Sensitivity of Arctic carbon in a changing climate

12 A. David McGuire is a Professor of Ecology in the US Geological Survey’s Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). He is also director of the Spatial Ecology Laboratory in the Institute of Arctic Biology at UAF. He earned his BS and M. Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1976 and 1977, and his MS and PhD in Biology from UAF in 1983 and 1989. Since 1990, Dr. McGuire has conducted studies on how responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change may influence the climate system. He served two terms on the Board of Editors for the journal Ecological Applications. He has also worked in the Polar Research Board’s committee to review NASA’s Polar Geophysical Data Sets. Dr. McGuire is serving on several national-level science steering committees (SSCs) in the USA including the Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group of the US Climate Change Research Program, the SSC for the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), and the SSC for the Arctic Community-wide Hydrological Analysis and Monitoring Program. He has also been a member of several international committees concerned with global change science in northern high latitudes.