Ruth D. Yanai

State University of New York. College of Environmental Science and Forestry

210 Marshall Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210

Phone: (315) 470-6955 Fax: (315) 470-6954 E-mail: rdyanai@syr.edu

Education

Ph.D. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1990.

M.Phil. Yale University, 1987.

M.S. Yale University, 1985.

Cornell University Graduate School. Exchange Scholar, fall semester 1984.

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1983 to 1984.

B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in the Major of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 1981.

Awards and Fellowships

Best Paper, Division S-7, Session 1, Soil Science Society of America Meeting, 2005, 2007.

Award for Research and Scholarship, Research Foundation, State University of New York, 2005.

Who’s Who in America, 2005, 2006.

Masters Women Champion, Upstate Cross Country Series, 2001, 2002.

National Masters Indoor Track and Field Champion, 800 Meter Run, Women 40-49, 2002.

Top-ranked proposal submitted to USDA-NRICGP Ecosystems Panel, 1993.

Editors' Citation for Excellence in Manuscript Review, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 1992.

Fulbright Fellowship, 1987-1988.

Yale Graduate School Fellowship, 1986-1987.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1983-1986.

Yale Geology Fellowship to support field studies in the Pyrenees, 1981.

Pat Wilde Prize for Senior Thesis in Geology and Geophysics, 1981.

National Merit Scholarship, 1977-1981.

Math Association of America Award, 1975.

Society of Women Engineers Award, 1975.

Research Interests

Element cycling in ecosystems; soil chemistry and nutrient uptake; models for simulating plant-soil interactions, the response of plants to environmental change, and optimal growth strategies; forest regeneration and development.

Professional Experience

2007 - present Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

1999 - 2007 Associate Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

2007, April-May Instructor, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

2006, April-July Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Agricultural and

Life Sciences.

1994 – 1999 Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

1994 Senior Research Associate, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

1993 Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

1992 -1993 Research Associate, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

1991 Postdoctoral Associate, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

1989-1990 Research Support Specialist, Center for Environmental Research, Cornell University.

1987-1988 Fulbright Fellow, Edinburgh University and Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, UK.

1982-1983 Secondary School Teacher, The Putney School, Putney Vermont.

1981-1982 Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University.

Professional Activities

Societies: Member, Ecological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Association for Women in Science, Association of Women Soil Scientists, and the Open Gate Program of the Forestry and Forest Research Products Institute, Japan.

Consultantships

Roundtable for Sustainable Forests, online consultation. Provided information on the needs of forest professionals and stakeholders interested in criteria and indicators of sustainable forests. 2007.

Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Advising on research and management of forests affected by radioactive fallout in Eastern Europe. 1994.

USEPA, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office. Author for Criteria Document, Ozone and other photochemical oxidants. 1993.

Chemex International P.L.C., Cambridge, England. Researched EPA, state, and private requirements for laboratory certification and assessed opportunities for the analysis of US pollutants. 1988.

Workshops for Authors Preparing Manuscripts for Publication

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 9, 2005; San Jose, CA, Aug. 7, 2007.

American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2, 2004; Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 8, 2005; and Indianapolis, Indiana, Nov 14, 2006.

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, July 28, 2006; April-May, 2007.

Chiba Experimental Forest, Tokyo University, Japan, July 25, 2006

Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto, Japan, July 14, 2006.

Selected Other Workshops

US-Japan joint workshop on biogeochemistry and hydrology in forest watersheds associated with LTER, Sapporo, Japan, March 13-19, 2005.

Roundtable participant, reviewing Criteria and Indicators for the Montreal Protocol, Denver, Colorado, March 12-14, 2000.

Co-convener of the Forest Stress session, Workshop on Comparison of Forest-Soil-Atmosphere Models, Leusden, The Netherlands, May 10-14, 1993.

