Steven Wofsy

Title

 Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science

Email

 scw@io.harvard.edu

Telephone

 617-495-4566

Fax

 617-495-2768

Department

 Department of Earth and Planetary Science

School

 Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Countries of Interest

  Brazil

Areas of Expertise

  Sciences

Mailing Address

 Department of Earth and Planetary Science Harvard University Pierce Hall, Room 110D Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Location

 Pierce Hall, Room 110D

Research Interest

 Long-term effects of Amazonian forests on climate and the effects of climate variations and climate change on forests; tropical forests; effects of climatic variations on carbon balance; ecosystem structure and health.

Web Page

 http://www-as.harvard.edu/people/faculty/scw/

Courses

 

Publications

 

Saleska, S. R.S. D. Miller, D. M. Matross, M. L. Goulden, S. C. Wofsy, H. R. da Rocha, P.B. de Camargo, P. Crill, B. C. Daube, H. C. de Freitas, L. Hutyra, M. Keller, V.W. H. Kirchhoff, M. Menton, J. W. Munger, E. H. Pyle, A. H. Rice, H. Silva, Carbon in Amazon forests: unexpected seasonal fluxes and disturbance-induced losses, Science 302, 1554-1557, 2003.

Hutyra, L. R.; Munger, J. W.; Nobre, C. A.; Saleska, S. R.; Vieira, S. A.; Wofsy, S. C.  Climatic variability and vegetation vulnerability in Amazônia  Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 32, No. 24, L24712  24 December 2005.

Rice, Amy H., Elizabeth Hammond Pyle, Scott R. Saleska, Lucy Hutyra, Michael Palace, Michael Keller, Pl?io B. de Camargo, Kleber Portilho, Dulcyana F. Marques and Steven C. Wofsy, Carbon Balance and Vegetation Dynamics in an Old-growth Amazonian Forest, Ecological Applications 14 (4): S55-S71 Suppl. S AUG 2004.

Hutyra, L., J. W. Munger, E. Hammond-Pyle, S. R. Saleska, N. Restrepo-Coupe, P. B. de Camargo, S. C. Wofsy, Resolving systematic errors in estimates of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and ecosystem respiration in a tall-stature forest: application to a tropical forest biome, submitted to Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Oliveira, P. H. F., P. Artaxo, C. Al. Pires Jr, S. de Lucca, A. Procópio, B. Holben, J. Schafer, L. F. Cardoso, S. C. Wofsy, S. Miller, H. da Rocha, The effects of biomass burning aerosols and clouds on the CO2 flux in Amazonia, Tellus B (in press).

Hutyra, L.,  J. W. Munger, S. R. Saleska, E. W. Gottlieb1,, B. C. Daube, A. L. Dunn, D. F. Amaral, P. B. de Camargo, and S. C. Wofsy, Seasonal controls on the exchange of carbon and water in an Amazonian rainforest, J. Geophys. Res. - Biogeosciences (in press).