Christopher Schwalm, Research Fellow
The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.751.4615 phone
508.751.4600 fax
email: cschwalm@clarku.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current Research Interests
CO2 and H2O metabolism at canopy to global scales; land-atmosphere interactions/exchange relative to climate extremes; interaction between land use, land management, and productivity; vulnerability to global environmental change; synthesis of biogeoscience data in time and space; data mining/fusion in biogeosciences; climate change in popular culture.
Selected Publications
Schwalm, C.R., C.A. Williams, K. Schaefer et al. In review. Are terrestrial carbon cycle responses to El Niño consistent? Geophysical Research Letters submitted.
Schwalm, C.R., C.A. Williams, K. Schaefer et al. In review. A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange during a large scale drought event: Results from the NACP Site Synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences submitted.
Schwalm, C.R., C.A. Williams, K. Schaefer et al. 2009. Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis. Global Change Biology 16, 657-670.
Hilker, T, N.C. Coops, C.R. Schwalm, R.S. Jassal, T.A. Black, P. Krishnan. 2008. Effects of mutual shading of tree crowns on prediction of photosynthetic light use efficiency in a Coastal Douglas Fir Forest. Tree Physiology 28, 825-834.
Schwalm, C.R., T.A. Black, K. Morgenstern, E.R. Humphreys. 2007. A method for deriving net primary productivity and component respiratory fluxes from tower-based EC data: A case study using a 17-year data record from a Douglas-fir chronosequence. Global Change Biology 13, 370-385.
Schwalm, C.R., T.A. Black, B.D. Amiro et al. 2006. Photosynthetic light use efficiency of three biomes across an east-west continental-scale transect in Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140, 269-286.