Journal Articles

Lucash, M.S., R.D. Yanai, and J.D. Joslin. Nutrient uptake by intact and disturbed roots of loblolly pine seedlings. Environmental and Experimental Botany (in press)

Homyak, P.M., R.D. Yanai, D.A. Burns, R.D. Briggs, and R.H. Germain. 2008. Nitrogen immobilization by wood chip application: protecting water quality in a northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecol. Manage. 255: 2589-2601.

Park, B.B., R.D. Yanai, T.J. Fahey, T.G. Siccama, S.W. Bailey, J.B. Shanley, and N.L. Cleavitt. 2008. Fine root dynamics and forest production across a calcium gradient in northern hardwood and conifer ecosystems. Ecosystems 11(2):325-341

Blum, J., A.A. Dasch, S.P. Hamburg, R.D.Yanai, and M.A. Arthur. 2008. Use of foliar Ca/Sr discrimination and 87Sr/86Sr ratios to determine soil Ca sources to sugar maple foliage in a northern hardwood forest. Biogeochemistry 87(3): 287-296

Nezat, C.A., J.D. Blum, R.D. Yanai, S.P. Hamburg. 2007. A sequential extraction to selectively dissolve apatite for determination of soil nutrient pools with an application to Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA. Applied Geochemistry 22: 2406–2421.

Lucash, M.S., D.M. Eissenstat, J.D. Joslin, K.J. McFarlane, and R.D. Yanai. 2007. Estimating nutrient uptake by mature tree roots under field conditions: challenges and opportunities. Trees 21: 593-603.

Vadeboncoeur, M.A., S.P. Hamburg, and R.D. Yanai. 2007. Validation and refinement of allometric equations for roots of northern hardwoods. Can. J. For. Res. 37: 1777-1783.

Park, B.B., R.D. Yanai, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, and S.P. Hamburg. 2007. Estimating root biomass in rocky soils using pits, cores and allometric equations. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71: 206-213.

Yanai, R.D., B.B. Park, and S.P. Hamburg. 2006. The vertical and horizontal distribution of roots in northern hardwood stands of varying age. Can. J. For. Res. 36: 450-459.

McFarlane, K.J. and R.D. Yanai. 2006. Measuring nitrogen and phosphorus uptake by intact roots of mature Acer saccharum Marsh., Pinus resinosa Ait., and Picea abies (l.) Karst. Plant Soil 279: 163-172.

Wang, X., D.A. Burns, R.D. Yanai, R.D. Briggs, and R.H. Germain. 2006. Changes in stream chemistry and nutrient export following a partial harvest in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA. For. Ecol. Manag. 223:103-112.

Fahey, T.J., T.G. Siccama, C.T. Driscoll, G.E. Likens, J. Campbell, C.E. Johnson, J.D. Aber, J.J. Cole, M.C. Fisk, P.M. Groffman, R.T. Holmes, P.A. Schwarz, and R.D. Yanai. 2005. The biogeochemistry of carbon at Hubbard Brook. Biogeochemistry. 75: 109-176.

Lucash, M.S., R.D. Yanai, and J.D. Joslin. 2005. Temporal variation in nutrient uptake capacity by intact roots of mature loblolly pine. Plant Soil. 272:253-262.

Yanai, R.D., J.D. Blum, S.P. Hamburg, M.A. Arthur, C.A. Nezat, and T.G. Siccama. 2005. New insights into calcium depletion in northeastern forests. J. For. 103:14-20.

Yanai, R.D., R.P. Phillips, M.A. Arthur, T.G. Siccama, and E. Hane. 2005. Spatial and temporal variation in calcium and aluminum in northern hardwood forest floors. Water, Air Soil Pollut. 160:109-118.

Park, B.B., R.D. Yanai, J.M. Sahm, B.D. Ballard, and L.P. Abrahamson. 2005. Wood ash effects on plant and soil in a willow bioenergy plantation. Biomass and Bioenergy. 28:355-365.

Ray, D.G., R.D. Yanai, and R.D. Nyland. 2004. Height development of upper canopy trees within even-aged Adirondack northern hardwood stands. N. J. Appl. For. 21:117-122.

