A.
Center/Institute/Program
Environmental Sciences Division/Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
Building 1505,
MS-6036
Oak Ridge, TN
37831-6036
Phone: 865-576-7756
Fax: 865-576-3989
E-mail: grahamrl@ornl.gov
Web Page: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/
Director/Chairperson: Dr.
Gary K. Jacobs
Representative to AERC:
Dr. Robin L. Graham
B. Major objectives of the
Center/Institute/Program
1. Understand
the impacts of energy development and use on the environment.
2. Basic and applied R&D on
environmental systems and processes.
3. Environmental resource analysis and
assessment.
C. Major ecosystem research emphases
1. Ecosystem analyses (hierarchy, resiliency,
and recovery).
2. Global element cycling and impacts of
climate change on terrestrial ecosystems.
3. Environmental and ecological risk
assessment.
4. Regional environmental analysis.
5. National Environmental Research
Park/Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve.
D. Staff
Permanent
scientific staff: PhD: 95, MS: 40
Scientific
support staff: Postdocs: 28, Technicians: 14
Other
support staff: Clerical: 18, Administrative: 7
Graduate
students: PhD: 27, MS:
15
Summer
undergraduates: 43, Other Guests: 116
E. Approximate annual funding (recent year)
Core
funding: None
Grants: $50,000,000/yr, Major sources: DOE, NASA, DOD
F. Areas and facilities for ecosystem research studies
1. Walker Branch Watershed, Anderson
County, TN, 90 ha.
2. Oak Ridge National Environmental
Research Park, Roane County, TN, 5500 ha.
G. Research staff directly involved in ecosystem research (names and
specialty areas)
Adams,
S. Marshall – reservoir and marine ecology
Bevelhimer,
Mark S. – fisheries, aquatic ecology
Brandt,
Craig E. – quantitative ecology
Cada,
Glen F. – aquatic ecology impact assessment
Christensen,
Sigurd W. – quantitative ecology, graphic dynamics
Cook,
Robert B. – aqueous geochemistry, chemical limnology
Coutant,
CharlesC. – aquatic ecology, impact assessment
Dale,
Virginia H. – plant succession, mathematical ecology
Difazio,
Stephen P. – plant genomics and physiology
Efroymson,
Rebecca A. – ecological risk assessment
Garten,
Charles T., Jr. – biogeochemical cycling
Graham,
Robin L. – landscape ecology
Greeley,
Mark S. – aquatic ecology, physiology
Gu,
Lianhong – soil, water, atmosphere transport modeling
Gunter,
Lee E. – Tree genomics and physiology
Hanson,
Paul J. – forest ecology
Jager,
Y. – quantitative ecology
King,
Anthony W. – systems ecology
Lindberg,
Steven E. – atmosphere/forest-canopy interactions
Loar,
James M. – stream ecology
Marland,
Gregg – global carbon cycle
Mulholland,
Patrick J. – wetland ecology
Norby,
Richard J. – forest tree physiology
Palumbo,
Anthony V. – microbial ecology, limnology
Parr,
Patricia D. – rare plant ecology, chromium cycling
Peterson,
Mark J. – aquatic ecology
Phelps,
T.J. – microbial ecology
Post,
Wilfred M. III – population biology, community ecology
Ryon,
Michael G. – aquatic ecology
Sale,
Michael J. – stream ecology, ecosystem management
Southworth,
George R. – aquatic ecology
Turner,
Robert S. – regional analysis
Tuskan,
Jerry A. – tree genomics and physiology
Tschaplinski,
Timothy J. – plant physiology
West,
Tristam 0. – agronomy, soil carbon sequestration
Wullschleger,
Stan D. – plant physiology
Zhou,
Jizhong – microbial ecology
H. Long-term data sets (code name, number of years of data, computer
accessibility)
Oak
Ridge Reservation Data Bases, 1958-present; ecosystem inventories; plant,
animal and microbial population studies; element cycling and analyses; climatic
data, archaeological surveys; environmental monitoring. Some of this can be
downloaded from:
http://mercury.ornl.gov/edora/ -
general data for the Oak Ridge Reservation including mapped information.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/WBW/
- Walker Branch Watershed data.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/WBW/TDEAAAAA.HTM - data from the through fall displacement
experiment.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/ORNL-FACE/data.html
- data from the sweetgum FACE experiment.