John M. Frank
U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
240 W. Prospect Rd., Fort Collins, CO 80526
(970) 498-1319
jfrank@fs.fed.us
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Micrometeorology; eddy-covariance; environmental physics; soil physics; electronics and
instrumentation; data analysis; signal processing; non-linear filters; wavelets.
EDUCATION
Post-Masters Education. 2002-05. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
M.S. Electrical Engineering. 1999. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Thesis: “An instrument to measure soil moisture using the dual-probe heat-pulse technique.”
B.S. Electrical Engineering. 1997. Kansas State University, Cum Laude
EXPERIENCE
Eddy Covariance Specialist / Electronics Engineer, GS-11 - June 1999 to Present
U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Graduate Research Assistant - August 1997 to June 1999
Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
Graduate Teaching Assistant - August 1997 to May 1998
Department of Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University
Student Lab Assistant -May 1995 to August 1997
Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
United States Department of Agriculture
Certificate of Merit, 2001
Certificate of Merit, 2004
Certificate of Merit, 2007
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, Lake Sampling volunteer, 1999-Present
Rocky Mountain Research Station, Hispanic Career Camp volunteer, 2000-03
Kansas State University
Henry J. Putnam Scholarship Recipient, 1993-1997
Dean of Engineering Scholarship Recipient, 1993-1997
College of Engineering Scholastic Honors, 1993-1997
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Basinger, J.M., G.J. Kluitenberg, J.M. Ham, J.M. Frank, P.L. Barnes, and M.B. Kirkham. 2003. Laboratory
evaluation of the dual-probe heat-pulse method for measuring soil water content. Vadose Zone
Journal. 2:389-399.
Heitman, J.L., J.M. Basinger, G.J. Kluitenberg, J.M. Ham, J.M. Frank, and P.L. Barnes. 2003. Field
evaluation of the dual-probe heat-pulse method for measuring soil water content. Vadose Zone
Journal. 2:552-560.
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Massman, W.J., J.M. Frank, W.D. Shepperd, and M.J. Platten. 2003. In situ soil temperature and heat flux
measurements during controlled burns at a southern Colorado forest site. Fire, fuel treatments,
and ecological restoration: Conference proceedings; 2002 16-18 April; Fort Collins, CO. USDA
Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-29:69-87.
Massman, W.J., and J.M. Frank. 2004. Effect of a controlled burn on the thermophysical properties of a
dry soil using a new model of soil heat flow and a new high temperature heat flux sensor.
International Journal of Wildland Fire. 13:427-442.
Musselman, R.C., W. J. Massman, J. M. Frank, and J. L. Korfmacher. 2005. The temporal dynamics of
carbon dioxide under snow in a high elevation Rocky Mountain subalpine forest and meadow.
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 37:527-538.
Massman, W.J., and J.M. Frank. 2006. Advective transport of CO 2 in permeable media induced by
atmospheric pressure fluctuations: 2. Observational evidence under snowpacks. Journal of
Geophysical Research. 111:G03005.
Jiménez Esquilín, A.E., M.E. Stromberger, W.J. Massman, J.M. Frank, and W.D. Shepperd. 2007.
Microbial community structure and activity in a Colorado Rocky Mountain forest soil scarred by
slash pile burning. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 39:1111-1120.
Massman, W.J., J.M. Frank, and N.B. Reisch. 2008. Long-term impacts of prescribed burns on soil
thermal conductivity and soil heating at a Colorado Rocky Mountain site: a data/model fusion
study. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 17:131-146.
Massman, W.J., J.M. Frank, and S.J. Mooney. 2010. Advancing investigation and modeling of first-order
fire effects on soils. Fire Ecology. 6:36-54.
Yi, C., D. Ricciuto, R. Li, J. Wolbeck, X. Xu, M. Nilsson, and 145 other authors, including J.M. Frank, listed
in alphabetical order. 2010. Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and
continents. Environmental Research Letters. 5:034007.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Frank, J.M. 2002. 2001-2002 fire experiment, Manitou Experimental Forest, Colorado. Fire, Fuel
Treatments, and Ecological Restoration Conference, Fort Collins, CO. April 16-18. Video poster
presentation.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2006. Measuring the effects of controlled slash-pile burns on the soil.
