The goal of APEX or the Alaska Peatland Experiment is to further knowledge about peatland carbon cycling through a series of water table and thermal experiments. The APEX team includes scientists from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Michigan State University, and the U.S. Geological Survey that focus on ecosystem ecology and modeling, soil science, and carbon cycling. With funding from the National Science Foundation and the Bonanza Creek long-term ecological research (LTER) site, we initiated this experimental design at one site in 2005 and plans currently are underway for expanding into several more sites in the coming year. Please visit our website often for updates on project progress and preliminary results.

News

  • The APEX team is giving four invited talks at the 2007 Fall American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco (Dave McGuire, Mike Waddington, Jennifer Harden and Merritt Turetsky).

  • The APEX site was included on the field tour as part of the Bonanza Creek LTER site review. Thanks to all LTER and APEX collaborators who helped with this tour!

  • Molly Conlin received the best student presentation prize at the first international Peatland and Carbon Cycling meeting, held in Wageningen. This meeting was partially funded by PeatNET, a NSF funded research coordination network. Check out the PeatNET website at http://www.peatnet.siu.edu/.

    • Employment Opportunities

    We are not currently seeking personnel on the APEX project. However, if you are interested in graduate work on peatland or boreal ecology, please contact one of the principal investigators listed on the APEX Team page with a description of your research interests and background.

    updated August 2008