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Allyson Eller
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Project title: Characterizing VOC emissions from hybrid poplars under current and future CO2 conditions.Sponsors: Joost de Gouw and Russell Monson Allyson Eller is a visiting postdoctoral fellow working jointly in the NOAA Chemical Sciences Division's Tropospheric Chemical Observations group and the University of Colorado Boulder's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. She is investigating how rising carbon dioxide may affect the VOC emissions from different hybrid poplar genotypes. Hybrid poplar is a species that is already widely planted in the timber industry and is likely to be planted even more extensively if is becomes a source of biomass for the biofuel industry. A number of the VOCs emitted by plants participate in the chemistry that produces tropospheric ozone, which can have serious impacts on regional air quality. The goal of this study is to characterize the VOC emissions from several common commercial genotypes of hybrid poplar under current and elevated concentrations of CO2 to determine the likely impact of larger poplar plantations on regional air quality now and in the future. Office: Ramaley N317
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