Park, B.B., R.D. Yanai, J.M. Sahm, B.D. Ballard, and L.P. Abrahamson. 2004. Wood ash effects on soil solution and nutrient budgets in a willow biomass plantation. Water, Air Soil Pollut. 159: 209-224.

Phillips, R.P. and R.D. Yanai. 2004. The effects of AlCl₃ additions on rhizosphere soil and fine root chemistry of sugar maple (Acer saccharum). Water, Air, Soil Pollut. 159: 339-356.

Yanai, R.D., D.G. Ray, and T.G. Siccama. 2004. Lead reduction and distribution in the forest floor in New Hampshire northern hardwoods. J. Environ. Qual. 33:141-148.

Yanai, R.D., H. Majdi, and B.B. Park. 2003. Measured and modeled differences in nutrient concentrations between rhizosphere and bulk soil in a Norway spruce stand. Plant Soil 257:133-142.

Yanai, R.D., S.V. Stehman, M.A. Arthur, C.E. Prescott, A.J. Friedland, T.G. Siccama, and D. Binkley. 2003. Detecting change in forest floor carbon. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:1583-1593.

Hamburg, S.P., R.D. Yanai, M.A. Arthur, J.D. Blum and T.G. Siccama. 2003. Biotic control of calcium cycling in northern hardwood forests: acid rain and aging forests. Ecosystems 6:399-406.

Yanai, R.D., W.S. Currie, and C.L. Goodale. 2003. Soil carbon dynamics after forest harvest: an ecosystem paradigm reconsidered. Ecosystems 6:197-212.

Yanai, R.D. and D.M. Eissenstat. 2002. Coping with herbivores and pathogens: a model of optimal root turnover. Functional Ecology 16:865-869.

Bouma, T.J., R.D. Yanai, A.D. Elkin, U. Hartmond, D.E. Flores-Alva, and D.M. Eissenstat. 2001. Estimating age-dependent costs and benefits of roots with contrasting lifespan: comparing apples and oranges. New Phytol. 150:685-695.

Yanai, R.D., M.A. Arthur, T.G. Siccama, and C.A. Federer. 2000. Challenges of measuring forest floor organic matter dynamics: repeated measures from a chronosequence. For. Ecol. Manage. 138:273-283.

Arthur, M.A., and R.D. Yanai. 2000. Distinguishing the effects of environmental stress and forest succession on changes in the forest floor. Korean J. Ecol. 23:83-88.

Eissenstat, D.M., C. E. Wells, R.D. Yanai and J.L. Whitbeck. 2000. Building fine roots in a changing environment: implications for root longevity. New Phytol. 147:33-42.

Nyland, R.D., D.G. Ray, R.D. Yanai, R.D. Briggs, L. Zhang, R. Cymbala, and M.J. Twery. 2000. Early cohort development following even-age reproduction method cuttings in New York northern hardwoods. Can. J. For. Res. 30:67-75.

Yanai, R.D., T.G Siccama, M.A. Arthur, C.A. Federer, and A.J. Friedland. 1999. Accumulation and depletion of base cations in forest floors in the northeastern US. Ecology 80:2774-2787.

Arthur, M.A., T.G. Siccama, and R.D. Yanai. 1999. Calcium and magnesium in wood of northern hardwood forest species: relations to site characteristics. Can. J. For. Res. 29:339-346.

Taylor, L.A., M.A. Arthur, and R.D. Yanai. 1999. Forest floor microbial biomass across a northern hardwood successional sequence. Soil Biol. Biochem. 31:431-439.

Ray, D.G., R.D. Nyland, and R.D. Yanai. 1999. Patterns of early cohort development following shelterwood cutting in three Adirondack northern hardwood stands. Forest Ecol. Manag. 119:1-11.

