Richard Dare Boone  Professor of Ecosystem Ecology Institute of Arctic Biology  Department of Biology and Wildlife  University of Alaska Fairbanks  Fairbanks, Alaska 99775  Tel. 907-474-7682  Fax 907-474-6967  email: ffrdb@uaf.edu

• Course Materials
• Research Interests
• Education
  Professional Experience
• Professional Affiliations
  Publications
• Reviewer for
  Grants
• Panel Member
• Graduate Student Committees

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Course Materials

• Biology 273X: Human Dimensions of Global Change

Research Interests

• Biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems, soil organic matter dynamics, global change, land-use legacies on soils

Education

• Ph.D. 1989 University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Forest Soils)
• M.S. 1982 Oregon State University (Forest Ecology)
• A.B. 1977 Oberlin College (Biology)

Professional Experience

• 1999 - present Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• 1995 - 1999 Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• 1991 - 95 Soil Ecologist, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
• 1988 - 91 Postdoctoral Fellow, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham
• 1986 - 88 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 1983 - 84 Research Assistant, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
• 1980 - 82 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University
• 1979 - 80 Research Assistant, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
• 1978 - 79 Research Assistant, Institute for Forest Improvement, Svalöv, Sweden
• 1977 - 78 Research Assistant, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

Professional Affiliations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Geophysical Union
• Ecological Society of America
• International Association for Ecology
• Soil Ecology Society
• Soil Science Society of America

Publications

• Boone, R.D.,  Grigal, D.F., Ahrens, R.A., Sollins, P. and D.E. Armstrong.  In press.  Soil sampling, preparation, archiving, and quality control. In Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, editors. Standard Soil Methods for Long-term Ecological Research. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Compton, J.E., Boone, R.D., Motzkin, G., Foster, D.R.  In press.  Controls on soil nitrogen cycling in a pine-oak sand plain in central Massachusetts: Vegetation and land-use history.  Oecologia.
• Davidson, E.A.,  Belk, E., and Boone, R.D.  1998.  Soil water content and temperature as independent or confounded factors controlling soil respiration in a temperate mixed forest.  Global Change Biology 4:217-228.
• Grigal, D.F., Bell, J.C., Ahrens, R.A., Boone, R.D., Kelly, E.F., Monger, H.C., and P. Sollins.  In press.  Site and landscape characterization for ecological studies.  In Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, editors. Standard Soil Methods for Long-term Ecological Research. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Holland, E.A., Robertson, P., Greenberg, J., Groffman, P., Boone, R.D., and J. Gosz .  In press.  Measurement of Soil CO₂, N₂O and CH₄ Exchange.  In Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, editors. Standard Soil Methods for Long-term Ecological Research.  Oxford University Press, New York.
• Currie, W.S., Aber, J.D, McDowell, W.H., Boone, R.D., and A.H. Magill. 1996. Vertical transport of dissolved organic C and N under long-term N amendments in pine and hardwood forests. Biogeochemistry 35:471-505.
• Motkzin, G., Foster, D.R., Allen, A., Harrod, J. and R.D. Boone. 1996. Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain. Ecological Applications 66:345-365.
• Aber, J.D., A. Magill, S.G. McNulty, R.D Boone, K.J. Nadelhoffer, M. Downs, and R. Hallett. 1995. Forest biogeochemistry and primary production altered by nitrogen saturation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 85:1665-1670.
• Bowden, R.D., K.J. Nadelhoffer, R.D. Boone, J.M. Melillo, and J.B. Garrison. 1993. Contribution of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23:1402-1407.
• Aber, J.D., A. Magill, R.D. Boone, J.M. Melillo, P. Steudler, and R. Bowden. 1993. Plant and soil responses to three years of chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA. Ecological Applications 3:156-166
• Boone, R.D. 1992. Influence of sampling date and substrate on nitrogen mineralization: comparison of laboratory-incubation and buried-bag methods for two Massachusetts forest soils. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 22:1895-1900.
• McNulty, S.G., J.D. Aber, and R.D. Boone. 1991. Forest floor and foliar chemistry changes in spruce-fir forests across New England. Biogeochemistry 14:13-29.
• Aber, J.D., J.M. Melillo, K.J. Nadelhoffer, J. Pastor, and R.D. Boone. 1991. Factors controlling nitrogen cycling and nitrogen saturation in northern temperate forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 1:303-315.
• Boone, R.D. 1990. Soil organic matter as a potential net nitrogen sink in a fertilized cornfield, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA. Plant and Soil 128:191-198.
• Boone, R.D., P. Sollins, and K. Cromack, Jr. 1988. Stand and soil changes along a mountain hemlock death and regrowth sequence. Ecology 69:714-722.
• Houghton, R.A., R.D. Boone, J.R. Fruci, J.E. Hobbie, J.M. Melillo, C.A. Palm, B.J. Peterson, G.R. Shaver, G.M. Woodwell, and N. Myers. 1987. The flux of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere in 1980 due to changes in land use:geographic distribution of the global flux. Tellus 39B:122-139.
• Waring, R.H., K. Cromack, Jr., P.A. Matson, R.D. Boone, and S. Stafford. 1987. Responses to pathogen-induced disturbance:decomposition, nutrient availability, and tree vigor. Forestry 60:219-227.
• Houghton, R.A., R.D. Boone, J.M. Melillo, C.A. Palm, G.M. Woodwell, N. Myers, B. Moore III, and D. Skole. 1985. Net flux of carbon dioxide from tropical forests in 1980. Nature 316:617-620.
• Matson, P.A. and R.D. Boone. 1984. Natural disturbance and nitrogen mineralization: wave-form dieback of mountain hemlock in the Oregon Cascades. Ecology 65:1511-1516.
• Moore, B., R.D. Boone, J.E. Hobbie, R.A. Houghton, J.M. Melillo, B.J. Peterson, G.R. Shaver, C.J. Vorosmarty, and G.M. Woodwell. 1981. A simple model for analysis of the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon budget. Pages 365-385 in B. Bolin, editor. Carbon Cycle Modelling, SCOPE 16. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Reviewer for

