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Welp, Lisa

Assistant Project Scientist

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.F. Keeling, R.F. Weiss, W. Paplawsky, and S. Heckman (2012) Design and performance of a Nafion dryer for continuous operation at CO2 and CH4 air monitoring sites, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 5, 5449-5468, doi:10.5194/amtd-5-5449-2012.

Welp, L.R., Lee, X., Griffis, T.J., Wen, X.-F., Xiao, W., Li, S., Sun, X., Hu, Z., Val Martin, M., and Huang, J., (2012) A meta-analysis of water vapor deuterium-excess in the midlatitude atmospheric surface layer, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB3021, 10.1029/2011GB004246, 2012.

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.