Yanai, R.D., M. Twery, and S.L. Stout. 1998. Woody understory response to changes in overstory density: thinning in Allegheny Hardwoods. Forest Ecol. Manag. 102:45-60.

Yanai, R.D. 1998. The effect of whole-tree harvest on phosphorus cycling in a northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecol. Manag. 104:281-295.

Eissenstat, D.M. and R.D. Yanai. 1997. Ecology of root lifespan. Adv. Ecol. Res. 27:1-60.

Williams, M., and R.D. Yanai. 1996. Multi-dimensional sensitivity analysis and ecological implications of a nutrient uptake model. Plant Soil 180:311-324.

Muetzelfeldt, R. and R.D. Yanai. 1996. Model transformation rules and model disaggregation. Science of the Total Environment 183:25-31.

van Heerden, K. and R.D. Yanai. 1995. Effects of stresses on forest growth in models applied to the Solling spruce site. Ecological Modeling 83:273-282.

Yanai, R.D. 1994. A steady-state model of nutrient uptake accounting for newly-grown roots. Soil. Sci. Soc. Am. J. 58:1562-1571.

Weinstein, D.A. and R.D. Yanai. 1994. Integrating the effects of simultaneous multiple stresses on plants using the simulation model TREGRO. J. Environ. Qual. 23:418-428.

Siccama, T.G., S.P. Hamburg, M.A. Arthur, R.D. Yanai, F.H. Bormann, and G.E. Likens. 1994. Corrections to allometric equations and plant tissue chemistry for Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Ecology 75:246-248.

Yanai, R.D. 1992. Phosphorus budget of a 70-year old northern hardwood forest. Biogeochemistry 17:1-22.

Yanai, R.D. 1992. Competitive interactions between Norway Spruce and Scots Pine at Gisburn Forest, NW England. Forestry 65:435-451.

Yanai, R.D. 1991. Soil solution phosphorus dynamics in a whole-tree-harvested northern hardwood forest. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 55:1746-1752.

Weinstein, D.A., R.M. Beloin, and R.D. Yanai. 1991. Modeling changes in red spruce carbon balance and allocation in response to interacting ozone and nutrient stress. Tree Phys. 9:127-146.

Book Chapters

Currie, W. S., R. D. Yanai, K. Piatek, C. Prescott and C. L. Goodale. 2003. Processes affecting carbon storage in the forest floor and in downed woody debris. Pp. 135-157 in Kimble, J. M. et al., Eds., The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect. Lewis, Boca Raton, FL.

Eissenstat, D.M. and R.D. Yanai. 2002. Root lifespan, efficiency and turnover. Pp. 221-238 in: Y. Waisel, A. Eshel, and U. Kafkafi., Eds., Plant Roots: The Hidden Half. 3rd Edition. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Kelly, J.M. and R.D. Yanai. 1997. Modeling nutrient uptake as a component of loblolly pine response to environmental stress. In: R.A. Mickler and S. Fox, Eds., The Productivity and Sustainability of Southern Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment. Ecological Studies Volume 128, pp. 293-304. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

Yanai, R.D., T.J. Fahey, and S.L. Miller. 1995. Efficiency of nutrient acquisition by fine roots and mycorrhizae. In: Smith, W.K. and T.M. Hinckley, Eds., Resource Physiology of Conifers, pp. 75-103. Academic Press, New York.

Reports

Weinstein, D.A., R.D. Yanai, C.W. Chen, and L.E. Gomez. 1991. Models to assess the response of vegetation to global change. Topical Report EN-7366. Electric Power Research Institute.

Weinstein, D.A., R.D. Yanai, R.M. Beloin, and C.G. Zollweg. 1992. The Response of plants to interacting stresses: TREGRO Version 1.74. Description and parameter requirements. Electric Power Research Institute TR-101061.

Yanai, R.D., C.G. Zollweg, and R.C. Santore. 1998. Using the soil model YASE alone or in combination with TREGRO. Model Description and User's Guide, Version 3.0.2. Electric Power Research Institute.

