College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Department of
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Distinguished Professor and Director of Council on Hydrologic Systems Science Department of
Environmental and Forest Biology Telephone
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● RESEARCH
My research program
is focused on biogeochemical
cycles with
an emphasis on forest ecosystems, but also includes work on freshwater. Recent work has included
evaluations of the role of nitrogen, sulfur and other major elements in watersheds. This work has included a
multidisciplinary approach that includes work with biogeochemistry, hydrology
and stable isotopes. All of the projects are collaborative efforts including
scientists at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry as well as
other institutions including Cornell University, Hokkaido University (Japan),
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Kyoto University (Japan), Oregon State
University, Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany), United
States Geological Survey, University of Calgary (Canada), University of Maine,
University of Waterloo (Canada), University of West Virginia, SUNY-Buffalo,
SUNY-Cortland and Syracuse University. My research group is composed of
graduate students, technicians and postdoctoral associates. Close cooperation
and integration is an important goal in the research efforts of all members of
the research team. Field research has included studies at the
● PUBLICATIONS (>190)
Some Recent Examples:
Inamdar, S.P., J.
Rupp and M.J. Mitchell. 2008. Differences
in dissolved organic carbon (
Page, B.D., T.D.
Bullen and M.J. Mitchell. 2008.
Influences of calcium availability and tree species on the cycling of Ca
isotopes in soil, vegetation, and stream water. Biogeochemistry (in press).
Page, B.D. and M.J. Mitchell. 2008. Influences of a
calcium gradient on soil inorganic nitrogen in the Adirondack Mountains,
Page, B.D. and M.J. Mitchell. 2008. The influence of
American basswood (Tilia Americana) and soil calcium concentrations on
nitrification rates in a northern-hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of
Christopher, S.F., M.J.
Mitchell, M.R. McHale, E.W. Boyer, D.A. Burns, C. Kendall. 2008. Factors controlling nitrogen release
from two forested catchments with contrasting hydrochemical responses. Hydrological
Processes 22:46-62.
Driscoll, C.T. K.M.
Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, D.J. Raynal, K. Roy. Impacts of Long-range
Emissions of Air Pollution on Adirondack Ecosystems. 2008. In: W.P. Porter,
R.S. Whaley and J.D. Erickson (eds.). Light from an Adirondack Prism: The
Greater Experiment in Conservation Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY (in
press).
Inamdar, S.P. and M.J.
Mitchell. 2007. Contributions of
riparian and hillslope waters to storm runoff across multiple catchments and
storm events in a glaciated forested watershed. Journal of Hydrology
341: 116-130.
Inamdar, S.P. and M.J.
Mitchell. 2007. Storm event
exports of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) across multiple catchments in a
glaciated forested watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research 112,
G02014, 18 p.
Inamdar, S.P. and
M.J. Mitchell. 2007. Sulfate exports from multiple catchments in a glaciated
forested watershed in western New York, USA. Environmental Monitoring and
Assessment (in press).
Ito, M., M.J. Mitchell, C.T. Driscoll, R.M.
Newton, C.E. Johnson, and K.M. Roy. 2007. Controls on surface water chemistry
in two lake-watersheds in the Adirondack region of New York: differences in
nitrogen solute sources and sinks. Hydrological
Processes 21:1249-1264.
Lovett, G.M., D.A.
Burns, C.T. Driscoll, J.C. Jenkins, M.J. Mitchell, L. Rustand, J.B.
Shanley, G.E. Likens and R. Haeuber. 2007. Who Needs Environmental Monitoring? Frontiers
in Ecology and the Environment 5:253-260.
McGee, G.G., M.J.
Mitchell, D.J. Leopold and D.J. Raynal. 2007. Comparison of soil nutrient fluxes
from tree-fall gap zones of an old-growth northern hardwood forest. Journal
of Torrey Botany Society 134:269-280.
McGee, G.G., M.J.
Mitchell, D.J. Leopold, D.J. Raynal and M.O. Mbila. 2007. Relationships among forest age,
composition and elemental dynamics of Adirondack northern hardwood forests.
