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Stith Thompson Gower, Department Head, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, CNR, NCSU Page 1

ADDRESS: Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

FORMAL EDUCATION: Ph.D. 1987. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Major: Forestry. Thesis title: A comparison of aboveground productivity and carbon and

nutrient allocation patterns of a deciduous (Larix occidentalis) and an evergreen (Pinus contorta) conifer in the east slope forests of the Washington Cascades.

Major Professor: Charles C. Grier. M.S. 1983. School of Forest Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina,

Major: Forestry, Minors: Soil Science and Ecology. Thesis title: Distribution of energy in different-aged southeastern bottomland hardwood forests.

Major Professor: Douglas J. Frederick. B.S. 1980. Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, Major: Biology. PROFESSIONAL CAREER: Professor and Head, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (Oct. 2014 – present) Director, BioHouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013 – present) Professor, Forest Ecology, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1996-present. Associate Professor, Forest Ecology, Department of Forestry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1992-1996. Assistant Professor, Forest Ecology, Department of Forestry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987-1992. Research Scientist, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 1986-1987. Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, 1984-1987. Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 1985. Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) participant. Attended the OTS Tropical Biology Course in Costa Rica, 1983. Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, 1980-1983. Laboratory Research Technician, North Carolina State University, 1980-1983. Curatorial Assistant, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, 1979-1980. Research Assistant, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, 1979. HONORS AND AWARDS: NC State Research Leadership Academy (2016 - present) University of Wisconsin Systems Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (2014-2015) HHMI Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Biology Education (2013-2014) Invited member of Advisory Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Distributed Active Archive

Center, 1999-2002. Selected as Leader for Task 3.5 Division of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in 1999.

Task 3.5 is Effects of Global Change on Managed Forests. Associate Editor, Tree Physiology, 1998-2005


Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 1997-1999 Vilas Associate Award, 1996, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison New Zealand Landcare Scholarship Program (Manaaki Whenua Visiting Fellow), Christchurch, NZ,

1995-1996 National Academy of Science, award for research trip to Siberia, 1993 Pound Research Award, 1993, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-

Madison Visiting Scientist Award to Siberia, National Academy of Science, National Research Council, 1992. Bloedel Fellowship, 1985, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Agnes Healy Anderson Fellowship, 1985, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Memorial Botany Scholarship, 1979, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina Elizabeth Thackston Taylor Botany Award, 1980, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina Xi Sigma Pi Sigma Xi Beta Chi PUBLICATIONS: Books Gower, ST, A McKeon-Ruediger, A Reitter, A, M Bradley, DJ Refkin, T Tollefson, FJ Souba Jr, A Taup, L

Embury-Williams, S Schiavone, J Weinbauer, AC Janetos, R Jarvis. 2006. Following the paper trail. The impact of magazine and dimensional lumber production on greenhouse gas emissions: A case study. The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. Washington, DC. 102 p. ISBN 0-9717592-6-X.

Landsberg, JJ and ST Gower. 1997. Applications of Physiological Ecology to Forest Management. Physiological Ecology Series, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 354pp.

Campbell, JL, S Burrows, ST Gower, and WB Cohen. 1999. BigFoot: Characterizing land cover, LAI, and NPP at the landscape scale for EOS/MODIS validation. Field Manual Version 2.1. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 104 pp.

PUBLICATIONS: Refereed Journal Publications 2015 Hunt, ND, ST Gower, K Nadelhoffer, K Lajtha, K Townsend, and KR Brye. 2016. Validation of an

agroecosystem process model (AGRO-BGC) on an annual and perennial bioenergy feedstock. Ecological Modeling 321:23-34.

2013 Forrester, JA, DJ Mladenoff, ST Gower. 2013. Experimental manipulation of forest structure: near-

term effects on gap and stand scale C dynamics. Ecosystems 16:1455-1472. Nunes, L, ST Gower, M Monteiro, D Lopes, and FC Rego. 2013. Growth dynamics and productivity of

pure and mixed Castanea sativa Mill. and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco plantations in northern Portugal. iForest – Biogeosciences and Forestry Research Article – doi -: 10.3832/ifor1087-007.

Nunes, L, D Lopes, FC Rego and ST Gower. 2013. Aboveground biomass and net primary production of pine, oak, and mixed pine-oak forests on the Vila Real district, Portugal. Forest Ecology and Management 305:38-47.

Peckham, SD, ST Gower, CH Perry, KM Stueve, BT Wilson. 2013. Modeling harvest and biomass removal effects on the forest carbon cycle of the Midwest, USA. Environmental Science and Policy 25:22-35.


Peckham, SD and ST Gower. 2013. Simulating the effects of management and biofuel production on the forest system carbon balance in the Midwest, USA. Global Change Biology Bioenergy doi:10.1111/gccb.12033

Serbin, SP, DE Ahl, and ST Gower. 2013. Spatial and temporal validation of the MODIS LAI and FPAR products across a boreal forest wildfire chronosequence. Remote Sensing of Environment 133:71-84.

2012 Forrester, JA, DJ Mladenoff, ST Gower and JL Stoffel. 2012. Interactions of temperature and moisture

with respiration from coarse woody debris in experimental forest canopy gaps. Forest Ecology and Management 265: 124-132.

Peckham, S, ST Gower, J Buongiorno. 2012. Estimating the whole-system forest carbon budget and maximizing future carbon uptake. Carbon Balance and Management 7,6, doi:10:1186/1750-0680-7-6.

2011 Van Herk IG, Gower ST, Bronson DR, Tanner M. 2011. Effects of elevated temperature on the

transpiration rates of a northern black spruce plantation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41: 217-227

Forrester, JA, DJ Mladenoff, ST Gower, and JL Stoffel. 2011. Interacting controls on carbon flux from coarse woody debris in experimental canopy gaps. Forest Ecology and Management 265:124-132.

Bond-Lamberty B, Bronson DR, Bladyka E, Gower ST. 2011. A comparison of trenched plot techniques for partitioning soil respiration. Soil Biology & Biogeochemistry 43: 2108-2114

Bond-Lamberty, B, ST Gower, B Amiro, and BE Ewers. 2011. Measurement and modelling of bryophyte evaporation in a boreal forest chronosequence. Ecohydrology 4: 26-35.

2010 Dyer, JH, ST Gower, JA Forrester, CG Lorimer, DJ Mladenoff, and JI Burton. 2010. Effects of selective

tree harvests on aboveground biomass and net primary productivity of a second-growth northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1-10.

Peckham, SD and ST Gower. 2010.Simulated long-term effects of harvest and biomass residue removal on key ecosystem soil carbon and nitrogen for two Upper Great Lakes forest ecosystems. Global Change Bioenergy doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2010.01067.x.

Stoffel, JL, ST Gower, JA Forrester, and DJ Mladenoff. 2010. Effects of winter selective tree harvest on soil microclimate and soil surface CO2 flux of a northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management 259:257–265.

2009 Bond-Lamberty, B, ST Gower, B Amiro, C. Barker, and BE Ewers. 2009. Measurement and modeling

of bryophyte evaporation in a boreal forest chronosequence. Global Biogeochemical Cycles (in press).

Bond-Lamberty, B., Peckham, S.D., Gower, S.T., Ewers, B.E., 2009. Effects of fire on regional evapotranspiration in the central Canadian boreal forest. Global Change Biology 15: 1242-1254.

Bronson, DR and ST Gower. 2010. Ecosystem warming does not affect photosynthesis or aboveground autotrophic respiration for boreal black spruce. Tree Physiology doi:10.1093/treephys/tpq001.

Bronson, DR, ST Gower, MT Tanner, and IG Van Herk. 2009. Effect of ecosystem warming on boreal black spruce bud burst and shoot growth. Global Change Biology 1-10.

Peckham, S.D., Ahl, D.E., Gower, S.T., 2009. Bryophyte cover estimation in a boreal black spruce forest using airborne lidar and multispectral sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment 113: 1127-1132.

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Serbin, SP, ST Gower, and DE Ahl. 2009. Canopy dynamics and phenology of a boreal black spruce wildfire chronosequence. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 149:187-204

2008 Bond-Lamberty B, ST Gower. 2008. Decomposition and fragmentation of coarse woody debris: re-

visiting a boreal black spruce chronosequence. Ecosystems 11:831-840. Bronson, DR, ST Gower, MT Tanner, S Linder, and IG Van Herk, 2008. Response of soil surface CO2

flux in a boreal forest to ecosystem warming. Global Change Biology 14: 856-867. Peckham, S, DE Ahl, S Serbin, and ST Gower. 2008. Fire-induced changes in green-up and leaf

maturity of the Canadian boreal forests. Remote Sensing of the Environment 112:3594-3603. 2007 Bond-Lamberty B, S Peckham, DE Ahl, and ST Gower. 2007. The dominance of fire in determining

carbon balance of the central Canadian boreal forest. Nature 450:89-92. Bond-Lamberty B, and ST Gower. 2007. Estimation of stand-level leaf area for boreal bryophytes.

