Jeffrey A. Hicke

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-3021
208-885-6240
jhicke [at] uidaho.edu

My CV is here.

Check out the schedule for the Fall 2007 seminar series on climate change.

Education

• Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Colorado, 2000
• M.A., Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
• B.S., Mathematics/Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985

Interests

My broad interests are to understand the effects of global environmental change on ecosystems. Humans impact the world around them through modifications of the composition of the atmosphere, changing land cover and land use, pollution of air and water, and invasive species. I study the response of plants and animals to these changes, with an emphasis on climate interactions and effects on the carbon and water cyles. Plants play a critical role in the future of global change through their effect on the carbon, water, and nutrient cycles. I am also interested in patterns, controlling factors, and effects of disturbance, particularly insect outbreaks and fire. My research incorporates a range of spatial scales, from plot to global, and temporal scales, from daily to century. I utilize a combination of tools including remote sensing, modeling (ecosystem and insect population), and field measurements to investigate these questions.

Research

• Bark beetle outbreaks: spatiotemporal analysis, modeling, and effects on ecosystems
• Using modeling, satellite observations, forest inventories, and ground measurements to understand the carbon cycle
• The Western Mountain Initiative: Climate change in mountains of western United States and effects on ecosystems
• Trends in ground-based observations of ultraviolet radiation

Teaching

• Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences
• Biogeography
• Global Environmental Change
• Physical Geography
• Seminar series:  Ecology from Afar: The Use of Remote Sensing in Spatial Ecology
• Seminar series:  What Will Climate Change Mean For Idaho And The Interior West?
• Insect Outbreaks and Forest Ecosystems

Web sites for plotting data

• Climate variability and change in the United States
• Spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural productivity

Selected Publications (see full list)

CCSP, 2008: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. P. Backlund et al. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 362 pp.

Raffa, K. F., B. H. Aukema, B. J. Bentz, A. L. Carroll, J. A. Hicke, M. G. Turner, and W. H. Romme. 2008. Cross-scale drivers of natural disturbances prone to anthropogenic amplification: The dynamics of bark beetle eruptions. BioScience 58:501-517.

Hicke, J. A., and J. C. Jenkins. 2008. Mapping lodgepole pine stand structure susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack across the western United States. Forest Ecology and Management 255:1536-1547.

Hicke, J. A., J. C. Jenkins, D. S. Ojima, and M. Ducey. 2007. Spatial patterns of forest characteristics in the western United States derived from inventories. Ecological Applications 17:2387-2402.

Hicke, J. A., J. A. Logan, J. Powell, and D. S. Ojima. 2006. Changing temperatures influence suitability for modeled mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks in the western United States. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 111, G02019, doi:02010.01029/02005JG000101.

Hicke, J. A. 2005. NCEP and GISS solar radiation data sets available for ecosystem modeling: Description, differences, and impacts on net primary production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19:GB2006, doi:10.1029/2004GB002391.

Hicke, J. A., G. P. Asner, J. T. Randerson, C. Tucker, S. Los, R. Birdsey, J. C. Jenkins, and C. Field. 2002. Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations, 1982-1998. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16:10.1029/2001GB001550.

Hicke, J. A., G. P. Asner, E. S. Kasiske, N. H. F. French, J. T. Randerson, G. J. Collatz, B. J. Stocks, C. J. Tucker, S. O. Los, and C. B. Field. 2003. Postfire response of North American boreal forest net primary productivity analyzed with satellite observations. Global Change Biology 9:1145-1157.

Hicke, J. A., R. M. Sherriff, T. T. Veblen, and G. P. Asner. 2004. Carbon accumulation in Colorado ponderosa pine stands estimated with dendrochronology. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34:1283-1295.

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Page last updated December 2007.