Mary Beth Adams
 

  Employee Information
Name: Mary Beth Adams
Title: Project Leader, Supervisory Soil Scientist
Phone: 304-478-2000, ext. 130
Fax: 304-478-8692 - Location Fax
E-Mail: mbadams@fs.fed.us
 
 

Location Information
Mailing Address:

USDA Forest Service

Timber & Watershed Laboratory

P.O. Box 404

Parsons, WV 26287

 

Shipping

Address

USDA Forest Service

Timber & Watershed Laboratory

Route 219N, Nursery Bottom

Parsons, WV 26287

 

Research Information:

Education:

Ph.D. Forestry and Soil Science, North Carolina State University

M.S. Forestry, Purdue University

B.S.F. Forest Recreation, Purdue University

 

Current Research:

  • Fernow whole-watershed acidification study - nutrient cycling in forested ecosystems, particularly as affected by atmospheric deposition.

  • Long-term soil productivity - relationship to species composition, management and disturbance.

  • Coarse woody debris in central Appalachian forests - presence, characteristics and nutrient cycling.

  • Long-term trends in water quality.

 

Collaborative Research:

  • Long-term soil productivity and management effects in various forest types (Forest Research Inc., New Zealand; Virginia Tech.).

  • Nitrogen cycling in hardwood forests, sources, processes, and controls (Institute for Ecosystem studies, West Virginia University, Marshall University).

  • Oak regeneration, a test of 4 prominent hypotheses (University of Pittsburgh).

  • Changing deposition patterns and effects on forest ecosystems (U.S. Forest Service).

 

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