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Daniel J. Hayes is affiliated with the University of Maine in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their recent scholarly output includes notable papers that reflect an emphasis on climate dynamics, ecosystem interactions, and soil carbon. Key publications feature:

  • Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region - a model intercomparison (2020), published in The Cryosphere
  • Soil Organic Carbon Across Mexico and the Conterminous United States (1991-2010) (2020), published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • A Multi-Sensor Unoccupied Aerial System Improves Characterization of Vegetation Composition and Canopy Properties in the Arctic Tundra (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • Evaluation of simulated soil carbon dynamics in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including Xinyuan Wei, Dedi Yang, Shawn Serbin, David Butman, and Wouter Hantson.

Their research is published primarily in a core set of venues, which include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Nature Communications

Daniel J. Hayes's work covers several interrelated topics that address environmental and climatic processes. These main topics are:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

The research conducted by Hayes contributes to enhanced understanding of complex natural systems, combining terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem analyses with advanced modeling techniques. Their involvement in areas such as permafrost hydrology and carbon dynamics reflects ongoing engagement with pressing environmental science challenges that pertain to global climate and ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

    A. David McGuire;Leif G. Anderson;Torben R. Christensen;Scott Dallimore

  • Global patterns of drought recovery

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;William R. L. Anderegg;Anna M. Michalak;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

    D. Olefeldt;S. Goswami;Guido Grosse;D. Hayes

  • Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change.

    A. David McGuire;David M. Lawrence;Charles Koven;Joy S. Clein

  • An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

    A. D. McGuire;Torben Christensen;D. Hayes;Arnaud Heroult

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Comparison of change-detection techniques for monitoring tropical forest clearing and vegetation regrowth in a time series

    Daniel J. Hayes;Steven A. Sader

  • Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions.

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Jia Yang;Kamaljit Banger

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

  • Is the northern high-latitude land-based CO2 sink weakening?

    D. J. Hayes;A. D. McGuire;D. W. Kicklighter;Kevin Gurney;Kevin Gurney

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design

    D. N. Huntzinger;C. Schwalm;A. M. Michalak;K. Schaefer

  • Automated Detection of Cloud and Cloud Shadow in Single-Date Landsat Imagery Using Neural Networks and Spatial Post-Processing

    M. Joseph Hughes;Daniel J. Hayes

  • Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions.

    D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak;C. Schwalm;C. Schwalm;P. Ciais

  • Recent Arctic tundra fire initiates widespread thermokarst development

    Benjamin M. Jones;Guido Grosse;Christopher D. Arp;Eric K. Miller

  • A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

    C.D Koven;E.A.G. Schuur;C Schädel;T. J Bohn

  • Layer stacking: A novel algorithm for individual forest tree segmentation from LiDAR point clouds

    Elias Ayrey;Shawn Fraver;John A. Kershaw;Laura S. Kenefic

  • North American terrestrial CO2 uptake largely offset by CH4 and N2O emissions: toward a full accounting of the greenhouse gas budget.

    Hanqin Tian;Guangsheng Chen;Chaoqun Lu;Xiaofeng Xu

  • Forest change monitoring of a remote biosphere reserve

    S. A. Sader;D. J. Hayes;J. A. Hepinstall;M. Coan

  • Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region – a model intercomparison

    Christian G. Andresen;Christian G. Andresen;David M. Lawrence;Cathy J. Wilson;A. David McGuire

  • An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: Comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

    A. D. McGuire;T. R. Christensen;D. J. Hayes;A. Heroult

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah N. Huntzinger
Deborah N. Huntzinger Northern Arizona University
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
A. D. McGuire
A. D. McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A. David McGuire
A. David McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Anna M. Michalak
Anna M. Michalak Stanford University
Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park

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