PUBLICATIONS

A.  REFEREED ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/ECOLOGY PUBLICATIONS

  1. Fischer, M.L., and D. Littlejohn. 2007. Ammonia at Blodgett Forest, Sierra Nevada, USA. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

  2. Fischer, M.L, Billesbach, D.P., Riley, W.J, Berry, J.A., and M.S. Torn. 2007. Spatiotemporal Variations in Growing Season Exchanges of CO2, H2O, and Sensible Heat in Agricultural Fields of the Southern Great Plains.  Earth Interactions, 11, 1-21.

  3. Fischer, M.L., W.J. Riley, and S.Tonse. 2005. Development of an Implementation Plan for Atmospheric Carbon Monitoring in California. California Energy Commission, PIER Energy-Related Environmental Research. CEC-500-2005-123 (LBNL-57485).

  4. Billesbach, D.P., Fischer, M.L, Torn, M.A., and Berry, J.A. 2004. A Portable Eddy Covariance System for the Measurement of Ecosystem-Atmosphere Exchange of CO2, Water Vapor, and Energy.  J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech.  21, 684-695

  5. Dunne, J.A., Saleska, S.R., Fischer, M.L., and J. Harte. 2004. Integrating Experimental and Gradient Methods in Ecological Climate Change Research.  Ecology, 85, 904-916.
  6. Fischer, M.L., Littlejohn, D., Lunden, M.M., and N. J. Brown. 2003. Automated Measurements of Ammonia and Nitric Acid in Indoor and Outdoor Air.  Environmental Science and Technology, 37, 2114-2119. (LBNL-51385)
  7. Lunden, M.M., Revzan, K.L., Fischer, M.L., Thatcher, T.L., Littlejohn, D., Hering, S.V. and N.J. Brown. 2003. The Transformation of Outdoor Ammonium Nitrate Aerosols in the Indoor Environment. Atmospheric Environment, 37, 5633-5644. (LBNL-52795).
  8. Saleska, S.R., M.R. Shaw, M.L. Fischer, J.A. Dunne, C.B. Still, M. Holman, and J. Harte.  2002.  Large transient Decline and Predicted Long-term Recovery of Soil Carbon under Climate Warming. Global Change Biology, 16, 1055. (LBNL-43825)
  9. Torn, M.S., A. Lapenis, A. Timofeev, M. Fischer, I. Babikov, J. Harden. 2002.  Soil Carbon Cycling in the Russian Steppe: Radiocarbon Analysis of Modern and Historic Russian Soils. Global Change Biology, 8, 941-953.
  10. Fischer, M. L., Price, P. N., Thatcher, T. L., Schwalbe, C. A., Craig, M. J., Wood, E. E., Sextro, R. G., and A. J. Gadgil. 2001.  Rapid Measurements and Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in a Large Indoor Space.  Atmospheric Environment, 35, 2837-2844.
  11. Price, P. N., M. L. Fischer, R. G. Sextro, and A. J. Gadgil. 2001.  Algorithm for rapid tomography of gas concentrations. Atmospheric Environment, 35, 2827-2835.
  12. Harte, J., S. McCarthy, K. Taylor, A. Kinzig, M. L. Fischer.  1998.  Estimating Species-Area Relationships from Plot to Landscape Scale Using Species Spatial-Turnover Data. OIKOS, 86, 45-54.
  13. Conrad, M. E., P. F. Daley, M. L. Fischer, B. B. Buchanan, T. Leighton, M. Kashgarian.  1997. Carbon Isotope Evidence for Intrinsic Bioremediation af Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Environmental Science & Technology, 31, 1463.
  14. Fischer, M.L., A. J. Bentley, K. A. Dunkin, A. T. Hodgson, W. W. Nazaroff, R. G. Sextro, and J. M. Daisey.  1996.  Factors Affecting Indoor Air Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds at a Site of Subsurface Gasoline Contamination.  Environmental Science & Technology, 30, 2948.
 

B. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/ECOLOGY PUBLICATIONS SUBMITTED and IN PREPARATION

 

C. RECENT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/ECOLOGY REPORTS and ABSTRACTS

 

  1. M.L. Fischer, K.R. Gurney, J. Gregg, S. Murtishaw, R. Andres, S. Knox, B. Seib. 2006. Comparison of Anthropogenic CO2, NOx, and CO Emissions:  Exploiting a Synergy Between Air Quality and Carbon Cycle Studies. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  2. M.L. Fischer, D. Littlejohn. 2005. Time Resolved Measurement of Ecosystem-Atmosphere NH3 Exchange Using the Eddy Covariance Technique, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (LBNL-60709).
  3. M.L. Fischer, K.R. Gurney, A.S. Denning, S. Knox, G. Marland, D. Ojima, L. Price, J. Sathaye. 2005. Spatiotemporally Explicit Maps of Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions for NACP. Climate Science In Support of Decision Making, US Climate Change Science Program.  Washington DC. (LBNL-60710).
  4. W.J. Riley, J.T. Randerson, M.L. Fischer, D. Hsueh, J. Hatch. 2005. Relating the D14C Value of Annual Grasses to Spatially and Temporally Distributed Fossil Fuel Emissions in California.  2005 Climate Change Meeting, California Energy Commission. Sacramento CA. (LBNL-60712)
  5. D.P. Billesbach, M.S. Torn, M.L. Fischer, H. Mayeux, G. Doyle, P. Dowell. 2005. Comparative Effects of Burning on Ecosystem Fluxes and Productivity in Two Adjacent Tall-grass Prairie Pastures, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (LBNL-60711).
  6. Biraud S. C., W.J. Riley, M.L. Fischer, M.S. Torn, J.A. Berry. 2005.  Spatially Distributed CO2, Sensible, and Latent Heat Fluxes over the Southern Great Plains. Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference, Boulder CO. (LBNL-57444)
  7. Fischer, M. L., W. J. Riley, and S. Tonse. 2005. Development of an Implementation Plan for Atmospheric Carbon Monitoring in California. California
  8. Fischer, M. L., W. J. Riley, and S. Tonse. 2004. Design of an Atmospheric Observing Strategy for California’s Carbon Cycle.  American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
  9. M.L. Fischer, D.P.  Billesbach, J.A. Berry, S.C. Biraud, W.J. Riley, and M.S. Torn. 2004. ARM Carbon Measurements in Southern Great Plains, Ameriflux Science Team Meeting, Boulder CO (LBNL-58218).
  10. <>M.L. Fischer, D.P. Billesbach, W.J. Riley, J.A. Berry, M.S. Torn. 2004. Observed Variation in Carbon and Water Exchange Across Crop Types, Seasons, and Years in Un-irrigated Land of the Southern Great Plains, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA (LBNL-58219).
  11. <>Fischer, M.L., D.P. Billesbach, W. Riley, J. Berry, and M.S. Torn.  2003.  Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Near the ARM Central Facility During Spring 2002. 2003ARM Science Team Meeting.  Denver, CO. (LBNL-52810)
  12. 2.      Torn, M.S., M.L. Fischer, W.J. Riley, I. Pesenson, J.A. Berry, L. Giles, D.P. Billesbach. 2003.  Carbon Cycling in the Southern Great Plains: The ARM/LBNL Carbon Project. The North American Carbon Program PI Meeting, Washington DC. (LBNL-52811)
  13. 3.      Fischer, M.L., D.P. Billesbach, W. Riley, J. Berry, and M.S. Torn.  2002.  Spatial Heterogeneity and Inter-annual Variation in Ecosystem-Atmosphere CO2/H2O Exchange in the Southern Great Plains.  American Geophysical Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (LBNL-52812)
  14. 4.      Melissa M. Lunden, Marc L. Fischer, Tracy L. Thather, David Littlejohn,Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Susanne V. Hering, Richard G. Sextro, and NancyJ. Brown.  2003.  Investigations of the Sensitivity of a Predicted Model ofIndoor Concentrations of Outdoor PM-2.5 to Changes in House Operationand Environmental Parameters.  Presented at the PM2003 Symposium,Pittsburgh, PA., March 2003.  LBNL No. xxxxx.
  15. 5.      Melissa M. Lunden, Tracy L. Thatcher, Marc L. Fischer, Tom W. Kirchstetter, Kenneth L. Revzan, Richard G. Sextro, Nancy J. Brown, MarkR. Stolzenburg, Susanne V. Hering.  2003.  Indoor Concentrations of OutdoorPM-2.5 in Homes: Insights from Real-time Measurements.  Presented at thePM2003 Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA., March 2003.
  16. 6.      Marc L. Fischer, Melissa M. Lunden, Tracy L. Thatcher, David Littlejohn, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Susanne V. Hering, Richard G. Sextro, and NancyJ. Brown.  2002.  Building a Predictive Model of Indoor Concentrations of Outdoor PM-2.5 for a Residential Research House in Clovis, California Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for AerosolResearch, Charlotte, N.C., October 2002.  LBNL No..
