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. Here is a www.wordle.net visualization of my CV (click on the image for a larger version):

News

• Graduate and undergraduate student opportunities
  • I often have openings in my lab for students on the topics described on this web site. Contact me for availability.


• UI is having a seminar series on Interdisciplinary Climate Change this semester. See here for the schedule and here for relevant reading materials.


• Check out the recorded presentations from the Fall 2007 seminar series on climate change.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000
• M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
• B.S., 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 change impacts and influences on the carbon cycle. 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.

Current Research

• The impact of forest disturbances on the global carbon cycle
• Bark beetle outbreaks: interactions with climate change, mapping, spatiotemporal analysis, modeling, and effects on ecosystem processes such as carbon cycling and wildfire
• Using modeling, satellite observations, forest inventories, and ground measurements to understand the North American carbon budget
• The Western Mountain Initiative: Climate change in mountains of western United States and effects on ecosystems

Teaching

• Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences
• Biogeography
• Remote Sensing
• 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

• Historical climate variability and change in the United States

Selected Publications (see CV for full list)

Hicke, J. A., C. D. Allen, A. Desai, M. Dietze, R. J. Hall, E. T. Hogg, D. Kashian, D. Moore, K. Raffa, R. Sturrock, and J. Vogelmann, The effects of biotic disturbances on carbon budgets of North American forests, in press at Global Change Biology.

Meddens, A. J. H., J. A. Hicke, and L. A. Vierling, Evaluating the potential of multispectral imagery to map multiple stages of tree mortality, Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 1632-1642, 2011.

Pfeifer, E. M., J. A. Hicke, and A. J. H. Meddens, Observations and modeling of aboveground tree carbon stocks and fluxes following a bark beetle outbreak in the western United States, Global Change Biology, 7, 339–350, 2011.

Bentz, B. J., J. Regniere, C. J. Fettig, E. M. Hansen, J. L. Hayes, J. A. Hicke, R. G. Kelsey, J. Lundquist, J. F. Negron, R. Progar, S. J. Seybold, and J. Vandygriff, Climate change and bark beetles of the western US: Direct and indirect effects, BioScience, 60, 602-613, 2010.

Littell, J. S., E. E. Oneil, D. McKenzie, J. A. Hicke, J. Lutz, and R. A. Norheim, Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA, Climatic Change, 107, 129-158, 2010.

Hicke, J. A., and J. A. Logan, Mapping whitebark pine mortality caused by a mountain pine beetle outbreak with high spatial resolution satellite imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30, 4427-4441, 2009.

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

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

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.

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

Hicke, J. A., J. A. Logan, J. Powell, and D. S. Ojima, 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, 2006.

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

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

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

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Page last updated October 2011.