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Research Interests Microbial ecology, terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystems ecology, plant-soil microbe interactions, greenhouse gases, climate change, stable isotopes, climate-biology interactions, paleoclimate Education Ph.D.
in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
2002. Graduate Student, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Ph.D. Program in Zoology, 1994. B.A. in Biology, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. 1992. Appointments Assistant Professor, non-tenure track, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. 2003-present Research Scientist I, tenure-track equivalent, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University. 2003-present Director, Colorado Laboratory for Environmental Mass Spectrometry. Oversee the management and operation of the 2 stable isotope mass spectrometers housed in the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University. 2004-present Member, Regular Faculty of the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University. 2003-present Visiting Researcher, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM. May-July 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. With Michael Bender. 2001-2003 Research Technician, Michigan State University at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI. With Lars Hedin. 1992-1993. Grants, Fellowships and Awards Principal Investigator, NSF Ecosystems "Additions of Physical and Biogeochemical Tracers to Wetland Soils Can Reveal Mechanisms Underlying the Productivity-Methane Emission Relationship". with co-PI's Dennis Ojima (Colorado State University) and M. Todd Walter (Cornell University). $500,000 2005-2007. Collaborator, Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research Site. $14,083 in 2005. Faculty Fellow, National Academies Education Program in the Life Sciences, for the 2004 National Academies Summer Institute in Biology. USGS Contract, EROS Data Center. Technical support for Carbon in US and Africa Program to investigate controls of carbon isotope composition of soil organic matter in the US Great Plains. $50,000. 2004-2005. NOAA Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, for "How does the productivity of the biosphere respond to changes in the climate? Global scale evidence from periods of rapid climate change as recorded in ice cores." $84,750. 2001-2002. NASA Graduate Fellowship in Earth System Science $66,000 over 3 years. 1999-2001. NSF RTG Graduate Fellowship, NSF Research Training Group in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change, Cornell University. 1997-1999. Service Invited Participant, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Junior Faculty Forum on Downscaling Climate Change: Extreme Events, Regional Impacts, and Ecosystems. 2005 Reviewer, Annals of Botany, Global Change Biology, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, New Phytologist, Oecologia, Teaching Issues & Experiments in Ecology, Elements of Ecology (textbook), National Science Foundation research proposals. 2002-present. Co-director and co-founder, Student Ecology Research Program. An enrichment program to improve the educational experience of undergraduate employee researchers through bi-weekly seminars and discussions. 2004-present. Invited Participant, North American Carbon Program special workshop on the global methane cycle, Durham, NH. 2002. Member, Executive Steering Committee, Cornell Boyce Thompson Stable Isotope Lab, Cornell University, 1998-2001
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