Theme One. Sustaining productive forest communities: Balancing ecological, social, and economic considerations

A Long-Term Monitoring Program to Assess the Northern Forest’s Logging Industry Health
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Benjamin
Project Award Year: 2010

Biomass Fuel Harvesting in the Northern Forest: Effects on Stand Structural Complexity and Forest Carbon Storage
Principal Investigator: William Keeton
Project Award Year: 2009

Community-Based Biomass Production and Use for Local Energy
Principal Investigator: Eva Wollenberg
Project Award Year: 2008

Defining Modern, Sustainable Tapping Guidelines for Maple Syrup Production
Principal Investigator: Abby van den Berg
Project Award Year: 2010

Ecological Analysis of the Drivers of Urban Growth and Second Home Development in the Northern Forest Region of Vermont
Principal Investigator: Austin Troy
Project Award Year: 2008

Ecological Management for Sustained Maple Forest Health and Productivity
Principal Investigator: Bruce Parker
Project Award Year: 2008

Emerging Research on Wood Energy Biomass for the Northern Forest: Connecting Researchers, Policy-Makers and Communities
Principal Investigator: Cecilia Danks
Project Award Year: 2010

Evaluating Supply and Demand of Northern Forest Branded Carbon Credits
Principal Investigator: William Keeton
Project Award Year: 2010

Evaluating the Growth Potential of the Maple Industry in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Brian Chabot
Project Award Year: 2009

Gathering Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Sustainable Management of Non-Timber Forest Products
Principal Investigator: Marla Emery
Project Award Year: 2007

How Structured Decision Making in Land Use Planning Can Impact Landscape Quality for Wildlife Species
Principal Investigator: Terri Donovan
Project Award Year: 2009

How to Monitor the Socio-economic and Ecological Well-being of a Working Forest
Principal Investigator: Steven Wolf
Project Award Year: 2008

Identifying Factors Influencing Willingness to Provide Public Recreation Access among Private Forest Landowners
Principal Investigator: Jessica Leahy
Project Award Year: 2008

Impact of Wood Procurement Pressure on Sustained Yield Management on Private Non-Industrial Forest Land in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: René Germain
Project Award Year: 2009

Impacts of Demographic Change on Resource Management in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Kenneth Johnson
Project Award Year: 2008

Improving Public Outreach, Communication, and Education about Forests and Forestry
Principal Investigator: Jessica Leahy
Project Award Year: 2007

Influence of Winter Injury on Carbon Sequestration by Red Spruce Trees
Principal Investigator: Paul Schaberg
Project Award Year: 2010

Informing Land Use Planning and Forest Land Conservation through Subdivision and Parcelization Trend Information
Principal Investigator: Jamey Fidel
Project Award Year: 2009

Linking Roads in Forested Watersheds to Stream Stability and Health: Tools for Assessing Road Impacts and Restoration Options
Principal Investigator: Leslie Morrissey
Project Award Year: 2009

Long-Term Outcomes and Tradeoffs of Forest Policy and Management Practices on Wood Supply, Carbon, and Wildlife Habitat
Principal Investigator: Erin Simons-Legaard
Project Award Year: 2010

Management Guidelines for Culturally Important Plant Species of the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Karim-Aly Kassam
Project Award Year: 2009

Managing Forests for Timber and Wildlife Biodiversity
Principal Investigator: Therese Donovan
Project Award Year: 2006

Managing Forests to Store Our Excess Carbon
Principal Investigator: Coeli Hoover
Project Award Year: 2006

Monitoring Forest Sustainability and Biodiversity across Large Landscapes
Principal Investigator: Steven Sader
Project Award Year: 2006

Planning for the Arrival of Non-Native Invasive Pests
Principal Investigator: Ben Machin
Project Award Year: 2006

Responses of Wildlife Communities to Residential Development in the Adirondack Park
Principal Investigator: Michale Glennon
Project Award Year: 2007

Role of Unmanaged Reserves in Benchmarking and Refining Disturbance-based Ecological Forest Management
Principal Investigator: Robert Seymour
Project Award Year: 2009

