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Erin D. Lane

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

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

Erin D. Lane

Title/Position

  • Director, USDA Northeast Climate Hub

Affiliation

U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange

Address

271 Mast Road, Durham, NH

Phone Number

603-393-0372

Email

erin.d.lane@usda.gov

Focus Area

  • Climate Adaptation
  • Wildland Fire and Climate
  • Fostering Co-production as a Boundary Organization