Journal of Torrey Botany Society 134:253-268.
Mitchell, M.J. and C. Alewell.
2007. Sulfur Transformations and Fluxes. P. 757-764 In: W.
Chesworth (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Soil Science Springer-Verlag.
Novák,
M., M.J. Mitchell, 
ková, F. Buzek, J.
Schweigstillová, L. Erbanová, R. Pikryl, and D. Fottová. 2007. Processes affecting oxygen isotope
rations of atmospheric and ecosystem sulfate in two contrasting forest
catchments in Central Europe. Environmental Science and Technology
41(3):703-709.
Schroth, A.W., B.C.
Bostick, M. Graham, J.M. Kaste, M.J. Mitchell and A.J. Friedland. 2007. Sulfur species behavior in soil organic matter
during decomposition. J. Geophys. Res. 112.G04011,doi:10.1029/2007JG000538.
Campbell, J., M.J.
Mitchell and B. Mayer. 2006. Isotopic
assessment of NO3- and SO42- mobility during
winter in two adjacent watersheds in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. J.
Geophys. Res. 111, GO4007.
Christopher, S.F.,
B.D. Page, J.L. Campbell and M.J. Mitchell. 2006. Contrasting
biogeochemistry in two adjacent catchments: The contributions of soil Ca and
forest vegetation in affecting spatial and temporal patterns of NO3
in surface waters. Global Change Biology 12:364-381.
Inamdar, S.P. and M.J. Mitchell. 2006. Hydrologic
controls of storm-event exports of dissolved organic carbon (
Inamdar, S.P., N.
O’Leary, M.J. Mitchell, J.T. Riley. 2006.
The impact of storm events on
solute exports from a glaciated forested watershed in western New York, USA.
Hydrological Processes 20:3423-3439.
Mitchell, M.J., K.B. Piatek, S. Christopher, B. Mayer, C. Kendall and P. McHale.
2006. Solute sources in stream
water during consecutive fall storms in a northern hardwood forest watershed: a
combined hydrological, chemical and isotopic approach. Biogeochemistry 78:217-246.
Ogawa, A., H.
Shibata, K. Suzuki, M.J. Mitchell and Y. Ikegami. 2006. Relationship of topography to surface
water chemistry with particular focus on nitrogen and organic carbon solutes
within a forested watershed in Hokkaido, Japan. Hydrological Processes
20:251-265.
Ito, M. M.J. Mitchell, C.T. Driscoll and K.M.
Roy. 2005. Factors affecting acid
neutralizing capacity in the Adirondack region of New York: a solute mass
balance approach. Environmental Science and Technology 39:4076-4081.
Ito, M., M.J.
Mitchell, C.T. Driscoll and K.M. Roy. 2005. Nitrogen input-output budgets for
lake-watersheds in the Adirondack region of New York. Biogeochemistry
72:283-314.
Mitchell, M.J. 2005. Review of Book: “E. Matzner (editor):
Biogeochemistry of forested Catchments in A Changing Environment, A German Case
Study”, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 168:145-146.
Park, J.H., M.J.
Mitchell, C.T. Driscoll. 2005. Winter-time
climatic control on dissolved organic carbon export and surface water chemistry
in an Adirondack forested watershed. Environmental Science and
Technology 39:6993:6998.
Piatek, K.B., M.J.
Mitchell, S.R. Silva and C. Kendall. 2005. Sources of nitrate in Adirondack
surface water during dissimilar snowmelt events. Water, Air and Soil Pollution
165:13-35.
Shanley, J.B., B.
Mayer, M.J. Mitchell, R.L. Michel,
S. Bialey and C. Kendall. 2005. Tracing
sources of streamwater sulfate during snowmelt using S and O isotope ratios.
Biogeochemistry 76:161-185.
Watmough, S.A., J.
Aherne, C. Alewell, P. Arp, S. Bailey, T. Clair, P. Dillon, L. Duschesne, C.
