Kari E. O'Connell

Director
H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

321 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Office: 321 Richardson Hall
• Phone: 541-750-7324; 541-822-6336
• Fax: 541-737-1393

• B.S.,
• M.S.,
• Ph.D.,

Long-term carbon and vegetation dynamics in the Pacific Northwest; development of old-growth structure in Douglas- fir forests, bryophyte ecology; fire management and carbon dynamics.

Effects of fire management on carbon dynamics along an fire regime gradient in Oregon; early succession in a mountain hemlock forest after wildfire; the role of root rot in the development of old-growth forest structure in Douglas-fir forests on the Olympic Peninsula; bryophyte productivity across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska; carbon accumulation of Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forests from stand-regenerating disturbance through the oldest stand ages represented in the region; and examination of variations in annual tree productivity in the central Cascades of Oregon.

1. O'Connell, K.E. Bisbee, S.T. Gower, and J.M. Norman. 2003. Net ecosystem production of two contrasting boreal black spruce forest communities. Ecosystems 6:248-260.
2. O’Connell, K.E. Bisbee, S.T. Gower, and J.M. Norman. 2003. Comparison of carbon and light use dynamics of two boreal black spruce forest communities. Ecosystems 6: 236-247.
3. Bisbee, K.E., S.T. Gower, J.M. Norman and E.V. Nordheim. 2001. Environmental controls on ground cover species composition and productivity in a boreal black spruce forest. Oecologia 129: 261-270.