  17. Morgenstern, K., Baldocchi,D., Barr, A. Billesbach, D.,  Black, A., Davis, K.  Fischer, M. Goldstein, A., Ibrom, A., Katul, G. K. Paw U. 2002.  Spectral characteristics of surface layer turbulence above sites of varying surface structure derived from FLUXNET monitoring data.  2002 American Meteorological Society Meeting, Norfolk, VA.
  18. Fischer, M.L., D.P. Billesbach, W. Riley, J. Berry, and M.S. Torn.  2002.  Mid-summer Fluxes of Carbon, Water and Energy in Agricultural Plots Near the SGP Central Facility.  2002 ARM Science Team Meeting.  St Petersburg, FL.
  19. Torn, M.S., J. A. Berry, W. J. Riley, M.L. Fischer. D. Billesbach, B. Helliker, L.Giles. 2002.  From Crops to Boundary Layer and Back Down Again:  The ARM/LBNL Carbon Project in the Southern Great Plains. ARM Science Team Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL.
  20. Fischer, M.L., D.P. Billesbach, W. Riley, J. Berry, and M.S. Torn.  2001.  Measured Midsummer Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystem-Atmosphere CO2/H2O Exchange for Selected Crop Systems of the Southern Great Plains.  American Geophysical Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
  21. Torn, M.S., M.L. Fischer, W.J. Riley, D.P. Billesbach, J.A. Berry. 2001.  Carbon Cycle Measurements at the DOE ARM-CART Site in Oklahoma.  UC Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center, Atmospheric Science Symposium.
  22. Fischer, M.L., D.P. Billesbach, W. Riley, J. Berry, and M.S. Torn.  2001.  Carbon Cycle Measurements DOE- ARM Southern Great Plains Site.  Ameriflux Meeting Argon Ill.
  23. Lunden, M.M., Thatcher, T.L., Littlejohn, D., Fischer, M.L., Kirchstetter, T.W., Brown, N.J., and S.V. Hering. 2001.  Building a predictive model of indoor concentrations of outdoor PM-2.5 homes.  E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report Number: LBNL-48929.
  24. Billesbach, D.P., M.L. Fischer, J. Berry and M.S. Torn. 2001.  A highly portable, rapidly deployable system for eddy covariance measurements of CO2 fluxes.  LBNL-48953.
  25. Fischer, M. L., D. Littlejohn, M. M. Lunden, T. L. Thatcher, L. Gundel, R. L. Dod, R. G. Sextro, and N. J. Brown.  2001.  An Instrument for Automated Simultaneous Measurements of Ammonia and Nitric Acid in Indoor and Outdoor Air. 2001 American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting. Portland, OR.
  26. Lunden, M. M. , T. L. Thatcher, D. Littlejohn, M. L. Fischer, S. Hering, R. G. Sextro, and N. J. Brown.  2001.  The Transformation of Outdoor Ammonium Nitrate Aerosols in the Indoor Environment. 2001 American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting. Portland, OR.
  27. Fischer, M.L., D. Billesbach, and J.A. Berry. A Portable Eddy Flux System for Characterization of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystem-Atmosphere CO2/H2O Exchange. American Geophysical Meeting, San Francisco, CA, (2000).
  28. Fischer, M.L., D. Billesbach, W. Riley, C. Still, W. Zhao J. Berry, and M.S. Torn. 2000.  Carbon Cycle Measurements at ARM Southern Great Plains Site: Scaling from Plots to Region. Ameriflux Meeting (Atlanta, 2000).
  29. Fischer, M.L., P. N. Price, T. L. Thatcher, C. A. Schwalbe, M. J. Craig, E. E. Wood, R. G. Sextro, and A. J. Gadgil. 2000.  Rapid Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in Air, LBNL Report 45542.
  30. Price, P. N., M. L. Fischer, R. G. Sextro, and A. J. Gadgil. 2000.  Algorithm for rapid tomography of gas concentrations.  LBNL report 46236.
  31. Gadgil, A.J., Finlayson, E.U., Fischer, M.L., Price, P.N., Thatcher, T.L., Craig, M., Hong, K.H., Housman, J., Schwalbe, C.A., Wilson, D., Wood J.E., and Sextro R.G. Status Report January 2000: Investigating Dispersion of an Airborne Contaminant in a Large Space, LBNL Report 44791.
  32. Thatcher, T. L., M. M. Lunden, M. L. Fischer, J. D. Fine, T. W. Kirchstetter, S. Hering, R. G. Sextro, and N. J. Brown.  2000. A Concentration Rebound Method for Measuring Particle Penetration into a Residence. American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting.
  33. Lunden, M. M., M. L. Fischer, J. D. Fine, T. L. Thatcher, T. W. Kirchstetter, S. Hering, R. G. Sextro, and N. J. Brown.  2000.  Predictive Model of Indoor Concentrations of Outdoor PM2.5. 2000 American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting.
  34. Fischer, M. L., S. R. Saleska, M.R. Shaw, J. A. Dunne, J. Harte.  1999.  Transient Decline and Predicted Long-term Recovery of Soil Carbon Under Climate Change - II. Results from a Landscape-scale Elevation Gradient, American Geophysical Meeting, San Francisco, CA, (1999)
  35. 25.  Fischer, M. L., A. C. Drescher, A. J. Gadgil, and M. G. Yost.  1995.  A System for Rapid Detection and Mapping of Gas Plumes on 100 Meter Scales: Examination of some Technical and Economic Issues, Symposium on Optical Sensing for Environmental and Process Monitoring,  McLean, VA. Published by Air and Waste Management Association, 151.

