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Publications

Papers
Presentations (selected)
Conference/Posters

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Papers

S. Huang, M. A. Arain, V. Arora, F. Yuan, J. Brodeur, M. Peichl, 2011. Analysis of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in a conifer forest using the CLASS-CTEMN+  model, Ecological Modeling, 222(20–22): 3743–3760, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.09.008.

Huang, S., 2009. Analysis of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in a conifer forest using CLASS-CTEMN+ model. Master Thesis. McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences. Supervisor: Dr. M. Altaf Arain

 

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Presentations (selected)

Huang, S., Arain, M. A., Yuan, F., Arora, V., Brodeur, J., Peichl, M., 2010. Analysis of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in North American forests. Presentation at CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, ON., May 31—June 4, 2010.

Huang, S., Arain, M. A., Yuan, F., Arora, V., Brodeur, J., Peichl, M., 2010. Analysis of Climate-Carbon-Nitrogen interactions in a conifer forest using CLASS-CTEMN+ model. Presented at the Annual General Meeting of Canadian Carbon Program (CCP), Montreal, QC., 26-28 Feb., 2010.

Huang, S., Arain, M. A., Yuan, F., Arora, V., Brodeur, J., Peichl, M., 2009. 'Nitrogen Feedbacks on Ecosystem Production: CLASS-CTEMN+ Model Application to North American Forest Sites. Presented at the AGU/CGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, ON., 24-27 May., 2009.

 

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Conference /Posters

S. Huang, M. A. Arain, F. Yuan, V. Arora, J. Brodeur, M. Peichl, 2010. Simulation of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in North American forests. Presentation at CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, ON., May 31—June 4, 2010.
S. Huang, M. A. Arain, F. Yuan, V. Arora, J. Brodeur, M. Peichl, 2010. Climate-Carbon-Nitrogen interactions in a conifer forest. Presented at the Annual General Meeting of Canadian Carbon Program (CCP), Montreal, QC., 26-28 Feb., 2010.

S. Huang, M. A. Arain, F. Yuan, V. Arora, J. Brodeur, M. Peichl, 2009. 'Nitrogen Feedbacks on Ecosystem Production: CLASS-CTEMN+ Model Application to North American Forest Sites. Presented at the AGU/CGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, ON., 24-27 May., 2009.

S. Haung et al., 2009. Carbon and nitrogen coupled feedbacks on ecosystem production to climate variability: CLASS-CTEMN+ model application to two North American forest sites. Poster presented at the Annual General Meeting of Canadian Carbon Program (CCP), Vancouver, BC., Feb, 27th ~ Mar, 1st, 2009.

S. Huang, 2007. Simulations of vegetation dynamics in typical steppe areas of Northern China using LPJ-DGVM (Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model). Presented at Physical Geography Annual General Meeting, Beijing, China, 23 Nov., 2007.

 

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Teaching

McMaster University	GEOG 3ER3, Environment, Economics & Sustainability, 2012-13	T.A.
McMaster University	EARTH/ENVIR SC 3CC3, Earth's Changing Climate, 2012-13	T.A.
McMaster University	EARTH/ENVIR SC 3B03, Ecosystems and Climate Change, 2011-12	T.A.
McMaster University	EARTH/ENVIR SC/GEOG 2EI3, Introduction to Environmental Issues, 2010-11	T.A.
McMaster University	GEO 3CC3 Earth’s changing climate	T.A.
Peking University	Physical Geography for undergraduate students	T.A.

 

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Affiliations

• Member, Fluxnet Canada / Canadian Carbon Program (CCP), 2008 - present.

• Member, The Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), 2009 – present.
  

• Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2009 – present.
  

• Member, FLUXNET Young Scientists Network (YSN), 2009 – present.
  

• Member, The Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU), 2010 – present.
  

• Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2010 – present.

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Research

Research Interests:

• Climate and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling/Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling
  

• Micrometeorological Observation
  

• Phenological Modeling and Phenological Observation
  

• Agricultural Modeling

Thesis Summary:

Abstract:Nitrogen (N) controls on carbon and water exchanges were analyzed in a 70-year old eastern temperate conifer forest at Turkey Point in southern Ontario, Canada from 2003 to 2007 using a newly developed coupled carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) model. CLASS-CTEMN+ includes N cycle controls on the C cycle in the coupled version of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM). Simulated values of soil-plant N contents and C and N fluxes, including the N2O flux, were compared with available observation-based estimates. Comparison of the coupled CLASS and CTEM models with and without C-N coupling revealed N controls on photosynthetic uptake and water loss. Predictions of daily gross ecosystem productivity (GEP), ecosystem respiration (Re), net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and evapotranspiration (ET) showed better agreement with eddy covariance (EC) flux measurements when C-N coupling is included. Annual simulated values NEP also compared better with observation-based estimates when C-N coupling is included. The impacts of N limitations on carbon fluxes were more pronounced during early spring, late autumn and winter seasons. When implemented in earth system models, terrestrial ecosystem models with N cycle constraints on photosynthesis will help evaluate the response of the terrestrial biosphere to feedbacks associated with the N cycle.

 

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Service

• 3rd Annual Summer Course on Flux Measurements and Advanced Modelling, University of Colorado Mountain Research Station, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. July 17-July 29, 2010.
  
• Annual General Meeting of Canadian Carbon Program (CCP), Montreal, QC., Feb. 26-28, 2010; and Vancouver, BC., Feb.27~ Mar.1, 2009.
  
• Let's Talk Science Partnership Program training session, McMaster University, 2009 and 2010.
  
• T.A.P.P. Teaching Assistant Development Program, McMaster University, Sep.2008~May.2009.
• Volunteer, Let’s Talk Science Partnership Program, McMaster University, 2009 – present.
• Volunteer, SGES Outreach Program, McMaster University, 2008 – present.
• Reporter, the XV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Beijing, China, 2006.

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