Book Review

Yanai, R.D., P. Sollins, and M.S. Lucash. 2003. Ecosystem ecology: in pursuit of principles. Ecology 84:1640.

Yanai, R.D. Making a difference in ecological conservation. Ecology (in press)

Publications in Review or in Revision

Park, B.B. and R.D. Yanai. Site quality affects nutrient concentrations of seedling and mature sugar maple and American beech. Tree Physiology. (in revision)

Ray, David, R.D. Yanai and Ralph Nyland. The link between shade tolerance and growing space occupancy: evidence from developing northern hardwood stands. Forest Ecology and Management (in revision)

Nezat, C.A., J.D. Blum, R.D. Yanai, S.P. Hamburg, and B.B. Park. Mineral sources of calcium and phosphorus in soils of the northeastern USA. Soil Science Society of America Journal (in review)

Yanai, R.D., M.C. Fisk, T.J. Fahey, N.L. Cleavitt, and B.B. Park. Identifying roots of northern hardwood species: patterns with diameter and depth. Canadian Journal of Forest Research (in review)

Manuscripts in preparation

Bohn, K.K., R.D. Nyland, and R.D. Yanai. Spatial structure of residual trees after simulated treatments of selection system silviculture and diameter-limit cutting in uneven-aged northern hardwood stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Yanai, R.D., M.A. Arthur, M. Acker, and B.B. Park. Interannual variation in litterfall mass and nutrient concentrations in a northern hardwood forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Hamburg, S.P., R.D. Yanai, M.A. Arthur, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, C.B. Fuss, and T.G. Siccama. The forest floor is not a sink for nitrogen: implications for ecosystem budgets. Ecology.

Hamburg, S.P., R.D. Yanai, and B.B. Park. The effects of forest disturbance and stand age on land gastropod biomass in northern New England.

Lilly P.J., S.J. Myeong, B.B. Park , D.J. Nowak, and R.D. Yanai. Contrasting tree and lawn dominated residential lots in Syracuse, NY: Pollutant loads, energy balance, and carbon sequestration.

Yanai, R.D., J.B. Shanley, S.W. Bailey, T.J. Fahey, T.G. Siccama, and B.B. Park. Cross-site comparison of nutrient budgets in hardwood and conifer stands along a calcium supply gradient.

Yanai, R.D., B.B. Park, and R.H. Germain. Effects of silvicultural treatments on the mass and nutrient content of coarse woody debris in the Catskills.

Yanai, R.D., J.D. Blum, D.C. Buso, C.A. Nezat, C.T. Driscoll, T.J. Fahey, P.M. Groffman, G.E. Likens, G.M. Lovett, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, M.C. Fisk, T.G. Siccama. The biogeochemistry of phosphorus at Hubbard Brook. Biogeochemistry.

Vadeboncoeur, M.A., R.D. Yanai, T.J. Fahey, M.A. Arthur, C.B. Fuss, T.G. Siccama and S.P Hamburg. Changing N and P in northern hardwood foliage and forest floors.

Yanai, R.D. and B.B. Park. Root chemistry as a function of depth and diameter in New Hampshire northern hardwoods.

Yanai, R.D., J.D. Blum, C.A. Nezat and B.B. Park. Tree species differ in elemental accumulation in litter across sites with contrasting parent material.

Manuscripts that could yet be prepared

McFarlane, K.M., R.D. Yanai, and J.D. Joslin. Nutrient uptake by Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir at two Colorado subalpine forests.

Yanai, R.D., S.E. Kulpa, and J.D. Joslin. Diameter distributions of fine roots of twelve woody species.

Yanai, R.D., T.J. Bouma, and J.M. Kelly. Comparison of nutrient uptake models. Plant and Soil.

