SPRUCE Collaborations:

We anticipate that the SPRUCE experimental infrastructure will provide new opportunities for independently funded researchers to address their own science questions covering a variety of disciplines that are not represented by the core research group. To that end we encourage researchers from other agencies, laboratories and universities to consider how they might be able to use SPRUCE or associated footprints within the Marcell Experimental Forest to advance our understanding of boreal ecosystem structure and function, and organism vulnerability associated with environmental and climate change.

A SPRUCE coordinating panel for vetting new research ideas (i.e., the SPRUCE Research Managers, the Technical Task leads, the SPRUCE Scientific Advisory Panel, and U.S. DOE Program Managers) will be gathered periodically to assess collaborator research ideas. This panel will serve as the decision-making body for major operational considerations throughout the duration of the SPRUCE experimental activity and it will be the panel that evaluates task overlap, appropriateness, and the availability of space within SPRUCE needed for proposed research activities. Potential collaborators would normally be expected to find funding for their own research activities. Local logistical support and participation of SPRUCE project staff in sampling or the selection of sites within and around the experimental plots would be expected. All collaborators must agree to abide by the SPRUCE data policy, experimental protocols, and the safety rules established by ORNL and the USDA Forest Service.

Collaborators:

THE RESPONSE OF SOIL CARBON STORAGE AND MICROBIALLY MEDIATED CARBON TURNOVER TO SIMULATED CLIMATIC DISTURBANCE IN A NORTHERN PEATLAND FOREST: REVISITING THE CONCEPT OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER RECALCITRANCE. Principal Investigator: Joel E. Kostka

UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING HETEROTROPHIC CO2 AND CH4 FLUXES IN A PEATLAND WITH DEEP SOIL WARMING AND ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ENRICHMENT. Principal Investigator: Scott D. Bridgham

Can microbial ecology inform ecosystem level C-N cycling response to climate change? Principal Investigators: Kirsten Hofmockel and Erik Hobbie

Fungal, bacterial, and archaeal communities mediating C cycling and trace gas flux in peatland ecosystems subject to climate change. Principal Investigator: Erik Lilleskov

Mercury and Sulfur Dynamics in the SPRUCE Experiment. Principal Investigators: Brandy Toner, Randy Kolka, Steve Sebestyen, and Ed Nater

Improving models to predict phenological responses to global change. Principal Investigator: Andrew D. Richardson

SPRUCE Research Safety Summary:

Important Note:
This copy of the SPRUCE Research Safety Summary (RSS) was downloaded from ORNL Research Hazard Analysis and Control System (RHACS) on July 26, 2012 and is provided as an information only copy .
• This copy is provided on the SPRUCE website for the convenience of non-ORNL collaborating participants who do not have access to the internal ORNL RHACS system and are unable to read the RSS and follow all of the embedded links.
• Embedded links are unavailable outside of the RHACS system.
• Forest Service JHAs (ORNL annotated) attachments to the RSS are also provided as information only copies.
• Non-ORNL collaborators may read these selected documents for background information but the official copy is maintained as a hardcopy document at the SPRUCE Office in Grand Rapids.
• Non-ORNL collaborators must read this hardcopy version and sign the appropriate acknowledgement form which will be maintained as an official SPRUCE record.
• If you have any questions about accessing the RSS and attachments, please use the CONTACT US link.