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Dr. Carol Barford
Research Scientist, Global Ecosystems
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1710 University Ave., Room 202
Madison, WI 53726 USA
608-262-9334 tel
608-264-4113 fax
clbarford@wisc.edu
Dr. Barford's work centers on agriculture and biofuels, especially on the potential of biomass production to improve environmental quality, increase farm profits and reduce risk. This work is supported by Wisconsin's Focus on Energy Program, and contributes to the rich spectrum of bioeconomy research and outreach at UW-Madison.
Barford's other research projects include Water for Tomorrow, a collaborative effort of The Nature Conservancy, IBM, and SAGE. Water for Tomorrow is a web-based decision support system for stakeholders in large river basins; Barford is the project's lead land surface and hydrology modeler. Dr. Barford's third research focus is PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Under Scenarios), a fast-form simulation model designed to explore multiple land and water-use scenarios and their effects on carbon, water and energy balances.
Prior to joining SAGE, Dr. Barford studied forest carbon cycling. Her synthesis of biometric and atmospheric methods of measuring forest carbon balance appeared in the journal Science (23 November, 2001). For her Ph.D. thesis, Barford measured nitrogen stable isotope effects of denitrification and applied the results to track N2O production in agriculture and wastewater.
Barford is a native of central Illinois. She completed her B.A. in Biology and M.S. in Ecology at Boston University, and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University. Dr. Barford held a post-doctoral position in Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard before joining SAGE.
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