Stephen W. Pacala
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1003
Tel: (609) 258-6885; Fax: (609) 258-6818
Education
B.A. 1978 Dartmouth College
Ph.D. 1982 Stanford University
Research Interests
Plant Ecology
Global Interactions of the Biosphere, Atmosphere and Hydrosphere
Mathematical Modeling
Community Ecology
Employment History
2000-present
Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University
1995-present
Co-Director, NOAA Carbon Modeling Center, Princeton University
1994-present
Associated Faculty, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
1993-present
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
1992-present
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
1987-1992
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University Connecticut
1982-1987
Assistant Professor, Ecology Section, Biological Sciences Group, The University of Connecticut
1979-1981
Teaching Assistant, Stanford University
1978
Teaching Assistant, Dartmouth College
1975-1978
Research Assistant, Dartmouth College
Professional Service/Activities
Associate Editor - The American Naturalist
Associate Editor - Theoretical Population Biology
Editorial Board - Ecological Applications
Editorial Board - Global Change Biology
Publications
Kinzig, A.P. S.W. Pacala and G.D. Tilman. 2002. The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Experimental Progress and Theoretical Extensions. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Hurtt, G.C., S.W. Pacala, P.R. Moorcroft, J. Caspersen, E. Shevliakova, R.A. Houghton and B. Moore III. 2002. Projecting the Future of the U.S. Carbon Sink. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(3):1389-1394.
Schimel, D.S., J.I. House, K.A. Hibbard, P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, P. Peylin, B.H. Braswell, M.J. Apps, D. Baker, A. Bondeau, J. Canadell, G. Churkina, W. Cramer, A.S. Denning, C.B. Field, P. Friedlingstein, C. Goodale, M. Heimann, R.A. Houghton, J.M. Melillo, B. Moore III, D. Murdiyarso, I. Noble, S.W. Pacala, I.C. Prentice, M.R. Raupach, P.J. Rayner, R.J. Scholes, W.L. Steffen and C. Wirth. 2001. Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 414:169-172.
Wilson, H.B., M.J. Keeling and S.W. Pacala. 2001. Deterministic limits to stochastic, spatial models of natural enemies. American Naturalist159:57-80.
Moorcroft, P.R., G.C. Hurtt and S.W. Pacala. 2001. A Method for Scaling Vegetation Dynamics: the Ecosystem Demography Model (ED). Ecological Monographs71(4):557-586.
Rees, M., R. Condit, M. Crawley, S.W. Pacala and D. Tilman. 2001. Vegetation Dynamics (9315). Science 293(5530):650-655.
Pacala S.W., Hurtt G.C., Moorcroft P.R. and Caspersen J.P. 2001. Carbon storage in the US caused by land use change. Pp. 145-172. In The Present and Future of Modeling Global Environmental Change, Terra Scientific Publishing. Toyko, Japan.
Pacala, S.W., G.C. Hurtt, R.A. Houghton, R.A. Birdsey, L. Heath, E.T. Sundquist, R.F. Stallard, D. Baker, P. Peylin, P. Moorcroft, J. Caspersen, E. Shevliakova, M.E. Harmon, S.-M. Fan, J.L. Sarmiento, C. Goodale, C.B. Field, M. Gloor and D. Schimel. 2001. Consistent Land- and Atmosphere-Based U.S. Carbon Sink Estimates. Science 292(5525):2316-2320.
Lewis, M.A. and S. Pacala. 2000. Modeling and analysis of stochastic invasion processes. Journal of Mathematical Biology41:387-429.
Keeling, M.J., H.B. Wilson and S.W. Pacala. 2000. Re-interpreting Space, Time-lags, and Functional Responses to Ecological Models. Science 290:1758-1761.
Caspersen, J.P., S.W. Pacala, J.C. Jenkins, G.C. Hurtt, P.R. Moorcroft and R.A. Birdsey. 2000. Contributions of land-use history to carbon accumulation in US forests. Science 290:1148-1151.
Gloor, M., S.-M. Fan, S.W. Pacala and J.L. Sarmiento. 2000. Optimal sampling of the atmosphere for purpose of inverse modelling - a model study. Global Biogeochem. Cycles14(1):407-428.
Hurtt, G.C., P.R. Moorcroft, S.W. Pacala and S. Levin. 1998. Terrestrial Models and Global Change: Challenges for the Future. Global Change Biology 4(5):581-590.
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