Current and Past Lab Members

Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Associate Professor

402 Irving I

Institute of Arctic Biology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, AK 99775

phone: 907-474-1958

email: seeuskirchen@alaska.edu

GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Casey Brown: Casey was a PhD candidate in the UAF Resilience and Adaptation Program (RAP: http://www.uaf.edu/rap/), graduating in May 2016. She examined the impacts of wildfire on moose distribution and nutrition, and how this relates to hunter activity. She currently works for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Rebecca Finger: Rebecca was a MS student examining how plant available nitrogen changes along a permafrost thaw chronosequence in the interior Alaska boreal forest. She graduated in December 2014. She is currently a PhD candidate at Dartmouth University.

Hannah Mevenkamp: Hannah is a MS student, funded through the DOE NGEE Arctic project, examining how parameter uncertainty influences model output of carbon and nitrogen fluxes and pools in terrestrial ecosystem biogeochemistry models.

Kyoko Okano: Kyoko is a PhD student, funded through a grant from the NSF Arctic Observatory Network program, examining drivers and patterns of carbon, water, and energy fluxes in the Arctic based on long-term eddy covariance measurements.

Sarah Thunberg: Sarah completed her MS in 2021, examining the factors controlling evapotranspiration in arctic and boreal ecosystems. She employed a variety of statistical analyses and data from numerous eddy covariance sites. She is currently a general forecaster for NOAA in Maine.

Vijay Patil: Vijay was a PhD candidate studying how changes in lake size due to drying and flooding impact vegetation dynamics in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, graduating in May 2018. He was highly involved in both fieldwork and ecosystem biogeochemistry modeling. He currently works at the USGS in Anchorage.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Colin Tucker: Colin was a postdoc working on tundra dynamics in the Dynamic Vegetation Module of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. He currently works at the U.S. Forest Service in Houghton, Michigan.

Mark Lara: Mark was a postdoc working on carbon and land cover changes in the Barrow Penninsula as part of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment - Arctic project. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois.

Jana Canary: Jana worked on parameterizations of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model for tundra in Alaska.

PROGRAMMERS / RESEARCH TECHNICIANS:

Colin Edgar: Colin is responsible for maintaining the collection of eddy covariance towers in Alaska (in the Imnavait Watershed in northern Alaska and in the Bonanza Creek LTER in interior Alaska), as well as those in Siberia. He also performs initial post-processing of the data and other tasks associated with data management.

Tobey Carmen: Tobey completed his MS degree in the Euskirchen lab. His project involved implementing a new leaf phenology algorithm into the Dynamic Vegetation Module of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Tobey now continues to work with us as a programmer.