Dr. Erin Lane is a Climate Ecologist with expertise in soil carbon and wildfire.
She currently serves as Director to the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and works for the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. Her passion for strategic teamwork empowers the Hub team to form meaningful partnerships and impactful projects. She is also a co-founder and coordinator of the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange, which bridges the use of fire science with addressing regional fire-related challenges. Dr. Lane holds an A.A. in Natural Resource Management and B.A. in Wildlands Ecology and Management from Sterling College in Vermont, M.S. in Forest Management from University of Maine, and Ph.D. in Ecology from Dartmouth College. Her current research interests are regional drought trends, carbon cycles on working lands, and fire risk in the Northeast.
Featured Work
- Reflecting on Ten Years of Dedication to the Climate Hubs
- As If You Were There: 360 Demonstrations
- Graduate Student Climate Adaptation Partners
- Climate Adaptation Fellowship
- North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange
- Mentorship of Fellows
Selected Publications and Presentations
Whitehead JC, EL Mecray, ED Lane, L Kerr, ML Finucane, DR Reidmiller, MC Bove, FA Montalto, S O'Rourke, DA Zarrilli, P Chigbu, CC Thornbrugh, EN Curchitser, JG Hunter, K Law. (2023) Ch. 21. Northeast. In: AR Crimmins, CW Avery, DR Easterling, KE Kunkel, BC Stewart, TK Maycock, eds. Fifth National Climate Assessment. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC. USA. PDF
Che Y, RM Rejesus, MA Cavigelli, KE White, S Aglasan, LG Knight, C Dell, D Hollinger, ED Lane. (2023) Long-term economic impacts of no-till adoption. Soil Security 13: 100103. PDF
Lawrence G, I Fernandez I, S Bailey, C Beier, A Contosta, E Lane, P Murdoch, L Nave, A Quintana, D Ross, A White. (2023) Forming regional soil carbon networks to support effective climate change solutions. Soil Science Society of America Journal 87(4): 755-766. PDF
Rejesus RM, S Aglasan, LG Knight, MA Cavigelli, CJ Dell, ED Lane, DY Hollinger. (2021) Economic dimensions of soil health practices that sequester carbon: Promising research directions. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 76(3): 55A-60A. PDF
Dupigny-Giroux LA, EL Mecray, MD Lemcke-Stampone, GA Hodgkins, EE Lentz, KE Mills, ED Lane, R Miller, DY Hollinger, WD Solecki, GA Wellenius, PE Sheffield, AB MacDonald, C Caldwell. (2018) Ch. 18. Northeast. In: DR Reidmiller, CW Avery, DR Easterling, KE Kunkel, KLM Lewis, TK Maycock, BC Stewart, eds. Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 669-742. PDF
Janowiak MK, A D’Amato, CW Swanston, LR Iverson, FR Thompson, WD Dijak, S Matthews, MP Peters, A Prasad, JS Fraser, LA Brandt, P Butler-Leopold, SD Handler, PD Shannon, D Burbank, J Campbell, C Cogbill, MJ Duveneck, MR Emery, N Fisichelli, J Foster, J Hushaw, L Kenefic, A Mahaffey, TL Morelli, NJ Reo, PG Schaberg, KR Simmons, A Weiskittel, S Wilmot, D Hollinger, E Lane, L Rustad, PH Templar. (2018). New England and northern New York forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-173. Newtown Square, PA. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 234 p. PDF
Tobin D, E Lane, R Hoover. (2016) Climate Change and Agriculture in the Northeast: Teamwork, Responses and Results. PASA Passages 118: 10-13. PDF
Tobin D, M. Janowiak, D. Hollinger, RH Skinner, C Swanston, R Steele, R Radhakrishna, A Chatrchyan, D Hickman, J Bochicchio, W Hall, M Cole, S Hestvik, D Gibson, P Kleinman, L Knight, L Kochian, L Rustad, E Lane, J Niedzielski, P Hlubik. (2015) Northeast and Northern Forests Regional Climate Hub Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, T. Anderson, Eds. United States Department of Agriculture, 65 pp. PDF
Lane ED. (2014) “Connecting Researchers and Managers.” Keynote Presentation, Wildland Fire Canada. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dvorak RG & ED Small. (2011) Visitor attitudes towards fire and wind disturbances in wilderness. International Journal of Wilderness 21(2): 27-31. PDF
Small ED, JS Wilson, AJ Kimball. (2007) Methodology for the re-location of permanent plot markers using spatial analysis. Northern J. Appl. Forestry 24(1): 30-36. PDF
