Land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality
Recent
Publications:
Moore, G.M., B.J. Bond, F.C. Meinzer, and J.A. Jones. In press. Do thermal dissipation sap flow sensors yield consistent estimates for multiple years? Trees.
Jones, J.A., G.L. Achterman, L.A. Augustine, I.F. Creed, P.F. Folliott, L. MacDonald and B. C. Wemple. 2009. Hydrologic effects of a changing forested landscape--challenges for the hydrological sciences. Hydrological Processes 23, 2699-2704.
National Research Council (J. Jones, vice-chair). 2008. Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape. Committee on Hydrologic Impacts of Forest Management, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies (2008, 00 pp.; ISBN 0-309-12104-3).
D. Greenland, F. Bierlmaier, M. Harmon, J. Jones, A. McKee, J. Means, F. Swanson, C. Whitlock. Pp. 393-410 in Greenland, D., D.G. Goodin, and R.C. Smith, eds. 2003. Climate variability and ecosystem response at the H. J.
Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research site. In Climate variability and
ecosystem response at long-term ecological research sites. Oxford, New
York.
T.A. Spies, D.E. Hibbs, J.A. Ohmann, G.H. Reeves, R.J. Pabst, F.J. Swanson, C. Whitlock, J.A. Jones, B.C. Wemple, L.A. Parendes, and B. Schrader. pp. 31-67 in S.D. Hobbs, J.P. Hayes, R.L. Johnson, G.H. Reeves, T.A. Spies, J.C. Tappeiner, and G.E. Wells, eds. 2003 . The ecological basis of forest ecosystem management in the Oregon Coast Range. Forest and stream management in the Oregon Coast Range, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis.
Forman, R.T.T., D. Sperling, J.A. Bissonette, A.P. Clevenger, C.D. Cutshall, V.H. Dale, L. Fahrig, R. France, C.R. Goldman, K. Heanue, J.A. Jones, F.J. Swanson, T. Turrentine, and T.C. Winter. 2003 .Road ecology: science and solutions. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Recent
Graduate Student Titles:
Yarrow M. Murphy, MS, Water Resources Engineering 2009. Stream Channel Stability and Sensitivity to Landscape History and Land Use changes in Kelley Creek, Portland, Oregon.
Jeremy M. Adams, MS, 2008. Soil Transport on a Forested Hillslope: Quantifying Baseline Rates of Surface Erosion, Jim's Creek, Willamette National Forest, Oregon. Employer: Willamette National Forest, Oregon.
Michele M. Dailey, MS, 2008. Meadow Classification in the Willamette National Forest and Conifer Encroachment Patterns in the Chucksney-Grasshopper Meadow Complex, Western Cascade Range, Oregon. Currently Analyst, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Hood River, Oregon.
Timothy D. Perry, MS, 2007. Do Vigorous Young Forests Reduce Streamflow? Results from up to 54 Years of Streamflow Records in Eight Paired-watershed Experiments in the H.J. Andrews and South Umpqua Experimental Forests. Currently Assistant Project Manager, The Heschong Mahone Group (energy consultants), California.
Aaron Arthur, MS, 2007, Thirty-five years of forest succession in southwest
Oregon: Vegetation response to three distinct logging treatments
Barbara Geren, MS 2006, Predicting sediment delivery from small catchments
in the western Cascades of Oregon using the disturbed WEPP model
Samantha Sheehy, MS 2006, Exotic Plant Species Dynamics from 1994 to 2005 on
Road Networks in Forested Landscapes of Western Oregon.
Sam Littlefield, MS 2005, Patterns of Chronic Wind Mortality in a Small,
Old-growth Pseudotsuga menziesii Forest in the Western Cascades, Oregon
Michele Punke, PhD 2005, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of an Active
Margin Coast from the Pleistocene to the Present: Examples from Southwestern
Oregon
Lisa Vannatta, MS 2005, Forest Harvest Patterns on Private Land in Western
Oregon from 1972 to 2002
Danielle Robbins, MS Forest Resources, Temporal and Spatial Variability of
Historic Fire Frequency in the Southern Willamette Valley Foothills of
Oregon.
Sheryl Giglia, MS, 2004, "Spatial and Temporal Patterns of "Super-old" Douglas-fir Trees of the Central Western Cascades, Oregon"
Nicholas Watterson MS, 2004. Exotic plant invasion from roads to stream
networks in steep forested landscapes of western Oregon.
Georgianne Moore, PhD, 2003. Drivers of Variability in Transpiration and
Implications for Stream Flow in Forests of Western Oregon.
Nicole Czarnomski MS, 2003. Effects of Harvest and Roads on In-stream Wood
Abundance in the Blue River Basin, Western Cascades, Oregon.
Deana Pennington, PhD, 2002. Structural and Functional Comparison of
Human-Impacted and Natural Forest Landscapes in the Western Cascades of
Oregon.
Recent Grants Received:
IGERT: Ecosystem Informatics (J.A. Jones, PI; B. D’Ambrosio, T. Dietterich, M. Harmon, and E. Waymire, co-PIs). 10/03-9/08. $3,900,000.
Long-term ecological research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest LTER: LTER5 (M. Harmon, PI; B.J. Bond, S.L. Johnson, J.A. Jones, F.J. Swanson, co-PIs). 12/02-11/08. $4,200,000.
A spatially-distributed GIS-based model of temperatures in a stream network. (Jones and S.L. Johnson, co-PIs). National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Sciences. 9/99-8/02. $130,000.
Long-term Ecological Research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest: LTER4. (co-PI). National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology. 10/96-9/'02. $3,200,000. Jones manages portion for hydrology and small watershed synthesis, $40,000/yr.
Courses
taught:
Geo 102 Surface of the Earth (4 cr.)
Geo 324 Biogeography (4 cr.)
Geo 538 Ecosystem Informatics Field Trip (2 cr.)
Geo 541 Spatial Analysis in Ecology and Earth Science (3 cr.)
Geo 542 Concepts in Ecosystem Informatics (3 cr.)
Geo 543 Applications in Ecosystem Informatics (4 cr.)
Geo 546 Advanced Landscape Ecology (3 cr.)
Geo 547 Collaborative Research in Ecosystem Informatics (4 cr.)
Geo 548 Advanced field methods in geomorphology and landscape ecology (3
cr.)
Degrees:
PhD
in Geography/Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins
University, 1983
M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins School for
Advanced International Studies, 1979
B.A. in Economic Development, Hampshire College