Victoria Kelly

Environmental Monitoring Program Manager | BS, MA

Certified Senior Ecologist, Ecological Society of America

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Vicky Kelly manages Cary Institute's Environmental Monitoring Program, which includes monitoring climate as well as air, precipitation and streamwater quality, solar radiation, phenology, and the behavior of water in the landscape. Data from the program have been used to understand the dynamics of road salt and the effects of climate change on precipitation chemistry.

Current projects include the effectiveness of road salt reduction practices, the impact of climate change on plant and animal life cycle events (phenology), and monitoring of water at the landscape scale.

Recent publications include Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, and How to Get There and The State of the Environment, Dutchess County.

Environmental Monitoring Program: 1984-1993 Summary Report. Part II: Precipitation Chemistry; Stream Chemistry, Temperature, and Discharge; Air Quality, Including Aerosols, Sulfur Dioxide and Nitric Acid
Kelly, Victoria R. 1995. “Environmental Monitoring Program: 1984-1993 Summary Report. Part II: Precipitation Chemistry; Stream Chemistry, Temperature, and Discharge; Air Quality, Including Aerosols, Sulfur Dioxide and Nitric Acid”. Occasional Publication of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Millbrook, NY: Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
The dynamics of resource supply and depletion in right-of-way vegetation
Canham, Charles D., and Victoria R. Kelly. 1993. “The Dynamics of Resource Supply and Depletion in Right-of-Way Vegetation”. C. D. Canham Et Al. (eds.). Vegetation Dynamics Along Utility Rights-of-Way: Factors Affecting the Ability of Shrub and Herbaceous Communities to Resist Invasion by Trees. Final Technical Report to Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation and the Empire State Electric Energy Research Corporation.
Effects of biomass allocation and resource-use efficiency on multiple resource limitation in tree seedlings
Canham, Charles D., Alan R. Berkowitz, Victoria R. Kelly, Gary M. Lovett, and S. V. Ollinger. 1993. “Effects of Biomass Allocation and Resource-Use Efficiency on Multiple Resource Limitation in Tree Seedlings”. C. D. Canham Et Al. (eds.). Vegetation Dynamics Along Utility Rights-of-Way: Factors Affecting the Ability of Shrub and Herbaceous Communities to Resist Invasion by Trees. Final Technical Report to Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation and the Empire State Electric Energy Research Corporation.
Environmental Monitoring Program, 1988-1992 summary report part 1: meteorology and ozone
Kelly, Victoria R. 1993. “Environmental Monitoring Program, 1988-1992 Summary Report Part 1: Meteorology and Ozone”. Occasional Publication of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Millbrook, NY: Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
Net effects of right-of-way communities on tree seedling growth and survival
Berkowitz, Alan R., Charles D. Canham, and Victoria R. Kelly. 1993. “Net Effects of Right-of-Way Communities on Tree Seedling Growth and Survival”. C. D. Canham (ed.). Vegetation Dynamics Along Utility Rights-of-Way: Factors Affecting the Ability of Shrub and Herbaceous Communities to Resist Invasion by Trees. Final Technical Report to Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation and the Empire State Electric Energy Research Corporation.
Resource heterogeneity in rights-of-way
Kelly, Victoria R., and Charles D. Canham. 1993. “Resource Heterogeneity in Rights-of-Way”. C. D. Canham Et Al. (eds.). Vegetation Dynamics Along Utility Rights-of-Way: Factors Affecting the Ability of Shrub and Herbaceous Communities to Resist Invasion by Trees. Final Technical Report to Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation and the Empire State Electric Energy Research Corporation.
Resource heterogeneity in oldfields
Kelly, Victoria R., and Charles D. Canham. 1992. “Resource Heterogeneity in Oldfields”. J. Veg. Sci. 3: 545-52. http://www.caryinstitute.org/reprints/Kelly_and_Canham_1992_J_Veg_Sci_3_545-552.pdf.
Percentage seed set, sprouting habit and ploidy level in Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae)
Kelly, Victoria R., and V.T. Parker. 1991. “Percentage Seed Set, Sprouting Habit and Ploidy Level in Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae)”. Madroño 38: 227-32.
Seed bank survival and dynamics in sprouting and nonsprouting Arctostaphylos species
Kelly, Victoria R., and V.T. Parker. 1990. “Seed Bank Survival and Dynamics in Sprouting and Nonsprouting Arctostaphylos Species”. Am. Midl. Nat. 124: 114-23.
Seed banks in California chaparral and other Mediterranean climate shrublands
Parker, V.T., and Victoria R. Kelly. 1989. “Seed Banks in California Chaparral and Other Mediterranean Climate Shrublands”. In M. A. Leck, V. T. Parker, and R. L. Simpson (eds.). Ecology of Soil Seed Banks, 231-55. Academic Press, Inc.