North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle [also known as the Prototype State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR) focused on North America]

Kenneth J. Davis

Department of Meteorology

The Pennsylvania State University

512 Walker Building

University Park, PA 16802-5013

Tel: (814) 863-8601; Fax: (814) 865-3663

 

 

Education

 

1987             A.B.        Physics, Princeton University, Physics

1992             Ph.D.      Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences, University of

                                    Colorado

1993-1994    Postdoc   Trace gas micrometeorology, National Center for Atmospheric

                                     Research

 

Employment History

 

2000-present    Associate Professor, Dept of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University

                        Assistant Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, U. of Minnesota.

Fall 1996          Guest Scientist, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR).

1995-1996       Research Associate, University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

1995-1996       Visiting Scientist, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research            

1993-1994       Postdoctoral Fellow, NCAR, Advanced Studies Program.

1989-1992       NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellow, APAS Department,

                        University of Colorado.

1989-1992       Graduate Research Assistant, Advanced Studies Program, NCAR.

 

 Professional Service/Activities

 

Chair - Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee, American Meteorological Society

Lead instructor - new interdisciplinary graduate course in the global carbon cycle, spring of 2002. PI of proposed IGERT on carbon cycle science and management.

Director - Penn State EMS Environment Institute Center for Advanced Carbon Research and Education (ACRE)

Principal organizer - the Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (ChEAS), a multiple investigator study of forest-atmosphere CO₂ and H₂O cycling.

Participant - Annual AmeriFlux meeting and periodic Fluxnet meetings, member of the AmeriFlux Scientific steering group.

 

Publications

 

Bolstad, P.V., K.J. Davis, J. Martin, B.D. Cook and W. Wang. Component and whole-system respiration fluxes in northern hardwood forests. Tree Physiology (in press).

Davis, K.J., P.S. Bakwin, B.W. Berger, C. Yi, C. Zhao, R.M. Teclaw and J.G. Isebrands, 2003. The annual cycle of CO₂ and H₂O exchange over a northern mixed forest as observed from a very tall tower. Global Change Biology 9:1278-1293.

Baker, I., A.S. Denning, N. Hanan, L. Prihodko, M. Uliasz, P.-L. Vidale, K.J. Davis and P.S. Bakwin. 2003. Simulated and observed fluxes of sensible and latent heat and CO₂ at the WLEF-TV tower using SiB2.5. Global Change Biology 9:1262-1277.

Marland G., R.A. Betts, K.J. Davis, P.C. Frumhoff, S.T. Jackson, L.A. Joyce, P. Kauppi, J. Katzenberger, K.G. MacDicken, R.P. Neilson, J.O. Niles, D.d.S. Niyogi, R.J. Norby, N. Pena, N. Sampson, Y. Xue, R.A. Pielke Sr., M. Apps and R. Avissar. 2003. The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy. Climate Policy 3:149-157.

Berger, B.W., K.J. Davis, P.S. Bakwin, C. Yi and C. Zhao. 2001. Long-term carbon dioxide fluxes from a very tall tower in a northern forest: Flux measurement methodology. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 18:529-542.

Denning, A.S., M. Nicholls, L. Prihodko, I. Baker, P.-L. Vidale, K.J. Davis and P.S. Bakwin. 2003. Simulated and observed variations in atmospheric CO₂ over a Wisconsin forest. Global Change Biology 9:1241-1250.

Werner, C., K J. Davis, P.S. Bakwin, C. Yi, D. Hurst and L. Lock. 2003. Interannual variability of methane exchange over a temperate-boreal lowland and wetland forest. Global Change Biology 9:1251-1261.

MacKay, D.S., D.E. Ahl, B.E. Ewers, S.T. Gower, S.N. Burrows, S. Samanta and K.J. Davis. 2002. Effects of aggregated classifications of forest composition on estimates of evapotranspiration in a northern Wisconsin forest. Global Change Biology 8:1253-1266.

Davis, K.J., N. Gamage, C. Hagelberg, D.H. Lenschow, C. Kiemle and P.P. Sullivan. 2000. An objective method for determining atmospheric structure from airborne lidar observations. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 17:1455-1468.

Kuck, L.R., T. Smith, B.B. Balsley, D. Helmig, T.J. Conway, P.P. Tans, K.J. Davis, M. Jensen, J.A. Bognar, R. Vazquez Arrieta, R. Rodriquez and J.W. Birks. 2000. Measurements of landscape-scale fluxes of carbon dioxide in the Peruvian Amazon by vertical profiling through the convective boundary layer. J. Geophys. Res. 105:22,137-22,146.