Knute J. Nadelhoffer
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of
Michigan.
Director, University of Michigan Biological Station
Knute Nadelhoffer is an ecologist and biogeochemist whose research focuses on process determining terrestrial ecosystem structure and functioning at local, regional and global scales. His field research is conducted in temperate forests and arctic tundra where he combines field studies and modeling efforts aimed at predicting ecosystems responses to climate change, air pollution and physical disturbances.
Dr. Nadelhoffer is Director of the University of Michigan Biological Station ( www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs ) in Pellston and Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan ( http://www.eeb.lsa.umich.edu ) in Ann Arbor . He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and was a post-doctoral research at the Ecosystems Center of Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Massachusetts ) in 1983-84. He held positions as Assistant, Associate and Senior Scientist at the Ecosystems Center through 2002. Dr. Nadelhoffer spent a year (1996-97) as a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Water Research ( Oslo ) and the Norwegian Institute of Forest Research (Ås) integrating North American and European studies of nitrogen deposition affects on forests. He served as Director of the Ecosystem Studies Program at the National Science Foundation in 2002-2003 and moved to the University of Michigan in June 2003.
Nadelhoffer has authored or co-authored over 95 research papers and book chapters. He is President-Elect of the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers (AERC at http://www.ecosystemresearch.org/ ), worked with the Ecosystem Interagency Working Group and was a co-author of The Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Ecosystems(2003). He is a member of the National Network Design Committee of the AIBS project to plan the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON at www.neoninc.org ).
