JERRY M. MELILLO
Senior Scientist
Tel: 508-289-7494 | Fax: 508-457-1548
Email:
jmelillo@mbl.edu
Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1977
M.F.S., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972
M.A.T., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1968
B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1965
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Research Statement
My research team focuses on understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling. Our field studies include two soil warming experiments at the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts. We have developed and use a simulation model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to consider the impacts of various aspects of global change (climate, chemistry of the atmosphere and precipitation, land cover and land use) on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe. TEM is part of the Integrated Global Systems Model, an integrated assessment model, based at MIT.
Publications of Interest:
Galford, G. L., J. M. Melillo, J. F. Mustard, C. E. P. Cerri, and C. C. Cerri 2010. The Amazon frontier of land-use change: croplands and consequences for greenhouse gas emissions
. Earth Interactions. (doi: 10.1175/2010E1327.1).
Karl, T.R. J.M. Melillo. and T.C. Peterson. (eds.) 2009.
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, England,.pp. 188 .
Melillo, J. M., J. M. Reilly, D. W. Kicklighter, A. C. Gurgel, T. W. Cronin, S. Paltsev, B. S. Felzer, X. Wang, A. P. Sokolov and C. A. Schlosser. 2009. Indirect emissions from biofuels: how important?
Science 326:1397-1399.
Searchinger, T., S. Hamburg, J. Melillo, W. Chameides, P. Havlik, D. Kammen, G. Likens, R. Lubowski, M. Obersteiner, M. Oppenheimer, G. P. Robertson, W. Schlesinger, G. D. Tilman. 2009. Fixing a critical climate accounting error.
Science 326:526-527.
Melillo, J. M., C. B. Field, and B. Moldan. 2003. Element interactions and the cycles of life. An overview, pp. 1-12. In: J. M. Melillo, C. B. Field and B. Moldan (eds.),
Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles – Global Change and Human Impacts. SCOPE 61. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, J. D. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. P. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens and S. Morrisseau. 2002. Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system.
Science 298:2173-2176.
Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, B. J. Feigl, C. Neill, D. Garcia, M. C. Piccolo, C. C. Cerri and H. Tian. 2001. Nitrous oxide emissions from forests and pastures of various ages in the Brazilian Amazon.
Journal of Geophysical Research 106(D24):34,179-34,188.