D. REFEREED ASTROPHYSICS PUBLICATIONS

1.      Holzapfel, W.L., M. Arnaud, P.A.R.  Ade,  S.E. Church,M. L. Fischer, P.D.  Mauskopf, Y. Rephaeli, T.M. Wilbanks,  and A.E. Lange. 1997. Measurement of the Hubble constant from X-ray and 2.1 millimeter observations of Abell 2163. Astrophysical Journal, 480, 449.

2.      Holzapfel, W.L., T. M. Wilbanks, P.A.R. Ade, S.E. Church, M. L. Fischer, P.D.  Mauskopf, D.E. Osgood, and A.E. Lange. 1997.  The Sunyaev-Zeldovich infrared experiment: A millimeter-wave receiver for cluster cosmology. Astrophysical Journal, 479, 17.

3.      Bock, J., M. L. Fischer, A. E. Lange, and M. K. Parikh.  1995.  Emissivity Measurements of Reflective Surfaces at Near-Millimeter Wavelengths, Applied Optics, 34,4812.

4.      Fischer, M.L., A. Clapp, M. Devlin, J.O. Gundersen, A.E. Lange, P.M. Lubin, P.R. Meinhold, P.L. Richards, and G.F. Smoot.  1995.  Measurements of the Millimeter-wave Spectrum of Interstellar Dust Emission, Astrophys.J., 444, 226.

5.      Fischer, M.L., and A.E. Lange.  1993. Confusion Limits to the Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Clusters of Galaxies at Millimeter Wavelengths, Astrophys. J., 419, 433.

6.      Alsop, D.C., E.S. Cheng, A.C. Clapp, D.A. Cottingham, M.L. Fischer, J.O. Gundersen, E. Kreysa, A.E. Lange, P.M. Lubin, P.R. Meinhold, P.L. Richards, and G.F. Smoot.  1992.  A Search for Anisotropy in the Cosmic Background Radiation on Intermediate Angular Scales, Astrophysical Journal,  395, 317.

7.      Fischer, M.L., D.C. Alsop, E.S. Cheng, A.C. Clapp, D.A. Cottingham, J.O. Gundersen, T.C. Koch, E. Kreysa, P.R. Meinhold, A.E. Lange, P.M. Lubin, P.L. Richards, and G.F. Smoot.  1992.  A Bolometric Millimeter-Wave System for Observations of Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation on Medium Angular Scales, Astrophysical Journal, 330, 242.

8.      Bernstein, G.M., M.L. Fischer, P.L. Richards, J.B. Peterson, and T. Timusk, A.  1990.  Measurement of the Spectrum of the Cosmic Background Radiation from 1 to 3 Millimeter Wavelength, Astrophysical Journal, 362, 107.

9.      Bernstein, G.M., M.L. Fischer, P.L. Richards, J.B. Peterson, and T. Timusk.  1989.  Anisotropy of the Diffuse Background at Millimeter Wavelengths, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 337, L1.