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Ruth Yanai

Ruth  Yanai

Ruth Yanai

Professor

176 Baker

315-470-4868
rdyanai@esf.edu

Highest Education

Ph.D. Yale University (Forest Ecology), 1990.

Areas of Study

Courses Taught

Current Graduate Advisees

Oswaldo CarrilloOswaldo Carrillo
oicarril@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: PHD
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai
  • Area of Study: Forest Resources Management

Personal Statement
Oswaldo Carrillo has a master's degree in applied statistics from the Colegio de Postgraduados, he has 10 years of experience in the area of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) for REDD+. He has carried out different statistical analyzes on MRV for REDD+ and has carried out MRV trainings in different countries in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. From 2016 to 2021, he was the head of CONAFOR's MRV system for REDD+, in which he coordinated the preparation of two national GHG inventories in the land sector, a national Forest Emission Reference Level (NREF), a subnational Forest Reference (NRF), a national REDD+ performance report, among others. He is an active member of the roster of experts of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for the technical assessments of FREL / NRF. Currently, he is a member of the Latin-American and Caribbean SilvaCarbon team (through the US Forest Service) as a �Latin America SilvaCarbon Greenhouse Gas Estimation Statistical Expert� and he is a doctoral student at the Environmental Sciences and Forestry Collage of the State University of New York.

Graduate Research Topic
Methods to improve uncertainties estimation of land GHG emission reductions

Erin CornellErin Cornell
ecorne01@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: MS
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai
  • Area of Study: Ecology and Ecosystems

Personal Statement
I'm a graduate student interested in forest ecosystem health and dynamics, particularly from the perspective of nutrient cycling.

Graduate Research Topic
Free-living N fixation and beech bark disease

Favorite Quote
�The story of a place comes forth as the landscape reveals its experience through our careful attention� - Tom Wessels

Scott DaiScott Dai
sdai03@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: MS
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai
  • Area of Study: FRM Ecology and Ecosystems

Personal Statement
I am a master's student for Ruth Yanai learning about how nutrient colimitation in northeastern hardwood forests influences ecosystem functioning. I'm trying to figure out if the herbaceous layer and/or wood density is influenced by our fertilization regimes... tune in later to see what I decide on, or if I have a different idea entirely!

Favorite Quote
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

Kelley GilhoolyKelley Gilhooly
kagilhoo@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: MS
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai
  • Area of Study: Environmental Science

Graduate Research Topic
Nutrient Cycling within a forest ecosystem, particularly the role of decomposers

Mar�a Fernanda Gonzalez MontesMar�a Fernanda Gonzalez Montes
mgonza61@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: MS
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai and Stehman
  • Area of Study: Forest Resources Management

Personal Statement
I am a Forest Engineer graduated from the Divisi�n de Ciencias Forestales of the Universidad Aut�noma Chapingo in Mexico. I am very interested in issues related to forest management, wildlife and the conservation and restoration of ecosystems.

Favorite Quote
�The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn.� - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ana MedinaAna Medina
avmedina@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: MS
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai and Stehman
  • Area of Study: Forest Resources Management

Jenna ZukswertJenna Zukswert
jmzukswe@syr.edu

  • Degree Sought: PHD
  • Graduate Advisor(s): Yanai
  • Area of Study: ESC Environmental Monitoring

Links
Web Link

Personal Statement
I am a forest ecosystem ecologist interested in bridging the gap between those who conduct research and those who use the results.

Graduate Research Topic
Functional Ecology of Northeastern Forests

Selected Publications

(All publications)

Yanai, R.D., G.E. Walsh, Y. Yang, C.A. Blodgett, K. Bae, and B.B. Park. 2018. Nutrient concentrations of roots vary with diameter, depth, and site in New Hampshire northern hardwoods. Can. J. For. Res., 48: 32-41. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2017-0223 PDF

Yanai, R.D., C.R. See, J. L. Campbell. 2018. Current practices in uncertainty analysis in ecosystem ecology.  Ecosystems, 21(5): 971-981. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0197-x  PDF

Yanai, R.D., N. Tokuchi, J.L. Campbell, M.B. Green, E. Matsuzaki, S.N. Laseter, C.L. Brown, A.S. Bailey, P. Lyons, C.R. Levine, D.C. Buso, G.E. Likens, J. Knoepp, and K. Fukushima. 2015. Sources of uncertainty in estimating stream solute export from headwater catchments at three sites. Hydrol. Processes 29: 1793–1805. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10265 PDF

Yanai, R.D., M.A. Vadeboncoeur, S.P. Hamburg, M.A. Arthur, M.A. Fuss, P.M. Groffman, T.G. Siccama, and C.T. Driscoll. 2013. From missing source to missing sink: long-term changes in a forest nitrogen budget. Environ. Sci. Technol. 47(20): 11440–11448. DOI: abs/10.1021/es4025723 PDF

Yanai, R.D., C.R. Levine, M.B. Green, and J.L. Campbell. 2012. Quantifying uncertainty in forest nutrient budgets. J. For. 110(8): 448–456. DOI: 10.5849/jof.11-087 PDF

Yanai, R.D., M.A. Arthur, M. Acker, C.R. Levine, and B.B. Park. 2012. Variation in mass and nutrient concentration of leaf litter across years and sites in New Hampshire northern hardwoods. Can. J. For. Res. 42(8): 1597–1610. DOI:10.1139/x2012-084 PDF

Yanai, R.D., J.J. Battles, A.D. Richardson, E.B. Rasetter, D.M. Wood and C. Blodgett 2010. Estimating uncertainty in ecosystem budget calculations. Ecosystems 13(2): 239–248 PDF 

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 PDF

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 PDF

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 PDF

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