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David A. Weinstein
Senior Research Associate
8 Fernow Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ph: 607-351-4214
Fx: 607-255-6873
e.mail:
daw5@cornell.edu
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David A. Weinstein
Ph.D - University of Tennessee - 1981
M.Sc. - University of New Hampshire - 1976
B.A. - Dartmouth College - 1973
David Weinstein is a Forest Ecologist who conducts research into forest growth, sustainable forest management, biogeochemistry, and the impact of air pollutants on forest development. He conducts special courses on these topics. He is an active participant in the President's Climate Commitment Implementation Committee, seeking ways to reduce Cornell's net carbon emissions to zero. He joined the Department of Natural Resources in 2005. He has extensive expertise in the construction and implementation of forest ecosystem models. He is keenly interested in exploring the use of ecological theory to solve applied problems of conserving threatened ecosystems and species throughout the globe.
Research
His research involves analyzing and modeling the systems controlling plant response to environment and extrapolating the consequences of small scale processes to large regional scales. He has constructed computer simulation models of the ecosystem dynamics in many different types of forests and landscapes. His major current projects include (1) coordination of the Cornell University effort to design a plan to achieve climate neutrality (zero net greenhouse gas emissions) on the Cornell campus, (2) development of a predictive model of nitrate export from forest and agricultural watersheds, and (3) creation of a citizen science network of plant phenology observations to monitor effects of global climate change.
Teaching
Selected Publications
- Weinstein, D.A. 2007. Project Budbreak: Monitoring how climate change affects native plants. Cornell Plantations Magazine. 62(2): 12-19.
- Weinstein, D.A., and P. B. Woodbury. In press. Review of Methods for Developing Probabilistic Risk Assessments. Part 1: Modeling Fire. Chapter for Book: Advances in Threat Assessment and their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management.
- Woodbury, P. B., and D.A. Weinstein. In press. Review of Methods for Developing Probabilistic Risk Assessments. Part 2: Modeling Invasive Plants, Pests, and Pathogens. Chapter for Book: Advances in Threat Assessment and their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management.
- Hong, B., D. P. Swaney, D. A. Weinstein. 2006. Simulating spatiotemporal nitrogen dynamics in a forested reference watershed, Hubbard Brook Watershed 6. Landscape Ecology 21: 195-211.
- Hong, B., D. A. Weinstein, D. P. Swaney. 2006. Assessment of ozone effects on nitrate export from Hubbard Brook Watershed 6. Environmental Pollution 141: 8-21.
- Weinstein, D. A., J. A. Laurence, W. A. Retzlaff, J. S. Kern, E. H. Lee, W. E. Hogsett, and J. Weber. 2005. Predicting the effects of tropospheric ozone on regional productivity of ponderosa pine and white fir. Forest Ecology and Management 205:73-89.
- Hong, B., R. L. Strawderman , D. P. Swaney, D. A. Weinstein. . 2005. Bayesian estimation of input parameters of a nitrogen cycle model applied to a forested reference watershed, Hubbard Brook Watershed Six. Water Resource Research 41(3): 3007-3023.
- Karnosky, D.F., K.S. Pregitzer, D.R. Zak, M.E. Kubiske, G.R. Hendrey, D.A. Weinstein, M. Nosal, and K.E. Percy. 2005. Scaling Ozone Responses of Forest Trees to the Ecosystem Level in a Changing Climate. Plant, Cell, and Environment. 28 (8): 965-981.
- Hong, B., D. P. Swaney, P. Woodbury, D. A. Weinstein. 2005. Long-term nitrate export pattern from Hubbard Brook Watershed 6 driven by climatic variation. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 160 (1-4): 293-326.
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