KEVIN P. TU
Department of Integrative Biology and Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry
Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California – Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
email: kevintu@berkeley.edu
Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California – Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
email: kevintu@berkeley.edu
EDUCATION
PhD. University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources, 2000
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, Biology, 1992
APPOINTMENTS
2006–present, BASIN Program Coordinator, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2005–present, Associate Research Specialist, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2000–2005, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
1996–2000, Research Forester, Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
1995–1996, Research Assistant, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Guest Lecturer, Biometeorology, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
Guest Lecturer, Methods in Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Principles of Biology, University of New Hampshire, 1993-1995
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Co-Organiser, Isoscapes 2008 Meeting: Mapping Stable Isotopes and Its Applications, Santa Barbara, CA.
Co-Chair, Biogeosciences Program Committee, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2005-2007
Co-Convener of meeting on optical isotope measurements, University of California, Berkeley, December 9, 2007
Co-Convener of session on 'Adaptation of Vegetation to Changes in Environmental Forcing', 2009 Fall AGU Meeting
Co-Convener of session on 'Stable Isotopes in Terrestrial Biogeosciences', 2009 Fall AGU Meeting
Co-Convener of session on 'Isotope Tracers of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions: Advances in Measurements, Theory and
Analysis', 2008 Fall AGU Meeting
Co-convener of session on 'Investigation of Carbon and Water Cycle Processes using Isotopes: New Techniques,
Data, and Analyses', 2007 Fall AGU Meeting
Co-convener of session on 'Stable Isotopes in Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Interactions', 2005 Fall AGU Meeting
Panel member for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Request For Information Workshop, 2006
Panel member for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-IGERT, 2007
JOURNAL REVIEWER
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Ecography
Ecology
Environmental Modelling and Software
Geophysical Research Letters
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Global Change Biology
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Hydrological Sciences
Journal of Ecology
Journal of Geophysical Research–Biogeosciences
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan
New Phytologist
Oecologia
Plant and Soil
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Remote Sensing of Environment
Tree Physiology
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
GRANT REVIEWER
Department of Energy (DOE)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institute of Water Resources (NIWR)
Centre for Environmental Research, Sweden (CMF)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ecological Society of America (Physiological Ecology and Biogeosciences Sections)
American Geophysical Union (Biogeosciences Section)
European Geosciences Union (Biogeosciences Section)
Biogeosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network (BASIN)
Moisture in the Biosphere and Atmosphere (MIBA)
PUBLICATIONS
Kahmen A, Simonin K, Tu K, Goldsmith G, Dawson T. 2009. The influence of species and growing conditions on the 18-O enrichment of leaf water and its impact on 'effective path length'. New Phytologist, in press (published online 21 September 2009).
Mullin LP, Sillett SC, Koch GW, Tu KP, Antoine ME. 2009. Physiological consequences of height-related morphological variation in Sequoia sempervirens foliage, Tree Physiology, 29(8): 999-1010.
Fisher JB, Malhi Y, de Araujo AC, Bonal D, Gamo M, Goulden ML, Hirano T, Huete AR, Kondo H, Kumagai T, Loescher,HW, Miller S, Nobre AD, Nouvellon Y, Oberbauer SF, Panuthai S, von Randow C, da Rocha HR, Roupsard O, Saleska S, Tanaka K, Tanaka N, Tu KP. 2008. The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics, Global Change Biology, in press (published online 4 November 2008).
Leuning R., Y. Q. Zhang, A. Rajaud, H. Cleugh, K. Tu. 2008. A simple surface conductance model to estimate regional evaporation using MODIS leaf area index and the Penman-Monteith equation, Water Resour. Res., 44, W10419, doi:10.1029/2007WR006562.
Kahmen A, Simonin K, Tu KP, Merchant A, Callister, A, Siegwolf R, Dawson TE, Arndt SK. 2008. Effects of environmental parameters, leaf physiological properties and leaf water relations on leaf water δ18O enrichment in different Eucalyptus species, Plant, Cell and Environment 31(6):738-751.
