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			Curriculum Vitae Education Professional Experience Honors and Awards Grant Support Teaching and Advising Professional Societies Editorial Boards Committee Service Invited Presentations Publications EDUCATION Year Degree Institution 1998 Ph.D. Botany, Washington State University 1994 B.S. Biology, University of Utah PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Year Experience 2007-present Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University 2002-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University 2001-2002 Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, U. of Colorado 1998-2001 Research Associate, U. of Colorado 1998-2001 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research 1994-1998 Pre-doctoral Research Associate, Washington State University 1989-1994 Undergraduate Research Associate, University of Utah 1988-1994 Lead Research Technician, University of Utah back to top HONORS AND AWARDS Atmospheric Chemistry Division Visiting Fellowship to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 2002 National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award, 2002 Biosphere Atmosphere Research Training Fellowship. National Science Foundation, 1998 Biddulph Award for Botany, 1997 Noe Higinbotham Award for Graduate Research, 1996 Aase graduate fellowship, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 1995, 1994 Outstanding undergraduate achievement award for biology. University of Utah, 1994 Accepted into Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities, 1994 Awarded Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship for biology, 1992 back to top GRANT SUPPORT Soil Emissions of Nitrogen Trace Gases: Leveraging the Decommissioning of the Desert FACE Site. National Science Foundation. $360,000. 07/01/07 - 06/30/10. Sole PI. CAREER: Direct Foliar Uptake of Atmospheric Nitrogen: Molecular to Ecosystem Considerations. National Science Foundation. $532,000. 06/01/03 - 05/31/08. Sole PI. Exposure Effects of Carbon Dioxide, Reactive Nitrogen, and Ozone on Cabbage, Sweet Corn and Snap Bean (with T. Bjorkman). Hatch Funds. $45,000. 10/01/05 - 09/30/08. Agricultural Ecology Program: Generating a Dry Nitrogen Deposition Estimate for the Upper Susquehanna Basin (with R. M. Marino and T. J. Butler). U.S. Department of Agriculture. $60,000. 01/01/06 - 08/14/08. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Combined Effects of Elevated NO2, O3, and CO2 on Plant Growth and Productivity (with A. S. Eller, Ph.D. Candidate). National Science Foundation. $12,000. 06/01/07 - 05/31/08. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Trace N Gas Efflux from Aridland Systems: Partitioning Abiotic and Biotic Drivers (with C. K. McCalley, Ph.D. Candidate). National Science Foundation. $12,000. 06/01/07 - 05/31/09. Pending Grants COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Limits to Range Expansion at the Southern Bound of a Widespread Tropical Oak (with J. Cavender-Bares, Univ of Minnesota). National Sciecne Foundation. $585,000. Atmospheric Ammonia Deposition from Agricultural Sources: The Relative Importance of Local Versus Regional Deposition (with R. W. Howarth and R. M. Marino, Cornell Univ; G. E. Likens and T. J. Butler, Institute of Ecosystem Studies). U. S. Department of Agriculture. $400,000. Prior Support Tracking Restoration Trajectories in the Florida Scrub: Foliar 15N as a barometer of competing soil processes. Archbold Biological Station. $5,000. 1/1/06 – 12/31/06 (Sole PI) Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemical Exchange of Aerosols and Reactive Gases: Development of a Facility for NCAR and the University Community (Co-PI with Dr. Alex Guenther). NCAR. $12,000. 10/1/05 – 9/30/06. Young Faculty NCAR-ACD Fellowship (travel Funds). NCAR. $3,000. 10/1/04 – 9/30/05 (Sole PI). Wildfire Initiative: Relationships Between Fire Ecology and Air Quality. NCAR. $4,144. 1/15/03 – 1/14/04 (Sole PI). Ramifications of Exposure to Industrially Derived Air Pollutants for Hardwood Forest Tree Species of NYS. Hatch Funds. $60,000. 10/1/02 – 9/30/05 (Sole PI). The Controls Over the Assimilation and Emission of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen by Leaves. U. S. Department of Agriculture. $120,000 (Sole PI). back to top TEACHING AND ADVISING RESPONSIBILITIES Administrative Leadership Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for Biology Member, CALS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Deans Task Force on Undergraduate Biology Courses Taught BIOEE 261 Ecology and the Environment BIO G 299 Introduction to Research Methods in Biology – Independent Study BIOEE 466 Physiological Plant Ecology, Lectures (Spring) BIOEE 468 Physiological Plant Ecology, Laboratory (Spring) BIO G 499 Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology - Independent Study BIOEE 660 Field Studies in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology BIOEE 999 Ph.D. Dissertation Research - Independent Study Educational Innovations Developed Educational Tutorial developed for the measurement of plant gas-exchange Package is available through LiCor Inc. GRADUATE MAJORS Current David M. Baker, E&EB, Ph.D., 2009 Allyson S. Eller, E&EB, Ph.D., 2009 Danica L. Lombardozzi, E&EB, Ph.D., 2012 Carmody K. McCalley, E&EB, Ph.D., 2010 Dena M. Vallano, E&EB, Ph.D., 2009 Kirsten Coe, Plant Biology, Ph.D. 2012 GRADUATE MINORS Current Jill Anderson, Ph. D., 2008 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Neil Bettez, Ph. D., 2008 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Susan Cook, Ph. D., 2011 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Kathy Crowley, Ph.D., 2009 (Natural Resources) Steven