Jamie Duberstein

Research Scientist
Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department, Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science

Office: Georgetown, SC
Phone: 706-410-6722

Email: JDUBERS@clemson.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D Forestry
Clemson University 2011

M.S. Interdisciplinary Ecology
University of Florida 2004

B.S. Wildlife Management, Biology
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point 1998

Research Interests

My research centers around the contribution of trees and herbaceous plants to carbon and water cycling, often investigating the effect of environmental drivers on plant community composition and productivity. I enjoy contributing toward application-based investigations that address specific concerns of land managers ranging from private individuals to National Wildlife Refuge staff, whose questions require advancement of science on the subject. It is also exciting to contribute to advancing our ability to quantify carbon and water fluxes via data collected at various heights in the atmosphere, from within trees at various heights to include root fluxes, and sub-soil water conditions. I most often work in freshwater and oligohaline marshes, and forests of the upper estuary where there are dynamic flooding regimes and soil salinity conditions. The hummock and hollow microtopography found in tidal freshwater forests has always interested me. While I am most at home in the deepwater and tidally influenced freshwater swamps, I’ve also had the pleasure to conduct research in peatlands, southern pine forests, remote Pacific atoll forests, mangroves, and temperate rainforests as well.

Lab Members

Sidney Godfrey, MS, 2018
Jessica Waller, MS, 2021
Haley Miller, MS, 2022
Julian Halil, MS, 2024
Chris Shipway, MS, 2024

Publications

Bansal S, et. al (66 co-authors). 2023. Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes. Wetlands (Mark Brinson Review) 43:105. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-023-01722-2

Krauss KW, Noe GB, Duberstein JA, Cormier N, From AS, Doody TR, Conner WH, D.R. Cahoon DR, Johnson DJ (2023) Presence of hummock and hollow microtopography reflects shifting balances of shallow subsidence and root zone expansion along forested wetland river gradients. Estuaries and Coasts14. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-023-01227-5

Conner WH, S. Whitmire S, Duberstein JA, Stalter R, and J. Baden (2022) Changes within a South Carolina coastal wetland forest in the face of rising sea level. Forests 13:414. DOI: 10.3390/f13030414

Noe GB, Bourg NA, Duberstein JA, Hupp CR (2021) Watershed and estuarine controls both influence tree growth and plant community changes in tidal freshwater forested wetlands along two U.S. mid-Atlantic rivers. Forests 12: 1182. DOI: 10.3390/f12091182

Conner WH, Duberstein JA, Baldwin AH (2020) Wetlands: Tidal. P. 163-184 in Handbook of Natural Resources, Wang Y (ed). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL USA.

Diamond JS, Epstein JM, Cohen MJ, McLaughlin DL, Hsueh Y-h, Keim RF, Duberstein JA (2020) A little relief: Ecological functions and autogenesis of wetland microtopography. WIREs Water(e1493):22. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1493

Duberstein JA, Krauss KW, Baldwin MJ, Allen ST, Conner WH, Salter Jr. JS, Miloshis M (2020) Small gradients in salinity have large effects on stand water use in freshwater wetland forests. Forest Ecology and Management 473:118308. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118308

Godfrey ST, Waddle JH, Baldwin RF, Conner WH, Bridges Jr. WC, Duberstein JA (2020) Herpetofauna occupancy and community composition along a tidal swamp salinity gradient. Wetlands, 40: 1561-1575. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-019-01260-w

Wang H, Krauss KW, Noe GB, Stagg CL, Swarzenski CM, Duberstein JA, Conner WH, DeAngelis D L (2020) Modeling soil porewater salinity response to drought in tidal freshwater forested wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125:17. DOI: 10.1029/2018JG004996

Please see my Google Scholar profile for publications prior to 2020:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ut5yB1EAAAAJ&hl=en

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