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Anchorage Office

Erik Pullman, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Erik Pullman, Ph.D.

  • GIS data analysis and mapping

  • Flora surveys and soil classification

  • Permafrost Science

  • Environmental Instrumentation

  • Land Rehabilitation & Restoration


Erik is a physiological plant ecologist working with plants and soils in Alaska. Erik has supported projects working on habitat and oil spill remediation projects, snow surveys, terrain analysis, and weather instrumentation projects. Erik worked at our Fairbanks office for 11 years before moving to Homer in 2006. He spent 16 years as a "digital ecologist" working as a network engineer and IT Director before returning to his passion of ecological research in 2024. Erik is interested in landscape successional trajectories, understanding physical factors determining natural vegetation distribution, and applying this knowledge to enhance habitat recovery after natural and human disturbance.

Selected Publications

  • Pullman, E. R., M. T. Jorgenson, and Y. Shur. 2008. Soil carbon distribution in soils of the Beaufort Sea Coastal Plain. Proceedings of the 9th International Permafrost Conference, 2009.

  • Pullman, E. R., M. T. Jorgenson, and Y. Shur.  2007. Thaw Settlement Potential of Soils of the Beaufort Sea Coastal Plain. Arctic, Alpine, and Antarctic Research, 39,468-476.

  • Jorgensen MT, Shur YL, Pullman ER (2006) Abrupt increase in permafrost degradation in arctic Alaska. Geophysical Research. Letters 33, L02503, doi:10.1029/ 1031.

  • Jorgenson, M. T., Roth, J. E., Smith, M. D., Schlentner, S., Lentz, W., Pullman, E. R., and Racine, C. H. 2001.  An ecological land survey for Fort Greeley, Alaska. Hanover, NH: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, ERDC/CRREL TR-01-4.

  • Pullman, E. R, Carbon Cycle Dynamics in a Taiga Peatland, 2001. Clemson University Dissertation. 150Pp.

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