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SUMMARY:Distinguished Ecologist Lecture Series: Dr. Randy Kolka
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Ecosystem Science Center Distinguished Ecologis
 t Lecture Series! Title: Implications of Climate Change on Peatlands: Resu
 lts of the SPRUCE Experiment Description: The Spruce and Peatlands Respons
 es Under Changing Environments (SPRUCE) experiment was an ecosystem-level 
 climate simulation experiment that tested the response of high-carbon nort
 hern peatland ecosystems to increased temperatures and elevated carbon dio
 xide. The experiment was conducted in a black spruce bog in northern Minne
 sota at the USDA Forest Service’s Marcell Experimental Forest. Northern 
 peatlands are an ecosystem considered especially vulnerable to climate cha
 nge\, and responses to warming and interactions with increased atmospheric
  CO2 concentration are anticipated to have important feedbacks on global c
 limate. I will present an overview and some of the important results of SP
 RUCE to date\, including treatment effects on greenhouse gas production\, 
 soil processes\, plant communities\, and mercury cycles. Bio: Dr. Randy Ko
 lka is a Research Soil Scientist at the US Forest Service Northern Researc
 h Station. Dr. Kolka conducts watershed- or landscape-level soil and hydro
 logical research involving upland\, riparian\, and wetland soil carbon\, m
 ercury\, and nutrient dynamics\, and relates these studies to upland land 
 use and pollution transport to surface waters. He investigates ecosystem r
 estoration and the linkages between upland and riparian or wetland communi
 ties and studies the functions and implications of global climate change. 
 Organization: Northern Research Station\, USFS (Grand Rapids\, MN)
LOCATION:U. J. Noblet Forestry Building G002\, 1400 Townsend Drive\, Hought
 on\, MI\, 49931\, United States
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