Scott Bailey
research geologist, USDA Forest Service
With an undergraduate training in traditional geology, Scott Bailey's graduate work turned to hydrology and biogeochemistry. He is broadly interested in the influence of substrate, including soils, geologic parent-materials, landforms, and water, on the structure and function of ecosystems. Specific areas of current focus include evaluation of watershed mass balance studies and retrospective soil monitoring to determine temporal dynamics of forest soil base cation supply, the role of secondary minerals as nutrient reservoirs in forest soils, site factors responsible for nutritional stress in sugar maple, and the role of seepage and fractured-rock groundwater discharge in nutrient cycling and biodiversity. Current projects range in location from the Allegheny Plateau in Pennsylvania to the Chic-Choc Mountains in Quebec, with a special emphasis on the Hubbard Brook, Cone Pond, and Sleepers River Research Watersheds.