News & Events
Eric Davidson Named American Geophysical Union Fellow
Eric Davidson has been named a 2019 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences and outstanding achievements in advancing and communicating science. Only 0.1% of AGU Read More …
Lessons from President George H. W. Bush for the Present Political Environment
The recent passing of President George Herbert Walker Bush reminded me of the huge contrast between his tenure and that of our current president. During the week commemorating President Bush’s life, much was said about his compassion, respectfulness, and decency. Read More …
Nitrogen Fixation Inputs in Pasture and Early Successional Forest in the Brazilian Amazon Region
I’ve always told students that data are not like wine – they don’t grow better with age. So it was with some embarrassment that I finally returned to a dataset that was more than a decade old to work on Read More …
The Millennial Model
Rose Abramoff and a group of mostly Millennials (with a few of us old farts included as well) have published a paper describing a new model structure of soil carbon dynamics based on current process-level understanding. The CENTURY and RothC Read More …
Eric Davidson Raising Money for UMCES Students on Climate Ride
On September 24, Eric Davidson will kick off the first leg of his three-day, 208-mile bike ride through the Blue Ridge Mountains toward the National Mall in Washington D.C. Davidson, director and professor at the Appalachian Laboratory, is embarking on his third Climate Ride, an Read More …
Red/Blue and Peer Review
AL Director and President of the American Geophysical Union, Eric Davidson, is joined by Marcia McNutt, the President of the National Academy of Sciences, to recount the historical journey from scientific skepticism 40-50 years ago to today’s broad scientific consensus about human-induced climate Read More …
Projections of the soil-carbon deficit
Our new article describing how the amount of carbon stored in soil might be a crucial feedback to climate change in the December 2016 issue of Nature. Read it here.
Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change
Dr. Davidson has co-authored a paper recently published in Nature, which is the result of a workshop sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency. In this review, we discuss how climate change alters key processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems Read More …
Watching a forest breathe
Dr. Davidson recently worked with a University of Arizona-led research team to publish some groundbreaking work in the journal, Nature, that significantly improves our understanding of photosynthesis in temperate forests, including how these forests use carbon dioxide. The results should help improve models Read More …
MoFoLoPo
Our new article highlighting the importance of producing more food with less pollution was just published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Read it here