Eimers, I. Fernandez, N. Foster, T. Larsson, E. Miller, M.J. Mitchell
and S. Page. 2005. Sulphate,
nitrogen and base cation budgets at 21 forested catchments in Canada, the
United States and Europe. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
109:1-36.
Bailey, S.W., B.
Mayer, and M.J. Mitchell. 2004. Evidence for the influence of
mineral weathering on stream water sulphate in Vermont and New Hampshire. Hydrological
Processes18:1639-1653.
Campbell, J.L., J.W.
Hornbeck, M.J. Mitchell, M.B. Adams, M.S. Castro, C.T. Driscoll, J.S. Kahl,
J.N. Kochenderfer, G.E. Likens, J.A. Lynch, P.S. Murdoch, S.J. Nelson and J.B.
Shanley. 2004. Input-output
budgets of inorganic nitrogen for 24 forest watersheds in the northeastern
United States: A review. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 151:373-396.
Chen, L., C.T.
Driscoll, S. Gbondo-Tugbawa, M.J. Mitchell and P.S. Murdoch. 2004.
The application of an Integrated
Biogeochemistry Model (PnET-BGC) to five forested watersheds in the Adirondack
and Catskill Regions of New York. Hydrological Processes
18:2631-2650.
Inamdar, S., S.F.
Christopher and M.J. Mitchell. 2004. Export mechanisms for dissolved
organic carbon and nitrate during summer storm events in a glaciated forested
catchment in New York, USA. Hydrological Processes 18:2651-2661.
Lovett, G.M. and M.J. Mitchell. 2004. Sugar maple and nitrogen cycling in the
forests of eastern North America. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2:81-88.
Mitchell, M.J. and C.T. Driscoll (eds). 2004.
Special Issue: Interrelationships
between atmospheric deposition and landscape features of forest catchments in
regulating surface water biogeochemistry. Hydrological Processes
18:2615-2755.
Driscoll, C.T., K.M.
Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell and D.J. Raynal. 2003. Effects
of acidic deposition on forest and aquatic ecosystems in New York State . Environmental Pollution123:327-336.
Driscoll, C.T., K.M.
Driscoll, K.M. Roy and M.J. Mitchell. 2003. Chemical
response of lakes in the Adirondack region to declines in acidic deposition . Environmental Science and Technology
37:2036-2042.
Fitzhugh, R.D., G.E.
Likens, C.T. Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, P.M. Groffman, T.J. Fahey and J.P.
Hardy. 2003. The
role of soil freezing events in interannual patterns of stream chemistry at the
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest . Environmental
Science and Technology 37:1575-1580.
Forrester, J.A.,
G.G. McGee and M.J. Mitchell. 2003. Effects
of beech bark disease on aboveground biomass and species composition in a
mature hardwood forest, 1985 to 2000 . Journal
of Torrey Botanical Society 130:70-78.
Ito, M., M.J.
Mitchell and C.T. Driscoll. 2003. Response
to Discussion on "spatial patterns of precipitation quantity and chemistry
and air temperature in the Adirondack region of New York." Atmospheric Environment 37:135-138.
McHale, M.R., C.P.
Cirmo, M.J. Mitchell and J.J. McDonnell. 2004. Wetland nitrogen dynamics in an
Adirondack forested watershed. Hydrological Processes
18:1853-1870.
Mitchell, M.J. 2003. Episodic
Acidification. In: Jay H. Lehr and Jack Keeley (eds). Encyclopedia:
Surface and Agricultural Water. John Wiley and Sons. P.3-5.
Mitchell, M.J., C.T. Driscoll, S. Inamdar,
G. McGee, M. Mbila and D. Raynal. 2003. Nitrogen
biogeochemistry in the Adirondack Mountains of New York: hardwood ecosystems
and associated surface waters. Environmental
Pollution 123:355-364.
Park, J., M.J.
Mitchell, P.J. McHale, S.F. Christopher and T.P. Myers. 2003. Impacts of
changing climate and atmospheric deposition on N and S biogeochemistry in a
forested watershed of the Adirondack Mountains, New York State. Global
Change Biology 9:1602-1619.
