Courses:
NRM 375 - Forest Ecology
NRM 488/688 - Land Management of Ecosystems
NRM 601 - Research Methods in Natural Resources Management
NRM 675 - Theoretical Forest Ecosystem Sciences

Research Interests: Structure and function of boreal forests, successional processes following catastrophic disturbances, effects of changing environment conditions (including global warming)on forest ecosystem processes, modeling of forest ecosystem dynamics at the ecosystem and landscape perspectives

Current Research Programs:
1) BNZ-LTER,
2) Continued monitoring of a 35-year forest growth study,
3) Reprogramming of the SAFED model to visual basic in the Arc Map framework,
4) Setup and monitoring of long term log decomposition,
5) Investigation of the effects of summer drought on forest growth,
6) Development of research to study the effects of climate change on boreal forest carbon dynamics

Examples of Research Support:
"Ecosystem Modeling from a GIS Perspective Applied to Forest Management Decisions Across the Landscape", USDA McIntire-Stennis funding. (2001 - 2006)

"Carbon Cropping the Boreal Forest of Alaska", New Crops III program 2003

"Development of Components of a GIS Based Forest Ecosystem Model Using Visual Basic within ArcGis"' New Crops IV program 2004

Examples of Publications:
Yarie, J. and S. Billings. 2002. Carbon balance of the Taiga forest within Alaska. Can. J. For. Res. 32:757-767.

Zhuang, Q., A. D. McGuire, P. O’Neill, J. W. Harden, V. E. Romanovsky, and J. Yarie. 2002 (In Press). Modeling soil thermal and carbon dynamics of a fire chronosequence in interior Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

Yarie, J. 2000a. Boreal forest ecosystem dynamics I: A new spatial model. Can. J. For. Res. 30:998-1009.

Yarie, J. 2000b. Boreal forest ecosystem dynamics II: Application of the model to four vegetation types in interior Alaska. Can J. For. Res. 30:1010-1023

Billings, S. S., and J. Yarie. 2000. Sensitivity of soil methane fluxes to reduced precipitation in boreal forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32:1431-1441.

Yarie, J. 1997. Nitrogen productivity of Alaskan tree species at an individual tree and landscape level. Ecology 78:2351-2358.

Yarie, J. and S. Rupp. 1997. Components of a geographic forest ecosystem model used for potential management of interior Alaska’s forests. In Hajjila, P., Heino, M. and Puranen, E. (eds), Forest Management for Bioenergy. The Finnish Forest Research Institute. pgs 182 - 192.