Prof Stuart Gage
school:
Michigan State University
faculty:
Entomology, Zoology (Adjunct)
position:
Professor, Distinguished University Faculty
address:
Michigan State University,
243 Natural Science Building,
East Lansing, MI 48824,
USA
tel: 1-517-355-2135 fax: 1-517-432-9415 e-mail: gages@msu.edu
Qualifications
PhD Michigan State University 1974
Research topics
- species distribution, habitats
- ecosystem health
- acoustic evaluation
- climatic changes
- greenhouse gases assesment
- rainfall monitoring
Summary of expertise / interests
Teaching Complex Systems: Professor Gage teaches two courses, Biological Information Systems and Earth System Science (Honors). Laboratory/Center Development: Gage is Director of the Computational Ecology and Visualization Laboratory (www.cevl.msu.edu) which focuses on large scale ecological analysis and synthesis of long time series of biophysical processes.
Publications
- Gage, S.: Climate variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing drought severity patterns - [In] Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long Term Ecological Research Sites. (D. Greenland, D. Goodin. and R. Smith Eds.). Oxford Univ. Press. 457 pp, 2003
- Isard, S.A.; Gage, S.: Flow of Life in the Atmosphere: An Airscape Approach to Understanding Invasive Organisms - Michigan State University Press. 304 pp, 2001
- Grace, P.; Ladd, J.N.; Robertson, G.P.; Gage, S.: SOCRATES - a simple model for predicting long-term changes in soil organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38, 1172 - 1176, 2006
- Grace, P.; Colung-Garcia, M; Gage, S.; Safir, G.R.; Robertson, G.P.: The potential impact of climate change on North Central Region's soil organic carbon resources - Ecosystems. 9:1-13, 2006