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Overview

Kevin Schaefer is affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research focus spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, contributing significantly to various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Information Systems.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Schaefer has published extensively, with a notable presence in journals such as Earth and Space Science, Environmental Research Letters, Scientific Reports, Remote Sensing, and The Cryosphere.

Recent publications include:

  • Potential impacts of mercury released from thawing permafrost, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region - a model intercomparison, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Active layer freeze-thaw and water storage dynamics in permafrost environments inferred from InSAR, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data-model integration, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Roger Michaelides, Richard H. Chen, A. Parsekian, H. A. Zebker, and Yuhuan Zhao, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

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

  • Global patterns of drought recovery

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

  • Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

    Dmitry Yumashev;Christopher Hope;Kevin Schaefer;Kathrin Riemann-Campe

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Amount and timing of permafrost carbon release in response to climate warming

    Kevin Schaefer;Tingjun Zhang;Lori Bruhwiler;Andrew P. Barrett

  • 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

  • The impact of the permafrost carbon feedback on global climate

    Kevin Schaefer;Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Vladimir E Romanovsky;Edward A G Schuur

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost

    Robert M. DeConto;Simone Galeotti;Mark Pagani;David Tracy

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

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

  • The seasonal cycle of satellite chlorophyll fluorescence observations and its relationship to vegetation phenology and ecosystem atmosphere carbon exchange

    J. Joiner;Y. Yoshida;Ap. Vasilkov;K. Schaefer

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

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

  • Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury

    Paul F. Schuster;Kevin Schaefer;George R. Aiken;Ronald C. Antweiler

  • Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers

    Christopher A. Williams;Markus Reichstein;Nina Buchmann;Dennis Baldocchi

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Almut Arneth

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • 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

  • Terrestrial biosphere model performance for inter‐annual variability of land‐atmosphere CO2 exchange

    T.F. Keenan;Ian Baker;Alan Barr;Philippe Ciais

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Anna M. Michalak
Anna M. Michalak Stanford University
Deborah N. Huntzinger
Deborah N. Huntzinger Northern Arizona University
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Daniel J. Hayes
Daniel J. Hayes University of Maine
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Robert B. Cook
Robert B. Cook Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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