Beverly Law

Professor
Global Change Forest Science

328 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Office: 328 Richardson Hall
• Phone: 541-737-6111
• Fax: 541-737-1393

• B.S., 1980, Forest Management, University of Florida
• Ph.D., 1993, Forest Science, Oregon State University

Ecosystem processes, including carbon and water cycling (e.g. photosynthesis, transpiration by trees and shrubs, autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration) as influenced by climate and disturbance; processes contributing to whole ecosystem CO 2 and water vapor exchange measured by the eddy covariance method; remote sensing of canopy structure; modeling ecosystem processes in response to climate and disturbance. For an overview of my research projects, go to http://terraweb.forestry.oregonstate.edu/

• Chair of the AmeriFlux network of 100+ sites in the Americas; research to investigate the influence of climate, developmental stage, and management on ecosystem processes contributing to carbon, water and energy exchange by forests; development of remote sensing methods for estimating leaf area density and aboveground biomass; regional mapping of net ecosystem productivity as a function of climate, developmental stage, and disturbance using a combination of field measurements, remote sensing, and process modeling (Biome-BGC, 3PGS, and SPA); development of disturbance and phenology aspects of Biome-BGC for regional and global modeling; investigating spatial variation in CO 2 and energy exchange using micrometeorological measurements and a coupled surface – atmosphere meso-scale model (SPA and MM5).