Andrew J. Friedland

|Professor
Academic Appointments
  • Professor of Environmental Studies, Emeritus

  • Richard and Jane Pearl Professorship in Environmental Studies, Emeritus

"Andrew Friedland is an environmental and forest ecosystem scientist who has studied air pollution effects in high-elevation forests in New England and New York for the last 35 years. He and colleagues have examined the cycling of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, calcium and lead as they move from the atmosphere through vegetation and soils and into streams. He has also studied the impact of biomass removal on forested ecosystems. He teaches courses on energy, introductory environmental science and forest biogeochemistry and is the lead author of an introductory environmental science texbtook and a primer on grant proposal development and writing."

Contact

646-3609
Steele, Room 010A

Education

  • B.A. University of Pennsylvania
  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

  • Friedland, A. and R. Relyea. Environmental Science for the AP Course, Fourth Edition (2023). Macmillan/W.H. Freeman. 753 pgs.

  • Peach, M.E., J.B. Richardson and A.J. Friedland. 2021. Legacies of Nutrient Accumulation and Depletion in Residential Ecosystems. Ecosystems 24:1891-1905.

  • Peach, M.E., C.H. Hicks Pries and A.J. Friedland. 2021. Plant and earthworms control soil carbon and water-quality trade-offs in turfgrass mesocosms. Science of the Total Environment 753:141884.

  • Peach, M.E., L.A. Ogden, E.A. Mora and A.J. Friedland. 2019. Building houses and managing lawns could limit yard soil carbon for centuries. Carbon Balance and Management. (2019) 14:9

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Works In Progress

Understanding the impact of forest disturbance on mineral soil carbon storage and release; fate, transport and speciation of lead and mercury in organic and mineral soil horizons of the northeastern U.S.; anthropogenic influences on forest composition, health and element cycling in the northern forest; carbon accounting and inventories.

Selected Works & Activities

  • Peach, M.E., L.A. Ogden, E.A. Mora and A.J. Friedland. 2019. Building houses and managing lawns could limit yard soil carbon for centuries. Carbon Balance and Management. (2019) 14:9

  • Miller, E.K, J.D. Blum and A.J. Friedland. 1993. Determination of soil exchangeable-cation loss and weathering rates using Sr isotopes. Nature 362:438-441. Link here

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