GREAT LAKES CENTER

FACULTY & STAFF

Assistant Professor and Research Scientist
Department of Geography and Planning and Great Lakes Center
SUNY College at Buffalo
Classroom Building C215
Buffalo, New York 14222
Phone: 716-878-4508
Fax: 716-878-6644
E-mail: roehmcl@buffalostate.edu

EDUCATION:

PhD.; Biogeochemistry and Hydrology; Department of Geography, McGill University, Montréal, Canada (Prof. N.T. Roulet), 2003

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

2008 – present: Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Research Scientist, Joint Department of Geography and Planning and Great Lakes Center, SUNY College at Buffalo, New York, USA

2009 – present: Adjunct Professor, University of Buffalo, New York, USA

2007 – 2008: Research Associate, Climate Impacts Research Center (CIRC), Abisko, Sweden

2006 – present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, UQÀM, Montréal, Québec

2005 – 2007: Postdoctoral Researcher, UQÀM/Hydro Québec: Montréal

2003 – 2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate, GRIL, Biology Department, UQÀM, Montréal

2004 – 2005: Consultant, Hydro Québec, Montréal, Québec

2001 – 2002: Research Assistant/Visiting Scientist, Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth, Germany

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Biogeochemistry, hydrology, limnology, carbon and nutrient transport, transformation and cycling, terrestrial–aquatic linkages, spatial and temporal ecosystem dynamics, bacterial production and consumption, impacts of climate change and environmental change, greenhouse gases, terrestrial, wetland and aquatic ecosystems, hydrology and geochemistry of planetary systems.

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES:

Roehm, C.L., R. Giesler & J. Karlsson, 2009. Bioavailability of terrestrial organic carbon to lake bacteria: the case of a degrading sub-arctic permafrost mire complex. Journal of Geophysical Research: In Press.

Soare, R., G.R. Osinski & C.L. Roehm, 2008. Thermokarst lakes and ponds on Mars in very recent (late Amazonian) past. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272: 382-393.

Basiliko, N., Blodau, C., Roehm, C, Bengtson, P. & Moore, T., 2007. Regulation of decomposition and methane dynamics across natural, commercially harvested, and restored Northern peatlands. Ecosystems, 10(7): 1148-1165.

Roehm, C.L., Tremblay, A., 2006. The role of turbines in the GHG budget of two Boreal reservoirs, Quebec, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111: D24101, doi:10.1029/2006JD007292.

Roehm, C.L., 2006. Book Review in Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin: Van der Valk, Arnold G. 2006. The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands. Oxford University Press. 173 p.

Roehm, C.L., 2005. Évaluation du rôle des turbines dans les émissions de CO2 des réservoirs de La Grande 2 et La Grande 3. Hydro-Québec, 2004-2005.

Roehm, C.L., 2005. Respiration in wetland ecosystems. Ch. 6 In P. A. del Giorgio and P.J. LeB. Williams, (Eds.). Respiration in Aquatic Ecosystems. Oxford University Press, UK.

Tremblay, A., Varfalvy, L., Roehm, C. & Garneau, M., 2004. Résume – Synthèse. In Tremblay, A., L. Varfalvy, C. Roehm et M. Garneau (Eds.). Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Fluxes and Processes, Hydroelectric Reservoirs and Natural Environments. Environmental Science Series, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 637-660.

Roehm, C.L., Dumontier, J., Gagnon, M-A. & Tremblay, A., 2004. Évaluation du rôle des turbines dans les émissions de CO2 des réservoirs de La Grande 2 et La Grande 3. Hydro-Québec 2003-2004.

Tremblay, A., Varfalvy, L., Roehm, C. & Garneau, M., 2004. The Issue of Greenhouse Gases from Hydroelectric Reservoirs: From Boreal to Tropical Regions. Synthesis for United Nations Symposium on Hydropower and Sustainable Development, 27 - 29 October, Beijing, China.

Roehm, C.L. & Roulet, N.T., 2003. Seasonal CO2 contribution in the annual carbon budget of a Northern peatland. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(1): 1029.

Blodau, C., Roehm, C.L. & Moore, T.R., 2002. Iron, sulfur and organic carbon dynamics in a Northern peatland. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 154(4): 561-583.

Roehm, C.L., R. Giesler & J. Karlsson, Bioavailability of terrestrial organic carbon to lake bacteria: the case of a degrading sub-arctic permafrost mire complex, J. Geophys. Res, 114, G03006, doi:10.1029/2008JG000863, 2009

Roehm, C.L., Y.T. Prairie, and P.A. del Giorgio, pC02 dynamics in lakes in the boreal region of northern Quebec, Canada, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, doi:10.1029/2008GB003297, 2009

Prairie YT, PA del Giorgio, C.L. Roehm and A. Tremblay. Insights on riverine metabolism from continuous measurements of CDOM fluorescence in Eastmain-1 Reservoir, Quebec. In Press Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol, 2009

 

REVIEWER:

Canadian Journal for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Global Change Biology
Limnology and Oceanography
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Ecosystems

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Watershed Pollution (graduate course)
Wetland Ecology and Hydrology (graduate course)
Soil Science and Management (undergraduate/graduate course)
Conservation and Environmental Management (Honors undergraduate course)