Andrei Lapenas
PhD, State Hydrological Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1986
MS, Geography with a specialization in oceanography, St. Petersburg University, Russia, 1980
About
Professor with 30 years’ experience, in oceanography, marine chemistry, climatology and biogeochemistry. Demonstrated leadership in academic and research settings with a strong track record in developing and executing high-impact research projects. Committed to advancing ocean and coastal conservation through innovative research, strategic partnerships and effective communication of scientific findings to diverse audiences.
Research Interests
- Anthropogenic climate change
- Global carbon cycle
- Biogeochemical coupling in soil-atmosphere-biota system
- Acclimation of leaving organisms to recent changes in climate
Grants/Funding
“Urban Climate Adaptation of Forest Ecosystems with Disadvantaged Communities and Youth in Albany, New York” (PI), US Department of Agriculture. Duration 2024-2029. Amount : $5,000,000.
“TESSA: Thermopile-based Enzymatic Sugar Sensor Array.” (PI), National Science Foundation, Innovative Corps Program. Duration: 2015-2016. Amount: $50,000.
“Acquisition of a small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for natural and urban ecosystem studies and risk disaster management.” (Co-PI, with A. Buyantuev, (PI), Shiguo Jiang, Liming Zhou, J. Mower), NSF, MRI, Amount: $147,983
“Collaborative Research: IDBR: TYPE A: The NANAPHID: A novel aphid-like 2015 - 2017 nanosensor network for real-time measurements of carbohydrates in live plant tissue.” (PI), National Science Foundation, Instrument Development for Biological Research. Duration: 2015- 2018. Amount: $837,000.
“Development of “Aphid-like”. Biosensors for Measuring 2013 - 2015 Concentrations of Saccharides in Sap Flow in Conifer Stem Phloem.” (PI). Sponsor: SUNY 4E Network. Amount: $135,000.
“Acquisition of Two Channel Dendrometers for Study of Spruce Response 2012 - 1014 to Early Snow Melt.”(PI). Sponsor: USGS. Duration: December 2012- December 2013. Amount: $25,000
“ Snow Manipulations and Dendroclimatological Studies at the Huyck 2012 - 2013 Preserve.” (PI). Sponsor: Huyck Preserve Foundation. Duration: April 2012- April 2013. Amount: $3,000
“Appalachian Trail MEGA-Transect Atmospheric Deposition Effects Study.“ 2009 - 2013 (Co-PI with Greg Lawrence (PI, USGS) and others). Sponsor: National Park Service. Duration: 2009–2013. Amount: $298,382.
“Deriving Biogeochemical Fingerprints of Acidic Deposits on Forest Soil and 2003 - 2004 Forest Health in the United States and Russia: Regional Approach to Global Problem.” (PI). Sponsor: US Forest Service. Duration: August 1, 2003 – August 1, 2004. Amount of award: $31,000
“Patroon Creek Watershed Monitoring, Management and Restoration Program.” 2001 - 2003 (Co-PI with Arnason (PI, DAES), Robinson (DB) and others). Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency (Grant Number: R828578), Amount of award: $643,614
“A Comparative Study of Acidic Deposition and Natural Processes on Forest 2001 - 2003 Soil Development in the United States and Russia Over the Past Century.” (PI), Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology, Cluster for Ecological Studies, Ecosystem Studies Program. Duration: April 2001-April 2003. Amount of award: $227,635.
“Deriving Biogeochemical Fingerprints of Acidic Deposits on Forest Soil and 2000 - 2002 Forest Health in the United States and Russia: Regional Approach to Global Problem.” (PI). Sponsor: US Forest Service. Duration: August 1, 2000 – August 1, 2002. Amount of award: $20,000.
“Integrated Undergraduate Physical Geography Laboratory.” (PI). Sponsor: 1998 - 2000 National Science Foundation, Education and Human Resources Directorate, Division of Undergraduate Education. Duration: 1998-2000. Amount of Award: $45,224 (matching University at Albany funds: $150,000).
“Salinization of Russian Steppe.”, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to NSF grant that follows. Source of support: Arctic Science, Engineering, and Education Program (PI). Duration: 1998. Amount of Award: $5,000.
“Atmospheric Contamination of Russian Soils (1896-Present).” (PI with 1996 - 1998 Co-Pis: Margaret Torn, Jennifer Harden, Susan Trumbore and Eric Sundquist ). Source of Support: National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program together with Human Dimensions of Global Change. Duration: 1996-1998. Amount of Award: $160,000.
