Brian D. Kloeppel assumed the position of Site Manager at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER site neat Franklin, North Carolina February 27, 1995. Responsibilities of this newly-created position include onsite coordination of 28 principal investigators, communication with the LTER Network Office and other LTER sites to promote the exchange of ideas and research, and assisting site data management personnel to enhance on—site data transfer and electronic communication capabilities.
Brian is also conducting research at Coweeta relating carbon budgets and cycling at local and regional scales. He came to Coweeta after completing studies in forestry at the University of Wisconsin Madison (B.S. 1989), and graduate work in Tree Physiology at Penn State University (MS. 1992) and in Forest Ecology at the University of Wisconsin Madison (Ph.D. 1995, anticipated).
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