Fisher JB and Tu KP, Baldocchi DD. 2008. Global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites. Remote Sensing of Environment 112(3): 909-919.
Tu KP, Bowen G, Hemming D, Kahmen A, Knohl A, Lai C-T,and C Werner. 2007. Stable Isotopes as Indicators, Tracers, and Recorders of Ecological Change: Synthesis and Outlook, In TE Dawson and R Siegwolf (eds.), Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change, Elsevier Academic Press.
Dawson TE, Burgess SSO, Tu KP, Oliveira RS, SantiagoLS, Fisher JB, Simonin KS, Ambrose AR. 2007. Nighttime transpiration in woody plants from contrasting ecosystems. Tree Physiology 27(4):561-575.
Misson L, Tu KP, and Goldstein AH. 2006. Seasonality ofphotosynthetic parameters in a multi-specific and vertically complexforest ecosystem in the Sierra Nevada of California, Tree Physiology, 26:729-741.
Tu KP and Dawson TE. 2005. Partitioning ecosystem respiration using stable isotope analyses of CO2, InLB Flanagan, JR Ehleringer, DE Pataki (eds.), Stable Isotopes andBiosphere-Atmosphere Interactions: Processes and Biological Controls,Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego.
Dawson TE, Mambelli S, Plamboeck AH, Templer PH, Tu KP. 2002. Stable isotopes in plant ecology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 33:507–59.
Tu KP, Brooks PD, Dawson TE. 2001. Using septum-cappedvials with continuous-flow isotope ratio mass spectrometric analysis of atmospheric CO2 for Keeling plot applications. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 15(12): 952-956.
Falge E, Baldocchi D, Olson R, Anthoni P, Aubinet M,Bernhofer Ch, Burba G, Ceulemans R, Clement R, Dolman H, Granier A,Gross P, Grünwald T, Hollinger D, Jenson N-O, Katul G, Keronen P,Kowalski A, Lai CT, Law B, Meyers T, Moncrief J, Moors EJ, Munger W,Pilegaard K, Rannik U, Rebmann C, Sukyer A, Tenhunen J, Tu K, Verma S,Vesala T, Wilson K, Wofsy S. 2001a. Gap filling strategies fordefensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 107: 43-69.
Falge E, Baldocchi DD, Olson RJ, Anthoni P, Aubinet M,Bernhofer Ch, Burba G, Ceulemans R, Clement R, Dolman H, Granier A, Gross P, Grünwald Th, Hollinger D, Jensen N-O, Katul G, Keronen P,Kowalski A, Lai CT, Law BE, Meyers T, Moncrieff J, Moors E, Munger JW,Pilegaard K, Rannik Ü, Rebmann C, Suyker A, Tenhunen J, Tu K, Verma S,Vesala T, Wilson K, Wofsy S. 2001b. Gap filling strategies for long termenergy flux data sets, a short communication. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 107: 71-77.
Hollinger, DY, SM Goltz, EA Davidson, TJ Lee, K Tu, andHT Valentine. 1999. Seasonal patterns and environmental control ofcarbon dioxide and water vapor in an ecotonal boreal forest. Global Change Biology. 5(8):891-902.
Katul G, Hsieh C-I, Bowling D, Clark K, Shurpali N,Turnipseed A, Albertson J, Tu K, Hollinger D, Evans B, Offerle B, Anderson D, Ellsworth D, Vogel C, and Oren R. 1999. Spatial variabilityof turbulent fluxes in the roughness sub-layer of an even-aged pineforest. Boundary Layer Meteorology, 93:1-28.
PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Tu KP,Knohl A, Mambelli S, Ma S, Baldocchi D, Dawson T. Observations and scaling of water use efficiency from leaf to globe. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-07012, 2008.
Tu KP. Satellite remote sensing of carbon isotope discrimination, invited talk presented at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland, April 2008.
Tu KP. Remote sensing of photosynthesis, evapotranspiration and water use efficiency, invited talk presented at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, April 2008.