Papers Presented at Meetings (Last Five Years)

Yanai, R.D., K.J. McFarlane, M.S. Lucash, J.D.Joslin, S.E. Kulpa and H.M. Engelman. 2008. Similarity of nutrient uptake and root dimensions of Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir at differing sites in Colorado North American Forest Soils Conference, June 22-26, Blacksburg, VA.

Wood, D.M., R.D. Yanai, and D.C. Allen. 2008. Sugar maple decline following defoliation by forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria Hübner). Adirondack Research Consortium Annual Meeting. Lake Placid, NY, May 21, 2008.

Nezat, C.A., J.D. Blum, R.D. Yanai, and B.B. Park. 2007. Mineral sources of calcium and phosphorus in soils of the northeastern USA. New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program.

Yanai, R.D., M.C. Fisk, T.J. Fahey, H.M. Engelman, and B.B. Park. 2007. Identifying roots of northern hardwood species: patterns with diameter and depth. Agronomy Society of America Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., M.A. Arthur, M. Acker, and B.B. Park. 2007. Variation in mass and nutrient concentration of leaf litter across years and stands in New Hampshire northern hardwoods. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., S.P. Hamburg, J.D. Blum, M.A. Arthur, M. Acker, F.R. Fatemi, and M.A. Vadeboncoeur. 2006. What controls calcium budgets in northern hardwood forests: species composition or parent material? Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Bohn, K.K. and R.D. Yanai. 2006. Effects of different partial cutting treatments on structural dynamics in uneven-aged northern hardwood stands. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Homyak, P.M., R.D. Yanai, D. Burns, R.H. Germain, and R.D. Briggs. 2006. Woodchips: a potential best management practice to protect water quality following forestry operations. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Park, B. B., R.D. Yanai, and R.H. Germain. 2006. Effects of silvicultural treatments on carbon and nutrient storage of coarse woody debris in the Catskill region. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Fatemi, F.R., R.D. Yanai, S.P. Hamburg, and M.A. Arthur. 2006. Nutrient contents and aboveground biomass in developing northern hardwood stands. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., P.J. Lilly, and B.B. Park. 2006. Patterns of soil acidity and base saturation 14 to 40 years following liming in northern hardwood sites in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., B.B. Park, C.A. Nezat, and J.D. Blum. 2005. Apatite as a calcium source to forests in N.Y. State. New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Protection Annual Conference.

Yanai, R.D., B.B. Park, C.A. Nezat and J.D. Blum. 2005. Apatite as a calcium source to forests. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Bohn, K.K. and R.D. Yanai. 2005. Spatial distribution of trees in northern hardwoods after simulated selection system silviculture and diameter-limit cutting. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Fatemi, F.R. and R.D. Yanai. 2005. Aboveground biomass and nutrient content in developing northern hardwood stands. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Homyak, P.M. and R.D. Yanai. 2005. Nitrogen immobilization by woodchip application: protecting water quality in a northern hardwood forest. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting

Park, B.B. and R.D. Yanai. 2005. Cross-site study of fine root biomass and productivity along a calcium supply gradient in north temperate forest ecosystems. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Nezat, C.A., J.D. Blum, R.D. Yanai, and S.P. Hamburg. 2004. The importance of soil mineralogy to plant nutrient availability in the northeastern US. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl.