Oecologia 151:581-592. Bond-Lamberty B, ST Gower, DE Ahl. 2007. Improved simulation of poorly drained forest using

Biome-BGC. Tree Physiology 27:703-715. 2006 Ahl, DE, ST Gower, and SN Burrows 2006. Monitoring spring canopy phenology of a deciduous

broadleaf forest using MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment 104:88-95. Bond-Lamberty B, Goranson C, Nielsen K & Gower. ST 2006. Spatial relationships of soil water and

temperature in a black spruce boreal chronosequence. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:2794-2802

Bond-Lamberty B, ST Gower, C Wang, P Cyr, and H Velhuis. 2006. Nitrogen dynamics of a boreal wildfire chronosequence. Biogeochemistry 81:1-16.

Martin, JL and ST Gower. 2006. Boreal mixedwood tree growth on contrasting soils and disturbance types. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 986–995

2005 Ahl, DE, ST Gower, DS Mackay, SN Burrows, JM Norman, and G Diak. 2005. The effects of aggregated

land cover data on estimating NPP in northern Wisconsin, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 97:1-14

Bond-Lamberty B, ST Gower, M Goulden, and A McMillan. 2005. Simulation of well- and poorly-drained boreal fire chronosequence I. Comparison to field measurements. JGR-Biogeosciences 111(G2):G02014.

Bond-Lamberty B, ST Gower, DE Ahl, and PE Thornton. 2005. Reimplementation of the BIOME-BGC model to simulate successional change. Tree Physiology 25(4): 413-424.

Bond-Lamberty B, C Wang, and ST Gower. 2005. Spatiotemporal measurement and modeling of boreal forest soil temperatures. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology131:27-40.

Ewers BE, ST Gower, B Bond-Lamberty, and C Wang. 2005. Effects of stand age and tree species composition on transpiration and canopy conductance of boreal forest stands. Plant Cell Environment 28(5):660-678.

Martin JL, J Plaut, ST Gower, and B Holmes. 2005. Carbon content of boreal mixedwood stands following logging. Global Change Biology 11: 1883-1894.

Shabanov, NV, D Huang, W Yang, B Tan, Y Knyakikhin, RB Myneni, DE Ahl, ST Gower, AR Huerte, LEOC Aragao, YE Shimabukuro. 2005. Analysis and optimization of the MODIS Leaf Area Index algorithm retrivals over broadleaf forests. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing 43:1855-1865.

Turner, DP, WD Ritts, WB Cohen, TK Maeirsperger, ST Gower, AA Kirschbaum, SW Running, MS Zhao, SC Wofsy, AL Dunn, BE Law, JL Campbell, WC Oechel, HJ Kwon, TP Meyers, EE Small, SA Kurc, JA Gamon and H Tian. 2005. Site-level evaluation of satellite-based global terrestrial gross primary


production and net primary production monitoring. Global Change Biology 11(4): 666-684. Wang, CK, DC Feldkirchner, ST Gower, J Ferris, and EL Kruger. 2005. Effects of amendments of paper

mill sludge and nutrients on soil surface CO2 flux in northern hardwood forests. Journal of Forestry Research 16(4):265-269.

White MK, ST Gower, and DE Ahl. 2005. Life-cycle inventories of roundwood production in Wisconsin – Inputs into an industrial forest carbon budget. Forest Ecology Management 219:13-22.

2004 Ahl, D, ST Gower, DS Mackay, SN Burrows, JM Norman, and G Diak. 2004. Light use efficiency of a

heterogeneous forest in northern Wisconsin: Implications for remote sensing and modeling net primary production, Remote Sensing of Environment 93:168-178.

Bond-Lamberty, B, ST Gower, DE Ahl, and PE Thornton. 2005. A reimplementation of the Biome-BGC model supporting multiple interacting vegetation types. Tree Physiology 25:413-424.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, and ST Gower. 2004. The contribution of root respiration to soil surface CO2 flux in boreal black spruce chronosequence. Tree Physiology 24:1387-1395.

Lee KS, WB Cohen, RE Kennedy, TK Maiersberger, and ST Gower. 2004. Hyperspectral versus multispectral data for estimating leaf area index in four different biomes. Remote Sensing of Environment 91(3-4): 508-520.

Howard, EA, ST Gower, JA Foley, and CJ Kucharik. 2004. Effects of logging on carbon dynamics of a jack pine forest in Saskatchewan, Canada. Global Change Biology 10:1267-1284.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, and ST Gower. 2004. A global relationship between heterotrophic and autotrophic components of soil respiration. Global Change Biology 10:1756-1766.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, and ST Gower. 2004. Net primary production of a boreal black spruce wildfire chronosequence. Global Change Biology 10:473-487.

2003 Brye, KR, JM Norman, ST Gower and LG Bundy. 2003. Methodological limitations and N-budget

differences among a restored tallgrass prairie and maize agroecosystems. Agriculture, Ecosystems, & Environment 97:181-198.

Brye, KR, JM Norman, ST Gower and LG Bundy. 2003. Effects of management practices on annual net N-mineralization in a restored prairie and maize agroecosystems. Biogeochemistry 63:135-160.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, and ST Gower. 2002. Annual carbon flux from woody debris for a boreal black spruce fire chronosequence. Journal Geophysical Research 108 D3:1-1 to 1-10.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, and ST Gower 2003. The use of multiple measurement techniques to refine estimates of conifer needle geometry, Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:101-105.

Burrows, SN, ST Gower, JM Norman, G Diak, DS Mackay, DE Ahl, MK Clayton, 2003. Spatial variability of net primary production for a forested landscape in northern Wisconsin. Canadian Journal of Forest Resources 33:2007-2018.

O’Connell, KE, ST Gower, and JM Norman. 2003. Comparison of net primary production and light-use dynamics of two boreal black spruce forest communities. Ecosystems 6:236-247.

O’Connell, KE, ST Gower, and JM Norman. 2003. Net Ecosystem Production of Two Contrasting Boreal Black Spruce Forest Communities. Ecosystems 6:248-260.

Cohen, WB, TK Maiersperger, Z Yang, ST Gower, DP Turner, WD Ritts, M Berterretche and SW Running. 2003. Comparison of land cover and LAI estimates derived from ETM+ and MODIS for four sites in North America: a quality assessment of 2000/2001 provisional MODIS products. Remote Sensing of Environment 88:233-255.

Cohen, WB, TK Maiersperger, ST Gower, DP Turner, 2003. An improved strategy for regression of biophysical variables and Landsat ETM+ data. Remote Sensing of Environment 84:561-571.

Gower, ST 2003. Patterns and mechanisms of the forest carbon cycle. Annual Reviews Energy and Environment 28:169-204.


Mackay, S, D Ahl, B Ewers, S Samanta, SB Burrows, ST Gower. 2002. Physiological Tradeoffs in the Parameterization of a Model of Canopy Transpiration. Advances in Water Resources 26:179-194.

Mackay, DS, S Samanta, DE Ahl, BE Ewers, and ST Gower. 2003. Automated parameterization of land surface process models using fuzzy logic. Transactions in GIS. 7(1), 139-153

Turner, D, WD Ritts, WB Cohen, ST Gower, M Zhao, SW Running, SC Wofsy, S Urbanski, AL Dunn, and JW Munger. 2003. Scaling gross primary production (GPP) over boreal and deciduous forest landscapes in support of MODIS GPP product validation. Remote Sensing of Environment 88:256-270.

Turner, D, ST Gower, WB Cohen, M Gregory, and TK Maiersperger. 2002. Effects of spatial variability in light use efficiency on satellite-based NPP monitoring. Remote Sensing Environment 80:397-405.

Wang C, B Bond-Lamberty, and ST Gower. 2003. Carbon distribution and accumulation in a boreal black spruce fire chronosequence. Global Change Biology 9:1-14.

Wang, C, B Bond-Lamberty and ST Gower. 2003. Soil surface CO2 flux in a boreal black spruce fire chronosequence. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 D3:WFX5-1 to 5-8.

2002 Brye, KR, ST Gower, JM Norman, and LG Bundy. 2002. Carbon budgets for a prairie and managed

agroecosystems: towards an improved understanding of the effects of land use change. Ecological Applications 12:962-979.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, ST Gower and JM Norman. 2002. Leaf area dynamics of a boreal black spruce fire chronosequence. Tree Physiology 993-1002.

