Alistair Rogers, Ph.D. Scientist Environmental Sciences Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973-5000 (631) 344 2948 arogers@bnl.gov

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Research Interests

My research aims to improve understanding of the mechanisms that underlie whole plant and ecosystem responses to global change, and to improve representation of these processes in Earth System Models.  My lab is focused on understanding the interactions between photosynthesis and carbon and nitrogen metabolism that underlie many of the commonly observed responses of plants and ecosystems to global change.

Recent Publications

• Rogers A (2013) The use and misuse of V_c,max in Earth System Models. Photosynthesis Research. Online First.
• Gray SB, Strellner RS, Puthuval KK, Ng C, Shulman R, Siebers MH, Rogers A, Leakey ADB (2013) Minirhizotron imaging reveals nodulation of field-grown soybean is enhanced by Free-Air CO₂ Enrichment only when combined with drought stress. Functional Plant Biology. 40, 137-147. (pdf)
• Rogers A, McDonald K, Muehlbauer MF, Hoffman A, Koenig K, Newman L, Taghavi S, van der Lelie D (2012) Inoculation of hybrid poplar with the endophytic bacterium Enterobacter sp. 638 increases biomass but does not impact leaf level physiology. Global Change Biology - Bioenergy 4, 364-370. (pdf)

Invited Talks

• 2011 Lecture. Annual Research Meeting of the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program.
• 2011 Seminar, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
• 2010 Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA.
• 2010 Seminar, City University of New York, Lehman, NY, USA.
• 2010 Speaker, BNL-SBU Joint Symposium on Climate Change, Stony Brook University, NY, USA.
• 2010 Seminar, INRA, Bordeaux, France.
• 2009 Speaker, Earth Day and 449th Brookhaven Lecture, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
• 2009 Seminar, Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research, Stony Brook University, USA.
• 2009 Speaker, Ground Level Ozone Workshop, Stony Brook University, USA.
• 2008 Seminar, Bayer Crop Sciences, Ghent, Belgium.
• 2007 Speaker, FACEing the Future:Planning the Next Generation of Elevated CO₂ Experiments on Crops and Ecosystems, European Science Foundation, Rome, Italy (Science Position Paper resulting from this meeting).
• 2007 Speaker, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, USA.
• 2006 Speaker, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, International Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, USA.
• 2004 Speaker, International Photosynthesis Congress, Montreal, Canada.
• 2004 Speaker, International FACE workshop, Ascona, Switzerland.
• 2003 Speaker, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, International Annual Meeting, Denver, USA.
• 2001 Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

Professional Activities and Affiliations

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Global Change Biology.
• Member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Society of Plant Biologists, and the Ecological Society of America.

Awards

• 2009 Outstanding Mentor.  Department of Energy, Office of Science, Undergraduate Research Programs.
• 2004 Outstanding Mentor.  Department of Energy, Office of Science, Undergraduate Research Programs.
• 2002 Outstanding Mentor.  Department of Energy, Office of Science, Undergraduate Research Programs.

Education

• Ph.D. Biology, 1998, University of Essex, UK.
• B.Sc. Biochemistry & Botany, 1994, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.

Media

• NGEE-Arctic described in Ten Hundred Words of Science (read the article explaining the challenge)
• Stefani Lasota, Climate Change Captures Imagination, Inspires A Career
• Ross Shulman selected as a 2011 Intel Science Competition semifinalist (BNL Newsroom)
• Dr. Rogers talks about FACE and rising carbon dioxide concentration on MyLITV.com
• Dr. Rogers talks about how he ended up at Brookhaven National Laboratory on MyLITV.com
• Daniel Bornstein selected as a 2010 Intel Science Competition semifinalist (Brookhaven TODAY article).

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