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- 1. Exploring atmospheric, Earth system, and solar processes, variability, and change
- 2. Investigating the interaction of the atmosphere, the broader Earth system, and human society
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- 5. Enabling innovative field experiments and measurement campaigns
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Thomas Karl
General Information
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ACD & TIIMES
Scientist II
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Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office:
FL0 - 3168
Telephone: 303-497-1884
Email: tomkarl@ucar.edu
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Research Focus FY08:
Scientists used specially-equipped towers to measure chemical emissions from plants in a walnut grove in California. Picture by Carlye Calvin, UCAR
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Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (BAI)
The research of the BAI group is designed to advance understanding of global biosphere - atmosphere interactions and to predict the response of the earth system to future perturbations. This is being accomplished through multidisciplinary field, laboratory and modeling studies of the processes controlling these interactions on various scales (e.g., leaf to canopy to landscape to global).
Additional Information: BAI
Plants Make Their Own Painkillers
Walnut trees respond to stress by producing significant amounts of a chemical form of aspirin, scientists have discovered: Thomas Karl, Alex Guenther, Andrew Turnipseed, Edward Patton, & Kolby Jardine. In the News:
- Walnut Trees Emit Aspirin-Like Chemical to Deal With Stress (NSF)
- Plants Make Own Painkillers (LiveScience)
- Plants make their own version of aspirin, researchers find (Los Angeles Times)
- Stressed plants release aspirin-like chemical (Reuters)
- Stressed plants produce an aspirin-like chemical (What is life science)
- Stressed plants produce Aspirin (Medical & Pharmacy News)
- Mother Nature’s little helper (nature.com)
Community Service FY08:
- Co-Editorial Board: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Scientific Committee: EGU Division on Atmospheric Sciences, Sub Division AS2: Boundary Layer Processes
- Graduate Research Advisor & Thesis/Dissertation Committee: Irina Herdlinger (University of Innsbruck)
Publications FY08:
Karl, T., A. B. Guenther, A. A. Turnipseed, E. G. Patton, K. Jardine, 2008: Chemical sensing of plant stress at the ecosystem scale. Biogeosciences Discuss., 5, 2381-2399.
Yokelson, R. J., T. Christian, T. Karl, A. B. Guenther, 2008: The tropical forest and fire emissions experiment: laboratory fire measurements and synthesis of campaign data. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3509-3527.
Patton, E. G., T. Horst, D. H. Lenschow, P. P. Sullivan, S. P. Oncley, S. P. Burns, A. B. Guenther, T. Karl, S. D. Mayor, S. M. Spuler, J. Sun, A. A. Turnipseed, E. Allwine, S. Edburg, B. Lamb, R. Avissar, H. Holder, R. Calhoun, J. Kleissl, W. Massman, K. Tha Paw U, J. Weil, L. Rizzo, A. Held, 2008: The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS). , Stockholm, SE, AMS, American Meteorological Society, 18A.1.
Jardine, K., P. Harley, T. Karl, A. B. Guenther, M. Lerdau, J. E. Mak, 2008: Plant physiological and environmental controls over the exchange of acetaldehyde between forest canopies and the atmosphere. Biogeosciences. (Submitted)
Peltier, R. E., A. H. Hecobian, R. J. Weber, A. Stohl, E. L. Atlas, D. D. Riemer, D. R. Blake, E. C. Apel, T. Campos, T. Karl, 2008: Investigating the sources and atmospheric processing of fine particles from Asia and the Northwestern United States measured during INTEX B. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 1835-1853.