CCR’s multi-disciplinary approach allows its carbon cycle researchers to benefit from cross-fertilization of ideas across biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry, oceanography, limnology, and paleoclimatology. CCR has a long history of research into these topics from modeling and observational perspectives, with a particular focus on combining long-term carbon cycle observations with simulations of past, present, and future changes to ocean and land carbon sinks and feedbacks to climate and ecological systems. These investigations includes those focused on the Great Lakes, the global oceans, paleobotany, fossil fuel chemical transport modeling, land surface vegetation change feedbacks, and direct terrestrial carbon/water cycle measurement and synthesis with eddy covariance flux towers.
Principal Investigators
Galen McKinley, Ankur Desai, Sara Hotchkiss, Michael Notaro
Affiliates
Carol Barford, Tracey Holloway, Chris Kucharik, Erika Marin-Spiotta, David Mladenoff
Current and Recent Projects
ABI Development: The PEcAn Project: A Community Platform for Ecological Forecasting
Ankur Desai, Professor
A Regional Atmospheric Continuous Co2 Network in the Rocky Mountains: Understanding Drivers of Flux Variability and Optimizing Regional Observations
Ankur Desai, Professor
ABI Innovation: Model-Data Synthesis and Forecasting Across the Upper Midwest: Partitioning Uncertainty and Environmental Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Carbon Exchange
Ankur Desai, Professor
ARRA Collaborative Research: Exploring the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
John Kutzbach, Professor Emeritus
P2C2 — Implications of the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
John Kutzbach, Professor Emeritus
Non-Local Physical Controls on Subtropical Marine Productivity
Galen McKinley, Professor
Contrasting environmental controls on regional CO2 and CH4 biogeochemistry-Research and education for placing global change in a regional, local context
Ankur Desai, Professor