Yanai, R.D., B.B. Park, and S.P. Hamburg. 2004. Root distribution with depth in young and old northern hardwood stands measured using quantitative soil pits. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Park, B.B., R.D. Yanai, and T.J. Fahey. 2004. Biomass and distribution of fine roots in hardwoods and softwoods across a calcium gradient in northeastern America. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Lucash, M.S., J.D. Joslin, and R.D. Yanai. 2004. Respiratory costs of ammonium and nitrate uptake in intact roots of white pine seedlings. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Lucash, M.S., R.D. Yanai, J.D. Joslin, and K.J. McFarlane. 2004. Measuring uptake by mature trees: challenges and opportunities. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D. and K.J. McFarlane. 2004. Site more important than species in predicting nutrient uptake capacity in two Colorado Rocky Mountain forests. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., M.S. Lucash, S.E. Kulpa, J.D. Joslin, and K.J. McFarlane. 2003. Diameter distributions of fine roots of twelve tree species. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Lucash, M.S., J.D. Joslin, O. Abelleira, R.D. Yanai, and J.M. Scholberg. 2003. Measuring nutrient uptake in intact plant-soil systems. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Lucash, M.S., O. Abelleira, J.D. Joslin, R.D. Yanai, and J.M. Scholberg. 2003. Effects of disturbance on nitrate uptake of loblolly pine seedlings. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., J.D. Blum, M.A. Arthur and S.P. Hamburg. 2003. Whether repeated harvest and acid rain threaten Ca supply in northern hardwood forests may depend on weathering of apatite. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Lucash, M.S., R.D. Yanai, and J.D. Joslin. 2003. Diurnal changes in nitrogen uptake and root

respiration in loblolly pine seedlings. Ecol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Yanai, R.D., S.E. Kulpa, and J.D. Joslin. 2003. Diameter distributions of fine roots of twelve tree species. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

McFarlane, K.M., R.D. Yanai, J.D. Joslin, and M.S. Lucash. 2003. Measuring nutrient uptake: do roots deplete solution to a constant concentration? Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Lucash, M.S., J.M.S. Scholberg, and R.D. Yanai. 2003. Using SUM columns to measure nutrient uptake and root respiration of loblolly pine seedlings. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting.

Teaching at ESF

FOR496/796 Research experience in forest ecosystem science, graduate and undergraduate, 2006-2007.

FOR694 Writing for scientific publication, 1997-1999, 2001, 2003-2008.

FOR332 Forest ecology, 2002-2005.

FOR797 Energy balance of an urban landscape, 2003.

FOR345/545 Introductory soils, graduate and undergraduate, 1994-1997, 1999.

FOR796 Modeling forests and global change, other graduate seminars, 1993-2000.

FOR797 Women in scientific and environmental professions, 1999-2000, 2002.

FOR132 Freshman orientation seminar, 1999.

FOR296 Soils and physical geography, 1995.

Invited Presentations

National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, January 14, 2008.

Forestry Commission, Northern Research Station, Penicuik, Scotland, June 29, 2007

School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 20, 2007

EECB Colloquium, University of Nevada, Reno, March 15, 2007

Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative, Durham, New Hampshire, October 26, 2006.

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, July 5, 2006.

University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Tokyo, May 23 and July 7, 2006.

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Alpha Sigma Xi Commencement Address, Syracuse, NY, April 22, 2005.

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, May 31, 2003.

Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, April 9, 2002.

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, February 12, 2001.

Joint Lecture Series with RPI, SUNY Albany, New York, September 13, 2000.

Mini-Symposium on Root-Soil Interactions, BTI, Ithaca, New York, April 12, 2000.

Frontiers of Science Lecture Series, Syracuse University, April 11, 2000.

Natural Resources Department, Cornell University, February 1, 2000.

Biogeochemistry Seminar Series, Cornell University, March 5 1999.

Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York, October 26, 1998.

North American Forest Soils Conference, Tahoe, California, August 12, 1998.

International Sugar Maple Symposium, Warren, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1998.

Mini-Symposium on Root-Soil Interactions, BTI, Ithaca, New York, April 10, 1997.

USDA Forest Service, Warren, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1996.

Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, February 20, 1996.

Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1996.

Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, November 1, 1994.

Forestry Faculty, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, April 8, 1994.

University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources, January 25, 1994.

Forestry Department, University of Florida, January 20, 1994.

Soils Department, University of Florida, January 19, 1994.

Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, October 15, 1993.

University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, May 24, 1993.

Biogeochemistry Seminar Series, Cornell Center for the Environment, November 13, 1992.

University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, October 30, 1992.

University of Wyoming, Botany Department, April 30, 1992.

Oregon State University, Forest Science Department, April 2, 1992.

Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Bush Estate, Scotland, November 26, 1991.

V International Congress of Ecology, Yokohama, Japan, August 29, 1990.

Grants and Contracts

Travel grant to deliver workshop and present paper at Agronomy Society Annual Meeting, develop proposals and recruit students at NCSU, 2007. $1000.

Forest Health GIS Planner, New York Department of Environmental Conservation. 2007-2008. $56,157.

A Decision-Support System for forest management under forest tent caterpillar defoliation, Northeastern States Research Cooperative, 2007-2009, funded for $32,000 the first year, with a second year expected.

Long-term ecological research at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, National Science Foundation, subcontract to Cornell University. 2006-2009. $161,904.

Predicting the size of discolored hearts of sugar maple, USDA Forest Service (principal investigator). 2005-2007. $100,523.

Assessing the sensitivity of New York forests to calcium depletion from acid rain, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (principal investigator). 2004-2006. $166,043.

Biotic control of calcium supply: distinguishing sources to regrowing forests, National Science Foundation (principal investigator). 2003-2007. $611,000.

Sources of calcium in northern hardwood forests: implications for repeated harvest and calcium depletion, USFS Northeast Station (principal investigator). 2002-2005. $134,793.

Cross-site comparison of nutrient cycling and root dynamics along a calcium supply gradient, Northeastern States Research Cooperative (principal investigator). 2002-2004. $145,000.

Determining calcium, lead and organic matter changes in forest floors across the northern forest, Northeastern States Research Cooperative (co-principal investigator). 2002-2004. $96,000.

Testing nutrient uptake models against ecosystem budgets, National Science Foundation (principal investigator). 2000-2003. $324,000.

New York City Watershed Model Forest Program, USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (co-principal investigator). 2000-2003. $349,598.

New measures of spatial variability in uneven-aged stands: distinguishing sustainable from exploitative cutting practices, USDA Cooperative State Research Service (principal investigator). 1999-2003. $72,000.

Modeling the early establishment of tree seedlings: the importance of water and nutrient uptake, Forestry Commission (United Kingdom) (principal investigator). 1999-2000. $7240.

Long-term ecological research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, National Science Foundation. 1998-2004. $125,000. Subcontract to Cornell University.

Soil restoration in PAH-contaminated sediments: the role of vegetation in reducing bioavailable PAH concentrations. Great Lakes Research Consortium (principal investigator). 1998-1999. $7000.

Modeling height growth in young even-aged northern hardwoods, New York Center for Forestry Research and Development (principal investigator). 1998. $24,000.

Towards a Better Understanding of Root Lifespan: Root Proliferation and Root Herbivory, UDSA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (co-principal investigator). 1997-2000. $365,000.

Regeneration modules for the Northeast Decision Model, U.S. Forest Service (principal investigator). 1995-1997. $98,080.

Predicting lifespan of mycorrhizal roots using a cost-benefit analysis, UDSA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (co-principal investigator). 1995-1997. $255,000.

Recent changes in nutrient concentrations in the northern hardwood forest: are they natural or anthropogenic? UDSA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (principal investigator). 1993-1995. $228,273.

Regeneration modules for the Northeast Decision Model, U.S. Forest Service (principal investigator). 1992-1994. $72,485.

Interactions of terrestrial ecosystems and global change, Environmental Defense Fund, Global Atmosphere Program (principal investigator). 1994. $9230.

Forests as sinks for, or sources of, atmospheric CO2: The role of warming-induced soil nitrogen transformations, DOE Western Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (principal investigator). 1992-1993. $3500. Subcontract to Oregon State University.

Global stress modeling library for assessment of plant and forest response, Electric Power Research Institute (co-principal investigator). 1992-1993. $183,389.

Controlled exposure of mature trees, seedlings, and forest mesocosms to gaseous pollution, Electric Power Research Institute (co-principal investigator). 1992-1994. $93,709. Subcontract to TVA.

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