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The Evergreen Ecological Observation Network (EEON)

A long-term ecological research project evaluating structure and function of a lowland Puget Sound forest

 


Faculty

   Dylan Fischer

   Carri LeRoy

   Alison Styring
   Paul Przybylowicz


Lab Manager

Justin Kirsch

 

Undergraduate Students:

   Kyle Galloway (alumni)

   Pat Babbin (alumni)

   Josh Brann (alumni)

   Jordan Erickson (alumni)

Alexandra Kazakova

   Don Loft (alumni)

   Margaret Pryor

(alumni)

Emily Anderson

   IES 2006/7

(46 students)

   Temperate Rainforests 2007

   (50 students)

   Field Ecology 2008 (20 students)

 

MES Students:

Jora Rehm-Lorber

(Avian Communities and Forest Structure)

Lindsy A. Wright


Historic Photos (1939)

Campus South

Campus North

(Courtesy of C. Adair)

 

Recent Photos
Taken south of each plot during Summer 2006

 

E-8, E-9, E-10,

D7, D8, D9, D10, D-11,

C-7 , C8, C9, C10, C11,

B7, B8, B9, B10, B11,

A7, A11

 


 

 

Student poster the 2008 South Sound Science Symposium (S4)

 

Kazakova, AN, JL Kirsch, and DG Fischer. 2008. Carbon Storage and Productivity Estimates in a Second-Growth Forest

 

Long-term Ecosystem Research In Diverse Lowland Puget Sound Forests

 

This project is a long-term research effort involving students and faculty conducting research on patterns and process in a 1000 acre lowland Puget Sound second-growth rainforest at the Evergreen State College. Major changes are expected and have already occurred in these lowland Puget Sound ecosystems associated with ecological and anthropogenic factors. Our efforts are centered on 44 intensively-studied long-term monitoring plots where we are measuring biological diversity, development, carbon dynamics, and decay of trees, snags, sub-canopy vegetation, and down-woody debris. We use a rotating subset of 10 plots to conduct detailed measurements of soil CO2 efflux, root production, spatial relationships between trees and and soils. These data allow us to improve understanding of carbon dynamics and forest structure in a model lowland Puget Sound forest, as well as develop and ask interesting questions related to forest structure and diversity. Over-time, these data will allow us to address how forests change, and how climate change is affecting ecosystems. We are interested in collaboration with other labs. Please contact us about data sharing and joint projects.
 

 

Click Here to see a site pdf of Topography map, LIDAR Map, Tree Ht Map, or Aerial Photo Map (Large files! save to disk - then open)

 

      

 

 

 

       

                      

 

             

 


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