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Name: Ford, Chelcy
Telephone: 828.524.2128 x 118; Fax: 828.369.6768
Email: crford@fs.fed.us
Organization:
Ecologist, USDA Forest Service
USDA Forest Service
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
3160 Coweeta Lab Road
Otto, North Carolina 28763
Position at Coweeta LTER:Principal Investigator
Specialty: Ecophysiology
Habitat: Forest, Watersheds
Organism: Water, Carbon, Atmosphere, Trees, Shrubs
Core Area(s): Transpiration, Primary Production,
Modeling/Synthesis
Education:
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Applied Biology, 1997
M.S., University of South Florida, Botany, 1999
Ph.D., University of Georgia, Forest Resources, 2004
Appointments:
Ecologist, Forest Service, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, 2006-present
Postdoctoral Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Coweeta Hydrologic
Laboratory, 2004-present
Graduate Research Assistant & EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellow,
University of Georgia, 2000-2004
Technician, University of South Florida, 2000
Grantee, USEPA NHEERL/Western Ecology Division, 1999-2000
Graduate Research Assistant, University of South Florida, 1997-1999
Technician, GA DNR/Environmental Protection Division, 1993-1994
Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Ford,
C.R., and Vose, J.M. 2007. Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr. mortality will
impact hydrologic processes in southern Appalachian forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 17: 1156-1167.
Ford,
C.R., Wurzburger, N., Hendrick, R. and Teskey, R.O.. 2007. Soil DIC uptake and fixation in Pinus taeda
seedlings and its C contribution to plant tissues and ectomycorrhizal fungi. Tree Physiology 27:325-383.
Ford, C.R., Hubbard, R.M., Kloeppel, B.D., and Vose, J.M., 2007. A
comparison of sap flux based evapotranspiration estimates with catchment-scale
water balance. Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology 145:176-185.
Ellison, A.E., Bank, M.S., Clinton, B.D., Colburn, E.A., Elliott, K.J.,
Ford, C.R., Foster, D.R., Kloeppel, B.D., Knoepp, J.D., Lovett, G.M., Mohan,
J., Orwig, D.A., Rodenhouse, N.L., Sobczak, W.V., Stinson, K.A., Snow, P.,
Stone, J.K., Swan, C.M., Thonpson, J., VonHolle, B., and Webster, J.R. 2005.
Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of
forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment 9:479-486.
Ford, C.R., and
Brooks, J.R., 2002. Detecting ecosystem response to increasing river flow in
southwest Florida, USA.
Forest Ecology and Management 160:45-64.
Synergistic Activities
1. Current
editorial board member for Tree
Physiology
2. Member American Geophysical Union, Ecological
Society of America
3. Adjunct
Faculty Appointments at Clemson University, Western Carolina University, and
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