Bond-Lamberty, B, C Wang, and ST Gower. 2002. Aboveground and belowground biomass and sapwood area equations for six boreal tree species of northern Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:1441-1450.

Brye, KR, JM Norman, EV Nordheim, ST Gower and LG Bundy. 2002. Refinements to an in-situ soil core technique for measuring net N-mineralization in moist, fertilized agricultural soil. Agronomy Journal 94:864-869.

Brye, KR, JM Norman and ST Gower. 2002. Assessing the progress of a restored tallgrass prairie in southern Wisconsin and difficulties with objectivity. American Midland Naturalist 148:218-235.

Brye, KR, JM Norman and ST Gower. 2002. The fate of nutrients following three- and six- year burn intervals in a restored tallgrass prairie in Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 148:28-42.

Brye, KR, ST Gower, JM Norman and LG Bundy. 2002. Carbon budgets for a prairie and managed agroecosystems: towards an improved understanding of the effects of land use change. Ecological Applications 12:962-969.

Burrows, SN, ST Gower, MK Clayton, DS Mackay, DE Ahl, JM Norman and G Diak. 2002. Application of geostatistics to characterize LAI for flux towers to landscapes. Ecosystems 5:667-679.

Ewers, BE, DS Mackay, S. T. Gower, DE Ahl, SN Burrows and S Samanta. 2002. Tree species effects on stand transpiration in northern Wisconsin. Water Resources Research 38:8-1-8.11

Feldkirchner, DC, C Wang, ST Gower, EL Kruger, and J Ferris. 2002. Effects of paper mill biosolids amendments on the growth and nutrient status of hardwood forests. Forest Ecology and Management 44:1-22.

Lefsky, MA, WB Cohen, DJ Harding, GG Parker, SA Acker, ST Gower. 2002. Lidar remote sensing of aboveground biomass in three biomes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:393-399.

Mackay, DS, DE Ahl, BE Ewers, ST Gower, SN Burrows, S Samanta and KJ Davis. 2002. Aggregation effects of remotely sensed vegetation cover on estimates of evapotranspiration in a northern Wisconsin forest. Global Change Biology 8:1253-1265.

McGuire, AD, C Wirth, M Apps, J Beringer, J Clein, H Epstein, DW Kicklighter, J Bhatti, FS Chapin, III, B deGroot, D Efremov, W Eugster, M Fukuda, T Gower, L Heinzman, B Huntley, GJ Gia, E Kasischke, J Melillo, V Romanovsky, A Shvidenko, E Vaganov, and D Walker. 2002. Environmental variation, vegetation distribution, carbon dynamics and water/energy exchange at high latitudes. Journal of Vegetation Science 13:301-314.


2001 Bisbee, K, ST Gower, JM Norman, and EV Nordheim. 2001. Environmental factors controls on the

distribution and NPP of bryophytes in a southern boreal black spruce forest. Oecologia 129:261-270.

Brye, KR, JM Norman, LG Bundy, and ST Gower. 2001. Nitrogen and carbon leaching in agroecosystems and their role in denitrification potential. Journal of Environmental Quality 30:58-70.

Gower ST, O Krankina, RJ Olson, M Apps, S Linder, and Wang C 2001. Net primary production and carbon allocation patterns of boreal forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 11(5): 1395-1411.

Kucharik, CJ, KR Brye, JM Norman, JA Foley, ST Gower, and LG Bundy. 2001. Measurements and modeling of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in managed and natural ecosystems in the Upper Midwest. Ecosystems 4:237-258.

Wang, C, B Bond-Lamberty and ST Gower. 2002. Environmental controls on carbon dioxide flux from black spruce coarse woody debris. Oecologia 132:374-381.

Wang C, ST Gower, Y Wang, H Zhao, P Yan, and B Bond-Lamberty. 2001. Influence of fire on carbon distribution and net primary production of boreal Larix gmelinii forests in northeastern China. Global Change Biology 7: 719-730.

Whitehead, D and ST Gower. 2001. Photosynthesis and light-use efficiency by plants in a Canadian boreal forest ecosystem. Tree Physiology 21:925-929.

2000 Brye, KR, JM Norman, LG Bundy, and ST Gower. 2000. Water budget evaluation of prairie and maize

ecosystems. Soil Science Society America Journal 64:715-724. Campbell, JL and ST Gower. 2000. Detritus production and soil N transformations in old -growth

eastern hemlock and sugar maple stands. Ecosystems 3:185-192. Gower, ST, A Hunter, J Campbell, J Vogel, H Veldhuis, J Harden , S Trumbore, JM Norman, CJ

Kucharik.. 2000. Nutrient dynamics of the southern and northern BOREAS boreal forests. Ecoscience 7:481-490.

Harden, JW, SE Trumbore, BJ Stocks, A Hirsch, ST Gower, KP O’Neill and ES Kasischke. 2000. The role of fire in the boreal carbon budget. Global Change Biology 6:174-184.

1999 Brye, KR, JM Norman, LG Bundy, and ST Gower. 1999. An equilibrium tension lysimeter for

measuring drainage through soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63:536-543. Canadell, JG, HA Mooney, DD Baldochi, JA Berry, JR Ehleringer, CB Field, ST Gower, DY Hollinger, JE

Hunt, RB Jackson, SW Running, GR Shaver, W Steffen, SE Trumbore, R. Valentini, and BY Bond. 1999. Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: A multi-technique approach for improved understanding. Ecosystems 3:115-130.

Campbell, JL and ST Gower. 1999. Detritus production and soil N transformations in old -growth eastern hemlock and sugar maple stands. Ecosystems 3:185-193.

Fassnacht, KS and ST Gower. 1999. Comparison of the litterfall and forest floor organic matter and nitrogen dynamics of upland forest ecosystems in north central Wisconsin. Biogeochemistry 45:265-284.

Gower, ST and JR Gries. 1999. Disturbance effects on aboveground net primary production and the distribution of organic matter and nutrient distribution of northern hardwood forests. Ecosystems 3:185-192.

Gower, ST, CJ Kucharik and JM Norman. 1999. Direct and indirect estimation of leaf area index, fAPAR, and net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment 70:29-51.


Kloeppel, BK, ST Gower, JG Vogel, PB Reich. 1999. Leaf-level resource use for evergreen and deciduous conifers along a resource availability gradient. Functional Ecology 14:281-292.

Kucharik, CJ, JM Norman, and ST Gower. 1999. Characterization of radiation regimes in nonrandom forest canopies: theory, measurements, and a simplified modeling approach. Tree Physiology 19:695-706.

Kucharik, CJ, JA Foley, C Delire, VA Fisher, MT Coe, JD Lenters, C Young-Molling, JM Norman, N Ramankutty, ST Gower. 1999. The IBIS-2 Dynamic biosphere model: model formulation and evaluation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14:795-825

Running, SW, DD Baldochii, W Cohen, ST Gower, D Turner, P Bakwin, K Hibbard. 1999. A global terrestrial monitoring network, scaling tower fluxes with ecosystem modeling and EOS satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment 70:108-127.

1998 Fassnacht, KS and ST Gower. 1998. Comparison of soil and vegetation characteristics of six upland

forest habitat types in north central Wisconsin. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 15:69-76. Goulden, ML, SC Wofsy, JW Harden, SE Trumbore, PM Crill, ST Gower, T Fries, BC Daube, S-M Fan, DJ

Sutton, A Bazzaz, and JW Munger. 1998. Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw. Science 279:214-217.

Kloeppel, BD, ST Gower, TW Treichel, and S Kharuk. 1998. Foliar carbon isotope discrimination in Larix species and sympatric evergreen conifers: a global comparison. Oecologia 114:153-159.

Kucharik, CJ, JM Norman, ST Gower. 1998. Measurements of branch area and adjusting leaf area index indirect measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 91:69-88.

Kucharik, CJ, JM Norman, and ST Gower. 1998. Measurements of leaf orientation, light distribution and sunlit leaf area in a boreal aspen forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 91:127-148.

Vogel, JG and ST Gower. 1998. Carbon and nitrogen dynamics of boreal jack pine stands with and without a green alder understory. Ecosystems 1:386-400.

Wagai, R, KR Brye, ST Gower, JM Norman, and LG Bundy. 1998. Effects of land use and environmental factors on soil surface CO2 flux for natural and managed ecosystems in south central Wisconsin. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30:1501-1509.

1997 Arneth, A, FM Kelliher, ST Gower, NA Scott, JN Byers, and TM McSeveny. 1997. Physical variables

regulating soil carbon dioxide efflux following clear-cutting of a Pinus radiata D. Don plantation. J. Geophysical Research 103-D5:5695-5705.

