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Louis F. Pitelka, Professor  
Business phone: 703-292-8227
Cellular phone: 360-774-1783
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Research Interests
  • Plant ecology, ecosystem ecology
  • Global change issues
  • Population ecology of perennial herbs
  • Effects of acid deposition, elevated CO2 and climate change on natural ecosystems
 
Education

1974  Ph.D.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA - Biological Sciences

1969  B.S.

University of California at Davis, Davis, CA - Zoology
 
Professional Experience

2007-Present

Program Director, Ecosystem Science, Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

2005
Science Advisor (part-time), USDA Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service. Competitive Grants Program, Washington DC

2004-Present

Professor, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD

1996-2004

Director and Professor, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD

1984-1996

Project Manager, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA

1983-1984

Program Director, Population Biology and Physiological Ecology Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC

1982-1984

Department Chair, Department of Biology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

1974-1984

Assistant, then Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

 
Selected Publications
  • Castro, M.C. K.N. Eshleman, L.F. Pitelka, G. Frech, M. Ramsey, W.S. Currie, K. Kuers, J.A. Simmons, R.R. Pohlad, C.L. Thomas, and D.M. Johnson. 2007. Symptoms of nitrogen saturation in an aggrading forested watershed in western Maryland. Biogeochemistry 84:333-348
  • Pitelka, L.F., J.G. Canadell, and D.E. Pataki. 2007. Global ecology, networks, and research synthesis. IN: Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Ed. by P.G. Canadell, D.E. Pataki, and L.F. Pitelka. Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 1-5.
  • Canadell, P.G, D.E. Pataki, and L.F. Pitelka (Eds.). 2007. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Springer, Heidelberg. 336 p.
  • Neilson, R.P, L.F. Pitelka, A.M. Solomon, R. Nathan, G.F. Midgley, J. Fragoso, H. Lischke, and K. Thompson. 2005. Forecasting regional to global plant migration in response to climate change: Challenges and directions. BioScience, 55:749-759.
  • Morgan, J.G., L.F. Pitelka, and E. Shevliakova. 2001. Elicitation of expert judgments of climate change impacts of forest ecosystems. Climatic Change, 49:279-307.
  • Pitelka, L.F., H. Bugmann, and J.F. Reynolds. 2001. How much physiology is needed in forest gap models for simulating long-term vegetation response to global change? (Introduction to series of papers). Climatic Change, 51:251-257.
  • Reynolds, J.F., H. Bugmann, and L. F. Pitelka. 2001. How much physiology is needed in forest gap models for simulating long-term vegetation response to global change? Challenges, limitations and potentials. Climatic Change, 51:541-557.
  • Malcolm, J.R. and L.F. Pitelka. 2000. Ecosystems and Global Climate Change: A Review of Potential Impacts on U.S. Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Washington, DC. 41 pp.
  • Mooney, H.A., J. Canadell, F.S. Chapin, J. Ehleringer, C. Korner, R. McMurtrie, W.J. Parton, L.F. Pitelka, and E.-D. Schulze. Ecosystem physiology responses to global change. 1999. IN: The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change – Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems. Ed. By B.H. Walker, W.L. Steffen, J. Canadell, and J.S.I. Ingram. IGBP Book Series No. 4, Cambridge University press, pp. 141-189.
  • Scholes, R.J., E.-D. Schulze, L.F. Pitelka, and R.O. Hall. 1999. Biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems. IN: Ibid. pp. 271-303.
 
Selected Research Projects

Research Opportunities & Collaboration in the Appalachians - A collaborative research and education project with scientists from other academic institutions in the Appalachian College Association focused on watershed research in the Appalachians. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 
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