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Laboratory of Forest - Atmosphere Interactions
Michigan State University, Department of Forestry
Tropical forest ecosystem, community & functional ecology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, ecoclimate teleconnections, LiDAR remote sensing and high-throughput canopy ecology
View of forest in Guyana from Mt. Roraima, Dec. 30th 2010, SC Stark (click to enlarge)
News
News
2020 - Stark MSU Group to lead $1.1M NSF 'Other side of tropical forest drought' award
2019 - Please see link to CV at the top for current projects ongoing in the lab!
March 2017. Fantastic immersive multimedia experience produced (this is the LINK) highlighting the work of Scott Saleska from the University of Arizona in understand the breath of the Amazon forest, from the California Academy of Science. The MSU Lab of Forest - Atmosphere Interactions is an important collaborator working alongside Saleska and his team at this site in the Amazon; in fact Stark just received funding (~$150K) from NASA Earth Sciences as part of an award to Saleska to work on detailed estimation of canopy leaf light environments with LiDAR and other measurements at this site.
Early 2017. New papers out on Ecoclimate teleconnections from NSF Funded Macrosystems Biology Research. Villegas et al 2017 Ecosphere on assessing local scale effects of forest die-off on the atmosphere rapidly. And Garcia et al 2016 PLOS ONE on assessing potential global ecoclimate teleconnections from forest loss in western North America and the Amazon. See these news pieces and press releases on Garcia et al 2016: MSU Today, Climate News Network.
December 2016. Collaborative author in Science article on the determinants of the phenology of ecosystem function in the central Amazon! (Wu et al. 2016). See ScienceDaily article.
October 2016. Co-author on paper led by 'mentee' Brazilian masters student Danilo Almeida in Remote Sensing, using ground LiDAR to understand the impacts and drivers of fire in seasonally flooded forests in the Amazon. (Almeida et al. 2016)
November 2015. New collaborative conceptual paper on Ecoclimate Teleconnections is out! (Stark et al Landscape Ecology)
Early 2015. Ecology Letters article detailing a method to retrieve size distributions and light environments of size classes with compex overlapping canopies is out! (Stark et al 2015 Ecology Letters)
As reported above, two NSF awards 2014 and 2015 (I am co-PI) assessing possible ecoclimate teleconnections due to North America tree die-off and Amazon deforestation and potential teleconnections from vegetation change between the domains of NEON in North America
In January 2013 I joined the Michigan State University Department of Forestry to develop a research program to address basic and applied questions in forest ecology and biosphere atmosphere interactions with a specific focus on the Amazon and the role of the Amazon in Earth systems.
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Research Photos & Links
In canopy leaf gas exchange measurements. Photo: Cédric Billod-Laillet, 2009, Tapajós National Forest, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
Full disclosure: I am not usually the one up in the tree!
Complex patterns of leaf irradiation in a typical Amazonian forest canopy. Photo: ML Friesen, 2011, Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Peru.
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Photojournals from the NSF-funded Amazon-PIRE Program, thanks to Jake Bryant
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