Staff Profile
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Biography

McGill University (B Sc. In Biology)
University of Virginia (MS. In Environmental Sciences)
University of Georgia (Ph. D. in Ecology)
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (postdoctoral fellow)

Geoffrey (‘Jess’) Parker has been the forest ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Md., since 1987.   His research interests concern the structure and function of forest ecosystems at long temporal and large spatial scales, in the canopies of forests, the spatial relationships of forest trees, and in comparative forest ecology.   An organizing theme of the majority of studies has been the interaction between the structure of the forest canopy and:  1.) exchanges of material and energy with the atmospheric boundary layer, 2.) forest microclimates, and 3.) biotic habitats.  He is currently involved in a variety of LIDAR-based studies of forest structure, eddy covariance-based measures of forest functions, and biometrically-based studies of forest carbon budgets.  

 

Publications

  • Parker, Geoffrey G. (1995). Tree. 1996 McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology (352-354) McGraw-Hill, Inc .
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. (1995). Structure and microclimate of forest canopies. Forest Canopies - A Review of Research on a Biological Frontier (73-106) Academic Press, Inc .
  • Brown, Martin J. ; Parker, Geoffrey G. (1994). Canopy light transmittance in a chronosequence of mixed-species deciduous forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 24 , 1694-1703.
  • Brown, Martin J. ; Parker, Geoffrey G. ; Posner, Nathaniel E. (1994). [node:title] . Journal of Ecology, 82 , 843-854.
  • Nadkarni, Nalini M. ; Parker, Geoffrey G. (1994). A profile of forest canopy science and scientists -- who we are, what we want to know, and obstacles we face: Results of an international survey. Selbyana, 15 (2) , 38-50.
  • Nadkarni, Nalini M. ; Parker, Geoffrey G. (1994). Creation of the Canopy Research Network. Ecological Engineering, 3 , 203.
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. (1994). Soil fertility, nutrient acquisition, and nutrient cycling. La Selva - ecology and natural history of a neotropical rainforest (54-63) University of Chicago Press .
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. ; Shaw, D. C. ; Smith, Alan P. (1994). Long-term studies of canopies - an international network for research on the outer forest canopy. Selbyana,
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. (1993). Structure and dynamics of the outer canopy in a Panamanian dry forest. Selbyana, 14 , 5.
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. ; Hill, Suzanne M. ; Kuehnal, Laurel A. (1993). Decline of understory American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in a southern Appalachian forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 23 , 259-265.
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. ; Shaw, D. C. ; Smith, A. P. (1993). An international network for research on the outer forest canopy. Selbyana, 14 , 36.
  • (1992). Permanent plots - a directory of long-term studies of vegetation. Institute of Ecosystem Studies .
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. ; Smith, Alan P. ; Hogan, Kevin P. (1992). [node:title] . Bioscience, 42 (9) , 664-670.
  • Parker, Geoffrey G. (1990). Evaluation of dry deposition, pollutant damage, and forest health with throughfall studies. Mechanisms of Forest Response to Acidic Deposition (10-61) Springer-Verlag .
  • Monk, C. D. ; Imm, D. W. ; Potter, R. L. ; Parker, Geoffrey G. (1989). A classification of the deciduous forest of eastern North America. Vegetatio, 80 , 167-181.

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