Chen, J, PW Rich, ST Gower, JM Norman, and S Plummer. 1997. Leaf area index of boreal forests: Theory, techniques and measurements. Journal Geophysical Research. 102-D24:29,429-29,444.

Fassnacht, KS, ST Gower, MD MacKenzie, EV Nordheim, TM Lillesand. 1997. Estimating the leaf area of north central Wisconsin forests using the Landsat Thematic Mapper. Remote Sensing of Environment 61:229-245.

Fassnacht, KS and ST Gower. 1997. Interrelationships among edaphic and stand characteristics, leaf area index, and aboveground net primary productivity for upland forest ecosystems in north central Wisconsin. Canadian Journal Forest Research 27:1058-1067.

Gower, ST, J Vogel, TK Stow, JM Norman, CJ Kucharik and SJ Steele. 1997. Carbon distribution and net primary production of aspen, jack pine and black spruce BOREAS forests. Journal of Geophysical Research 102 D24:29,029-29,041.

Kucharik, CJ, JM Norman, LM Murdock and ST Gower. 1997. Characterizing canopy non-randomness with a multiband vegetation imager (MVI). Journal Geophysical Research 102 D24:29,445-29,474.

Lavigne, MB, MG Ryan, DE Anderson, DD Baldocchi, PM Crill, DR Fitzjarrald, ML Goulden, ST Gower, JM Massheder, JH McCaughey, M Rayment, and RG Striegl. 1997. Comparing nocturnal eddy


covariance measurements to estimates of ecosystem respiration made by scaling chamber measurements at six coniferous boreal sites. Journal Geophysical Research 102-D24:28,997-28,985.

Norman, JM, CJ Kucharik, ST Gower, DD Baldocchi, PM Crill, M Rayment, K Savage, and RG Striegl. 1997. A comparison of six methods for measuring soil surface carbon dioxide fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research 102-D24: 28,771-28,778.

Reich, P, DF Grigal, JD Aber, and ST Gower. 1997. Nitrogen mineralization and productivity in 50 hardwood and conifer stands on diverse soils. Ecology 78:335-347.

Ryan, MG, B Lavigne, ST Gower. 1997. Annual carbon cost of autotrophic respiration in boreal forest ecosystems in relation to species and climate. Journal Geophysical Research 102-D24:28,871-28,883.

Sellers, PJ, G Hall, D Kelly, A Black, D Baldocchi, J Berry, M Ryan, KJ Ranson, PM Crill, DP Lettenmaier, H Margolis, J Cihlar, J Newcomer, D Fitzjarrald, PG Jarvis, ST Gower, D Halliwell, D Williams, B Goodison, DE Wickland, and FE Guertin. 1997. BOREAS in 1997: Experiment overview, Scientific results, and future directions. Journal of Geophysical Research 102-D24:28,731-28,769.

Steele, SJ, ST Gower, J Vogel, JM Norman. 1997. Root mass, production and turnover of aspen, jack pine and black spruce BOREAS forests. Tree Physiololgy 17:577-587.

1996 Gower, ST, S Pongracic, and JJ Landsberg. 1996. A global trend in belowground carbon allocation:

can we use the relationship at smaller scales? Ecology 77:1750-1755. Magnuson, JJ, TK Kratz, TF Allen, DE Armstrong, BJ Benson, CJ Bowser, DW Bolgrien, SR Carpenter,

TM Frost, ST Gower, TM Lillesand, JA Pike, and MG Turner. 1996. Regionalization of long-term ecological research (LTER) on north temperate lakes. Verein Limnol 26:522-528.

Gower, ST, RE McMurtrie, and D Murty. 1996. Aboveground net primary production declines with stand age: potential causes. Trends Ecology & Evolution 11:378-382.

1995 Haynes, BE and ST Gower. 1995. Belowground carbon allocation in control and fertilized red pine

plantations in northern Wisconsin. Tree Physiology 14:317-326. Ryan, MG, ST Gower, RM Hubbard, RH Waring, HL Gholz, WP Cropper and SW Running. 1995. Stem

maintenance respiration of conifer stands in contrasting climates. Oecologia 101:133-140. 1994 Fassnacht, KS, ST Gower, JM Norman and RE McMurtrie. 1994. A comparison of optical and direct

methods for estimating foliage surface area index in forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 71:183-207.

Kloeppel, BD and ST Gower. 1994. Construction and installation of acrylic minirhizotron tubes in forest ecosystems. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59: 241-243.

1993 Gower, ST, BE Haynes, KS Fassnacht, SW Running and ER Hunt. 1993. Influence of fertilization on

the allometric relations for two pines in contrasting environments. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23:1704-1711.

Gower, ST, PB Reich and Y Son. 1993. Aboveground net production and canopy dynamics of five plantation-grown tree species with different leaf longevities. Tree Physiology 12:327-345.

1992 Son, Y and ST Gower. 1992. Nitrogen and phosphorus distribution for five plantation species in

southwestern Wisconsin. Forest Ecology and Management 53:175-193. Gower, ST, KA Vogt and CC Grier. 1992. Carbon dynamics of Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir: influence

of water and nutrient availability. Ecological Monographs 62:43-65.


Gower, ST and Y Son. 1992. Differences in soil and leaf litterfall Nitrogen dynamics for five forest plantations. Soil Science Society of America Journal 56:1959-1966.

Matson, PA, C Volkman, ST Gower and CC Grier. 1992. Soil nitrogen cycling and nitrous oxide flux from fertilized high-elevation Douglas-fir forests in New Mexico. Biogeochemistry 18:101-117.

1991 Gower, ST and JM Norman. 1991. Rapid estimation of leaf area index in conifer and broad-leaf

plantations. Ecology 72:1896-1900. Running, SW and ST Gower. 1991. FOREST-BGC: A general model of forest ecosystem processes for

regional application. II. Dynamic carbon allocation and nitrogen budgets. Tree Physiology 9:147-160.

Gower, ST, JW Chapman, JC Volin and AE Hagen. 1991. Stem biomass growth of four plantation-grown conifers in southwestern Wisconsin. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 8:26-28.

Chapman, JW and ST Gower. 1991. Aboveground production and canopy dynamics in sugar maple and red oak trees in southwestern Wisconsin. Canadian Journal Forest Research 21:1533-1543.

Son, Y and ST Gower. 1991. Aboveground N and P use for five plantation-grown tree species in southwestern Wisconsin. Biogeochemistry 14:167-191.

1990 Gower, ST and JH Richards. 1990. Larches: Deciduous conifers in an evergreen world. BioScience

40:818-826. Bolstad, PV and ST Gower. 1990. Estimation of leaf area index in fourteen southern Wisconsin forest

stands using a portable radiometer. Tree Physiology 7:115-124. Reich, PB, DS Ellsworth, BD Kloeppel, JH Fownes and ST Gower. 1990. Vertical variation in canopy

structure and CO2 exchange of oak-maple forests: influence of ozone, nitrogen and other factors

on simulated canopy carbon gain. Tree Physiology 7:329-345. 1989 Gower, ST, CC Grier and KA Vogt. 1989. Aboveground production and N and P use by Larix

occidentalis and Pinus contorta in the Washington Cascades, U.S.A. Tree Physiology 5:1-11. Gower, ST and CC Grier. 1989. Aboveground organic matter and production of a montane forest on

the east slopes of the Washington Cascades. Canadian Journal Forest Research 19:515-518. Gower, ST and PM Vitousek. 1989. Effects of nutrient amendments on fine root biomass in a

primary successional forest in Hawaii. Oecologia 81:566-568. 1988 1987 Gower, ST, CC Grier, DJ Vogt and KA Vogt. 1987. Allometric relations of deciduous (Larix

occidentalis) and evergreen conifers (Pinus contorta and Pseudotsuga menziesii) of the Cascade Mountains in central Washington. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17:630-634.

Gower, ST 1987. Relations between mineral nutrient availability and fine root biomass in two Costa Rican tropical wet forests. Biotropica 19:171-175.

1986 Vogt, KA, CC Grier, ST Gower, DG Sprugel and DJ Vogt. 1986. Overestimation of net root

production: A real or imaginary problem. Ecology 67:577-579. 1985 Gower, ST, R Lea, DJ Frederick, A Clark, III and DR Phillips. 1985. Aboveground energy production

and distribution of southeastern hardwood swamp forests. Biomass 7:185-197. 1984 Gower, ST, DJ Frederick and A Clark, III. 1984. Distribution of energy in different-aged southeastern

bottomland forests. Forest Ecology and Management 9:127-146.


PUBLICATIONS: Invited Chapters in Books Vogt, KA, EE Moore, ST Gower, DJ Vogt, DG Sprugel and CC Grier. 1989. Long term productivity of

upper slope forests. Pp. 243-269 In: D Perry (Ed.) Maintenance of Long Term Productivity of Pacific Northwestern Forest Ecosystems. Timber Press, Portland OR.

