• Associate Professor, Natural Resources; Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space

Research

Forest productivity and biogeochemistry, ecological effects of air pollution, carbon and nitrogen cycling in forest soils, disturbance and land use history, ecosystem modeling and remote sensing, forest response to multiple environmental stressors, landscape ecology, regional ecological analysis.

Graduate Students

M.S. Students
	Kathryn Berger
	Richard MacLean
Ph.D. Students
	Julian Jenkins (co-chair)
Alumni :: 2000-present
	Sarah Silverberg	September 2006	M.S.
	Kirsten Lloyd	December 2005	M.S.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

• NR 502: Forest Ecosystems and Environmental Change
• NR 744/844: Biogeochemistry

View Natural Resources undergraduate course descriptions
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Selected Publications

Turner, D.P., S.V. Ollinger, M.L. Smith, O. Krankina and M. Gregory. 2004. Scaling net primary production to a MODIS footprint in support of earth observing system product validation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, In Press.

Ollinger, S.V., O. Sala, G. Ågren, B. Berg, E. Davidson, C. Field, M. Lerdau, J. Neff, Mary Scholes, Robert Sterner. 2003. New Frontiers in the Study of Element Interactions. In: Melillo and Field (Eds.), Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Island Press Publishers, Washington, DC.

Ollinger, S.V. 2003. Forest Ecosystems. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group, London.

Greenland, D., B.P. Hayden, J.J. Magnuson, S.V. Ollinger, R.A. Pielke Sr. and R.C. Smith. 2003. LTER Program long-term research on biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Bioscience. 53(1):33-45.

Ollinger, S.V., J.D. Aber, P.B. Reich and R. Freuder. 2002. Interactive effects of nitrogen deposition, tropospheric ozone, elevated CO 2 and land use history on the carbon dynamics of northern hardwood forests. Global Change Biology, 8: 545-562.

Driscoll, C., D. Whitall, J. Aber, B. Boyer, M. Castro, C. Cronan, C. Goodale, P. Groffman, C. Hopkinson, K. Lambert, G. Lawrence and S. Ollinger. 2003. Nitrogen pollution in the northeastern United States: Sources, effects and management options. Bioscience, 53(4):357-374.

Aber, J.D., S.V. Ollinger, C.T. Driscoll, G.E. Likens, R.T. Holmes, R.J. Freuder, and C.L. Goodale. 2003. Inorganic N losses from a forested ecosystem in response to physical, chemical, biotic and climatic pert urbations. Ecosystems, 5: 648-658.

Ollinger, S.V., M.L. Smith, M.E. Martin, R. A. Hallett, C.L. Goodale and J.D. Aber. 2002. Regional variation in foliar chemistry and soil nitrogen status among forests of diverse history and composition. Ecology, 83(2): 339-355. (Invited feature.)

Ollinger, S.V., J.D. Aber, and C.A. Federer. 1998. Estimating regional forest productivity and water balances using an ecosystem model linked to a GIS. Landscape Ecology. 13(5) : 323-34.

Smith, M.L., S.V. Ollinger, M.E. Martin, J.D. Aber, C.L. Goodale. 2002. Direct prediction of aboveground forest productivity by remote sensing of canopy nitrogen. Ecological Applications,12(5): 1286-1302.

Ollinger, S.V., J.D. Aber, and P.B. Reich. 1997. Simulating ozone effects on forest productivity: interactions among leaf-, canopy- and stand-level processes. Ecological Applications. 7(4): 1237-1251.

Aber, J.D., S.V. Ollinger, and C.T. Driscoll. 1997. Modeling nitrogen saturation in forest ecosystems in response to land use and atmospheric deposition. Ecological modeling. 101: 61-78.

Ollinger, S.V., J.D. Aber, G.M. Lovett, S.E. Millham, R.G. Lathrop, and J.M. Ellis. 1993. A spatial model of atmospheric deposition for the northeastern U.S. Ecological Applications 3:459-472.

Education

Selected Service Activities

• Science Advisor, New York State Energy, Research and Development Authority, Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Protection (EMEP) Program. 2003-
• Scientific Work Group, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Science Links Project: Status and Effects of Nitrogen Pollution in the Northeast United States, 2002-2003.
• Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Element Interactions Working Group, Prague, Czech Republic, Member and Rapporteur, 2002-2003
• UNESCO International Ocean's Commission, Terrestrial Ecology Advisor for Project on Nutrient Inputs to Global Oceans, Paris, France, 2002.
• Co-Organizer, Lecture series on Global Change and New England Forests, Museum of Science, Boston, MA, 2002.
• Contributor and Consultant: EOS-Webster, Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP) Internet-based Data Distribution Library. 1999-2000.
• Contributor and Expert Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), The Regional Impacts of Climate Change, Report for United Nations Convention on Climate Change, Presented in Kyoto, Japan 1997.