Benjamin Sulman

Me (right, in the green hoodie) at the Sylvania Wilderness old-growth forest flux tower site with a group from the ChEAS meeting, August 2008:

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. My research interests focus on interactions between ecosystems and the atmosphere, primarily how ecology controls carbon dioxide exchange. My data comes from the ChEAS (Chequamegon Ecosystem Atmosphere Study) cooperative, Ameriflux, and the University of Michigan Biological Station. My primary analysis tools are scipy, numpy, and matplotlib. These are free, open source scientific, numerical, and plotting packages for python. I am currently studying interactions between the forests and atmosphere at the University of Michigan Biological Station through the Biosphere-Atmosphere Research and Training (BART) IGERT fellowship, using the LANDIS-II forest landscape model. I am also interested in the interactions between hydrology and carbon cycling in wetlands.

I majored in physics at Oberlin College, graduating in 2006. I completed my Masters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2009. My thesis was titled "A comparison of carbon dioxide, water, and energy fluxes at a drying shrub wetland in northern Wisconsin, USA with nearby wetland and forest sites."

I enjoy biking, running, ultimate frisbee, and living in Madison.

CV_Feb_2009.pdf: Curriculum Vitae

Posters and presentations:

Please contact me if you are interested in using or learning more about any results or figures from the attached files. Results may be out of date.

Poster, NACP Interim Synthesis, Oak Ridge, TN, Nov. 2009: How well do we model wetlands?

Poster, Ameriflux meeting, Washington, DC, Sept. 2009: Forests, wetlands, and lakes: comparing drivers of carbon cycling in heterogeneous northern landscapes

Talk, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department seminar, Madison, WI, April, 2009:

• Water, biology, and climate in northern Wisconsin: Carbon dioxide fluxes at a drying wetland PDF PPT

Poster, Ameriflux meeting, Boulder CO, Oct. 2008: Observed carbon-water interactions in three north-temperate wetlands

Talk, American Meteorological Society 18th Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, Orlando, FL, April 2008:

• Powerpoint: Interactions of carbon and water cycles in north temperate wetlands: Modeling and observing the impact of a declining water table trend on regional biogeochemistry
• Abstract: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/139059.pdf

Peer reviewed papers:

B. N. Sulman, A. R. Desai, B. D. Cook, N. Saliendra, and D. S. Mackay, The impact of a declining water table on observed carbon fluxes at a northern temperate wetland. Biogeosciences, 6, 1115-1126, 2009.

Honors and Awards

Awarded BART IGERT Fellowship, 2009-2011.

Honorable mention, DOE GREF fellowship, 2009.

Received UW AOS Department award for excellent performance in first year graduate studies, 2008.

Contact Information

Email: bnsulman <_at_> wisc <_dot_> edu

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