Social, Economic, and Ecological Effects of Second Home Development in the Northern Forest Region
Principal Investigator: Richard Stedman
Project Award Year: 2007

Soil Carbon in Managed Northern Forests
Principal Investigator: Donald Ross
Project Award Year: 2007

Strengthening Ties Among Residents in Northern Forest Tourist Communities
Principal Investigator: Patricia Stokowski
Project Award Year: 2006

Students and Communities Engaged in Land Conservation
Principal Investigator: Deane Wang
Project Award Year: 2006

Sustainable Wood Production and Carbon Sequestration in Uneven-aged Northern Hardwood Forests
Principal Investigator: Eddie Bevilacqua
Project Award Year: 2008

Testing Green Roof Systems as a Sustainable Solution to Management of Storm Water Runoff
Principal Investigator: Gary Hawley
Project Award Year: 2010

Timber Productivity and Financial Returns from Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management
Principal Investigator: Michael Saunders
Project Award Year: 2007

Understanding the Changing Forest Landscape through the Eyes of Maine’s Oldest Citizens
Principal Investigator: Marilynne Mann
Project Award Year: 2010

 

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Theme Two. Sustaining ecosystem health in northern forests

Affects of Soil Nutrient Loss on Productivity in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Jenkins
Project Award Year: 2003

Assessing the Role of Tree Species and Nitrogen Deposition in Mediating Carbon Storage in Northern Hardwood Forests
Principal Investigator: Gary Lovett
Project Award Year: 2009

Calcium Deficiency and Shoot Freezing Injury in Sugar Maple
Principal Investigator: Paul Schaberg
Project Award Year: 2007

Calcium Depletion as a Limitation to Tree Growth and Carbon Sequestration within the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Paul Schaberg
Project Award Year: 2008

Carbon Benefits of Switching from Oil to Wood Fuel across the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Andrew Friedland
Project Award Year: 2008

Carbon Storage in the Northern Forest Region
Principal Investigator: Adrien Finzi
Project Award Year: 2007

Causes of Recent Increases in Dissolved Organic Carbon Loss from Forested Watersheds in the Northeast
Principal Investigator: Stuart Findlay
Project Award Year: 2005

Denitrification in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Peter Groffman
Project Award Year: 2009

Detecting Nitrate Inputs to Stream and Soil Waters of Forested Watersheds in the Northeastern USA
Principal Investigator: Stephen Sebestyen
Project Award Year: 2010

Developing a Regional Online Soil Database
Principal Investigator: Scott Bailey
Project Award Year: 2008

Does Increased Nitrogen Deposition Cause Phosphorus Deficiency in North Temperate Forest Ecosystems?
Principal Investigator: Ivan Fernandez
Project Award Year: 2004

Effects of Beech Bark Disease and Geology on Carbon and Nitrogen in Northern Hardwood Forests
Principal Investigator: Gary Lovett
Project Award Year: 2004

Effects of Calcium Fertilization on Leaf Biochemistry and Physiology of Conifer and Hardwood Trees
Principal Investigator: Rakesh Minocha
Project Award Year: 2004

Effects of Winter Climate Change on Growing Season Sap Flow and Carbon Exchange in the Northern Hardwood Forest
Principal Investigator: Pamela Templer
Project Award Year: 2009

Evaluating Potential Effects of Climate Change on Tree Canopy Leaf Phenology
Principal Investigator: Andrew Richardson
Project Award Year: 2009

Evaluating the Influence of Riparian Forest Structure on Stream Ecosystems across the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Emma Rosi-Marshall
Project Award Year: 2010

Evaluation of Northern Hardwood Forest Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Principal Investigator: Mark Ducey
Project Award Year: 2008

Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization on Leaf Nutrition in Trees across the Northern United States
Principal Investigator: Rakesh Minocha
Project Award Year: 2003

Impacts of Acidic Deposition and Soil Calcium Depletion on Forest Terrestrial Biodiversity and Food Webs
Principal Investigator: Colin Beier
Project Award Year: 2010

Improving Cooperation among Researchers, Citizen Scientists and Resource Managers through the Northeast Regional Phenology Network
Principal Investigator: Ellen Denny
Project Award Year: 2009

