Buckeye Ecologists
To foster a greater intellectual
community among ecologists across the Ohio State University
2nd Annual Symposium
Jan. 16, 2009, 9 am to 4 pm
Ohio State University Columbus Campus - Women’s Field House
Featuring research by graduate
students from SENR, EEOB and ESGP with presentations from:
Stone Lab, Byrd Polar Research Center, Prairie Nature Center, Student Farm, Sugar Creek GK-12 Watershed Education Group
Keynote address:
Ecosystem assembly and terrestrial carbon balance under elevated atmospheric CO2 and O3
Dr. Kurt Pregitzer
Professor and Chair of
the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science,University of
Nevada, Reno
Address by Dr. Pregitzer 11:00 am
Dr. Kurt S. Pregitzer is a leading forest ecologist whose current research efforts are focused on understanding how climate change impacts forest composition, structure and function. He has been identified by ISI as a "Highly Cited Researcher" with over 200 refereed papers, many of which have been published in leading journals such as Nature, New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, Ecology, and many others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1981 and currently is a Professor and serves as Chair of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada - Reno. Prior to serving as Chair at UNR, he was a faculty member at the University of Idaho (1981-1983), Michigan State University (1983-1994), and Michigan Technological University (1994-2007). He also served as the Director of Michigan Tech's Ecosystem Science Center from 2004-2007 and was Director of the Midwestern Regional Center of the DOE National Institute for Climatic Change Research from 2005-2007. He has a diverse and excellent track record of grantsmanship, with funding from organizations including NSF, DOE and USDA to name a few.
In his own words, Dr. Pregitzer
is: "interested in how ecosystems function. Working with students is
a great privilege; through time we have explored the influence of many factors
that control plant community composition, structure, and function. In recent
years, I have become very interested in understanding how global change factors
such as the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, deposition of atmospheric
nitrogen, soil water availability, and temperature influence ecosystem processes.
We have initiated several long-term, replicated, field experiments to better
understand how these factors control productivity and biogeochemical cycling.
These experiments are ideal platforms for developing a deeper understanding
of terrestrial ecosystems at all levels - from a research experience for an
undergraduate through a graduate student program of study or post-doctoral appointment."
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