Woods Hole Research Center

Postdoctoral Fellow
Woods Hole Research Center
149 Woods Hole Road
Falmouth, MA 02540-1644

Phone:

508-444-1560

Fax:

508-444-1860

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Education

Ph.D. – State University of New York at Buffalo
2009, Department of Geography
Dissertation -Towards a mechanistic understanding of spatial patterns of forest transpiration, and its implications for scaling.
NSF IGERT in Geographic Information Science Doctoral Fellowship

B.Sc. – West Virginia Wesleyan College
2003 – Environmental Science, Magna cum Laude, with Honors

Professional Experience

• 2009 – present: Postdoctoral fellow, Woods Hole Research Center

Research Interests

Ecosystem water and carbon cycling, plant ecophsyiology, ecosystem response to environmental change, and scaling ecosystem processes.

Selected publications

Beck, P. S. A., S. J. Goetz, H. Alexander, M. C. Mack, Y. Jin, J. T. Randerson, M. M. Loranty. 2011. The effects and implications of an intensifying fire regime on boreal forest in Alaska. Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02412.x

Loranty, M.M., S. J. Goetz, P.S.A Beck. 2011. The effects of tundra vegetation on pan-Arctic albedo. Environmental Research Letters 6 024014

Loranty, M.M., S. J. Goetz, E. B. Rastetter, A.V. Rocha, G.R. Shaver, E.R. Humphreys, and P.M.Lafleur. 2011. Scaling an instantaneous model of tundra NEE to the Arctic landscape. Ecosystems 14(1):76-93.

Loranty, M. M., D. S. Mackay, B. E. Ewers, E. Traver, and E. L. Kruger (2010), Competition for light between individual trees lowers reference canopy stomatal conductance: Results from a model. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 115, G04019, doi:10.1029/2010JG001377

Mackay, D.S., B.E. Ewers, M.M. Loranty, E.L. Kruger. 2010. On the representativeness of plot size and location for scaling transpiration from trees to a stand. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences., 115, G02016, doi:10.1029/2009JG001092

Loranty, M.M., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, E. Traver, and E.L. Kruger. 2010. Competition for light contributes to within-species variability in stomatal conductance. Water Resources Research, 46, W05516, doi:10.1029/2009WR008125.

Traver, E., Ewers, B.E., Mackay, D.S., Loranty, M.M., 2010. Tree transpiration varies spatially in response to atmospheric but not edaphic conditions. Functional Ecology, 24, 273-282.

Loranty, M.M., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, J.D. Adelman, E.L. Kruger. 2008. Environmental drivers of spatial variation in whole-tree transpiration in an aspen-dominated upland-to-wetland forest gradient. Water Resources Research, 44, W02441, doi:10.1029/2007WR006272.

Achievements and Awards

• SUNY at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship Fall 2008
• NSF IGERT in Geographic Information Science Doctoral Fellowship SUNY at Buffalo 2004-08
• West Virginia Wesleyan College Presidential Scholarship 1999 -2003