Improving Estimates of Atmospheric Deposition in the Northeastern U.S.
Principal Investigator: Kathleen Weathers
Project Award Year: 2001

Late-Successional, Old-Growth, and Managed Forest Carbon Dynamics in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: John Gunn
Project Award Year: 2009

Measuring Nitrogen in the Northern Forest Ecosystem
Principal Investigator: Peter Groffman
Project Award Year: 2002

Mercury in Upland Forest Food Webs of the Northeastern United States
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Rodenhouse
Project Award Year: 2007

Monitoring Leaf Phenology across the Northern Forest Region using Digital Webcams
Principal Investigator: Andrew Richardson
Project Award Year: 2007

Movement of Methylmercury within Terrestrial Food Webs across the Northeastern Landscape
Principal Investigator: Charles Driscoll
Project Award Year: 2008

Patterns in Mercury and Methyl Mercury in Northern Forest Lakes
Principal Investigator: Sarah Nelson
Project Award Year: 2007

Projecting Effects of Climate Shift on Organic Carbon Flow from Northern Forest Watersheds
Principal Investigator: James Shanley
Project Award Year: 2010

Quantifying Disturbance to Forest Structure with New Remote Sensing Technologies
Principal Investigator: Nathan Torbick
Project Award Year: 2010

Repeated Soil Sampling to Investigate Effects of Changes in Soil Chemistry
Principal Investigator: Gregory Lawrence
Project Award Year: 2008

Response of Surface Water Chemistry to Climate Variability in the Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada
Principal Investigator: Myron Mitchell
Project Award Year: 2007

Soil Acidification Models for Investigating Impacts of Acid Deposition
Principal Investigator: Julian Aherne
Project Award Year: 2007

Soil and Surface Water Responses to Climate Change in the Northeastern United States
Principal Investigator: John Campbell
Project Award Year: 2007

Student Research, Science Links, and NSRC Communications Workshop at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Principal Investigator: David Sleeper
Project Award Year: 2010

Testing a New Technology for Measuring Belowground Carbon Stores
Principal Investigator: Ruth Yanai
Project Award Year: 2009

Understanding Stream Mercury Dynamics in Northern Forests
Principal Investigator: James Shanley
Project Award Year: 2008

Understanding the Impacts of Ice Storms on Forest Ecosystems of the Northeastern United States
Principal Investigator: Lindsey Rustad
Project Award Year: 2009

Using Remote Sensing to Quantify Trends in Northeastern Forest Health over the Past 25 Years
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Pontius
Project Award Year: 2008

 

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Theme Three. Forest productivity and forest products

Can a Diverse Forest Produce Economical Timber Yields?
Principal Investigator: Charles Canham
Project Award Year: 2006

Comparing Two Management Schemes for Eastern White Pine
Principal Investigator: Robert Seymour
Project Award Year: 2006

Consequences of Forest Management Practices on Climate Change
Principal Investigator: David Hollinger
Project Award Year: 2007

Does Compromising Forest Productivity to Protect Deer Habitat Achieve Desired Ecological Objectives?
Principal Investigator: Daniel Harrison
Project Award Year: 2008

Effects of Climate Change on Growth, Productivity, and Wood Properties of White Pine in Northern Forest Ecosystems
Principal Investigator: Ron Zalesny
Project Award Year: 2010

Effects of Partial Harvesting on Forest Stands Owned by Stable and Changing Landowners in Northern Maine
Principal Investigator: Steve Sader
Project Award Year: 2007

Forest Regeneration Differences between Whole-Tree and Conventional Harvesting: A Concern for Sustainable Bio-Fuel Production?
Principal Investigator: Ted Howard
Project Award Year: 2010

Growth, Lumber Yields, and Financial Maturity of Isolated White Pine Crop Trees
Principal Investigator: Robert Seymour
Project Award Year: 2007

Identifying and Producing Weevil-Resistant White Pine
Principal Investigator: Michael Greenwood
Project Award Year: 2007

Interacting Effects of Forest Management Practices and Periodic Spruce Budworm Infestation on Broad-Scale, Long-Term Forest Prod
Principal Investigator: Kasey Legaard
Project Award Year: 2010

