Global Change

Research Group

Rommel C. Zulueta

E-Mail to: zulueta@mail.sdsu.edu

B.S. San Diego State University 1995

Rommel began working with the Global Change Research Group back in 1993 when he interviewed with Steve Hastings for a sumer research assitant job in Alaska. That summer, he found himself taking ecosystem flux measurements in Alaska's Seward Peninsula. He returned the next summer to finish out the Group's research efforts there.

Rommel graduated in 1995 and again returned to Alaska under the guidance of George Vourlitis. George was completing his doctoral dissertation research on the North Slope of Alaska. Here, Rommel began learning the complexities of eddy covariance.

Upon the close of the 1995 field season in Alaska, Rommel set up two eddy covariance towers in the chaparral at SDSU's Sky Oaks Biological Field station. He returned to Alaska the following year and was responsible for the Group's CO₂ flux measurements on the North Slope.

That season, Rommel found himself spearheading efforts to take CO₂ flux measurements into the winter months. He was able to establish two year round eddy covariance towers in Prudhoe Bay and Barrow, Alaska.

Rommel has since returned to Alaska in 1997, and currently maintains three eddy covariance towers in Alaska as well as two in the chaparral.