Gower, ST, HL Gholz, K Nakane, and CF Baldwin. 1994. Production and carbon allocation patterns of pine forests. In: HL Gholz, S Linder and RE McMurtrie (eds). Environmental Constraints on the Structure and Productivity of Pine Forest Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis. Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council. Ecological Bulletin Series 43:115-135.

McMurtrie, RE, HL Gholz, S Linder and ST Gower. 1994. Factors controlling the productivity of pine stands: a model based synthesis. In: HL Gholz, S Linder and RE McMurtrie (eds). Environmental Constraints on the Structure and Productivity of Pine Forest Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis. Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council. Ecological Bulletin Series 43:173-188.

Gower, ST, JG Isebrands and D Sheriff. 1995. Factors influencing carbon assimilation and allocation in conifer forests. Pp. 217-254, In: WK Smith and TM Hinckley (eds). Resource Physiology of Conifers. Academic Press.

Reich, PB, T Koike, ST Gower, and A Schoettle. 1995. Causes and consequences of variation in conifer leaf life span. Pp. 225-254, In: WK Smith and TM Hinckley (eds). Ecophysiology of Coniferous Forests. Academic Press.

Breymeyer, E, ST Gower, B Berg, and DW Johnson. 1996. Carbon budgets for temperate conifer forests. Pp. 41-67 In: JM Melillo (ed) Global Change: Effects on coniferous forests and grass-lands. SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Gower, ST, JJ Landsberg, and K Bisbee. 2000. Forest Biomes of the World. In R Young and RL Giese (eds.) Introduction to Forest Science. John Wiley & Sons, NY. In press.

Gower, ST 2000. Forest Ecosystem Ecology. In R Young and RL Giese (eds.) Introduction to Forest Science. John Wiley & Sons, NY. In press.

Gower, ST 2000. Net Primary Production. In HA Mooney and P Canadell (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Change. Blackwell Scientific.

PUBLICATIONS: Contributed Papers Gower, ST, DJ Frederick and A Clark, III. 1982. Caloric content estimation and distribution in seven

hardwood tree species growing in natural stands in the south. Pp. 384-390, In: RN Muller (ed.) Proc. Fourth Central Hardwood Forest Conference. November 8-10, 1982. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

Frederick, DJ, MG Messina, ST Gower, A Clark, III and DR Phillips. 1984. Southeastern wetland hardwood forests: an emerging resource. TAPPI Conference. September 30-October 3, 1984. Appleton, WI. pp. 277-283.

Grier, CC, TM Hinckley, KA Vogt and ST Gower. 1987. Net primary production in Douglas-fir ecosystems: its relation to moisture and mineral nutrition. Pp. 155-161, In Oliver, CD, DP Hanley and JA Johnson (Eds.) Douglas-fir: Stand Management for the Future Symposium. June 12-15, 1986. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Grier, CC, ST Gower and KA Vogt. 1990. Douglas-fir productivity: A conceptual model of its regulation by water and nutrient availability. Pp. 257-273, In: SP Gessel, DS Lacate, G F Weetman and RF Powers. Sustained Productivity of Forest Soils. Proceedings of the 7th North American Forest Soils Conference, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry Publication, Vancouver, B.C.


Vogt, KA, DJ Vogt, ST Gower and CC Grier. 1990. Carbon and nitrogen interactions for forest ecosystems. Pp. 203-235 In: H Persson (Ed.) Proceedings Above- and below-ground interactions in forest trees in acidified soils. Air Pollution Research Report Series No. 32. Environmental Research Programme of the Commission of the European Communities.

Gower, ST, BD Kloeppel and PB Reich. 1995. Comparison of carbon, nitrogen and water use between larches and co-occurring evergreen conifers. Pp. 110-117, In: Schmidt, WC and RC Shearer (Eds.), 1993 Symposium - Ecology and Management of Larix Forests: A Look Ahead. USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station.

Kloeppel, BD, ST Gower and PB Reich. 1995. Net photosynthesis for western larch and sympatric evergreen conifers along a precipitation gradient in western Montana. Pp. 486-488, In: Schmidt, WC and RC Shearer (Eds.), 1993 Symposium - Ecology and Management of Larix Forests: A Look Ahead. USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station.

Birdsey, R, Y Pan, M Janowiak, S Stewart, S Hines, L Parker, S Gower, J Lichstein, K McCullough, F Zhang, J Chen, D Mladenoff, C Wayson, and C Swanston. 2014. Past and Prospective Carbon Stocks in Forests of Northern Wisconsin. A General Technical Report from the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Climate Change Response Framework (in press).

INVITED PRESENTATIONS S. T. Gower. Ecology of red pine forest ecosystems, NSF Pine Ecosystem Workshop, June 16-23,

1990, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. S.T. Gower. Carbon cycling in forest ecosystems, Invited lecture in Meteorology-Climatology: Earth

System Science Fall 1990,UW-Madison. S.T. Gower. Carbon cycling in forests: guiding principles, Invited lecture in Meteorology - Global

Change: Atmospheric Issues and Problems, Fall 1990, UW-Madison. S.T. Gower and J. M. Norman. Rapid estimation of leaf area index in forests using the Li-Cor LAI-

2000, National Science Foundation LTER All Scientist Meeting, September 16-21, 1990, Estes Park, CO.

S.T. Gower. Leaf longevity as an integrator of ecosystem processes in boreal ecosystems. NASA Modelling Workshop, August 18-23, 1991, Flathead Lake, Montana.

S.T. Gower. Ecophysiology of Larix, at Symposium: Ecology and Management of Larix Forests: A Look Ahead, Sponsored by British Columbia Ministry of Forestry, U.S. Forest Service, Forestry Canada, Society of American Foresters, and International Union of Forest Research Organizations, October 5-9, 1992, Whitefish, Montana.

S.T. Gower. Can species affect ecosystem structure and function? Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin. March 16, 1992.

S.T. Gower. Larches: deciduous conifers in an evergreen world. Centre de Recherche en Biologie Forestiere, Laval University, Quebec, Canada. April 10, 1992.

S.T. Gower. Influence of climate and nutrition on forest production and carbon allocation. In 1992 Ecological Society of America Symposium "Towards a Unification of Forest Carbon Budgets". Or-ganized by S.T. Gower and H.L. Gholz. Honolulu, Hawaii.

S.T. Gower. Influence of climate and nutrition on forest carbon budgets. Department of Forestry, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO. September 28, 1992.

S.T. Gower. Influence of climate and nutrition on carbon budgets for forests in contrasting climates. Forestry Canada, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Canada. November 29-December 3, 1992.

S.T. Gower. Factors influencing carbon budgets for temperate and boreal conifer forests. IGBP workshop on Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems. Seattle, WA. April 12-15, 1993.


S.T. Gower. Forest ecophysiology - information needs at the tree and stand levels. Future of Forestry/Environmental Research: A Central-Lake States Perspective. National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI) Lake States Annual meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, September, 1993.

S.T. Gower. Nutrient uptake and use by evergreen conifers. International Energy Association Conference, Rotorua, NZ. February, 1994

S.T. Gower. Carbon assimilation, accumulation and allocation by four conifer forests in contrasting climates. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ February, 1994

S.T. Gower. Direct and indirect estimates of leaf area index of temperate forests: stand to regional approaches. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency and Forest Service-USDA), Oak Ridge TN, December, 1994.

S.T. Gower. Allometry and C budgets of boreal forests. BOREAS Conference, Williamsburg, VA, December, 1994.

S.T. Gower. Influence of forest management on tree to ecosystem carbon and nutrient dynamics. Current forest research issues in the Lake States. National Council for Air and Stream Improve-ment (NCASI) Lake States Annual meeting, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, September 1994.

S.T. Gower. Factors controlling carbon assimilation and allocation in forests: Interactive Environmental Effects on Forest Stands. International Union Forest Research Organization Canopy Processes Meeting. Rotorua, NZ, February 1995.

S.T. Gower. Changes in forest productivity in a northern hardwood age sequence. Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Workshop: Changes in forest productivity and carbon balance with stand development: Linking models and experiments. (Sponsored by Forest Service-USDA and EPRI [Electrical Power Research Institute]), Rotorua, NZ, February, 1995.

S.T. Gower. Certainties and uncertainties of forest C budgets. CSIRO Div. of Environmental Mechanics, Canberra, Australia. March 1995.

S.T. Gower. The role of forests in the global C budget - certainties and uncertainties. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. March 1995.

