David Millar

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Botany
University of Wyoming

Email: dave.millar@uwyo.edu
Github: https://github.com/davemillar
 

Research

• Modeling ecosystem and ecohydrological processes
• Forest and wetland ecohydrology
• Wetland biogeochemistry
• Climate change and disturbance impacts on ecosystem-scale processes

Education

Ph.D.
Ecology
Colorado State University
2015

M.S.
Environmental Sciences - Natural Resources Science
University of Rhode Island
2008

B.S.
Environmental Science and Management
University of Rhode Island
2005

 

Publications

Millar, D., D.J. Cooper, K. Dwire, R. Hubbard, and J. von Fischer. 2016. Mountain peatlands range from CO2 sources to sinks with net ecosystem production increasing with elevation: Implications for a changing climate. Ecosystems. In press.
Cooper, D.J., S Bisbing, D. Millar, and E. Gage. 2013. Review of The biology of freshwater wetlands (2nd Ed.) by Arnold G. van der Valk. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 88:133.
Millar, D., M. Stolt, and J. A. Amador. 2010. Quantification of soil losses from commercial sod production. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 74:892-897.

 

Presentations

Millar, D., B. Ewers, S. Peckham, S. Mackay, A. Sekoni, D. Reed, J. Frank, and W. Massman. 2015. Modeling compensatory response of ecosystem-scale water fluxes in forests affected by beetle mortality. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA.
Millar, D. and D. Cooper. 2012. Linking climate, hydrology, and carbon fluxes in Rocky Mountain peatlands. SLU sponsored PhD course on “Carbon dynamics and exchange in peatlands”, Vindeln, Sweden.
Millar, D., D. Cooper, and M. Ronayne. 2012. Modeling peatland hydrology in a Rocky Mountain fen. Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Millar, D. 2011. Climate, hydrology, and plant communities: Controls of greenhouse gas fluxes in Rocky Mountain peatlands. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Millar, D. 2007. Evaluating the effects of sod farming on soil quality. Soil Science Society of Southern New England Conference, University of Rhode Island, Alton Jones Campus, RI.
Millar, D. 2007. Assessment of soil quality in southern New England sod farms. Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Conference, Tampa, FL.
Millar, D. 2005. Determining groundwater flow within a denitrification wall using bromide as a conservative tracer. URI Coastal Fellows Poster Presentation, Kingston, RI.
Millar, D. 2003. Using dissolved oxygen profiles to monitor trophic progression and environmental characteristics of Rhode Island lakes. URI Coastal Fellows Poster Presentation, Kingston, RI.

 

Professional Organizations

• American Geophysical Union
• Ecological Society of America