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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: Principle 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, Katherine J., Lindsay R. Boring, Wayne T. Swank. In press, 2002. Aboveground biomass and nutrient accumulation twenty years after clearcutting a southern Appalachian watershed. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

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

Elliott, Katherine J., Ronald L. Hendrick, Amy E. Major, James M. Vose, and Wayne T. Swank. 1999. Vegetation dynamics after a prescribed fire in the southern Appalachians. Forest Ecology and Management 4477:1-15.

Elliott, Katherine J., Lindsay R. Boring, Wayne T. Swank, and Bruce Haines. 1997. Successional changes in diversity and composition in a clearcut watershed in Coweeta Basin, North Carolina. Forest Ecology and Management 92:67-85.

Elliott, Katherine J., and James M. Vose. 1995. Evaluation of the competitive environment for white pine (Pinus strobus L.) seedlings planted on prescribed burn sites in the southern Appalachians. Forest Science 41:513-530.