Publications
1. Xianliang Zhang, Ruben Manzanedo, Guobao Xu, Andrei G. Lapenis. 2024 Achieving sustainable development goal 13: resilience and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal forests under climate change. Editorial article. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4 February, 2024. Volume 7 - 2024 |
2. Lapenis, A., and Yurganov, L. 2023. Increase in Arctic Oscillations explains most interannual variability in Russia’s wildfires. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, 1188057. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2023.1188057.
3. Robinson, G. R., Lawrence, G. B., & Lapenis, A. G. 2022. Data: Radial growth decline of white spruce (Picea glauca) during hot summers without drought (preliminary results from a study site south of a boreal forest border). Dryad. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6hdr7sr08
4. Lapenis, A.G., Robinson, G., Lawrence C.B. 2021. Radial Growth Decline of White Spruce (Picea glauca) During Hot Summers without Drought: Preliminary Results from a Study Site South of a Boreal Forest Border. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 14 January 2022
5. Rafael Poyatos et al. (138 authors). 2021. Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database. Earth System Science Data. 13, 2607–2649, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2607-2021
6. Michael Natole Jr., Yiming Ying, Alexander Buyantuev, Andrei Lapenis. 2021. Patterns of Mega-Forest Fires in East Siberia will become Less Predictable with Climate Warming. Environmental Advances. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2021.100041
7. Lapenis, A.G. 2020. A 50-Year-Old Global Warming Forecast That Still Holds Up. November 2020. Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union 101(101).DOI:10.1029/2020EO151822
8. Maurizio Mencuccini, Teresa Rosas, L. Rowland, Lapenis Andrei, Jordi Martinez Vilalta. 2019. Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf : wood area ratios. New Phytologist 224(4) DOI:10.1111/nph.15998
9. Lapenis, A.G., Lawrence, G.B., Buyantuev, A. Jiang, S., Sullivan, T., McDonnell, T., Bailey, S. 2017. A Newly Identified Role of the Deciduous Forest Floor in the Timing of Green-Up. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122(11). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004073
10. Shortle, W. C., K. T. Smith, and A. G. Lapenis. 2017. Dendrochemical evidence for soil recovery from acidic deposition in forests of the northeastern U.S. with comparisons to the southeastern U.S. and Russia, Chemosphere, 181, 786–796, doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.04.132
11. Lapenis A.G. , H.Henry, M. Vuille, J. Mower. 2014. Climatic Factors Controlling Plant Sensitivity to Warming. Climatic Change. ISSN: 0165-0009, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1010-2.
12. Lawrence, G.B., Fernandez, I.J., Richter, D.B., Ross, D.S., Hazlett, P.W., Bailey, S.W., Oiumet, R. Warby, A.F., Johnson, A.H., Lin, H., Kaste, J.M., Lapenis, A.G., Sullivan, T.J. 2013. Measuring environmental change in forest ecosystems by repeated soil sampling: a North American perspective. Journal of Environmental Quality. doi:10.2134/jeq2012.0378
13. Lapenis, A.G., G. B. Lawrence, A. Heim, Chengyang Zheng, W. Shortle. 2013. Climate warming shifts carbon allocation from stemwood to roots in calcium-depleted spruce forests. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, doi: 10.1029/2011GB004268
14. Lawrence, G.B., Shortle, W.C., David, M.B., Smith, K.T., Warby, R.A.F., Lapenis, A.G. 2012. Early indications of soil recovery from acidic deposition in U.S. red spruce forests. Soil Science Society of America Journal. doi: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0415. Vol. 76 No. 4, p. 1407-1417
15. Lapenis, A.G. 2010. Global Carbon Cycle. Encyclopedia of Geography. SAGE, DOI: 10.4135/9781412939591. ISBN: 9781412956970, p. 326-330
16. Abakumov, E.V., Aparin, B.F, Lapenis A. G., Kosaki T. 2009. Investigation of organic matter changes in Typical Chernozem for 30 years period on the base of soil monoliths. Proceedings of St. Petersburg University. p 113-123
17. Hammes, K. Torn, M.S. Lapenis, A.G., Schmidt M.W.I. 2008. Centennial black carbon turnover observed in a Russia steppe soil. Biogeosciences, 5 (doi:10.5194/bg-5-1339-2008), p 1339-1350
18. Lapenis, A.G, GB Lawrence, SW Bailey, BF Aparin, AI Shiklomanov, NA Speranskaya, MS Torn, M Calef. 2008. Climatically driven loss of calcium in steppe soil as a sink for atmospheric carbon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003077.