Tu KP. Temporal dynamics of carbon isotope ratios in ecosystem respiration: From diurnal autotrophs to seasonal heterotrophs, invited talk presented at the Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany, April 2008.
Tu KP, Knohl A, Mambelli S, Ma S, Baldocchi D, Dawson T. Observations and scaling of water use efficiency from leaf to globe. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2008.
Tu KP, Knohl A, Mambelli S, Ma S, Baldocchi D, Dawson T. Satellite remote sensing of terrestrial carbon isotope discrimination. Isoscapes 2008 Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, April 2008.
Tu KP, Knohl A, Mambelli S, Ma S, Baldocchi D, Dawson T. Global remote sensing of water use efficiency: Initial test and application of a synergistic approach. American Geophysical Union, Fall 2007 Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.
Fisher, JB, Tu KP. Global trends in potential and actual evapotranspiration based on 20 years of satellite observations. American Geophysical Union, Fall 2007 Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.
Tu KP, Massman WJ and Ham JM. Partitioning ET between plant and soil components using surface temperature and fractional vegetation cover. AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA, October 16-18, 2006.
Tu KP and Dawson TE. BASIN - Biogeosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network. AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA, October 16-18, 2006.
Tu KP and Fisher JB. Remote sensing of the land-atmosphere water flux: Global validation using FLUXNET data. Proceedings of the 1st iLEAPS Science Conference, Boulder, Colorado, USA, January 21-26, 2006.
Tu KP. Towards global estimates of the d18O-evapotranspiration flux: Implications of non-steady state isotopic enrichment of leaf water, presented at the BASIN Workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2005.
Tolle G, J Polastre, R Szewczyk, DE Culler, N Turner, KP Tu, S Burgess, TE Dawson, P Buonadonna, D Gay, W Hong. 2005. A macroscope in the redwoods. SenSys 2005: 51-63.
Brenner RE, Tu KP, Dawson TE. Linking rainfall variability with the flux and (d13C) isotopic signature of ecosystem respiration, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B11A-0992, 2005.
Fisher JB and Tu KP. New global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux: A fully remote sensing driven, flux site-validated ecophysiological model of evapotranspiration, 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS), Beijing, China, October, 2005.
Su H, Wood EF, McCabe M and Tu KP. Model intercomparison of evapotranspiration estimation based on CEOP dataset, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13C-0440, 2004.
Dawson TE, Culler D, Tu KP, et al. Beyond the footprint: emerging technologies and FluxNetworks, FLUXNET 2004 Open Workshop, Firenze, Italy, 2004.
Dawson TE, Tu KP, Fisher J and Baldocchi D. Partitioning evaporation and transpiration using 18O of water, BASIN Workshop, Point Reyes, CA, 2004.
Tu KP and Fisher J. Remote sensing of plant transpiration and soil evaporation using MODIS data, MODIS Vegetation Workshop II, Missoula, Montana, 2004.
Dawson TE, Baldocchi D and Tu KP. Merging eddy flux, stable isotopes, and ecosystem modeling, presented at the Biosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network Workshop, Orvieto, Italy, 2003.
Tu KP and Dawson TE. Variation in 13C abundance in respiration from different ecosystem components: Implications for flux partitioning, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B31E-0351, 2003.
Tu KP. On the use of relative humidity as an index of surface energy partitioning, Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Symposium, Bekeley, California, 2003.
Tu KP. Assessing photosynthetic capacity from canopy biophysics: A test of a generalized model using eddy flux data, Eos Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B12B-0826, 2002.
Tu KP and Dawson TE. Partitioning ecosystem respiration using stable carbon isotopes: a comparative approach, BASIN Workshop, Banff, Canada, 2002.
Tu KP, Dawson TE and Ponti F. Partitioning ecosystem respiration using stable carbon isotopes in a mixed annual grassland, Eos Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B11A-04, 2001.
Tu KP. Plants, towers and gas: measurement and modeling of canopy CO2 exchange, invited talk presented at the University of Puget Sound Seminar Series, 2000.
Tu KP and Munger B. AmeriFlux eddy covariance software intercomparison, AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997.