S.T. Gower. Invited speaker, Forestry Canada, Sustainable Forestry Workshop. March 1997. S.T. Gower. Invited speaker, Soil Respiration Workshop, Uppsala Sweden, June 1997. S.T. Gower. Carbon budgets of boreal forests: The Boreas experience. Oregon State University, April

1998. S.T. Gower. Influence of forest management on biodiversity, structure, and function in northern

hardwood forests. Oregon State University, April 1998. S.T. Gower. Carbon budgets of boreal forests: The Boreas experience. Northeast Forestry University,

Harbin, China, August 1998. S.T. Gower. NPP Decline in Aging Forests: The Missing Link. IUFRO Workshop on Canopy Dynamics

and Forest Management- A Missing Link? August 1-11, 1999, in Estonia, Finland. (Invited keynote address).

S.T. Gower. Carbon Allocation and Net Primary Production Patterns of World Forests: Emerging Paradigms? Toward the Application of Process Models to Sustainable Management of Southern Pine Forests Conference. Ashville, NC, June 8-11, 1999. (Invited keynote address).

S.T. Gower. Measuring carbon stocks and fluxes of circumpolar boreal forests: towards an integrated assessment of the role of boreal forests in the global carbon budget. International Science Conference, International Boreal Forest Research Association. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May, 2000. (Invited keynote address.)

S.T. Gower. An Overview of the Physiological Causes of Age-Related NPP decline in Aging Forests. EuroSilva Workshop on “Development and Aging in Forest Trees, Florence, Italy. Sept 20-24, 2000. (invited keynote address).


S.T. Gower. BigFoot: An approach to scale ecological measurements from stand to landscape. USDA North American Carbon program, Portsmouth, NH July 2003.

S.T. Gower. Remote sensing needs in ecosystem science. NASA Terrestrial Ecology Forest Structure Meeting, Annapolis, MD. July 2003.

S.T. Gower. Greenhouse gas emissions for a dimensional lumber and magazine chain. A life cycle analysis approach. Iceland Global Change Conference. Reykavik, Iceland. Aug. 9, 2003.

S.T. Gower. Global change, the boreal forest, and the carbon cycle. Ohio University, Nov. 3-5, 2004. S.T. Gower. The importance of remotely sensing disturbance: towards resolving the C budget. NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Sept 1-2, 2004. S.T. Gower. 2005 Plum Creek Symposium “Kyoto, Forests & Living Tree Markets: Science, land use in

Carbon Sequestration” Missoula, MT, April 13-14, 2005. S.T. Gower. Global change, the boreal forest, and the carbon cycle. University of Florida, March

2007. RESEARCH SUPPORT McIntire-Stennis Program, Biomass, production and nutrient use patterns in Pinus resinosa and Larix

decidua plantations in Wisconsin, PI, $52,900, 1988-1991. Nuzum Foundation, An evaluation of the productivity of oak and maple forests in the Kickapoo

Valley, Wisconsin, Co-PI, $120,000, 1988-1991. Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Influence of nutrient availability on belowground

processes in primary successional tropical forests, PI, $12,000, 1988-1989. National Science Foundation, Interaction of climate and nitrogen on forest production: comparison

of controlling factors in contrasting environments, PI, with S. W. Running [U. Montana] and H. L. Gholz [U. Florida] serving as Co-PIs), $501,800, 1990-1993.

Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nitrogen allocation in the canopy of two conifers: do plants optimize photosynthate production? PI, $13,492, 1990-1991.

NRI, U.S.D.A. Forest Biology Competitive Grants Program, Post-fire ecology of red oak and competing hardwood regeneration in Wisconsin, Co-PI, $129,000, 1990-1993.

National Science Foundation, Comparative studies of a suite of lakes in Wisconsin, Co-principal investigator (with J. Magnuson, PI and eight other Co-PIs), $3,196,000, 1991-1996.

University of Wisconsin-System Consortium, Post-fire ecophysiology and growth of northern red oak and sugar maple regeneration in Wisconsin, Co-PI, $16,045, 1991-1992.

U.S.D.A. Forest Service (Cooperative Agreement), Comparison of methods to measure solar radiation in hardwood stands, PI, $13,600, 1991-1992.

National Science Foundation, Production and resource use efficiency of larch and sympatric evergreen conifers, PI, (with Co-PI P. B. Reich), $199,497, 1991-1994.

National Science Foundation, Interaction of climate and nitrogen on forest production: comparison of controlling factors in contrasting environments, PI, (Supplement, Research Experience for Undergraduates), $5,000, 1991-1992.

McIntire-Stennis Program-USDA, Production regeneration potential and competition among six habitat types in northern Wisconsin, (PI; Co-PI was J. Cook), $124,652, 1991-1994.

National Science Foundation, Growth rates of western larch and sympatric evergreen conifers in western Montana, PI, (Supplement, Research Experience for Undergraduates), $4,500, 1992-1993.

McIntire-Stennis Program-USDA, Energetics of a chrono-sequence of sugar maple-hemlock forests in the upper Great Lakes region, PI, $65,390, 1992-1996.


National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. Importance of belowground process on the carbon budgets of control and fertilized red pine plantations. S. T. Gower (PI) and B. E. Haynes (CoPI), $10,000, 1992-1994.

National Science Foundation, Field facility improvement for Kemp Biological Station, S. T. Gower (PI) with T. W. Steele and R. L. Giese (CoPIs), (matching funds were committed by CALS and the UW-Madison Graduate School), total funding $259,000, 1992-1994.

National Academy of Sciences. Travel grant to Siberia, Physiological ecology of Larix. S.T. Gower, $5,000, 1993.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Science Foundation. Measurement and scaling of carbon and nitrogen budgets for contrasting boreal forest sites. S.T. Gower (PI), J.M. Norman (Co-PI), $521,940, 1993-1996.

National Science Foundation, Influence of microsite soil topography on soil N dynamics and fine root growth, PI, (Supplement, Research Experience for Undergraduates), $4,000, 1993-1994.

Wisconsin Utilities Association. The Potential of Forests to Offset CO2 Emissions. S.T. Gower (PI),

$15,000, 1993. National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI). Comparison of three forest management

practices on the biological sustainability of northern hardwood forests in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. S.T. Gower (PI) and M.D. MacKenzie (Co-PI), $140,000, 1993-1999.

Earth Observation Satellite (EOSAT). Remote sensing leaf area index in northern hardwood forests. S. T. Gower (PI) and M. D. MacKenzie (Co-PI), $19,494, 1993-1994.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Applications of physiological ecology to forest management, S. T. Gower (PI), $35,278, 1994-1995.

Nuzum Foundation. Bioengineering techniques to reduce streambank erosion. S. T. Gower (PI), $15,000, 1994-1996.

National Science Foundation. Measurement and comparison of soil surface CO2 fluxes for contrasting managed and native terrestrial ecosystems, (Supplement, Research Experience for Undergraduates), S. T. Gower (PI), $10,000, 1995-1996.

National Science Foundation, U.S.-New Zealand Science and Technology Program. Carbon budgets for managed and native ecosystems in New Zealand and Wisconsin: Effects of land use practices in the mid-latitude zone. S. T. Gower (PI), $12,000, 1995-1996.

Hatch Interdisciplinary Research Program. Adapting a state-of-the-art model for practical decision making: predicting nutrient, energy and water cycling to achieve sustainability in agricultural systems. J. M. Norman (PI); S. T. Gower and L. Bundy (Co-PIs), $104,347, 1995-1997.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Carbon budgets of managed and unmanaged northern hardwood forests. S. T. Gower (PI), $50,000, 1995-1997.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Regional measurements and cross-site comparison of terrestrial vegetation attributes: A coordinated study among LTER sites and the EOS MODIS land team. I. Characterizing landform and spatial scale. S.T. Gower (PI), $28,000, 1995-1997.

National Science Foundation. Comparative studies of a suite of lakes in Wisconsin- LTER Supplement. J.J. Magnuson (PI); S. T. Gower one of nine (CoPIs), $3,000,000, 1996-2002.

Hatch Interdisciplinary Research Program. Responses of forests in northern Wisconsin to anticipated changes in atmospheric chemistry. E.L. Kruger and S.T. Gower (Co-PIs). $150,000, 1997-1999.

McIntire-Stennis Program, USDA. Coupling forest ecosystem process-based models to groundwater models: tools to guide natural resource management in northern Wisconsin. S.T. Gower (PI) and S. Mackay (Co-PI). $227,120, 1997-2001.

National Science Foundation. International travel grant to China: Effects of fire on boreal Larix gmelinii forests in far northeast China. S.T. Gower, $8,000. 1998.


