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Harvard Forest Logo 		Jerry Melillo

JERRY MICHAEL MELILLO

The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Laboratory

Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
508-289-7494
jmelillo@mbl.edu

Further Information: http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/Staff/melillo.html

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972-1977
M.F.S., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1970-1972
M.A.T., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1967-1968
B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1961-1965

APPOINTMENTS

  • The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 1976-Present
    • Co-Director, 1989-Present
    • Acting Director, 1988-1989
    • Senior Scientist, 1987-Present
      (on leave to National Science Foundation, Washington, DC 1986-1988)
    • Associate Scientist, 1982-1987
    • Assistant Scientist, 1976-1982
  • Associate Director for Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the President of the United States, Washington, DC, 1996-1997
  • Director, Ecosystems Studies Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, 1986-1988
  • Associate in Research, The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1975-1976

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, J. D. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. P. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens and S. Morrisseau. 2002. Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system. Science 298: 2173-2176.

Garcia-Montiel, D. C., J. Melillo, P. A. Steudler and C. Neill. 2002. Relationship between N2O and CO2 emissions from the Amazon Basin. Geophysical Research Letters 29(6): 14.1-14.3.

Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, B. J. Feigl, C. Neill, D. Garcia, M. C. Piccolo, C. C. Cerri and H. Tian. 2001. Nitrous oxide emissions from forests and pastures of various ages in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Geophysical Research 106(D24): 34,179-34,188.

Schimel, D., J. Melillo, H. Tian, A. D. McGuire, D. Kicklighter, T. Kittel, N. Rosenbloom, S. Running, P. Thornton, D. Ojima, W. Parton, R. Kelly, M. Sykes, R. Neilson and B. Rizzo. 2000. Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States. Science 287: 2004-2006.

Tian, H., J. M. Melillo, D. W. Kicklighter, A. D. McGuire, J. V. K. Helfrich III, B. Moore III and C. J. Vorosmarty. 1998. Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems. Nature 396: 664-667.

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Melillo, J. M. and E. B. Cowling. 2002. Reactive nitrogen and public policies for environmental protection. Ambio 31:150-158.

Prinn, R., H. Jacoby, A. Sokolov, C. Wang, X. Xiao, Z. Yang, R. Eckaus, P. Stone, D. Ellerman, J. Melillo, J. Fitzmaurice, D. Kicklighter, G. Holian and Y. Liu. 1999. Integrated global system model for climate policy assessment: Feedbacks and sensitivity studies. Climatic Change 41(3/4): 469-546.

Melillo, J. M., R. A. Houghton, D. W. Kicklighter and A. D. McGuire. 1996. Tropical deforestation and the global carbon budget. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 21: 293-310.

Melillo, J. M., I. C. Prentice, G. D. Farquhar, E.-D. Schulze and O. Sala. 1996. Terrestrial biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate. Pp. 445-482. In: J. T. Houghton and others (eds.), Climate Change 1996 - The Science of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Melillo, J. M., A. D. McGuire, D. W. Kicklighter, B. Moore III, C. J. Vorosmarty, and A.L. Schloss. 1993. Global climate change and terrestrial net primary production. Nature 363: 234-240.

Synergistic Activities

  • Founded a Semester in Environmental Science for undergraduates at the Marine Biological Laboratory that includes a significant focus on ecological modeling and climate change.
  • Co-authored a textbook on ecosystems ecology that has been used by thousands of students, Aber, J. D. and J. M. Melillo, 1991, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia, 436 pp.
  • Developed regional and global data bases used in climate change modeling.
  • Developed and coordinated a major model comparison activity, VEMAP, that is international in scope and focuses on the climate-change issue.
  • Co-chair of the USGCRP's National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change

List of Graduate or Postgraduate Advisees and Recent Collaborators

J.D. Aber, UNH
R.D. Boone, Univ. AK
F.H. Bormann, Yale Univ.
R.D. Bowden, Allegheny College
T.V. Callaghan, Univ. Manchester, UK
C.A. Cerri, Univ. São Paulo, Brazil
D. Foster, Harvard Univ.
R.A. Houghton, Woods Hole Res. Center
L. Joyce, USFS, Ft Collins, CO
A. Magill, UNH
A.D. McGuire, Univ. Alaska
R. McKane, EPA Corvallis, OR
C.A. McClaugherty, Mt. Union College
B. Moore, III, UNH
D. Ojima, CO State Univ.
W.J. Peterjohn, Univ. WVA
C. Prentice, Max Planck Inst.
S. Running, Univ. MT
D. Schimel, Max Planck Inst.
D.L. Skole, Michigan State
C.J. Vörösmarty, UNH
C.A. Wessman, Univ. CO
S. Wofsy, Harvard Univ.
F.I. Woodward, Univ. Manchester, UK