MEF 70th Anniversary Open House, Manitou Experimental Forest, CO. August 19. Poster.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2006. Effects of controlled burns on the bulk density, thermal
conductivity, and soil temperature of soils at a Colorado site. 3rd International Fire Ecology and
Management Congress, San Diego, CA. November 13-17. Poster.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2007. Application of running-median filtering for ambient
meteorological and eddy-covariance data. 1st RMRS Forest and Woodland Ecology Program
Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. May 8. Poster
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Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2007. Application of running-median filtering for ambient
meteorological and eddy-covariance data. 11th Annual AmeriFlux Meeting, Boulder, CO.
October 17-19. Poster.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2007. Application of running-median filtering for ambient
meteorological and eddy-covariance data. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 13.
Poster.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2008. An Introduction to Eddy-Covariance and Flux Measurements at
the GLEES/AmeriFlux Site. U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Weekly
Seminar, Fort Collins, CO. May 8. Invited oral presentation.
Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman and J.F. Negron. 2008. Eddy-Covariance Flux Response to a Bark Beetle
Epidemic at the GLEES-AmeriFlux site (WY, USA). 12th Annual AmeriFlux Meeting, Boulder,
CO. October 15-17. Poster.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2008. An Introduction to Eddy-Covariance and Flux Measurements at
the GLEES-AmeriFlux Site. CSU Soil and Crop Sciences Weekly Seminar, Fort Collins, CO.
October 23. Invited oral presentation.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2008. An Introduction to Eddy-Covariance and Flux Measurements at
the GLEES-AmeriFlux Site. State of Wyoming Air Quality (AQ) Team Meeting, Cheyenne, WY.
December 17. Invited oral presentation.
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2009. The impact of bark beetles on carbon-dioxide and water-vapor
fluxes at the GLEES-AmeriFlux site. U.S. Forest Service, RMRS, Forest and Woodland Ecosystem
Seminar, Fort Collins, CO. March 9. Oral presentation.
Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman and J.F. Negron. 2009. Eddy-Covariance Flux Response to a Bark Beetle
Epidemic at the GLEES-AmeriFlux site (WY, USA). 1st Forest and Plains Research Symposium,
Laramie, WY. May 10. Poster [Presented by W.J. Massman].
Frank, J.M., and W.J. Massman. 2009. A median based data screening procedure. LWF Conference on
`Long-term ecosystem research: Understanding the present to shape the future', Zurich,
Switzerland. September 8-9. Poster [Presented by W.J. Massman].
Massman, W.J., and J.M. Frank. 2009. Response of high elevation rocky mountain (Wyoming, USA)
forest CO2 and water vapor fluxes to a bark beetle epidemic. 8 th International Carbon Dioxide
Conference, Jena, Germany. September 13-19. Poster [Presented by W.J. Massman].
Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman, and B.E. Ewers. 2010. Response of carbon dioxide and water vapor fluxes to
a bark beetle epidemic in a high elevation Rocky Mountain forest. 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, San
Francisco, CA. December 13. Poster.
Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman. 2011. Discrepancies in measured sensible heat flux from two different sonic
anemometers. 2011 AmeriFlux Science Meeting & 3 rd NACP All-Investigators Meeting, New
Orleans, LA. January 31. Poster.
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Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman. 2011. Response of high elevation rocky mountain (Wyoming, USA) forest
carbon dioxide and water vapor fluxes to a bark beetle epidemic. 2011 AmeriFlux Science
Meeting & 3rd NACP All-Investigators Meeting, New Orleans, LA. February 1. Poster.
Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman. 2011. Evapotranspiration response of high elevation Rocky Mountain
(Wyoming, USA) forest carbon to a bark beetle epidemic. AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO. March 22. Oral presentation.
Frank, J.M., W.J. Massman. 2011. Evapotranspiration response of high elevation Rocky Mountain
(Wyoming, USA) forest carbon to a bark beetle epidemic. Western Water Assessment, Mountain
Pine Beetle Science Symposium, Boulder, CO. April 25. Oral presentation.
REFERENCES
Dr. William Massman, Meteorologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 W.
Prospect Rd., Fort Collins, CO 80526, (970)498-1296, wmassman@fs.fed.us
Dr. Robert Musselman, Plant Physiologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240
W. Prospect Rd., Fort Collins, CO 80526, (970)498-1239, rmusselman@fs.fed.us
Dr. Gerard Kluitenberg, Professor of Soil Physics, Department of Agronomy, 2702 Throckmorton Hall,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, (785) 532-7215, gjk@ksu.edu
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