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]

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 Naturalist 159:57-80.

Moorcroft, P.R., G.C. Hurtt and S.W. Pacala. 2001. A Method for Scaling Vegetation Dynamics: the Ecosystem Demography Model (ED). Ecological Monographs 71(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 Biology 41:387-429.

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. Cycles 14(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.