Clifton W Meyer

Environmental Technician

Contact Box 1663, MS J495 Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545 (505) 665-7661 - Phone (505) 665-3866 - FAX clifm at lanl.gov Education 1972 - Rutgers University, BA, Biological Sciences Ongoing - Universal College of Life

Relevant Employment

• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Piñon-Juniper Ecosystem Dynamics, GRA and TEC in support of Dave Breshears (1992-1995, 2001-2003) and Nate McDowell (2004-present)
• Beta Corp International, in support of Tropical Western Pacific Project of the DOE ARM Program (1996-2001)

Publications

Breshears, D. D., N.S. Cobb, P.M. Rich, K.P. Price, C.D. Allen, R.G. Balice, W.H. Romme, J.H. Kastens, M.L. Floyd, J. Belnap, J.J. Anderson, O.B. Myers, C.W. Meyer. 2005. Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(42): 15144-15148

Martens, S.N., D.D. Breshears, C.W. Meyer. 2000. Spatial distributions of understory light along the grassland/forest continuum: Effects of cover, height, and spatial pattern of tree canopies. Ecological Modeling. 126(1): 79-93

Martens, S.N., D.D. Breshears, C.W. Meyer, F.J. Barnes. 1997. Scales of above-ground and below-ground competition in a semi-arid woodland detected from spatial pattern. Journal of Vegetation Science. 8(5): 655-664

Breshears, D.D., O.B. Myers, S.R. Johnson, C.W. Meyer,S.N. Martens. 1997. Differential use of spatially heterogeneous soil moisture by two semiarid woody species: Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma. Journal of Ecology. 85(3): 289-299

Capabilities

Field and laboratory experimental design and support

• - Soil carbon; soil moisture; vegetation; atmospheric site biotic characterization
• - Instrument selection, installation and integration; data collection, storage and analysis
• - Soil, plant and atmospheric parameters; moisture, carbon, isotopic CO₂ and H₂O, site biotic characterization