ChEAS Major Projects and Principal Investigators
Observations of CO2 Mixing Ratios and Surface Exchange Fluxes at WLEF
Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Budgets for Wisconsin
Forests and its Forest Product Chains
Stith T. Gower and Douglas Ahl
Other projects with some focus on the ChEAS region. Projects in italics have been submitted but not yet funded.
Theme |
PI |
Description |
Sites |
Funding
source |
Atmospheric
carbon cycle measurements and analysis, global, continental and regional. |
Pieter Tans, U. Colorado, Peter
Bakwin, NOAA/CMDL |
CO2 and trace gas measurements |
WLEF, pan-U.S. |
NOAA
OGP GCC |
Pieter Tans, U. Colorado, Peter
Bakwin, NOAA/CMDL |
Airborne
CO2 and trace gas profiling |
WLEF, pan-U.S. |
NOAA
OGP GCC |
|
Paul
Wennberg, UC Irvine |
FTIR
measurements of CO2 column amount |
WLEF |
NASA
EOS val |
|
Kenneth
Davis, PSU, and Scott Denning, CSU |
Regional,
seasonal atmospheric inversion study |
ChEAS + NACP |
DoE
TCP |
|
Jim
Ehleringer, Univ. Utah |
Observations
and interpretation of stable isotopes. |
ChEAS,
other BASIN sites around the globe. |
GCTE |
|
Britt
Stephens, NCAR |
O2/N2
measurements, interpretation |
WLEF |
NSF |
|
INTEX
– N. America |
Airborne
atmospheric chemistry project, 2004 |
ChEAS,
east and west coast sites, continental transects |
NASA
(planning underway) |
|
S. Wofsy, Harvard | COBRA - Lagrangian budgets | WLEF + multi sites | Many | |
Kenneth Davis and Scott Richardson, PSU | Virtual tall tower CO2 mesonet | Midwest U.S. | DoE NACP, proposal submitted 5/2003 | |
Joe Berry, Stanford | proposal submitted 5/2003 | |||
Ecosystem-atmosphere
flux measurements, ecosystem processes, upscaling. |
Eileen Carey, U. Minn, Paul Bolstad U. Minn, , Kenneth Davis, PSU, Margaret Davis, U. Minn |
Old growth flux measurements |
UP of Michigan |
DoE TCP, renewal submitted 3/2003 |
Jiquan Chen, U. Toledo | Forest age, structure, and impact on carbon balance | Western Chequamegon, N. Forest, UP of Mich. | NSF | |
P. Bolstad, U. Minnesota, Kenneth Davis, PSU | Multi-scale fluxes at 3 towers and related stands |
WLEF |
DoE - Ameriflux, proposal submitted 5/2003 | |
K. Davis, & others | Coupled water, CO2 and CH4 cycles in a northern forest | WLEF/ChEAS | NSF | |
J. Chen, U. Toledo | Regional CO2 and CH4 fluxes | ChEAS | NASA IDS | |
Remote sensing, modeling of ecosystem processes | S. Gower, U. Wisc | MODIS validation | ChEAS + other sites | NASA |
F. Heinsch, U. Montana | BIOME-BGC modeling | ChEAS, Ameriflux sites | NIGEC | |
G. Collatz, NASA | Disturbance, climate, and regional carbon fluxes | ChEAS, BOREAS | NASA IDS | |
S. Mackay, U. Buffalo | Sap flux, regional flux modeling | WLEF/ChEAS | NASA IDS | |
S. Ollinger, U. New Hamp. | MODIS modeling, regional N, C flux | Willow, Lost Creek | NASA IDS | |
Integration | K. Davis, PSU | RCN grant | ChEAS | NSF |