Emery Boose

Harvard Forest
Harvard University

Petersham, MA 01366
978-724-3302 (voice)
978-724-3595 (fax)
boose@fas.harvard.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1988 Harvard University (Sanskrit & Indian Studies)
A.B. 1974 Harvard College (Mathematics)

POSITIONS

since 1998 Information Manager, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
1989 - 1998 Computer Scientist, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
1988 - 1989 Lecturer, Dept. of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
1987 - 1988 Instructor, Dept. of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
1982 - 1988 Computer Consultant, Harvard Forest, Harvard University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

LTER Information Managers Committee, 1989-1992, since 1998
LTER Information Managers Executive Committee, 2001-2007
LTER Network Information System Advisory Committee, 2002-2006
LTER Climate Committee, since 1990
LTER Technology Committee, since 1999

SOFTWARE

INTERPNT. Maps tree locations using tree-to-tree distances (Boose et al. 1998)

HURRECON. Models hurricane wind velocity, direction, and damage (Boose et al. 1994, 2001, 2004)

EXPOS. Models topographic protection from hurricane winds (Boose et al. 1994)

PUBLICATIONS

Boose, E. R., A. M. Ellison, L. J. Osterweil, L. A. Clarke, R. Podorozhny, J. L. Hadley, A. Wise, and D. R. Foster. 2007. Ensuring reliable datasets for environmental models and forecasts. Ecological Informatics 2: 237-247.

Boose, E. R., A. M. Ellison, L. J. Osterweil, L. Clarke, R. Podorozhny, A. Wise, J. L. Hadley, and D. R. Foster. 2007. Data provenance and reliability in sensor networks. In Proceedings of the Conference on Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks, Boston, Apr 2007. (http://cheetah.cs.umb.edu/ocs/).

Ellison, A. M., L. J. Osterweil, L. Clarke, J. L. Hadley, A. Wise, E. R. Boose, D. R. Foster, A. Hanson, D. Jensen, P. Kuzeja, E. Riseman, and H. Schultz. 2006. Analytic webs support the synthesis of ecological data sets. Ecology 87: 1345-1358.

Osterweil, L. J., A. Wise, L. Clarke, A. M. Ellison, J. Hadley, E. R. Boose, and D. R. Foster. 2005. Process technology to facilitate the conduct of science. Pp. 403-415 in Proceedings of the International Software Process Workshop, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005. Springer-Verlag.

Boose, E. R. 2004. A Method for reconstructing historical hurricanes. Pp. 99-120 in Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. R. Murnane and K. Liu, eds. Columbia University Press, New York.

Boose, E. R., M. I. Serrano and D. R. Foster. 2004. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in Puerto Rico. Ecological Monographs 74: 335-352.

Foster, D. R., G. Motzkin, J. O’Keefe, E. Boose, D. Orwig, J. Fuller and B. Hall. 2004. The Environmental and Human History of New England. Pp. 43-100 in Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. D. Foster and J. Aber, eds. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Boose, E. R. 2003. Hurricane impacts in New England and Puerto Rico. Pp. 25-42 in Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites. D. Greenland, D. Goodin and R. C. Smith, eds. Oxford University Press, New York.

Boose, E. R., D. R. Foster, A. Barker Plotkin and B. Hall. 2003. Geographical and historical variation in hurricanes across the Yucatan Peninsula. Pp. 495-516 in Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. A. Gómez-Pompa, M. F. Allen, S. Fedick and J. J. Jiménez-Osornio, eds. Haworth Press, New York.

Boose, E. R., K. E. Chamberlin and D. R. Foster. 2001. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in New England. Ecological Monographs 71: 27-48.

Foster, D. R., M. Fluet and E. R. Boose. 1999. Human or natural disturbance: landscape-scale dynamics of the tropical forests of Puerto Rico. Ecological Applications 9: 555-572.

Boose, E. R., E. F. Boose and A. L. Lezberg. 1998. A practical method for mapping trees using distance measurements. Ecology 79: 819-827.

Boose, E. R., K. E. Chamberlin and D. R. Foster. 1997. Reconstructing historical hurricanes in New England. Pp. 388-389 in Preprints of the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston.

Lewis, A. M. and E. R. Boose. 1995. Estimating volume flow rates through xylem conduits. American Journal of Botany 82(9): 1112-1116.

Foster, D. R. and E. R. Boose. 1995. Hurricane disturbance regimes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems. Pp. 305-339 in Wind and Trees. M. P. Coutts, ed. Cambridge University Press.

Boose, E. R., D. R. Foster, and M. Fluet. 1994. Hurricanes impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes. Ecological Monographs 64: 369-400.

Foster, D. R. and E. R. Boose. 1992. Patterns of forest damage resulting from catastrophic wind in central New England, U.S.A. Journal of Ecology 80: 79-98.

Foster, D. R. and E. R. Boose. 1991. Technology development in the LTER Network – Status report on geographic information systems, remote sensing, Internet connectivity, archival storage, and global positioning systems. LTER Publication No. 12.