Website CV

Interests

  • My research interests have taken two directions: theoretical and applied ecology, and education and outreach. As an ecologist my research has focused on the analysis of complex systems, with an emphasis on the biological and biogeochemical interactions in

Education

M.S., Statistics - Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, 1996

Ph.D., Zoology - Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, 1986

M.S., Zoology - Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, 1981

B.A., Zoology - University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, 1978

Awards, Honors, Grants

  • Fellow Ecological Society of America, 2012
  • Zhijiang Lecturing Professor East China Normal University, 2012
  • Odum Award for Ecology Education Ecological Society of America, 2011
  • Distinguished Scholar University of Northern Colorado, 1997
  • National Young Investigator Award National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., 1994
  • Distinguished Research Fellow Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC-Davis, 1994

Memberships

  • Soil Ecology Society
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Geophysical Union
  • Ecological Society of America