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Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman 

Employee Information
Name: Mark Coleman 
Title: Research Biologist
Unit: Forest Watershed Science (4353)
Phone: 803-652-3632
Fax: 803-652-8787
E-Mail: mcoleman01@fs.fed.us
mcoleman@ifx.net

Location Information
Mailing
Address:		 USDA-Forest Service
Savannah River Research Campus
241 Gateway Drive
Aiken, SC 29803
Shipping
Address:		 Same as above
  
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Research Information

Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington, Forest Ecophysiology, 1988

Current Research:
The Short-Rotation Wood Crops (SRWC) Cooperative Research Program is investigating the feasibility of intensive silviculture to rapidly produce high-quality wood products in a manner which is sustainable, cost effective and with low environmental impacts.The priority issues that will be investigated by the cooperative include, but are not limited to, understanding fundamental mechanisms involved in productivity,monitoring local environmental impacts of SRWC, studying pest susceptibility and database compilation.The initial scientific experimentfor this cooperative will be installed at the DOE's Savannah River Site during 1999 and 2000.This experiment is designed to determine processes and mechanisms controlling productivity by manipulatingnutrient and water regimes.Nutrient mass balance and water andnutrient fluxes will be monitored throughout the rotation.

Other research involves monitoring seasonal fine-root production and turn-over among species; studying the impacts of soil fertility on poplar productivity and fine-root dynamics; development of management tools for diagnosing mineral nutrient deficiencies in trees and prescribing fertilizer amendments to maximize productivity

Collaborative Research:
Collaborative research involves modeling of root nutrient uptake, modeling the response of tree root systems and the whole plant to global change factors such as ozone and elevated CO2; and evaluating suitability of SRWC plantations as wildlife habitat.

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