• Biogeochemistry
• Canadian Journal of Forest Research
• Ecology
• Soil Biology & Biochemistry
• Soil Science Society of America Journal
• NASA Graduate Student Fellowships in Global Change Research
• NSF Ecosystems Studies
• USDA Competitive Grants Program (Soils and Soil Biology, Forest/Range/Crop/Aquatic Ecosystems)

Panel Member

• NSF - Ecosystems, 1996-1999
• NSF - Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions (CRUI), 1994-1995
• NSF - Dissertation Improvement, 1995-1996
• USDA, Competitive Grants - Forest/Range/Crop/Aquatic Ecosystems, 1995

Grants (Current and Past)

• National Institute for Global Environmental Change, Western Regional Center, Department of Energy Ecological consequences of thermokarst development in boreal forests" With T.E. Osterkamp, L.A. Viereck, and Y.L. Shur July 1995 - June 1997 $154,095
• USDA Competitive Grants Program - Forest/Rangeland/Crop Ecosystems "Influences of above- and belowground litter on forest soil organic matter dynamics" With K.J. Nadelhoffer September 1995 - August 1998 $66,500 (Subcontract to the University of Alaska)
• National Science Foundation - Ecosystems (Bonanza Creek LTER) "C and N dynamics across the taiga landscape: implications for disturbance" and "Influences of above- and belowground litter inputs on forest soil organic matter dynamics" With J. Schimel and D. Valentine, and J. Gulledge July 1996 - June 1997 $60,000
• National Science Foundation - Ecosystems "Long-term ecological research at the Harvard Forest" With D. Foster, T. Allison, E. Boose, R. Lent, F. Bazzaz, S. Wofsy, M. Binford, J. Aber, J. Melillo, K. Nadelhoffer, P. Steudler, C. McClaugherty, and C. Tomlin Oct. 1994 - Sept. 2000 $3,780,000
• National Institute for Global Environmental Change, Northeast Regional Center, Department of Energy "Biological and physical controls on soil organic matter quantity and quality" With K.J. Nadelhoffer July 1994 - June 1995 $83,000 July 1993 - June 1994 $104,129 July 1992 - June 1993 $90,000
• USDA Competitive Grants Program - Forest/Rangeland/Crop Ecosystems "Carbon controls on nitrogen retention by temperate forest ecosystems" With W.H. McDowell and J.D. Aber June 1993 - May 1996 $104,965 (Subcontract to Harvard University and the University of Alaska)
• National Science Foundation - Research Experience for Undergraduates "REU Program in Forest Ecology at the Harvard Forest" With D.R. Foster, R.D. Bowden, T.D. Allison, and R.A. Lent May 1993 - April 1996 $202,129
• National Science Foundation - BSR (Div. of Instrumentation Resources) "Establishment of a Nutrient Analysis Laboratory and Sample Archive at the Harvard Forest" With D.R. Foster Sept. 1993 - Aug. 1994 $150,000
• USDA Competitive Grants Program - Forest Biology "Identity and significance of light- and heavy-fraction soil organic matter" With D.L. Mader and J.T. Finn September 1986 - September 1989: $89,000

Teaching

• Principles of Ecology (BIOL 271), University of Alaska
• Human Dimensions of Global Change (BIOL 273X), University of Alaska
• Research Design (BIOL 602), University of Alaska
• Soil-Plant Relationships (SOIL 502), University of New Hampshire)
• Mentor for undergraduate students in the NIGEC (Department of Energy) Summer Fellowship program, 1993 and 1994; and the Harvard Forest (National Science Foundation) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, 1993 and 1994

Graduate Student Committees

Past

• Rob MacLean, M.S. 1998, Department of Biology and Willife, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Scott Benjamin, M.S. 1995. Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
• William Currie, Ph.D. 1995. Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
• Kimberly McCracken, M.S. 1994. Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
• Nancy Lambert, M.S. 1993. Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
• Scott Ollinger, M.S. 1993. Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
• Fritz Gerhardt, M.S. 1993. Harvard Forest, Harvard University
• Richard Hallett, M.S. 1992. Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire

Current

• Richard Brenner, M.S. student, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Chair)
• Kevin Petrone, Ph.D. student, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Chair)
• Sharon Richman, Ph.D. student, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Postdoctoral Students

• Jana Compton, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, 1994-95
• Jay Gulledge, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1996-97