19. Shvidenko, A., Nelson, S., Shepaschenko, D, Lapenis, A. 2005. New estimates of live biomass and net primary productivity of Russian forest: A footprint of climate change? Proceedings of 7th International Conference on CO2, 25-29 September 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA, 157-159
20. Lapenis, A.G., Shvidenko, A., Shepaschenko, D., Nilsson, S., Aiyyer, A. 2005. Acclimation of Russian forests to recent changes in climate. Global Change Biology, 11, DOI: 10.1111/j.13652486.2005.001069.x p 2090-2102
21. Lawrence, G. B., Lapenis, A.G., Berggren, D., Aparin, B., Smith, K., Shortle, W.C., Balley, S. W., Varlyguin, D.L., Babikov, B. 2005. Climate Dependency of Tree Growth Suppressed by Acid Deposition Effect on Soils in Northwest Russia. Environmental Science and Technology, 39, 20042010.
22. Lapenis, A.G. 2004. Biogeochemical Selection of Organisms. In “Scattered elements in boreal forests”. Moscow, Nauka, pp 290-300 ISBN — 5-02-033044
23. Lapenis, A.G., Lawrence, G.B., Andreev, A. A., Bobrov, A.A, Torn, M.S. W. Harden. 2004. Acidification of forest soil in Russia: From 1893 to Present. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. V 18. GB1037, doi:10.1029/2003GB002107
24. Lapenis, A.G. 2002. “Directed Evolution of Biosphere: Biogeochemical Selection or Gaia?” The Professional Geographer. 54(3), pp 379-391
25. Lapenis, A., Hoffert, M. I., Groisman, P., & Anisimov, O. A. 2002. Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920–2001). Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 83(21), 233. DOI: 10.1029/2002EO000164
26. Torn, M., Lapenis, A.G., Harden, J., Timofeev, A., Babikov, B.V., Savitzkaya, S. 2002. “Soil carbon cycling in the Russian Steppe: Radiocarbon analysis of modern and historic Russian soils.” Global Change Biology. 8, 941-953.
27. Glavanakov, S., D. White, Caraco, T., Lapenis, A.G., G. Robinson, Szymanski, B., Maniatty, W.A. 2001. “Lyme disease in New York State: spatial pattern at a regional scale” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 65 (5), pp. 538-545. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2001.65.538
28. Lapenis, A.G., Torn, M.S., Harden, J.W., Holloker, K., Babikov, B., Timofeev, A.I., Hornberger, M.I., Nattis, R. 2000. “Scientists Unearth Truth about Soil Contamination” EOS, Transactions, AGU 81, 6, pp. 53, 59-60.
29. Lapenis, A.G. 1998 “Arrhenius and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”. EOS, Transactions, AGU, 79, 22. DOI: 10.1029/98EO00206
30. Lapenis, A.G., Klene, A. 1997, “Conveyor of live germs?”. EOS, Transactions, AGU, 78, 34. DOI: 10.1029/97EO00232
31. Kheshgi, H.S., Schlessinger, M., Lapenis, A.G. 1997. “Comparison of Paleotemperature Reconstructions as Evidence for the Paleoanalogue Hypothesis”. Climatic Change, 35, pp. 123131.
32. Kheshgi, H. S. and Lapenis, A.G. 1996. “On the accuracy of the Russian paleoclimate reconstructions”, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 121, pp. 221-237.
Selected publications in peer-reviewed journals (1981-1994)
33. Kheshgi, H.S., Flannery, B.P., Hoffert, M.I., Lapenis, A.G. 1994. “The effectiveness of marine CO2 disposal”, Energy (Elsevier) 19, 9, pp. 967-974. DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(94)90082-5
34. Lapenis, A.G., Shabalova, M.V. 1994. “Global Climate Changes and Moisture Conditions in the Intracontinental Arid Zones”, Climatic Change 30, pp. 1-15.
35. Lapenis, A.G., Rampino, M.R. 1993. “Predicting Earth’s Life Span”. Nature, 363, p.
36. 218.
37. Flanery, B., Kheshgi, H., Hoffert, M., Lapenis, A.G. 1993. “Assessing the Effectiveness of Marine CO2 Disposal”. Energy Conversion and Management. 34, pp. 983-989.
38. Lapenis, A.G., Shabalova, M.V. 1992. “Global Climate Changes and Intracontinental Arid Zones”. Meteorologiya i Gydrologiya 8, pp. 18-24 (English translation in Soviet Meteorology and Hydrology).
