Adrian V. Rocha

Postdoctoral Researcher

Tel: 508-289-7688
Email: arocha@mbl.edu

Ph.D., Earth Systems Science, University of California, Irvine, 2008
M.S., Environmental Science, Ohio State University, 2003
B.S., Earth Systems Science and Policy, California State University of Monterey Bay, 2000

Links:
- Full CV (PDF)

Research Statement:

I am interested in the biological and environmental controls on ecosystem exchanges of mass and energy at various temporal and spatial scales. My work utilizes a variety of tools including eddy covariance, remote sensing, and ground-based measures of ecosystem physiology to address these topics. My work has focused on a variety of topics including the influence of clouds on CO₂ and water exchange in a northern hardwood forest in Michigan, the physiology of tree growth in an old black spruce forest in Manitoba, Canada, and the environmental and biological controls on energy and mass exchanges in a freshwater marsh in Southern California. My postdoctoral work focuses on characterizing the affects of the Anaktuvuk River fire on climate forcing and vegetation recovery on the north slope of Alaska. This work will investigate fire induced landscape heterogeneity in the Anaktuvuk River fire scar and its implications to scaling disturbances up to the region. This project is headed by Dr. Gaius Shaver at the Ecosystems Center and is a collaborative effort with researchers from across the country.

Selected Publications:

Rocha, A.V. and G.R. Shaver (2009) Advantages of a two band EVI calculated from solar and photosynthetically active radiation fluxes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in press. [pdf]

Rocha, A.V. and M.L. Goulden (2009) Why is marsh productivity so high? New insights from eddy covariance and biomass measurements in a Typha marsh. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149:159-168. [pdf]

Rocha, A.V. and M.L. Goulden (2008) Large interannual CO₂ and energy exchange variability in a freshwater marsh under consistent environmental conditions. JGR-Biogeosciences, 113, G04019, doi:10/1029/2008JG000712. [pdf]

Rocha, A.V., M.L. Goulden, A.L. Dunn, and S.C. Wofsy. (2006) On linking interannual tree ring variability with observations of whole-forest CO₂ flux. Global Change Biology, 12:1378-1389. [pdf]

Rocha, A.V., H.B. Su, C. Vogel, H.P. Schmid, and P.S. Curtis (2004) Photosynthetic and water use efficiency responses to diffuse radiation by an aspen-dominated northern hardwood forest. Forest Science, 50:793-801. [pdf]