Merging Satellite Imagery with Field Data to Develop Vulnerability Maps for Spruce Budworm Defoliation Decision Support
Principal Investigator: Steven Sader
Project Award Year: 2009

Nonselective Partial Harvesting in Maine’s Working Forests
Principal Investigator: Ben Rice
Project Award Year: 2010

Physiological Responses of Forest Trees to Thinning Treatments
Principal Investigator: Rakesh Minocha
Project Award Year: 2007

Predicting Development of White Pine Regeneration under Shelterwood Silviculture
Principal Investigator: Robert Seymour
Project Award Year: 2010

Refining a Model to Better Predict Tree Growth Response to Thinning
Principal Investigator: Aaron Weiskittel
Project Award Year: 2008

Rehabilitation of Cutover Mixed-Wood Forest Stands
Principal Investigator: Jeremy Wilson
Project Award Year: 2007

Response of Tree Regeneration to Commercial Thinning in Spruce-Fir Forests of the Northeast
Principal Investigator: Matthew Olson
Project Award Year: 2010

Restoring American Chestnut to the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: Gary Hawley
Project Award Year: 2008

Role of Silvicultural Intensity and Species Composition Objectives on the Growth, Dynamics, and Carbon Balance of Northeastern Forest Stands
Principal Investigator: Matthew Olson
Project Award Year: 2009

Silvicultural Factors Affecting Environmental Conditions and Carbon Sequestration of Conifers in Northeastern Forests
Principal Investigator: Andrew Nelson
Project Award Year: 2010

Taxation and Sustainable Management in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: David Newman
Project Award Year: 2009

Understanding the Molecular Basis for Age-Related Productivity Decline in Red Spruce
Principal Investigator: Michael Day
Project Award Year: 2009

Using Historic Studies to Generate New Findings about Northern Conifer Growth and Yield
Principal Investigator: Laura Kenefic
Project Award Year: 2009

 

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Theme Four. Biodiversity and Protected Area Management

Assessing Biodiversity, Forest Condition and the Effects of Management in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: David Patrick
Project Award Year: 2009

Biodiversity and Forest Management: Is Plant Diversity Poorer in Managed Forests?
Principal Investigator: Jerry Jenkins
Project Award Year: 2008

Collection of Baseline Biodiversity Data at a Remote Adirondack Preserve
Principal Investigator: Stephen Langdon
Project Award Year: 2010

Ecological Effects of Exurban Roads on Adirondack Songbirds
Principal Investigator: Michale Glennon
Project Award Year: 2010

Effects of Forest Type and Stand Characteristics on Seasonal Abundance of Forest-floor Invertebrates
Principal Investigator: Jason Johnston
Project Award Year: 2009

Effects of Moose Browsing on Biodiversity of Understory Birds and Insects
Principal Investigator: Allan Strong
Project Award Year: 2009

Evolving Niche of the Coyote in the Adirondack Region and Implications for Biodiversity
Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Frair
Project Award Year: 2010

Forest Succession and Terrestrial-Aquatic Biodiversity in Northern Forest Watersheds
Principal Investigator: Winsor Lowe
Project Award Year: 2008

Importance of Calcium-Rich Forest Patches as Refugia of Biodiversity and Productivity
Principal Investigator: Colin Beier
Project Award Year: 2008

Influence of American Beech Thickets on Biodiversity in the Northern Hardwood Forest
Principal Investigator: Stacy McNulty
Project Award Year: 2009

Photopoint Monitoring to Document Changes in Adirondack Alpine Vegetation
Principal Investigator: Julia Goren
Project Award Year: 2009

Photopoint Monitoring to Document Changes in Adirondack Alpine Zone Vegetation
Principal Investigator: Julia Goren
Project Award Year: 2010

Potential Effects of Changes in Climate on the Range and Long-Term Persistence of the Mink Frog in the Northern Forest
Principal Investigator: David Patrick
Project Award Year: 2010

Using Genetics to Evaluate Re-Colonization by Moose Populations in the Northeast
Principal Investigator: Heidi Kretser
Project Award Year: 2009