Education:

• PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ecology, 1985
• MS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Forestry, 1978
• BS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Business Administration, 1969

Professional Positions:

• Project Leader (1992 - Present), USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Durham, NH
• Adjunct Professor (1995 - Present) Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
• Interim Program Manager, Northern Global Change Research Program (1991), USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Radnor, PA
• Program Manager, Spruce-fir Research Cooperative (1988-1990), USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Radnor, PA
• Ecologist (1983 - 1988), National Park Service, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN
• Biological Technician (1981 - 1983), National Park Service, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN
• Graduate Research Assistant (1979 - 1982) Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Research Interests and Activities: The effects of acidic deposition on forests, with a focus on determining how calcium depletion and aluminum mobilization impacts sugar maple; dynamics of southern Appalachian old-growth spruce-fir forest; and synthesis of effects of acidic deposition on forest ecosystems for decision makers. A significant part of my time is devoted to coordination of activities at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.

Selected Publications:

• Berger, T. W., C. Eagar, G. E. Likens, and G. Stingeder. In press. Throughfall chemistry of calcium and aluminum chloride treated sugar maple stands. For. Ecol. Mgmt.
• Driscoll, C.T., G.B. Lawrence, A.J. Bulger, T. Butler, C.S. Cronan, C. Eagar, K. F. Lambert, G.E. Likens, J.L. Stoddard, K.C. Weathers. 2001. Acidic deposition in the northeastern US: sources and inputs, ecosystem effects, and management strategies. BioScience. 51:180-198.
• Campbell, J. L., C. Eagar, W. H. McDowell, J. W. Hornbeck. 2000. Analysis of nitrogen dynamics in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area, Vermont, USA. Water Air and Soil Pollution. 122:63-75.
• Miller-Weeks, M. and C. Eagar. 1999. The Northeastern 1998 Ice Storm: A Forest Damage Assessment for New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. North East State Foresters Association Report. 32 p.
• Nicholas, N.S., C. Eagar, J. D. Peine. 1999. Threatened ecosystems: High elevation spruce-fir forests. In: J. D. Peine (ed). Ecosystem Management for Sustainability: Principles and Practices Illustrated by a Regional Biosphere Reserve Cooperative. Lewis Publishers, New York. p 431-454.
• Hornbeck, J.W., C.W. Martin, and C. Eagar. 1997. Summary of water yield experiments at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire. Can. J. For. Res. 27:2043-2052.
• Eagar, C., H. Van Miegroet, S. B. McLaughlin, and N. S. Nicholas. 1996. Evaluation of Effects of Acidic Deposition to Terrestrial Ecosystems in Class I Areas of the Southern Appalachians. A Technical Report to the Southern Appalachian Mountain Initiative. 59 p.
• Hertel, G. D., C. Eagar, S. A. Medlarz and M. W. McFadden. 1993. The effects of acidic deposition and ozone on forest tree species in the eastern United States: Results of the Forest Response Program. In: R. F. Huttl and D. Mueller-Dombois (eds) Forest Decline in the Atlantic and Pacific Region. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. p 54-65.
• Eagar, C. and M. B. Adams. Editors. 1992. The Ecology and Decline of Red Spruce in the Eastern United States. Springer-Verlag, New York. 417 p.

Co-Authors and Collaborators: James Hornbeck, John Campbell, Charles Driscoll, Niki Nicholas, William McDowell, Torsten Burger, Samual (Sandy) McLaughlin, Gregory Lawrence, Arthur Bulger, Thomas Butler, Christopher Cronan, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Gene Likens, John Stoddard, Kathleen Weathers, John Peine, Scott Bailey, Lindsey Rustad, Linda Pardo