Dan Krofcheck
I am a research assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, Department of Biology. Over the past five years, I have focused my research on how change in the structure of semi-arid ecosystems affects how the landscape interacts with light, water, and energy – specifically, I studied how those relationships manifest when viewed remotely using satellite data. During my PhD, I addressed these questions using combinations of in-situ measurements, remote sensing data, and empirical modeling. Currently, I am interested in how changes in drought, wildfire, and management regimes alter forest structure and composition across a larger diversity of vegetation and climatic gradients.
Google Scholar Profile
Selected Publications:
Krofcheck, D.J., M.D. Hurteau, R.M. Scheller, E.L. Loudermilk. In press. Prioritizing forest fuels treatments based on the probability of high-severity fire restores adaptive capacity in Sierran forests. Global Change Biology.
Krofcheck DJ, Hurteau MD, Scheller RM, Loudermilk EL. In press. Restoring surface fire stabilizes forest carbon under extreme fire weather in the Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere 8(1):e0163.10.1002/ecs2.163.
Krofcheck DJ, Litvak ME, Lippitt CD, Neuenschwander A. 2016. Woody biomass estimation in a southwestern US juniper savanna using LiDAR-derived clumped tree segmentation and existing allometries. Remote Sensing 8(6):453.
Krofcheck DJ, Eitel JUH, Lippitt CD, Vierling LA, Schulthess U, Litvak ME. 2015. Remote sensing based simple models of GPP in both disturbed and undisturbed pinon-juniper woodlands in the southwestern US. Remote Sensing 8(1):20.
Nate G. McDowell, Nicholas C. Coops, Pieter S.A. Beck, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Chandana Gangodagamage, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Cho-ying Huang, Robert Kennedy, Dan J. Krofcheck, Marcy Litvak, Arjan J.H. Meddens, Jordan Muss, Robinson Negrón-Juarez, Changhui Peng, Amanda M. Schwantes, Jennifer J. Swenson, Louis J. Vernon, A. Park Williams, Chonggang Xu, Maosheng Zhao, Steve W. Running, Craig D. Allen. 2015. Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances. Trends in plant science, 20, 2, 114-123.
Krofcheck, Dan J; Eitel, Jan UH; Vierling, Lee A; Schulthess, Urs; Hilton, Timothy M; Dettweiler-Robinson, Eva; Pendleton, Rosemary; Litvak, Marcy E, 2014. Detecting mortality induced structural and functional changes in a piñon-juniper woodland using Landsat and RapidEye time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 151, 102-113.
Eitel, Jan UH; Vierling, Lee A; Litvak, Marcy E; Long, Dan S; Schulthess, Urs; Ager, Alan A; Krofcheck, Dan J; Stoscheck, Leo, 2011. Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 12, 3640-3646.
Funding:
Quantifying the effects of post-fire decision-making on forest recovery in a severly burned southwestern landscape. PI: Matthew Hurteau, co-PIs: Craig Allen, Dan Krofcheck. Joint Fire Science Program, 2016-2019, $326,128.
Santa Fe fireshed simulation experiment. PI: Matthew Hurteau, co-PI: Dan Krofcheck. The Nature Conservancy, 2017-2018, $45,000
Quantifying the effects of species range shifts and management of post-fire recovery on regional carbon dynamics in a changing climate. PI: Matthew Hurteau, co-PIs: Dan Krofcheck, Marcy Litvak, Scott Collins. USDA NIFA Carbon Cycle Science, 2017-2020, $850,000
Google Scholar Profile
Selected Publications:
Krofcheck, D.J., M.D. Hurteau, R.M. Scheller, E.L. Loudermilk. In press. Prioritizing forest fuels treatments based on the probability of high-severity fire restores adaptive capacity in Sierran forests. Global Change Biology.
Krofcheck DJ, Hurteau MD, Scheller RM, Loudermilk EL. In press. Restoring surface fire stabilizes forest carbon under extreme fire weather in the Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere 8(1):e0163.10.1002/ecs2.163.
Krofcheck DJ, Litvak ME, Lippitt CD, Neuenschwander A. 2016. Woody biomass estimation in a southwestern US juniper savanna using LiDAR-derived clumped tree segmentation and existing allometries. Remote Sensing 8(6):453.
Krofcheck DJ, Eitel JUH, Lippitt CD, Vierling LA, Schulthess U, Litvak ME. 2015. Remote sensing based simple models of GPP in both disturbed and undisturbed pinon-juniper woodlands in the southwestern US. Remote Sensing 8(1):20.
Nate G. McDowell, Nicholas C. Coops, Pieter S.A. Beck, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Chandana Gangodagamage, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Cho-ying Huang, Robert Kennedy, Dan J. Krofcheck, Marcy Litvak, Arjan J.H. Meddens, Jordan Muss, Robinson Negrón-Juarez, Changhui Peng, Amanda M. Schwantes, Jennifer J. Swenson, Louis J. Vernon, A. Park Williams, Chonggang Xu, Maosheng Zhao, Steve W. Running, Craig D. Allen. 2015. Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances. Trends in plant science, 20, 2, 114-123.
Krofcheck, Dan J; Eitel, Jan UH; Vierling, Lee A; Schulthess, Urs; Hilton, Timothy M; Dettweiler-Robinson, Eva; Pendleton, Rosemary; Litvak, Marcy E, 2014. Detecting mortality induced structural and functional changes in a piñon-juniper woodland using Landsat and RapidEye time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 151, 102-113.
Eitel, Jan UH; Vierling, Lee A; Litvak, Marcy E; Long, Dan S; Schulthess, Urs; Ager, Alan A; Krofcheck, Dan J; Stoscheck, Leo, 2011. Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 12, 3640-3646.
Funding:
Quantifying the effects of post-fire decision-making on forest recovery in a severly burned southwestern landscape. PI: Matthew Hurteau, co-PIs: Craig Allen, Dan Krofcheck. Joint Fire Science Program, 2016-2019, $326,128.
Santa Fe fireshed simulation experiment. PI: Matthew Hurteau, co-PI: Dan Krofcheck. The Nature Conservancy, 2017-2018, $45,000
Quantifying the effects of species range shifts and management of post-fire recovery on regional carbon dynamics in a changing climate. PI: Matthew Hurteau, co-PIs: Dan Krofcheck, Marcy Litvak, Scott Collins. USDA NIFA Carbon Cycle Science, 2017-2020, $850,000