Name Ashley Ballantyne Becca Barnes Franco Biondi Janice Brahney Brian Buma Daniele Colombaroli Paul Dunnette Sara Enders Aquila Flower Jenn Fraterrigo Dan Gavin Laci Gerhart Institution University of Montana Rutgers University University of Nevada, Reno University of British Columbia, Okanagan University of Colorado University of Bern, Switzerland University of Idaho University of California, Davis University of Oregon University of Illinois University of Oregon Kansas State University Research Climate/biology relationships in past and future, factors affecting CO2 uptake in future Website Ballantyne Website Anthropogenic impacts on aquatic nutrient cycling Barnes Website Dendrochonology and climate, forest, and landscape dynamics Biondi Website Geochemical and biological properties of lake sediments, shifts in lake chemistry and ecology Rivers Inlet Ecosystem Study Website Landscape scale disturbance interactions (and policy responses), post-disturbance chronosequences Climate and human impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems, fire and forest management in Pacific Northwest Past relationships among climate, disturbance, vegetation change and biogeochemistry in the Rockies Interactions between climate and nitrogen cycling in modern and past terrestrial landscapes Buma Website Colombaroli Website Paleoecology and Fire Ecology Lab Website Enders Website Dendroecology of fire, insects, and drought-modulated population dynamics in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana Catchment-lake interactions in Midwest, legacies of land use on forests, impacts of invasives on nitrogen cycling Reconstructing forest composition and natural disturbances over thousands of years Fraterrigo Website Effects of low CO2 on glacial plant physiology and growth Gerhart Website Flower Website Gavin Website University Lindsey of Cape Effects of fire disturbance on tropical savannahs in South Gillson Town, Africa South Africa University of Natural Resources Changes in long-term nitrogen cycling in Brazilian Peter Hietz and Life forests Science, Austria Phil University Fire history reconstructions, climate and land-use Higuera of Idaho change effects on fire regimes Oregon Rock weathering and nutrient cycling in forests that Justin State have undergone different degrees of soil nitrogen Hynicka University accumulation Forest, Land, and Marty Natural Soil ecology, forest nutrition and productivity, effects of Kranabetter Resource disturbance on ectomycorrhizal ecology and succession. Operations, Canada Michelle University Ecosystem response to fire and perturbation in boreal Mack of Florida and arctic, response of invasives to climate change Kansas Kendra State Reconstructing terrestrial nitrogen cycling McLauchlan University West Brendan Landscape-scale human/environment interactions using Virginia McNeil remote sensing University Jesse Morris University of Idaho Reconstructing fire and beetle outbreaks and their relation to climate and human activity Gillson Website BOKU Research Database Higuera Website W.M. Keck Laboratory Kranabetter Website Mack Website McLauchlan Website McNeil Website Paleoecology and Fire Ecology Lab Website Duane Peltzer Steve Perakis Ed Rastetter Paul Sheppard Ben Turner Ariana White Landcare Research, New Zealand USGS, Corvallis The Ecosystem Center – Woods Hole University of Arizona Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama University of Oregon Disturbance ecology, effects of biological invasion, ecosystem-level constraints on productivity and carbon sequestration Mass balance of nitrogen over ecosystem development, effects of climate on carbon and nitrogen cycling Modeling of interactions between carbon, nutrient, energy, and water cycles; propagation of perturbations through each cycle; effects of climate change on coupled resource cycles Tree ring nitrogen signatures, multiple tree-ring responses to volcanic eruptions Peltzer Website Perakis Website Rastetter Website Sheppard Website Sediment geochemistry and neo-tropical ecology, tropical nutrient cycling Turner Website Postglacial vegetation in the "northern wetbelt" of central British Columbia. Paleoecology and Biogegraphy Lab Website