National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Validation of ASTER and MODIS Surface temperature and vegetation products with surface-flux applications. S.T. Gower (PI), J.M. Norman, G.R. Diak, and K. Davis (Co-PI’s). $599,580. 1998-2000.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. BigFoot: Characterizing land cover, LAI, and NPP at the landscape scale for EOS/MODIS validation. S.T. Gower (PI). $592,000, 11/98-10/01. (This is part of a larger grant including other PIs with their own subcontracts; total amount is $1,200,000.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Carbon budgets for BOREAS and other boreal forests: towards a better understanding of factors influencing carbon allocation, net ecosystem exchange and their interactions. S.T. Gower (PI) and J. M. Norman (Co-PI). $149,100, 1998-2000.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Estimating NPP along a resource availability gradient using NDVI in a black spruce forest landscape. Global Change Graduate Fellowship. $66,000, 1998-2001.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Midwest Center for Natural Resource Management. G. Diak (PI), J. Norman, T. Gower, J. Foley and B. Bland (Co-PI’s). $1,500,000, 1999-2002.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Long-term Water Flux Changes from Converting Old-Growth Pine Forests to Hardwood Forests in Northern Wisconsin. D.S. Mackay (PI) and S.T. Gower (Co-PI). $359,177, 1999-2002.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Effects of logging activity on biophysical processes and carbon cycling within Canadian boreal forests during succession. Global Change Graduate Fellowship. $66,000, 1999-2002

United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service. Effects of interacting elevated ozone and CO2 on northern forest ecosystems using free air carbon dioxide enrichment. E.L. Kruger (PI) and S.T. Gower (Co-PI). $39,398, 1997-2002.

National Science Foundation, Integrated Research Challenges in Environmental Biology. Measurement and modeling the effects of fire on the structure and function of boreal forests. S.T. Gower (PI), J. Foley, J.M. Norman, and G. Diak. $2,900,000, 2000-2005.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Linking In-situ measurements, remote sensing, and models to validate MODIS products related to the terrestrial carbon cycle (BigFoot II). W. Cohen (PI), T. Gower, D. Turner, S.W. Running (Co-PI’s). Total amount: $1,500,000, 2001-2004. 2% time commitment.

Department of Energy, Program for Ecosystem Research. Effects of warming on the structure and function of a boreal black spruce forest. S.T. Gower, J. M. Norman, S. Linder. Total amount: $ 709,000. 2002-2005. 20% commitment.

Manitoba Hydro. Effects of warming on the structure and function of a boreal black spruce forest: Infrastructure Improvement. S.T. Gower (PI). Total Amount $140,000 in kind services. 2002-2004. 0% (see DOE proposal).

McIntire-Stennis. Net Primary Production and Carbon Allocation Patterns of Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Global Analysis of Environmental and Land Use Change Effects. S.T. Gower. Total amount: $67,519. 2002 – 2005. 5% commitment.

Wisconsin Focus on Energy. Carbon budgets for Wisconsin forests and their forest products. S.T. Gower and D.E. Ahl. Total amount $350,000. 2003-2005. 5% commitment

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Application of MODIS to Resolve the Effects of Global Change on Boreal Forest C Dynamics: Disturbance versus Climate Warming. S.T. Gower and D.E. Ahl. Total amount $313,305. 5/2004 – 4/2008.

McIntire-Stennis. Net Primary Production and Carbon Allocation Patterns of Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Global Analysis of Environmental and Land Use Change Effects. S.T. Gower. Total amount: $67,519. 2002 – 2005. 5% commitment.


National Science Foundation, Ecosystem Studies. Effects of global change on the water budgets of boreal black spruce ecosystems. S.T. Gower is the PI of a subcontract from University of Wyoming. $460,000. 2/2004–1/2007.

USDA Managed Ecosystems. Experimental manipulation of northern hardwoods forest structure: Quantifying biogeochemical responses for sustainable management. D.M. Mladenoff (PI) and S.T. Gower (Co-PI). $485,689. 2006-2009. 10% commitment.

Department of Energy, Program for Ecosystem Research. Effects of warming on the structure and function of a boreal black spruce forest. S.T. Gower, Total amount: $ 584,402. 2005-2008. 15% commitment.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Carbon Cycle Science, ROSES-2007 NRA. Coupling Biological and Industrial Forest Ecosystem Carbon Cycle Models to Enhance Carbon Management: A Decision Support Tool. S.T. Gower is the PI. Total amount: $693,293. 3/1/2008-2/28/2011. 10% commitment.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Milestones for advancement in undergraduate biology. JL Branchaw, SS Blair, ST Gower, and BR Larget. Total amount requested: $2,499,140 (pending). 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2019.

INSTRUCTION I. MENTORING OF STUDENTS 1. Chronology of S.T. Gower’s graduate students

Student Degree Major Entry dateCompletion date Jon Chapman M.S. Forestry Jan 1988 June 1990 Yowhan Son Ph.D. Forestry Jan 1989 Aug 1991 Mike VanDyck M.S. Forestry Jun 1990 May 1992 Jessica Tausend M.S. Cons. Biol. Jan 1991 Dec 1992 Brent Haynes M.S. Forestry Aug 1990 Aug 1994 Jim Gries M.S. Forestry Jun 1993 Dec 1995 Brian Kloeppel Ph.D. Forestry Jan 1992 May 1998 Karin Fassnacht Ph.D. Forestry May1992 May 1996 John Pingry M.S. Forestry Aug 1993 Dec 1995 Sarah Steele M.S. Forestry Aug 1993 Dec 1996 Jason Vogel M.S. Forestry Jan 1995 May 1997 Mary Williams M.S. Forestry Aug 1994 Aug 1997 John Campbell M.S. Forestry Aug 1995 May 1998 Drew Feldkirchner .S. Forestry Aug 1997 April 2000 Kari Bisbee Ph.D. Forestry Aug 1996 Dec 2000 Monica Strongren Ph.D. Forestry Jan 2009 Dec 2001 Sean Burrows Ph.D. Forestry Aug 1998 Aug 2002 Doug Ahl Ph.D. Forestry Aug 1998 May 2002 Erica Howard M.S. Forestry Aug 1998 Dec 2002 Chuankuan Wang Ph.D. Forestry Jan 1999 Aug 2002 Ben Bond Ph.D. Forestry Jan 1999 May 2003 Jenny Carney M.S. Forestry Aug 2002 July 2004 Jenny Martin M.S. Forestry Aug 2002 Aug 2005 Molly White M.S. Forestry Jan 2003 May 2005 Ingrid Van Herk M.S. Forestry Jan 2005 Dec 2006 Shawn Serbin M.S. Forestry May 2003 Dec 2007


Dustin Bronson Ph.D. Forestry June 2004 Dec 2008 Jake Dyer M.S. Forestry June 2006 Dec 2008 Jenny Martin PH.D. Forestry Aug 2005 Dec 2009 Scott Peckham Ph.D. Forestry Aug 2009 April 2011 Delgerjargal Dugarjav Ph.D. Forestry Aug 2008 Dec 2013 Natalie Hunt Ph.D. Forestry Aug 2008 June 2014 Leonia Nunez PhD. Forestry Aug 2011 June 2014

2. International Graduate Student Committees Dana Murty (PhD). External examiner. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Fall 1997 Silvia Pogracic (PhD). External examiner. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Spring

2001 Monika Stromgren (PhD). Co-Advisor. Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, December 2001 Eric Cecshia (PhD). Opponent. Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, December 2001 Leonia Nunez (PhD). Co-advisor. Vila Real University, Vila Real, Portugal.

3. Other scholars “In Training” with Professor Gower Mark Jeffreys, NCEAS, Post-doctoral fellow Monika Stromgren, Swedish Agr. University, Uppsala Pre-doctoral Karin Fassnacht, Post-doctoral fellow Mark McKenzie, ERSC, Post-doctoral fellow Chuankuan Wang, NE For. Univ., Harbin, China, Visiting Professor Brent Ewers, Post-doctoral fellow Kristofor Brye, Post-doctoral fellow Ben Bond-Lamberty, post-doctoral fellow Douglas Ahl, post-doctoral fellow Scott Peckham, assistant research scientist II. CLASSROOM TEACHING ACTIVITIES (enrollment) Forestry 550, Forest Ecology, 3 Credits, fall semester, Sole responsibility Data reported by year (students enrolled) 1988 (26), 1989 (18), 1990 (26), 1991 (29), 1992 (41), 1993 (34), 1994 (42), 1996 (41), 1997 (46),

1998 (37), 1999 (25), 2000 (32), 2001 (36), 2002 (42), 2003 (44), 2004 (51), 2005 (sabbatical), 2006 (44), 2007 (44), 2008 (52), 2009 (63), 2010 (64), 2011 (71), 2012 (90), 2013 (109), 2014 (124)

Summer 2013 (26) Forestry 550, Forest Ecology Laboratory, 1 Credit, fall semester, sole responsibility Data reported as year (# of lab sections, total students enrolled) 1990 (1,14); 1991 (1,14); 1992 (2,20); 1993 (2,20); 1994 (2,20); 1995 (sabbatical); 1996 (2, 27); 1997

(2,32); 1998 (2,21); 1999 (2,17); 2000 (2,28); 2001 (2,26); 2002 (2,25); 2003 (2,28); 2004 (3,32); 2005 (sabbatical); 2006 (3,30); 2007 (2,26); 2008 (3,36); 2009 (3,44); 2010 (3,46); 2011 (3,57); 2012 (3,60); 2013 (3, 70).

