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Welp, Lisa

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Degrees:

• B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

• Stable isotope tracers of carbon dioxide and water (including vapor)
• High latitude carbon dioxide fluxes
• Atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane measurements (Earth Networks)

Honors and Awards:

• BASIN young investigator travel grant: conference and lodging expenses, 2011
• Outstanding poster contribution at the International Carbon Dioxide Conference, 2009
• BASIN student travel grants: conference and lodging expenses, 2002 – 2004
• EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship: tuition and stipend, 2001 – 2004
• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 2000
• Caltech Institute Fellowship: tuition and stipend, 2000 – 2001
• Trafford Award for outstanding scholarship and promise in chemistry, 1999 – 2000
• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates: summer stipend, 1999
• Indiana University Founders Day Award for high scholastic achievement, 1997 – 2000
• NSF Exploration of Careers in Science summer program at Indiana University, 1994

Welp, L.R., R.K. Keeling, H.A.J. Meijer, A.F. Bollenbacher, S.C. Piper, K. Yoshimura, R.J. Francey, C.E. Allison, and M. Wahlen (2011) Interannual variability in the oxygen isotopes of atmospheric CO2 driven by El Niño, Nature, 477(7366), 579-582.

Yi, C. et al. including L.R. Welp (2010) Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents, Environmental Research Letters, 5, 034007, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007.

Xiao, W., X. Lee, T. Griffis, K. Kim, L. Welp, and Q. Yu (2010) Comparing observed and modeled oxygen isotopic fluxes of CO2 and H2O over a soybean canopy, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, G01004, doi:10.1029/2009JG001163.

Lee, X., T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, K.A. Billmark, K. Kim, and L.R. Welp: (2009) Canopy-scale kinetic fractionation of atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor isotopes, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, GB1002, doi:10.1029/2008GB003331.

Welp, L. R., X. Lee, K. Kim, T. Griffis, K. Bilmark, and J. Baker, (2008) δ18O of water vapor, evapotranspiration and the sites of leaf water evaporation in a soybean canopy, Plant, Cell and Environment, 31, 1214-1228, doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01826.x.

Welp, L. R., J.T. Randerson, and H. Liu, (2007) The sensitivity of carbon fluxes to spring warming and summer drought depends on plant functional type in boreal forest ecosystems, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 147, 172-185, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.07.010.

Randerson, J.T., H. Liu, M.G. Flanner, S.D. Chambers, Y. Jin, P.G. Hess, G. Pfister, M.C. Mack, K.K. Treseder, L.R. Welp, F.S. Chapin, J.W. Harden, M.L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J.C. Neff, E.A.G. Schuur, and C.S. Zender, (2006) The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming, Science, 314, 1130-1132.

Welp, L.R., J.T. Randerson, and H. Liu, (2006) Seasonal exchange of CO2 and δ18O-CO2 varies with postfire succession in boreal forest ecosystems, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 111, G03007, doi:10.1029/2005JG000126.

Welp, L.R., J.T. Randerson, J.C. Finlay, S.P. Davydov, G.M. Zimova, A.I. Davydova, and S.A. Zimov, (2005) A high-resolution time series of oxygen isotopes from the Kolyma River: Implications for the seasonal dynamics of discharge and basin-scale water use, Geophysical. Research Letters, 32, L14401, doi:10.1029/2005GL022857.