Christenson, L.M.,
G.M. Lovett, M.J. Mitchell and P.M. Groffman. 2002. The fate
of nitrogen in gypsy moth frass deposited to an oak forest floor . Oecologia 131:444-452.
Gbondo-Tugbawa,
S.S., C.T. Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, J.D. Aber and G.E. Likens. 2002.
A
model to simulate the response of a northern hardwood forest ecosystem to
changes in S deposition. Ecological Applications 12:8-23.
Ito, M., M.J.
Mitchell and C.T. Driscoll. 2002. Spatial
patterns of precipitation quantity and chemistry and air temperature in the
Adirondack Region of New York . Atmospheric
Environment 36:1051-1062.
Likens, G.E., C.T.
Driscoll, D.C. Buso, M.J. Mitchell, G.M. Lovett, S.W. Bailey, T.G.
Siccama, W.A. Reiners, C. Alewell. 2002. The
biogeochemistry of sulfur at Hubbard Brook
. Biogeochemistry 60:235-316.
Lovett, G.M., L.M.
Christenson, P.M. Groffman, C.G. Jones, J. Hart and M.J. Mitchell.
2002. Insect
defoliation and nitrogen cycling in forests.
BioScience 52:335-341.
McHale, M.R., J.J.
McDonnell, M.J. Mitchell and C.P. Cirmo. 2002. A field based study of
soil- and groundwater nitrate release in an Adirondack forested watershed.
Water Resources Research 38 (4):1029/2000WR000102 (17 pages).
Mitchell, M.J., G. McGee, P. McHale and K.C. Weathers. 2001.
Experimental design and instrumentation for analyzing solute concentrations and
fluxes for quantifying biogeochemical processes in watersheds. Paper Presented
at The 4th International Conference on Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) in
East Asian and Pacific Region,
● TEACHING
I teach undergraduate and graduate
courses in Environmental Biogeochemistry. I have also led a variety of seminars
on topics ranging from historical analysis to isotope use. I teach an undergraduate seminar in ecology.
Current Courses:
EFB 415 Ecological
Biogeochemistry
EFB 610 Ecological
Biogeochemistry
EFB 497 Ecology Seminar
Cross-disciplinary
Seminar in Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes
Semester 2008
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Moon 110 (ESF Campus)
· Schedule
Visiting Scholar for
The University of Calgary (1983); Fulbright Travel Fellowship to New Zealand
(1983-1984); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(1992); Sigma Xi Outstanding Faculty Research Award (1994); Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
(1996); Co-chair for Gordon Conference on Hydrobiogeochemistry of Forested
Catchments (1997); SUNY Chancellor's Research Recognition Award
(2002);Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (2004); Exemplary Researcher
Award by SUNY-ESF (2006).
● Other
Ecology Panel, NSF
(1989-1992); Board of Directors of Upstate Freshwater institute (1989-present);
Bristol-Myers Squibb Community Advisory Council (1997-2003); Chair of EFB Committee on Promotion and
Tenure (1997-1999); Environmental
Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry Panel, NSF (1999). Ecosystem Panel, NSF
(2000-2004); Northeast Ecosystem Research Cooperative, member of coordination
committee (2000-2004); Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of
Hydrologic Sciences, Incorporated (CUAHS), alternate representative for ESF
(2001-present); Leader of Urban Ecosystems Integrated Systems Development Team
of New York Environmental Quality Systems Center (2001-present); Graduate Program Director of EFB (2002-2007);
Member of International Scientific Committee for Acid Rain 2005 (Prague, Czech
Republic); Board Member of Research Foundation of State of New York
(2005-present); Member of the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
(CASAC) Review Panel on Secondary Standards for NOx and SOx (2007-present);
Commissioner on NYS Governor's Commission on Higher Education (2007-present);
Member of SUNY Higher Education Advisory Committee (2007-present).
● OTHER LINKS FOR M.J. MITCHELL
Council on Hydrologic Systems Science
Biogeochemical
and Hydrological Research at Huntington Forest
Real Time Data Monitoring
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Upstate Freshwater Institute (UFI)
Croton Watershed of New York
