Some of the review team after finishing lunch under the cottonwoods at the old Slayton Place (photo by Mark Lindquist)
Dr. Sharon Billings, Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
sharonb@ku.edu
(http://www.ku.edu/~eeb/faculty/billings.html)
Research Emphasis: Environmental changes around the globe, increasing
concentrations of “greenhouse gases” such as CO2 and nitrous
oxide (N2O), habitat destruction and fragmentation, changing land uses,
and increasing rates of nitrogen (N) deposition, biogeochemical cycles
that sustain life on Earth.
Dr. Carla D'Antonio, Professor
Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara
dantonio@lifesci.ucsb.edu
(dantonio@es.ucsb.edu) (http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/faculty/dantonio/)
Research Emphasis: Processes that control invasions by non-indigenous
species into ecological communities, how and when the addition of some
individual species affects ecosystem structure and functioning, community
and ecosystem change, increasing human population pressure, increasing
movement of plant species, nitrogen deposition and climatic fluctuations.
Dr. Tony Joern, Professor
Division of Biology
Kansas State University
ajoern@ksu.edu
(http://www.ksu.edu/biology/bio/faculty/joern/joern.htm)
Research Emphasis: Insect community ecology; insect/plant interactions;
grassland ecology.
Wade Sheldon, Information Manager
Department of Marine Sciences
University of Georgia
sheldon@uga.edu (wsheldon@lternet.edu)
(http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/bios/wsheldon.htm)
Research Emphasis: Scientific information management, relational database
design, developing software for automated data processing, analysis and
integration based on structured metadata
Dr. Stan Smith, Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
ssmith@ccmail.nevada.edu
(http://biology.unlv.edu/)
Research Emphasis: Plant physiological ecology: functional ecology of
desert plants, response of desert ecosystems to elevated CO2 and global
change, riparian ecology.
NSF Representatives
Dr. Henry Gholz, Program Director
LTER
NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis)
Ecosystem Science
hgholz@nsf.gov
Dr. Sam Scheiner, Program Director
Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Population and Evolutionary Processes
sscheine@nsf.gov
NSF Observers
Michelle Kelleher, Science Assistant
LTER
Ecosystem Science
mkellehe@nsf.gov
Erin Thais Riley-Hulting, Science Assistant
LTER
erileyhu@nsf.gov
Alethea Harris, Administrative Manager
BIO/DEB
aharris@nsf.gov
06/14/05
