects of three regeneration harvest methods on plant diversity and soil characteristics in the southern Appalachians. Forest Ecology and Management 211:296-317.

Elliott, K.J., L.R. Boring and W.T. Swank. 2002. Aboveground biomass and nutrient pools in a Southern Appalachian watershed 20 years after clearcutting. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:667-683.

Elliott, K.J., W.T. Swank, J.M. Vose and P.V. Bolstad. 1999. Long-term patterns in vegetation-site relationships in a southern Appalachian forest. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 126:320-334.

Synergistic Activities
Associate-editor, Forest Science, 2006-Present