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Jessica Larsen
Staff Research Scientist, Ecology
Phone 
775-673-7403
E-Mail 
Jessica.Larsen@dri.edu
Campus 
Reno Campus
Division 
Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Education

  • M.S., Environmental and Natural Resource Science, University of Nevada
  • B.S., University of Nevada Reno, Geography

Professional Experience

  • Staff Research Scientist, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV (2005 – present)
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV (2003 – 2005)
  • Research Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (Summer 2001, 2002)

Research Experience

  • Plant physiological ecology
  • Climate change
  • Measurement and analysis of ecosystem CO2 and H2O fluxes from arid, semi-arid, and agricultural ecosystems using static chamber and eddy covariance techniques
  • Plant stress physiology (water, salinity, temperature, nutrients)
  • Ethylene biosynthesis (ethylene gas measurements, enzyme assays)
  • Isotopic analysis of xylem water (source water determination)
  • Measuring volatile compound emissions from plants
  • Using biochar as a soil amendment
  • Extensive fieldwork experience in desert, mountain, and agricultural ecosystems
  • Monitoring changes in canopy development (% greenness index, NDVI, LAI, point quadrat method)
  • Evaporating and combusting dissolved organic carbon samples

Current Projects

  • Eddy covariance and static chamber measurements of CO2 fluxes in arid, semi-arid and agricultural ecosystems
  • Eddy covariance and static chamber measurements of evapotranspiration in arid, semi-arid, and agricultural ecosystems
  • Developing thermal conversion options for biorefinery residues
  • Biochar as a soil amendment
Publications
2019
Jasoni, R. L., Arnone, J.A. III, Larsen, J. D., Huntington, J. L. (2019). Estimation of evapotranspiration using the eddy covariance method from two locations on the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge near Willows California

2017
Jasoni, R. L., Arnone, J.A. III, Larsen, J. D., Huntington, J. L. (2017). Estimation of evapotranspiration using eddy covariance method from htee agricultural field sites located near Oakdale California

2015
Jasoni, R. L., Larsen, J. D., Arnone, J.A. III (2015). Measuring the effects of fluoride in irrigation water on alfalfa yield, and fluoride in plant biomass and soils

Arnone, J.A. III, Jasoni, R. L., Larsen, J. D., Berli, M., Speicher, B. T. (2015). Critical Review of the Literature on LasseniteTM and Other Internally Porous Inorganic Soil Amendments

Samburova, V., McDaniel, M. R., Khlystov, A. Y., Jasoni, R. L., Larsen, J. D., Arnone, J.A. III, Omaye, S. (2015). Quantifying volatile organic gaseous emissions from hops (Humulus lupulus), as a surrogate for Cannabis, grown in DRI’s EcoCELL controlled environment facility

Jasoni, R. L., Robbins, C. M., Larsen, J. D., Steinmann, F. (2015). The effect of different biochar amounts on plant biomass production, plant tissue nutrient content, and water holding capacity

2012
Jasoni, R. L., Larsen, J. D., Lyles, B. F., Healey, J. M., Cooper, C. A., Hershey, R. L. (2012). Data Report: Meteorological and Evapotranspiration Data from Sagebrush and Pinyon Pine/Juniper Communities at Pahute Mesa, Nevada National Security Site, 2011-2012 (45248), Desert Research Institute Publication No. 45248

2008
Arnone, J.A. III, Verburg, P.S.J., Johnson, D. W., Larsen, J. D., Jasoni, R. L., Lucchesi, A. J., Batts, C. M., Von Nagy, C., Coulombe, W., Schorran, D. E., Buck, P., Braswell, B. H., Coleman, J. S., Sherry, R. A., Wallace, L. L., Luo, Y., Schimel, D. S. (2008). Prolonged suppression of ecosystem carbon dioxide uptake following an anomalously warm year, Nature, 455, 383-386

Stamenkovic, J., Gustin, M. S., Arnone, J.A. III, Johnson, D. W., Larsen, J. D., Verburg, P.S.J. (2008). Atmospheric mercury exchange with a tallgrass prairie ecosystem housed in mesocosms, Science of the Total Environment, 406, 227-238

2007
Thomas, J. M., Decker, D. L., Patterson, G. L., Peterman, Z. E., Mihevc, T. M., Larsen, J. D., Hershey, R. L. (2007). Yucca Mountain area saturated zone dissolved organic carbon isotopic data, Yucca Mountain Nevada System of Higher Education Final Report

2005
Verburg, P.S.J., Larsen, J. D., Johnson, W. W., Schorran, D. E., Arnone, J.A. III (2005). Impacts of an anomalously warm year on soil CO2 efflux in experimentally manipulated intact tallgrass prairie ecosystems, Global Change Biology, 11 (39), 1720-1732