Forestry 590, Forestry Senior Capstone, 3 credits, co-responsibility Data reported by year (# of students enrolled) 2007 (10), 2008 (11), 2009 (8), 2010 (6), 2011 (10), 2012 (12), 2013 (17)


Forestry 100, Introduction to Forest Science, 2 Credits Spring 1990 (234), 1991 (200), 1992 (194), 1993 (175), 1994 (156), 1995 (143), 1996 (128), 1997 (130), 1998 (146), 1999 (92) Participant in team taught course, 1 lecture. Forestry 375, Leaf Longevity, 1 Credit, Co-instructed Spring 1991 (10) Forestry 375 (& Met 601), Modeling Global Systems, 3 Credits Fall 1991 (10), 1992 (10) Co-taught with Bowser (Geology); Bretherton & Kutzbach (Meteor) Forestry 655, Forest Resources Practicum, 3 credits Summer 1991 (25), 1993 (9), 1995 (25) Team taught course, 10-15 hours of lecture and laboratories Coordinator of Forest Ecology Section, 1995 Forestry 657, National Forest Management Practicum, 1 Credit Spring 1990 (16) Shared responsibility with a senior faculty member Forestry 875, Topics in Forest Ecosystems, Sole responsibility Fall 1989 (5) Credits: 1 Forestry 875 (Crosslisted), Earth Systems Science, Co-instructed Fall 1991 (80) Credits: 1 Forestry 901, Forest Ecophysiology Seminar, Co-instructed Fall 1988 (6) Credits: 1-2 Fall 1997 (11) Credits: 1-2 Biology 260, Entering Research, sole responsibility 2013 (2) SERVICE I. UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Arboretum Committee (University) Chair, Arboretum Research Committee (University) UW Faculty Senate-Alternate (University) UW Faculty Senator (University, 1993-1994) Organized a lecture by S. W. Running, Addressing Global Ecology Issues with Ecosystem Models, May 10, 1988, (University Lectures Series) Organized a lecture by R. H. Waring, Mission to Planet Earth - The Oregon Transect, March 11, 1991, (University Lectures Series) Instructor on Forest Biology and Ecology in Extension Program Cross-Training: A Workshop for Foresters and Loggers, April 4, 1991, Cable Wisconsin (funded by the USDA-Forest Service Stew-ardship Program) UW-Madison Ecology Group, serving 2 years as President (1998-1999)


Climate, People and Environment Program Committee (IES) CALS Research Advisory Council 1998-2000. CALS Agriculture Research Stations Committee (College) Kemp Station Review Committee (College) CALS Curriculum Committee, Natural Resources (College) Kemp Natural Resources Station Building Committee (College) Coordinator, NSF Site Review of Kemp Station Building Project (College) Coordinator, Forest Biology Division, Forestry 655, SS 1995 Secretary of the Faculty (Department) Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee (Department) Space Committee (Department) Physiology Search and Screen Committee, Chair (Department) UW CALS Research Advisory Committee (2005-2007) Department Space committee (2010-2014) Chair, Search & Screen Committee for Assistant Professor of Forest Economics and Risk Assessment (2013-2014)

II. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 1. Outreach, Advising and Inter-institutional Cooperation Organized and conducted field trip for Furman University Field Biology Course, September 3, 1989, Coulee Experimental Forest, Wisconsin Organized and conducted field trip for the International Union of Forest Research Organ- izations, Ecophysiological Workshop, Coulee Experimental Forest, Wisconsin, September 29, 1989 Hosted visiting scientist Dr. David Whitehead, Forest Research Institute, New Zealand, September 29-October 2, 1989. NSF Tree Mortality Workshop, Oregon State University, March 20-24, 1990; candidate appointed by

the National Science Foundation to represent the North Temperate Lakes Long-term Ecological Research program.

NSF Comparative Methods of Root Analysis Workshop, Michigan State University, April 30-May 2, 1990; candidate appointed by the National Science Foundation to represent the North Temperate Lakes Long-term Ecological Research program.

Hosted visiting scientist William Dyck, Assistant Director of Forest Technology Division, Forest Research Institute, New Zealand, 1991

Organized symposium Towards a Unification of Forest Carbon Budgets for 1992 Ecological Society of America Meeting in Honolulu, HI.

Reviewed series of papers and prepared an evaluation for a South Korean ecologist who was being considered for a national award by the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation.

Co-taught a Global Systems Modelling course sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Madison Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Madison, WI July 12-16, 1991.

Hosted BOREAS Biometry/Allometry Working Group meeting at UW-Madison, April 11-12, 1994. Chair, Carbon Budget Committee for International Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere System (BOREAS)

experiment, NASA, 1994-1995. Chair, Biometry and Allometry Working Group for International Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere

System (BOREAS) experiment, NASA, Canada, 1994-1995. Expert Panelist, National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Office, Forests/Rangelands/Crop

Ecosystems Program, USDA-CSRS, 1993. Rappatour, Terrestrial Ecology Group, BOREAS Experiment, NASA, Canada, 1993-1996.


Hosted Dr. Joseph Landsberg, Division of Environmental Mechanics (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia) at UW-Madison August 20-30, 1995.

Chair, Biometry and Allometry Working Group, BOREAS, Canada. 1996. Invited member of Global Primary Production (GPP-D1) Steering Committee, International Global

Biological Program (IGBP), 1996-present. Invited seminar, Productivity of managed and old growth northern hardwood in northern Wisconsin,

Society of American Foresters Annual State Conference, Baraboo, WI, 1996. Invited panel member for NASA FACE-Remote Sensing Steering Committee, Greenbelt MD, 1997. Invited participant of Boreal-Arctic Carbon Cycling Workshop, Santa Barbara CA, 1997. External Reviewer, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales,

Sydney, Australia. 1997. External Reviewer, Ph.D. Dissertation, Lincoln University, Lincoln New Zealand. Hosted visiting scientist C. Wang, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China, 1997-1998. Invited panel member for NASA LBA-Brazil project, Washington, D.C. 1998. Invited participant of National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Global NPP

Workshop, Santa Barbara CA. 1998. Organized NCEAS NPP Decline Workshop, Santa Barbara CA, 1998. Leader, Task 3.5 (Effects of Global Change on Managed Forests) for International Geosphere-

Biosphere Programme, 1999-present. Invited panel member for NASA InterDisciplinary Science (IDS) Team Program. College Park, MD.

2000. Invited panel member for DOE Terrestrial Carbon Program, Gaithersburg, MD. 2000. Invited panel member for NSF Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site Cross Site Comparison

Program, Arlington, VA. 2000. Invited member of the Global primary production (GPP-DI) Steering Committee, International Global

Biological Program (IGBP) Invited member of the Distributed Active Archive Center Advisory Committee, Oak Ridge National

Laboratory (1999-2001) Invited presentation to Thompson Manitoba, Canada Chamber of commerce, Rotary Club, City

Council, and Manitoba Hydro Board of Directors on the boreal forest warming project (2002) Provided interviews to Wisconsin State Journal, Winnipeg Free Press, Canadian Broadcasting

Company, Danville Advocate-Messenger on the boreal forest warming project (2002) Invited professor for a graduate course “Effects of afforestation of carbon balance and biodiversity”

in Iceland Invited lecturer at the Changing Northern Environment Inter-Universities North Conference,

Thompson, Manitoba, Canada III. Manuscript Reviewing

American Naturalist, Biogeochemistry, BioScience, Biotropica, Canadian Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Forest Science, Forest Science Monographs, Forest Ecology & Management, Journal of Geophysical Research, New Forests, Oecologia, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, Tree Physiology

IV. Proposal Reviewing

Forest Biology Program, USDA, Competitive Research Grants Office Hatch and McIntire-Stennis Formula programs National Science Foundation: Geography & Regional Science


National Science Foundation: Ecosystem Studies National Science Foundation: Ecology Southern Global Change Program, Forest Service USDA NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program NASA North American Carbon Program National Parks Global Climate Change Program Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

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