Tyler Volk

Tyler Volk

Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D. 1984 (atmospheric science), M.S. 1982 (applied science), New York; B.S. 1971 (architecture), Michigan.

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://pages.nyu.edu/~tv1/Volk.htm

Research Interests:

The role of life in the Earth system

Affiliations:

Collaborative research on crop growth and development with Utah State University, NASA Ames Research Center, and NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center.

Fellowships/Honors:

Two NASA Summer Faculty fellowships at Ames Research Center and one at Johnson Space Center.

Selected Works:

VOLK, T., Foreword to the book Writing the Natural Way (by Gabriele Rico), Tarcher/Putnam: New York, pp. xv-xvi, 2000.

Cavazonni, J., T. VOLK, B. Bugbee, and T. Dougher, Phasic temperature control and photoperiod control for soybean using a modified Cropgro model, Life Support and Biosphere Science, 6, 273-278, 1999.

VOLK, T. Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of the Earth, Copernicus Books/Springer-Verlag, 1998

T. VOLK, B. Bugbee, and F.N. Tubiello, Phasic temperature control appraised with the Ceres-wheat model, Life Support and Biosphere Science, 4, 49-54, 1997.

Cavazzoni, J., and T. VOLK, Assessing long-term impacts of increased crop productivity on atmospheric CO2, Energy Policy, 24, 403-412, 1996.

VOLK, T. Metapatterns Across Space, Time, and Mind, Columbia University Press, 298p., 1995

VOLK, T., The soil's breath, Natural History, November, 48-54, 1994.

Schwartzman, D., M. McMenamin, and T. VOLK, Did surface temperatures constrain microbial evolution?, BioScience, 43, 390-393, 1993.

VOLK, T. and H. Cullingford, Crop growth and associated life support for a lunar farm, The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, edited by W. W. Mendell, NASA Publication CP-3166, 525-530, 1992.

Schwartzman, D. W., and T. VOLK, Biotic enhancement of weathering and surface temperatures on Earth since the origin of life, Global and Planetary Change section of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 90, 357-371, 1991.

Barlow, C., and T. VOLK, Open living systems in a closed biosphere: A new paradox for the Gaia debate, BioSystems, 23, 371-384, 1990.

VOLK, T., Sensitivity of climate and atmospheric CO2 to deep-ocean and shallow-ocean carbonate burial, Nature, 337, 637-640, 1989.

VOLK, T., and Z. Liu, Controls on CO2 sources and sinks in the earthscale surface ocean: temperature, nutrients, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2, 73-89, 1988.

VOLK, T., Feedbacks between weathering and atmospheric CO2 over the last 100 million years, American Journal of Science, 287, 763-779, 1987.

Gaffin, S. R., M. I. Hoffert, and T. VOLK, Nonlinear coupling between surface temperature and ocean upwelling as an agent in historical climate variations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, 3944-3950, 1986.

VOLK, T., and M. I. Hoffert, Ocean carbon pumps: analysis of relative strengths and efficiencies in ocean-driven atmospheric CO2 changes, in The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2: Natural Variations Archean to Present, edited by E. T. Sundquist and W. S. Broecker, pp. 99-110, Geophysical Monograph 32, American Geophysical Union, Wash., D.C., 1985.

VOLK, T., Multi-property modeling of the marine biosphere in relation to global carbon and climate cycles, Ph. D. thesis (University Microfilms #84-21570), New York University, New York, 1984.

VOLK, T., Performance of tornado wind energy conversion systems, Journal of Energy, 6, 348-350, 1982.

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