39. Borzenkova, I.I., Zubakov, V.A., Lapenis, A.G. 1992. “Global Climate Changes During the Warm Epochs of the Past”. Meteorologiya i Gydrologiya 8, pp 32-40 (English translation in Soviet Meteorology and Hydrology).
40. Lapenis, A.G., Budyko, M.I. 1990. “Antropogennye izmeneniya klimata I productivnost morskoi bioty” (Anthropogenic climate changes and marine biota productivity). Fishing and Oceanography, 129, Leningrad, pp. 10-27 (in Russian).
41. Lapenis, A.G., Os’kina, N., Ivanova, E., Barash, M.S. 1990. “The Late Quaternary Changes in Ocean Productivity”. Okeanologia 30, No 1, pp. 69-75 (English translation in Oceanology).
42. Lapenis, A.G., Vasileva E.V.1989. “Zonal distribution of marine biota productivity in the World Ocean”. SHI Transactions, V. 347, pp. 87-91.
43. Lapenis, A.G. 1989. “Biodynamic mechanism of changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations”. Izvestia Academii Nauk SSSR, Geochimia, 6, pp.794-799 (English translation in Geochemica International).
44. Lapenis, A.G., Saikin I.A. 1989. “The model of oxygen regime of bottom sediments in shallow basin”. SHI Transactions, V.346, pp. 25-34.
45. Lapenis, A.G. 1988. “Influence of marine biota productivity on CCD level in the ocean and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere”. In: Hydrology, (Ed, by I.V. Popov), Leningrad, Gidrometeoizdat, pp. 15-27.
46. Verbitski, M.Ya., Lapenis, A.G. 1987. “Ice ages, carbon dioxide and calcium balance in the ocean”. Izvestia Academii Nauk SSSR, Seria Geographicheskaya, pp. 16-24 (English translation in Izvestia of Russian Academy of Sciences, Geography).
47. Lapenis, A.G. “Antarctic surges and atmospheric CO2 concentration”. In: Actual Questions in Oceanography. Leningrad, Gydrometeoizdat, 1987, pp. 180-183.
48. Lapenis, A.G., Kolomeitsev, A.I. 1987. “Effects of ocean circulation on marine biota productivity”. Meteorologiya i Gydrologiya 1, pp. 77-83 (English translation in Soviet Meteorology and Hydrology).
49. Buytner, E.K., Zaharova, O.K., Lapenis, A.G. 1986. “On the estimation of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in the preindustrial epoch”. Izv. Acad. Nauk of the USSR, 30, 1986. (English translation in Izvestia of Russian Academy of Sciences, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics).
50. Lapenis, A.G. 1986. “Marine biota productivity, ocean circulation and atmospheric CO2 concentration”. In: Geochemistry of Carbon. Moscow, Nauka, pp. 23-27.
51. Lapenis, A.G. 1984. “Relationship of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the level of critical depth of carbonate accumulation in the ocean”. Meteorologiya i Gydrologiya (English translation in Soviet Meteorology and Hydrology) 9, pp. 66-72.
52. Lapenis, A.G. 1984. “On the chemical balance of natural waters with bottom deposits”. Meteorologiya i Gydrologiya (English translation in Soviet Meteorology and Hydrology), 2, pp.46-53.
53. Lapenis A.G. 1984. On the impact of environmental conditions on chemical equilibrium between carbonate deposits and sea water. Proceedings of Yung Scientists Conference. Leningrad, Hydrometeoizdat, p 14-23
54. Lapenis A.G.1984. Relationship between the depth of critical carbonate accumulation in the World Ocean and atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. In Marine Geology. Proceedings of 6th Congress of marine geologists. V1, p 34-39
55. Buytner, E.K. and Lapenis, A.G. 1983. On the impact of oil slicks on sea surface temperature and on components of sea surface energy balance. SHI Transactions, V280 p. 22-29
56. Buytner E.K., Zaharova O.K., Turchinovich I.E., Lapenis A.G. 1981 Anthropogenic changes of atmospheric carbon dioxide during next five decades. Meteorologia I
57. Gidrologia 3, p.18-31 (English translation in Soviet Meteorology and Hydrology)
58. Lapenis, A.G. 1981. Temperature control of anthropogenic carbon dioxide absorption by the World Ocean. Proceedings of Leningrad University. Geology and Geography. 7, p 7-18