Dr. Hugo Beltrami
Professor
 Environmental Sciences Research Centre (ESRC) and Department of Earth Sciences
St. Francis Xavier University
P.O. Box 5000, Antigonish, NS, Canada, B2G 2W5
Tel.: 902-867-5086
Fax: 902-867-2414
E-mail: hugo@stfx.ca
Environmental Sciences Research Centre: http://esrc.stfx.ca

1993 Ph.D., Doctorat en Sciences de l'Environnement (Geophysics, Environmental Physics),  GEOTOP Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal Canada.
1984 M. Sc. (Theoretical Astrophysics), Department of Physics , Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1980: B. Sc. (Physics), Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Academic Appointments
Chair Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University
Adjunct Professor, Programme de Doctorat en sciences de l'environnement and Institut de sciences de l'environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal Canada.
Research Interests
Climate change, paleoclimatology, inverse theory, and in the integration of climate models and paleoclimatological  data, land surface processes.
Students
Current Graduate Students:
Amanda Diochon PhD Candidate, Dalhousie University [NSERC CGS award recipient]
Forest soil carbon dynamics across a managed red spruce forest chronosequence
M. Bruce Stevens Ph.D. Candidate, Dalhousie University [NSERC PGS-B award recipient]
Land-surface components of general circulation models (GCMs): Applications for seasonal and permafrost modelling
Amy Myette MSc Candidate, St. Francis Xavier University
Using soil CO2 profiles to understand subsurface gas production processes: Examples from two forest - clearcut pairs.
Nada Jagodic MSc Candidate, St. Francis Xavier University

Current Undergraduate Students:
Andrew MacDougall Undergraduate Earth Sciences Student [NSERC USRA]

Previous Graduate Students (since 2002):
M. Bruce Stevens MSc., St Francis Xavier University, 2006.
Experiments with the general circulation model ECHO-g: Paleoclimatic reconstructions and bottom boundary sensitivities.
Christian Chuinard PhD, GEOTOP , Programme de Doctorat en sciences de l'environnement , Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal Canada.
Borehole climatology.
Lanying Zhao MSc, St. Francis Xavier University, 2005.
Impact of long-term changes of seasonal snow cover ont the ground thermal regime.
Daniela Nitoui, MSc, St. Francis Xavier University, 2005.
Ground surface temperature history reconstruction from geothermal data and the influence of land disruptions on the subsurface temperature profiles.
David Risk, MSc, St. Francis Xavier University, 2002.
Determining the physical controls on carbon dioxide production in the soil profile: Studies from four sites in Eastern Canada
Current Courses
ESCI 472 Ocean Atmosphere Interactions: Advanced seminar course on climate dynamics designed to prepare senior undergraduate students for research in environmental sciences.
ESCI 499 Directed Studies
ESCI 493 Thesis Research
Recent Publications (to 2000)

In Press:
Diochon, A. Lisa Kellman and H. Beltrami (2008) Looking deeper:  an investigation of soil carbon losses following harvesting from a managed northeastern red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) forest chronosequence, Forest Ecology and Management, (Ms FORECO4979) In press.

Gonzalez-Rouco, J.F., H. Beltrami, E. Zorita and M.B. Stevens  (2008) Borehole Climatology: A discussion based on contributions from climate modeling, Clim. Past Discuss., 4, 1-80, 2008 (accepted)

Beltrami, H. and D. Nitoiu (2008) Borehole Climatology: Climate from Geothermal Data, in: Gornitz V., (Ed), Springer Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environment. In Press.

Submitted (under review, under revision):
Diochon A., L. Kellman and H. Beltrami (2008)  Can we model organic matter decomposition in the mineral soil as a single kinetic process?, Environmental Research Letters.

Risk, D.,  L. Kellman and H. Beltrami (2008) In-situ incubations highlight the environmental constraints on soil organic carbon decomposition, Environmental Research Letters.

H. Beltrami, Nitoiu D, V. Bense and L. Kellman  and 8 others (2008) Assesing underground temperature signatures deforestation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (manuscript number EPSL-D-06-00358).

Published:
MacDougall, A.H., J. F. Gonzalez-Rouco , M. B. Stevens, and H. Beltrami (2008) Quantification of subsurface heat storage in a GCM simulation, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L13702, doi:10.1029/2008GL034639. Chosen as GRL and also as  AGU Journal Highlight.

Risk, D., L. Kellman and H.  Beltrami (2008) A new method for in-situ soil gas diffusivity measurement and applications in the monitoring of subsurface CO2. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, G02018, doi:10.1029/2007JG000445.

Stevens, M. B., J. F. González-Rouco, and H. Beltrami (2008) North American climate of the last millennium: Underground temperatures and model comparison, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, F01008,  doi:10.1029/2006JF000705.

Bense, V. and H. Beltrami (2007) The impact of horizontal groundwater flow and localized deforestation on the development of shallow temperature anomalies, Journal of Geophysical Research 112, F04015, doi:10.1029/2006JF000703.

Bekele, A., L. Kellman, and H. Beltrami (2007) Soil profile CO2 concentrations variations from forested and clear cut sites in Nova Scotia, Canada, Forest Ecology and Management, 242, 587-597, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.01.088.

Stevens, M. B., J. E. Smerdon, J. F. González-Rouco, M. Stieglitz, and H. Beltrami (2007), Effects of bottom boundary placement on subsurface heat storage: Implications for climate model simulations, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L02702, doi:10.1029/2006GL028546.

Kellman, L., H. Beltrami, and D. Risk* (2007), Changes in seasonal soil respiration with pasture conversion to forest in Atlantic Canada , Biogeochemistry, doi:10.1007/s10533-006-9056-0.

