Carl Salk

Carl Salk first came to IIASA through the Young Scientists Summer Program in 2010. He returned to the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program in 2011 as a recipient of the Peccei Award. In 2012 he is working in both the ESM and Risk Policy and Vulnerability (RPV) Programs. In ESM, he will be developing statistical tools to compare land classification error rates on maps with different cover categories in conjunction with Steffen Fritz and Linda See. In RPV he will collaborate with Jan Sendzimir on protocol development for an NSF funded project on the emergence of adaptive governance arrangements for tropical forest ecosystems.

Dr. Salk received his PhD in biology from Duke University. His dissertation research examined the environmental cues that determine when temperate trees grow and shed their leaves and how leafing dates will respond to a warmer climate. He is currently a postdoc at the University of Colorado, working on the social and ecological aspects of common pool tropical forest governance. Before graduate school, Dr. Salk worked in forest research and management for the US Forest Service and National Park Service in California, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.


Last update: 27-MAR-2012

Salk,C.F. (2012)

Within-species leaf trait variation and ecological flexibility in resprouting tropical trees ... More

Salk,C.F. (2012)

Changes in the Onset of Spring and Uncertainty in 21st Century Terrestrial Carbon Sinks ... More

Bigelow,S.W. North,M.P. Salk,C.F. (2011)

Using light to predict fuels-reduction and group-selection effects on succession in Sierran mixed-conifer forest ... More