Olga Krankina

Assistant Professor, Sr. Research
Forest Management, Forest Ecology

202 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Phone: 541-737-1780
• Fax: 541-737-1393

• M.S., 1980, St. Petersburg Forest Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Ph.D., 1986, St. Petersburg Forest Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia

Forest management, forest ecology, woody detritus, carbon cycling, Russian forestry, remote sensing of forest and land cover

1. Driving Forces of Change in Regional Carbon Stocks: Comparison of the Western Oregon, USA and St. Petersburg Region, Russia. NASA-LCLUC Program 2001-2005 P.I. O.N. Krankina, Co-P.I: M.E. Harmon, W.B. Cohen, R. Alig, K. Waddell. See maps and summary of results (PDF)
2. Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Russia as a Result of Recent Disturbances and Land-Use Change NASA-LCLUC 2001-2005 (in collaboration with Woods Hole Research Center, PI R.A. Houghton) Abstract
3. Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China NASA-LCLUC 2004-2007 (in collaboration with Goddard Space Flight Center, Guoqing Sun, PI) Abstract.
4. NERIN – Northern Eurasia Regional Information Network.
5. Northern Eurasia Land Dynamics Analysis (NELDA) NASA-LCLUC 2006-2008 PI Olga N. Krankina (OSU); Co-I J. Masek (GSFC), M. Friedl (BU), C. Woodcock (BU), I. Csiszar (UMD), G. Sun (UMD), J. Morisette (GSFC) See project summary (PDF)
6. Chapter 9 “Forestry” in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Working Group III “Mitigation of Climate Change”).

ECOSYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION (FS646). Ecosystem science is a unique approach in biology that helps understand and define the structure and function of forests and associated streams in natural and managed landscapes. The course explores the ecosystem role of photosynthesis and respiration, litterfall and decomposition, grazing and disturbance, nutrient, water, and carbon cycling, and other processes. The class will examine the various roles of models in ecosystem science and help appreciate the challenge of scaling from individual processes to ecosystems, landscapes and beyond.

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