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Knute Nadelhoffer
Professor
Director of the Biological Station
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan Biological Station (Pellston, Mich.)
Contact information
University of Michigan
1029 Kraus Natural Science Bldg.
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 763-4461
Fax: (734) 647-1952
Email: knute@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Ecosystem ecology/terrestrial biogeochemistry/global change
Academic background
I received my PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. I began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ecosystems Center of Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) in 1983. I worked as a Research Scientist at the MBL until June 2002 when I left to spend a year as co-Director of the National Science Foundation's Ecosystem Studies Program. I joined the Univeristy of Michigan as Director of the Biological Station in June 2003 and as Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in September 2003. I also served as Panel Manager for the USDA Ecosystems Program in 1992 and was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Water Research (Oslo) and the Norwegian Institute of Forest Research (Aas) in 1996-97.
Graduate students
Jasmine Crumsey
Nadelhoffer Lab Web site
University of Michigan Biological Station home page
News
Reappointment announced
The Dean and the Executive Committee of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts approved the reappointment of Professor Knute Nadelhoffer as director of the Biological Station.
Nadelhoffer’s five-year term is effective July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2013. He joined EEB in 2003 as professor and director of the BioStation. He specializes in ecological impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition and the interaction of the nitrogen and carbon cycles. This area of fundamental societal concern is important in understanding the functioning of local ecosystems and the global biosphere.
From Pole to Pole: U-M Research at the Ends of the Earth
The Exhibit Museum of Natural History celebrates International Polar Year with the exhibit From Pole to Pole: U-M Research at the Ends of the Earth. The research of Professors Knute Nadelhoffer, George Kling, Dan Fisher and Joel Blum is featured in the rotunda exhibit.
Global warming explained
Professor Knute Nadelhoffer is featured in a new video on the Global Warming Solutions Web site. (watch)
Nadelhoffer highlights global warming solutions
Professor Knute Nadelhoffer spoke at the Step It Up rally on November 3 underneath the Burton Memorial Tower on central campus. He provided solutions for the growing problems associated with global warming.
Nadelhoffer outlined how greenhouse gasses will continue to increase and the climate will continue to heat up, with potentially serious implications for ecosystem integrity for crops, forests, oceans and grasslands -- everywhere from the poles to tropics. Globally, the rainfall and moisture balances are changing with major implications for food production, economies, social justice and political stability.
The questions are: How can we adjust? How can we minimize future GHG emissions? How can we learn to live in a “carbon constrained world" and move to an economic system powered by more sustainable energy? Nadelhoffer outlined the following solutions: (1) Lower our emissions, retool our economy, rethink our design structure (communities, homes and buildings) (2) A national cap and trade system that makes real reductions within a decade (3) State and national renewable energy standard of at least 20 percent renewables by 2020 and (4) Tax on carbon emissions.
He is the director of the U-M Biological Station in Pellston, Mich.
Take action on global warming
A rally on the U-M campus Saturday, April 14 was one of 1,300 nationwide calling on Congress to cut carbon 80 percent by 2050. Professor Knute Nadelhoffer, director of the U-M Biological Station, spoke at the rally.
“The data now exist and they are incontrovertible,” Nadelhoffer said from the steps of the Burton Tower on central campus. “We are warming the planet.” The rally was believed to be the largest day of citizen action on global warming. Read the Ann Arbor News article. Watch video of Step it Up rally for climate action on U-M campus.
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