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Kristen L. Manies
Kristen Manies Click on this picture for an enlarged image.  
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Rd., MS 962
Menlo Park, CA 94025
PHONE 650-329-5010
FAX 650-329-4920
kmanies@usgs.gov

Education      Memberships in Societies      Research Interests      Publications

Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Forest Ecology, M.S. 1997
University of California-Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies and Sociology, B.S. 1991
 
Professional Experience
Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 1998-present
Consultant, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, 1998
Research Assistant, Stanford University, 1998
Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994-1997
Research Technician, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993-1994
Graduate Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1992-1993, 1994
 
Memberships in Honorary and Professional Societies
Ecological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
Gamma Sigma Delta
 
Research Interests
Current research interests include studying the impact of woody debris on long-term carbon cycling as well as determining 'quick and easy' post-fire methods to estimate burn severity and relating these values to losses of carbon, nitgrogen, and other nutrients.
 
Publications & Presentations
Please e-mail for electronic or paper reprints.

First-author Publications:

Manies, K.L., Harden, J.W., and Veldhuis, H. 2006. Soil Data from a Moderately Well and Somewhat Poorly Drained Fire Chronosequence near Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. Open-File Report 2006-1291. 13 pp.

Manies, K.L., Harden, J.W., Bond-Lamberty, B., and O'Neill, K.P. 2005. Woody debris along an upland chronosequence in boreal Manitoba and its impact on long-term carbon storage. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 472-482.

Manies, K.L., Harden, J.W., Silva, S.R., Briggs, P.H., and Schmid, B.M. 2004. Soil data from Picea mariana stands near Delta Junction, AK of different ages and soil drainage type. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2004-1271. 19 pp.

Manies, K.L., J.W. Harden, K. Yoshikawa, and J. Randerson. 2003. The impact of soil drainage on fire and carbon cycling in central Alaska. In Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey. J. Galloway (ed.) U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1678. 24 pp.

Manies, K.L., D.J. Mladenoff, and E. Nordheim. 2001. Assessing large-scale surveyor variability in the historic forest data of the original U.S. Public Land Survey. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 1719-1730.

Manies, K.L., J.W. Harden, L. Kramer, and W. Parton. 2000. Carbon dynamics within agricultural and native sites in the loess region of western Iowa. Global Change Biology 7: 545-555.

Manies, K.L., J.W. Harden, L. Kramer, and W. Parton. 2000. Parameterizing Century to model cultivated and noncultivated sites in the loess region of western Iowa. Open-File Report 00-508. 30 pp.

Manies, K.L. and D.J. Mladenoff. 2000. Testing methods used to produce landscape scale presettlement vegetation maps from the U.S. General Land Office (GLO) survey records. Landscape Ecology 15: 741-754.



First-author Conference Abstracts:

Manies, K.L., O'Neill, K.P., Harden, J.W., and B. Bond-Lamberty. 2002. The Role of Woody Debris in Boreal Forest Carbon Sequestration. American Geophysical Conference, San Francisco, California. December 6-10.

Manies, K.L. and J.W. Harden. 2002. Soil drainage effects on burn severity and landscape level carbon storage in boreal forests. U.S.G.S. 3rd Wildland Fire Science Conference, Denver, Colorado. November 12-15.

Manies, K.L., J.W. Harden, and S.L. King. 2001. The role of woody debris in boreal forest recovery after fire. American Geophysical Conference, San Francisco, California. December 10-14.

Manies, K.L., J.W. Harden, and K.P. Wickland. 2001. A comparison of organic layer consumption between fires of Canada and Alaska. Tall Timbers 22nd Fire Ecology Conference, Kananskis, Alberta. October 15-18.

Manies, K.L. andD.J. Mladenoff. 1997. Analyzing methods used to produce landscape scale presettlement vegetation maps from the U.S. General Land Office survey records. Landscape Ecology Symposium, Durham, NC. March 16-19.

Manies, K.L. and D.J. Mladenoff. 1996. Analyzing methods used to produce landscape scale presettlement vegetation maps from the U.S. General Land Office survey records. Natural Areas Association Conference, St. Charles, IL. October 23-26.

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