Beltrami, H., J. F. González-Rouco, and M. B. Stevens. (2006) Subsurface temperatures during the last millennium: Model and observation , Geophysical Research Letters,  Vol. 33, L09705, doi:10.1029/2006GL026050, 2006. Chosen as a GRL highlight., and also as AGU Journal Highlights.

Beltrami, H., E. Bourlon, L. Kellman, and J.F. González-Rouco. (2006) Spatial patterns of ground heat gain in the northern hemisphere, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L06717, doi:10.1029/2006GL025676, 2006.

González-Rouco, J.F., H. Beltrami, E. Zorita, and H. von Storch. (2006) Simulation and inversion of borehole temperature profiles in surrogate climates: Spatial distribution and surface coupling, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L01703, doi:10.1029/2005GL024693, 2006.

Ferguson, G. and H. Beltrami (2006) Transient Lateral Heat Flow due to Land-Use Changes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 252, 217-222, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.001, 2006.

Ferguson, G., H. Beltrami and A. Woodbury (2006) Perturbation of Ground Surface Temperature Reconstructions by Groundwater Flow? Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L13708, doi:10.1029/2006GL026634.

Beltrami, H., G. Ferguson and R. N. Harris (2005). Long-term tracking of climate change by underground temperatures, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L19707, doi:10.1029/2005GL023714, 2005.

Nitoiu, D. and H. Beltrami (2005) Subsurface thermal effects of land-use changes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, F01005, 10:1029/2004JF000151, 2005.

J. Luterbacher, E. Xoplaki, C. Casty, H. Wanner, A. Pauling,  M.  Kü ttel, T. Rutishauser, S. Brönnimann, E. Fischer, D. Fleitmann, F. J. Gonzalez-Rouco, R. Garcia-Herrera, M. Barriendos, F. Rodrigo, J. C. Gonzalez-Hidalgo, M. A. Saz, L. Gimeno, P. Ribera, M. Brunet, H. Paeth, N. Rimbu, T. Felis, J. Jacobeit, A.  Dünkeloh, E. Zorita, J. Guiot, M. Türkes, M. J. Alcoforado, R. Trigo, D. Wheeler, S. Tett, M. E. Mann, R. Touchan, D. T. Shindell, S. Silenzi, P. Montagna,   D. Camuffo, A. Mariotti,T. Nanni, M. Brunetti, M.Maugeri, C. Zerefos, S. De Zolt, P. Lionello, V. Rath, and H. Beltrami,  Mediterranean Climate Variability Over the Last Centuries: A Review , in:  P. Lionello, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, R. Boscolo (Eds.), The Mediterranean Climate: an Overview of the Main Characteristics and Issues, Elsevier, 2006

Lavallee, D. and H. Beltrami (2004) Stochastic modeling of climatic variability in dendrochronology. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L15202 doi:10.1029/2004GL020263, 2004.

Beltrami, H. and E. Bourlon (2004) Ground warming patterns in the northern hemisphere during the last five centuries. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 227, 169-177, 2004.

Beltrami, H. and L. Kellman (2003). An examination of short and long term air-ground temperature coupling at sites subjected to strong seasonal variations, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 291-303.

Beltrami, H., C. Gosselin, and J.C. Mareschal (2003). Ground surface temperatures in Canada: Spatial and temporal variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (10), 10.1029/2003GL017144.

Risk, D., L. Kellman, and H. Beltrami (2002).  Soil CO2 production and surface flux at four climate observatories in eastern Canada, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16 (4), 1122, doi:10.1029/2001GB001831.

Beltrami, H. (2002) Climate from Borehole Data: Energy Fluxes and Temperatures since 1500, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (23), 2111, doi:10.1029/2002GL015702, 2002. Chosen as aa AGU paper highlight.

Beltrami, H. (2002) Earth's Long-Term Memory, Science, 297, 206-207, DOI: 10.1126/science.1074027.

 Risk, D., L. Kellman, and H. Beltrami (2002). Carbon dioxide in soil profiles: Production and temperature dependency, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (6), 1087, doi:10.1029/2001GL014002.

Beltrami, H., J. Smerdon, H. N. Pollack and S. Huang (2002). Continental heat gain in the global climate system. Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (8), 1167, doi:10.1029/2001GL014310. Chosen as an AGU paper highlight.

Beltrami, H. (2001). Surface Heat Flux Histories from Inversion of Geothermal Data: Energy Balance at the Earth Surface. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 21,979-21,994.

Beltrami, H. (2001). On the Relationship Between Ground Temperature Histories and Meteorological Records: A Report on the Pomquet Station.,Global and Planetary Change, 29, 327-352.

Beltrami, H. and R. N. Harris (2001). Inferences of Climate Change from Geothermal Data, Global and Planetary Change, 29-149-152.

Beltrami, H. and R. N. Harris (2001). (Editors) Special issue of journal Global and Planetary Change on Climate from Underground Temperatures, Global and Planetary Change, 29, 145-360.

Beltrami, H. (2001). Surface Heat Flux Histories from Geothermal Data: Inferences from Inversion, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 655-658, 2001

Beltrami, H. (2001). Global ground surface temperature and heat flux histories from geothermal measurements: Inferences from inversion of the global dataset. Proceedings of the Global Warming and the Next Ice Age Conference American Meteorological Society and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Halifax, August, 2001.

Beltrami, H., J.F. Wang and R.L. Bras, (2000). Energy Balance at the Earth's Surface: Heat Flux History in Eastern Canada, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3385-3388, Chosen as an AGU paper highlight.