People
Richardson Lab
Rooms 138, 421 and 422
Harvard University Herbaria
Lab Group 2012
Andrew Richardson
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
PhD 2003, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Terrestrial ecosystems, forest ecology and the carbon cycle; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; biological impacts of climate change; feedbacks between vegetation and the climate system; plant phenology; data-model fusion and inverse modeling. Curriculum vitae: Download PDF
Trevor Keenan
Postdoctoral fellow
PhD 2009, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Research Interests: Improving the current understanding of, and ability to model, carbon and water fluxes from the terrestrial biosphere. Focusing on forest ecosystems, I use models of varying complexity to test and develop current hypothesis regarding the importance of different physiological processes in regulating both short and long term biosphere- atmosphere interactions.
Michael Toomey
Postdoctoral fellow
PhD 2011, University of California Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Remote sensing of forest ecology, emphasizing integration of in situ data with imagery to quantify forest ecophysiology; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; land cover change monitoring and human-environment interactions; GIS and spatial analysis.
Julie Shoemaker
Postdoctoral fellow
PhD 2010, Harvard University
Research Interests: Research Interests: Improving the mechanistic understanding of terrestrial methane cycling and release, particularly from wetlands. More generally, applying geochemical techniques to ecological questions, particularly relating to carbon cycling and climate change, over a variety of timescales. Other interests include redox boundaries and their impact on microbial processes, permafrost methane cycling, and interactions between climate science and policy.
Stephen Klosterman
PhD Student
Research Interests: Terrestrial ecosystems, global change, trace gas fluxes, biometeorology, plant phenology. Field studies and modeling.
Anne Kakouridis
PhD Student
Research Interests: Plants, global changes and ecosystem processes.
Dmitri Llushin
Undergraduate Student (Harvard College)
Research Interests: Computer science.
Min Lee
Undergraduate Student (Harvard College)
Research Interests: Global climate, phenology feedbacks and societal impacts.
Anika Petach
Undergraduate Student (Harvard College)
Research Interests: Remote sensing and its applications to plant phenology.
Fiona Jevon
Undergraduate Student (Harvard College)
Chris Round
Special Student (Harvard College)
Research Interests:Biological impacts of climate change. Changes in species spatial distribution in response to climate change. Impacts of climate change on conservation practices. Conservation biology and restoration ecology.
John O'Keefe
Field Phenologist
Fisher Museum Coordinator, Harvard Forest - retired
PhD 1987, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Research Interests: Plant phenology and climate interactions; forest and environmental history and long-term studies; improving K-12 environmental education; conservation practices and conservation biology.
Visitors and regular collaborators
Mariah Carbone
Visiting postdoc (University of California Santa Barbara)
PhD 2007, University of California Irvine
Research Interests: Response of ecosystems to climate change, use of isotopes (14C and 13C) as tracers to study terrestrial carbon cycling, soil processes in arid and Mediterranean ecosystems, respirology, partitioning of ecosystem respiration (above vs. below ground, autotrophic vs. heterotrophic components).
Mark Friedl
Visiting Researcher - 2012-13 Bullard Fellow (in residence, 401 HUH)
Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Research Interests: Remote sensing of biogeophysical patterns and processes.
Josh Gray
Postdoc (Boston University)
PhD 2011, University of North Carolina
Research Interests: The role of ecosystem processes in Earth’s carbon and water cycles, and their interaction with the climate system.
Eli Melaas
PhD Student (Boston University)
Research Interests: Forest phenology modeling and terrestrial carbon and water cycles.
Lab Alumni
Elizabeth Felts
Undergraduate Student (Harvard University)
REU Intern at Harvard Forest 2011
Research Interests: Forest phenology modeling and terrestrial carbon and water cycles.
Bridget Darby
Undergraduate Student (Boston University)
REU Intern at Harvard Forest 2011
Koen Hufkens
Postdoctoral fellow (Boston University, 2009-2011)
PhD 2009, University of Antwerp, Belguim
Research Interests: Quantitative spatial ecology / biogeography assessing influences of anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystem functioning. Characterization of phenology - climate interactions, using satellite (MODIS) and near-surface remote sensing.
Oliver Sonnentag
Postdoctoral fellow (August 2010-August 2011)
PhD 2008, University of Toronto
Currently: Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal
Research Interests: Understanding alterations in biosphere-atmosphere interactions due to global environmental change; local, regional and global biophysical parameter monitoring and mapping to study changes in ecosystem structure, functioning and phenology; GIScience education
Youngryel Ryu
Postdoctoral fellow (September 2010 - June 2011)
PhD 2010, University of California Berkeley
Currently: Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Research Interests: Theory, measurement and modeling of canopy radiative transfer, photosynthesis and evaporation from plot level to the global scale. Environmental ecology. Phenology. Terrestrial carbon and water cycle. Application of cloud computing to the environmental sciences.
Shutao Chen
Visiting Researcher (2011)
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Research Interests: Modeling the temporal and spatial variability of soil respiration; Measurements of greenhouse gases emissions from ecosystems. Responses of soil carbon and nitrogen cycles to environmental factors (e.g., UV-B and Acid rain) changes.
Cory Teshera-Sterne
Programmer (September 2010 - June 2011)
BA Mount Holyoke College 2010
Chenrui Wang
Visiting Researcher (2011)
PhD Student (in Geography), Roskilde University, Denmark
Research Interests: Modeling leaf area index and leaf nitrogen impacts on net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange in agricultural and forest ecosystems.
Motomu Toda
Visitor (March - April, 2011)
Assistant Professor - Faculty of Environmental Earth Sciences
Hokkaido University, Japan
Research Interests: Vegetation dynamics; terrestrial feedback response to changing climate, especially energy and carbon exchanges between an atmosphere and cool-temperate and boreal forest ecosystems; simulation analysis based on a prosess-based model; evaluating impacts of large-scale climatic patterns on annual variability in carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems.
Mirco Migliavacca
University of Milan
Visiting postdoctoral fellow (October-December 2009)
Jasper Bloemen
University of Ghent
Visiting PhD student (November 2009-January 2010)
