Dr. Goltz's interests lie in developing basic
understanding of energy and mass interactions within and
external to a forest canopy-soil system over a range of
temporal and spatial scales. Emphasis of this work is forest
carbon exchange and applications to global change. In
addition, he is interested in evaluating ecosystem process
models that may be amenable to being driven by remote
sensing inputs. Efforts have included evaluation of forest
thermal models; developing energy and mass budget models of
forests; and monitoring and evaluating the effects of
atmospheric deposition on northeastern forests. Dr. Goltz
established the tower research site in 1986 and remains
responsible for coordination of research undertaken there.
He earned his doctorate in soils/meteorology at the
University of Wisconsin.