Edburg, Ph.D., 2009 (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University) Alexis C. Erwin, Ph.D., 2011 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Christopher Garvin, M.S., 2006 (Earth and Atmospheric Science) James Mandel, Ph.D., 2009 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Chad Miller, Ph.D., 2009 (Horticulture) Emily C. Pollina, Ph.D., 2012 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Total Completed Lynn Vacarro, M.S., 2005 (Natural Resources) Jacob Barney, Ph.D., 2006 (Horticulture) Peter Nester, Ph.D., 2008 (Geology) back to top PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Ecological Society of America – Secretary of the Physiological Ecology Section American Association for the Advancement of Science American Geophysical Union Sigma Xi back to top EDITORIAL BOARDS Editoral Board, Plant Biology Editoral Board, Global Change Biology Journal Referee, Ecological Applications; Ecological Monographs; Ecology; Plant Ecology; Oecologia; Tree Physiology; Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Journal of Geophysical Research; Global Change Biology; Journal of Arid Environments; New Phytologist; Journal of Environmental Pollution; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; Atmospheric Environment; Nature; Science; Geophysical Research Letters; Plant Biology Grant Review, NSF-Ecosystems, USDA-Plant Responses to the Environment, DOE-NIGEC, NSF-GEO-Atmospheres Book Review, Nitrogen Nutrition and Plant Growth. Srivastava H. S. and Singh R. P. eds. Quarterly Review of Biology The Role of Models in Ecosystem Science. Canham C. D., Cole J. J. and Lauenroth W. K., eds. Princeton University Press back to top COMMITTEE SERVICE International/National: Scientific Advisory Board for the Program for Research on Oxidants: Photochemistry, Emissions and Transport (PROPHET). University: BEB-IGERT Fellowship Selection Committee, 2004-present Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory Steering Committee, 2002-2004 Co-Chair of the campus-wide focus committee for Community/Biocomplexity Ecologist, Biogeochemistry Biocomplexity Initiative, Cornell University, 2003 Chair of the Curriculum and Workshops Committee for the Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. CALS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Deans Task Force on Undergraduate Biology College: Search Committee, Terrestrial Community/Biocomplexity Ecologist, 2003-2004 Department: Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member of the LaMont C. Cole Award committee Member of the graduate student admissions committee back to top INVITED PRESENTATIONS Invited Seminar Speaker, “Soil Emissions of Nitrogen Trace Gases in the Mojave Desert Under Elevated CO2: Implications for Regional Tropospheric Chemistry” and “Ozone, Ants, and Clouds: Organisms Matter to Global Air Quality and Climate,” Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama, April 2006 Invited Seminar Speaker, “Making a Living in the Florida Scrub: Biogeochemical Hotspots and Plant Subsidies,” Archbold Biological Station, Venus, Florida, November 2005 Invited Seminar Speaker, “Soil Emissions of Nitrogen Trace Gases in the Mojave Desert Under Elevated CO2: Implications for Regional Tropospheric Chemistry,” Ecosystem Center at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA, November 2005 Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 2005 Invited Seminar Speaker, “Terrestrial Controls Over Atmospheric Chemistry,” Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, November 2004 Invited Speaker, “Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions: Terrestrial Processes Driving Atmospheric Chemistry,” Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences & Department of Biology, Duke University, Raliegh, North Carolina, September 2004 Invited Speaker, Science Planning Meeting for the Nevada Desert FACE Facility (NDFF) and the Mojave Global Change Facility (MGCF), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2004 Invited Speaker, "Observations of Increased Isoprene Emissions Under Ozone Fumigation: Implications for Tropospheric Chemistry," Gordon Conference Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere, Pisa, Italy, May 2004 Invited Speaker, “Vegetation-level Process Controls on Tropospheric Chemistry” University of Nevada-Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Biology, February 2004. Invited Speaker, “Vegetation-level Process Controls on Tropospheric Chemistry” University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Biology, February 2004. Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, "Field Observations of Increased Isoprene Emissions Under Ozone Fumigation: Implications for Tropospheric Chemistry?" San Francisco, California, December 2003 Invited Speaker, “Vegetation Level process controls on tropospheric chemistry” SUNY-ESF, Department of Chemistry, November 2003. Invited Speaker, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Nice, France, April 2003 Invited Speaker, "The Role of Plants and Soils in Tropospheric Chemistry," Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida, January 2003 Invited Speaker, Telluride 2002 Atmospheric Chemistry Workshop, Telluride, Colorado, August 2002 Ecosystem Science Series, Above and Below Canopy CO2 and Water Vapor Fluxes, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, March 2002 Invited Seminar Speaker, Plant and Canopy Controls over Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions. Utah State University, Department of Rangeland Resources, 2001 Invited Seminar Speaker, Plant and Canopy Controls over Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions. Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2001