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Eugénie S. Euskirchen is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within environmental and earth sciences, with a primary focus on the interactions between climate processes and terrestrial ecosystems in northern regions.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of particular interest are Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research covers several key topics such as:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Euskirchen has authored and contributed to numerous publications in leading journals and venues. Frequent publication outlets include the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Global Change Biology, and Nature Climate Change.

Examples of recent scholarly work include:

  • Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic (2022), published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance (2021), in Environmental Research Letters
  • Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review (2020), in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate (2020), in Nature Climate Change
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties (2021), in Global Change Biology

Euskirchen frequently collaborates with other researchers in related disciplines. Notable coauthors include Oliver Sonnentag, Masahito Ueyama, Matthias Peichl, Edward A. G. Schuur, and Mats B. Nilsson.

Best Publications

  • Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

    Edward A. G. Schuur;James Bockheim;Josep G. Canadell;Eugenie Euskirchen

  • Edge Influence on Forest Structure and Composition in Fragmented Landscapes

    Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald;Philip J. Burton;Jiquan Chen

  • Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

    F. S. Chapin;M. Sturm;Mark C. Serreze;J.P. McFadden

  • Carbon cycling and storage in world forests: biome patterns related to forest age.

    Kurt S. Pregitzer;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

    Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

    L. Xu;R.B. Myneni;F.S. Chapin Iii;T.V. Callaghan

  • The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems.

    Merritt R Turetsky;B Bond-Lamberty;E Euskirchen;Julie Talbot;Julie Talbot

  • The changing global carbon cycle: Linking plant-soil carbon dynamics to global consequences

    F. Stuart Chapin;Jack McFarland;A. David McGuire;Eugenie S. Euskirchen

  • 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

  • Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems

    E. Euskirchen;A. D. McGuire;David W. Kicklighter;Q. Zhuang

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Changes in growing season duration and productivity of northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data

    Taejin Park;Sangram Ganguly;Hans Tømmervik;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • The unseen iceberg: plant roots in arctic tundra

    Colleen M. Iversen;Victoria L. Sloan;Patrick F. Sullivan;Eugenie S. Euskirchen

  • Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

    Stan D. Wullschleger;Howard E. Epstein;Elgene O. Box;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

    Zelalem A Mekonnen;William J Riley;Logan T Berner;Nicholas J Bouskill

  • Changes in vegetation in northern Alaska under scenarios of climate change, 2003-2100: implications for climate feedbacks.

    E. S. Euskirchen;A. D. McGuire;F. S. Chapin;S. Yi

  • Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

    John E. Walsh;Thomas J. Ballinger;Eugénie S. Euskirchen;Edward Hanna

  • Influence of vegetation and seasonal forcing on carbon dioxide fluxes across the Upper Midwest, USA: Implications for regional scaling

    Ankur R. Desai;Asko Noormets;Paul V. Bolstad;Jiquan Chen

  • Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra.

    Roisin Commane;Jakob Lindaas;Joshua Benmergui;Kristina A. Luus

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Resilience of Alaska's Boreal Forest to Climatic Change

    F. S. Chapin;A. D. McGuire;R. W. Ruess;T. N. Hollingsworth

  • Energy feedbacks of northern high-latitude ecosystems to the climate system due to reduced snow cover during 20th century warming

    E. S. Euskirchen;A. D. McGUIRE;F. S. Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
A. D. McGuire
A. D. McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
A. David McGuire
A. David McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks

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