Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise: Acid rain, carbon sequestration, climate change, ecosystem ecology, forest ecosystems, global change, land-use change, nitrogen cycling, nitrogen retention, watershed biogeochemistry.

EDUCATION

• 1999 Ph.D. Natural Resources. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire.
• 1995 M.S. Natural Resources. University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire.
• 1992 A.B. Biology/Geography, and Environmental Studies. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2003-present. Assistant Professor. Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY.
• 2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow. The Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA.
• 1999-2001 Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, CA.
• 1993-1999 NASA Earth System Science Doctoral Fellow and Graduate Research Assistant. Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Conferences, Panels, and Workshops

• Organizer, Nitrogen Retention across Europe and eastern North America (NiRENA) Workshop, Durham, NH July 13-14, 2007.
• Organizer, Special Session on Carbon and Carbon-Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles, Biennial meeting of the Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative, Durham, NH. October 26-27, 2006.
• The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Working Group, Carbon Sequestration in the Northeastern United States. July 2005 – present.
• Invited Chair, Nitrogen Effects on Ecosystems, ACID RAIN 2005, the 7 th International Conference on Acid Deposition, Prague, Czech Republic. June 2005.
• Workshop on 15N Experiments in Terrestrial Ecosystems at National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA. 2005-2006.
• Union of Concerned Scientists Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment, 2005 - present.
• Carbon-Nitrogen InTERactions (CNTER) Workshop, Wageningen, Netherlands. January 2004.
• U.S. National Academy, National Research Council, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Workshop on Direct and Indirect Human Contributions to Terrestrial Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Washington, D. C. September 2003.
• Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, an NSF Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site, Committee of Scientists. Fall 2003 – present.
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Biogeosciences Workshop, Development of a Science Plan for Integrated Studies of Coupled Biosphere-Atmosphere Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles, Boulder, CO. November 2003.
• Cross-Site Synthesis of Forest Ecosystem Response to Elevated Atmospheric N Deposition. The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. March 2002.
• The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Working Group, Status and Effects of Nitrogen Pollution in the Northeastern United States. 2001 – 2003.
• Workshop on N Saturation in the Northeastern U.S., Durham, NH. April 2001.
• International Workshop on Integrated Carbon Cycle Research. International Global Biosphere Program. Durham, NH. October 2000.
• The Carbon Balance of Eurasia and North America. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA. 1999 – 2002.
• Nitrogen Transport and Transformations: A Regional and Global Analysis. International SCOPE Nitrogen Project. NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA. 1999 – 2001.

Invited Presentations

• Queens University, Department of Geography, Kingston, Ontario. December 1, 2006.
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Bartlett, New Hampshire. October 2006.
• BIOGEOMON, the Fifth International Conference on Ecosystem Behavior, Santa Cruz, California. June 26-29, 2006.
• Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecology, University Park, Pennsylvania. February 13, 2006.
• Workshop on Nitrogen Processes and Dynamic Modelling, UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, Working Group on Effects, Joint Expert Group on Dynamic Modelling, Brighton, United Kingdom. October 2005.
• ESA Symposium, “Ecosystem ecology at the watershed scale: linking biogeochemical cycles across the terrestrial-aquatic divide,” Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. August 2005.
• Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology and Geochemistry, Waterville, ME. July 2005.
• 6th Eastern Old Growth Forest Conference, Geneva Point, New Hampshire. September 2004.
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York. April 2004.
• Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Department. Hanover, NH. Apr. 24, 2003.
• Harvard University, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA. Apr. 25, 2002.
• Harvard Forest Long-term Ecological Research site. Petersham, MA. Mar. 7, 2002.
• Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY. Feb. 23, 2002.
• The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Jan. 29, 2002.
• AGU Spring Meeting. Boston, MA. Human Impacts on Nitrogen Cycling at Regional Scales: Science and Policy. June 1, 2001.
• Appalachian Lab., Univ. of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD. Apr. 13, 2000.

• American Geophysical Union (Biogeosciences)
• Ecological Society of America (Biogeosciences Section)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science

Elected Positions

• Steering Committee Member, Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative (NERC). 2004 – 2008.
• Secretary, Ecological Society of America - Biogeosciences Section. 2004 – 2006.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Manuscript Editing and Review

Ecosystems Editorial board, Jan. 2004 – 2007.

Reviewer, Journals: Agricultural & Forest Meteorology, Biogeochemistry, BioScience, Climate Research, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Science & Technology, Forest Ecology & Management, Global Change Biology, Hydrobiologia, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Journal of Hydrology, Pedosphere, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – USA, Science.

Reviewer, Books: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 1998. The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Grant Proposal Review Panels

• Department of Energy, National Institute of Climate Change Research (NICCR)
• NASA Panel on Land Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC)
• NSF Panel for the Research Coordination Network (RCN) Program..
• NASA Panel on Carbon Cycle Science and Related Opportunities in Biology and Biogeochemistry of Ecosystems and Applications.

Proposal Reviews. NSF - Ecosystems Program, Program in Long-term Ecological Research (LTREB); NASA, various programs; USDA National Research Initiative - Soil Processes Program; Department of Energy, National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) and National Institute of Climate Change Research (NICCR).

University Service

• Co-Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Global Biogeochemical Dynamics; Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Biogeochemistry & Biocomplexity Initiative. 2004 – 2005.
• Chair, Committee for Developing and Planning Workshops in support of the NSF IGERT training grant for Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity. May 2004 – present.
• Graduate Student Admissions Committee, Program in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity, supported by NSF IGERT. Winter/Spring 2004.
• Faculty Advisor, Cornell Women's Rowing Team. Fall 2007 – present.

Departmental Service

• Seminar Series Chair, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. 2005 – present.
• Graduate Student Admissions Committee, Field of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. 2006.

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