General Information

• My Curriculum Vitae.
• ORNL/ESD List of Global-Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Publications

Classical Data Sets, Model Codes

• Global Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Data
• Get a copy of the LINKAGES code and documentation.

Selected Recent Manuscripts

• King, A.W., C.A. Gunderson, W.M. Post, D.J. Weston, S.D. Wullschleger 2006. Plant respiration in a warmer world. Science 312:356-357
• Post W.M., R.C. Izaurralde, J.D. Jastrow, B.A. McCarl, J.E. Amonette, V.L. Bailey, P.M. Jardine, T.O. West, J. Zhou 2004. Enhancement of carbon sequestration in US soils. Bioscience 54:895-908.
• Jain, A.K., T.O. West, X. Yang, and W.M. Post. 2005. Assessing the impact of changes in climate and CO2 on potential carbon sequestration in agricutural soils. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L19711, doi:10.1029/2005GL023922.
• Global carbon cycle research highlight
• Post, WM and KC Kwon 2000. Soil Carbon Sequestration and Land-Use Change: Processes and Potential. Global Change Biology 6:317-328. Data presented as figures rather than in tables: Agriculture to Forest (Table 1), Conversion to Grassland (Table 2). I am grateful to several readers that have found errors in Table 1 of Post and Kwon (2000) - here are the corrections in the form of e-mail exchanges - ERRATA
• Luxmoore, R.L. et al. (2000) Signal-transfer modeling for regional assessment of forest responses to environmental changes in the southeastern United States. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 5:125-137.

Current Projects

Global Terrrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Model

DOE Center for Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystem

Enriched Background Isotope Study (EBIS)

North American Net Ecosystem Exchange: Regionalization of Ameriflux Observations

ORNL Environmental Sciences Division

Last Modified: June 22, 2006