CALS Faculty CV Outline - Cornell University€¦ · 2010-2015 Hays and James M. Clark Director of Undergraduate Biology, Cornell University 2008-2011 Director, Program in Biogeochemistry

CURRICULUM VITAE

Jed P. Sparks

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

E409A Corson Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

607-254-4270

[email protected]

BACKGROUND

EDUCATION

Year Degree Institution

1998 Ph.D. Botany, Washington State University

1994 B.S. Biology, University of Utah

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Year Experience

2013-Present Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

2012-Present Biology Director, WCMC-Q Premedical Program, Doha, Qatar

2010-2015 Hays and James M. Clark Director of Undergraduate Biology, Cornell University

2008-2011 Director, Program in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity, Cornell

University

2007-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell

University

2005-present Director, Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory, Cornell University

2002-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell

University

2016 CURRICULUM VITAE - Jed P. Sparks

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2001-2002 Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science,

University of Colorado

1998-2001 Research Associate, University 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

HONORS AND AWARDS

Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow, 2016

Best Communication of Science, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, 2012

Most Significant Faculty as recognized by an Undergraduate (CALS), 2004, 2006, 2008

Atmospheric Chemistry Division Visiting Fellowship to the National Center for Atmospheric

Research (NCAR), 2002-2006

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

GRANT SUPPORT Current Support Riparian corridor restoration in the Finger Lakes National Forest. USDA-Forest Service. $14,596. 7/14/17-5/01/22. Recovery of native plant communities and ecological processes following removal of nonnative, invasive ungulates from Pacific Island forests (with C. Litton, U. of Hawaii and C. Giardina, USFS). SERDP: Department of Defense. $1,102,174 ($401,702 to Cornell). 03/01/14 - 01/31/17. Includes $300,000 one year extension awarded in 2016. Manipulating fire and grazing to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services from subtropical humid grasslands (with E. Boughton). USDA-NIFA. $498,548. 1/1/15 - 12/31/17 Collaborative Research Easm-3: Decadal Prediction Of Sustainable Agricultural And Forest Management - Earth System Prediction Differs From Climate Prediction (with C.L. Goodale). USDA-EaSM. $440,913. 5/15/15-5/14/20.


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Developing Crop Microbiomes For Enhanced Nitrogen Utilization (with J Kao-Kniffen). NIFA-USDA. $456,318. 12/1/15 - 11/30/18.

Coupled biogeochemical cycling of water, silicon and cations in a temperate forest-shale system

(with L. Derry). National Science Foundation. $201,156. 08/01/12 - 07/31/16. The CIRTL Network: 25 research universities preparing a national faculty to advance STEM undergraduate learning. (with S. Henry and B. Knuth). National Science Foundation. $5,000,000 ($160,000 to Cornell). 06/01/13-05/31/2018. Prior Support

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Closing the nitrogen budget: Quantifying denitrification in an

arid ecosystem undergoing nitrogen enrichment (with F. Soper, PhD. Candidate). National

Science Foundation. $20,820. 07/01/13 - 06/30/15. Adaptive Differentiation, Selection and Water Use of a Seasonally Dry Tropical Oak: Implications for Global Change (with J. M. Cavender-Bares, Univ Minnesota). National Science Foundation. $585,000 ($78,000 to Cornell). 05/01/09 - 04/30/14. 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. $180,000. 01/01/06 - 08/14/14.

Methane production related to natural gas extraction from shale: environmental and economic

implications (with R. Howarth and T. Ingraffea). Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

$81,624. 07/01/11 - 06/30/13. Gaseous Ammonia Transport in Complex Landscapes. Federal Formula Funds. $65,500. 10/01/10 - 09/30/13. (Sole PI). Quantitative Assessment of Fugitive Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Extraction from Shale: Establishing Methods and Collaborations for Future Funding Opportunities (with P. Shepson, Purdue and R. Howarth). Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. $26,000. 04/01/12 - 12/31/12. DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Effects of Elevated Ozone on Global Carbon and Water Cycling Mediated by Plants (with D. L. Lombardozzi, Ph.D. Candidate). National Science Foundation. $12,336. 01/01/10 - 08/14/12. Soil Emissions of Nitrogen Trace Gases: Leveraging the Decommissioning of the Desert FACE Site. National Science Foundation. $360,000. 07/01/07 - 06/30/11. (Sole PI). 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.


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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. 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 (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. 8/1/02 - 7/31/04. (Sole PI).

OTHER CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Ecological Society of America – Secretary of the Physiological Ecology Section (2006-2008)

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Geophysical Union

Goldschmidt Society

Torrey Botanical Society

Sigma Xi

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Editorial Board, Plant Biology

Editorial 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, Ecosystems, Biogeochemistry, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society

Grant Review, NSF-Ecosystems, USDA-Plant Responses to the Environment, DOE-NIGEC,

NSF-GEO-Atmospheres, NSF-CAREER, NSF-PIRE, NSF-IOS, DOE


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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

COMMITTEE SERVICE

International/National:

Scientific Advisory Board for the Program for Research on Oxidants: Photochemistry, Emissions

and Transport (PROPHET).

University:

Deans Task Force (Weill Medical School) to evaluate the MD/PhD at Cornell

Biology Director, WCMC-Q Premedical Program (Doha, Qatar) 2012-present

Director of the Office of Undergraduate Biology, 2010-present

Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Biology Transition Committee, 2009-2010

BEB-IGERT Fellowship Selection Committee, 2004-2010

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:

Director, Biology Pedagogical Transformation (Arts and Sciences) (provide oversight to a

$1,000,000 donor sponsored program to transform in classroom teaching methodologies)

Search Committee (Chair), Director of the Biology Investigative Lab (Hired Mark Sarvary)

Search Committee, Director of Undergraduate Research, 2010-2011 (Hired Colleen Kearns)

Search Committee, Terrestrial Community/Biocomplexity Ecologist, 2004-2005 (Hired Gang

Chen – EAS)

Search Committee, Ecosystem Ecologist, 2002-2003 (Hired Christine Goodale – EEB)

Department:

Director of Undergraduate Studies (2005-2008)

Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Member of the LaMont C. Cole Award committee

Member of the graduate student admissions committee

Member of five search committees (2003-present)


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INVITED PRESENTATIONS (since 2001)

Invited Symposium Speaker, “Manipulating Soil Nutrient Availability to Promote Native

Species Following Nonnative Ungulate Removal”, Hawaii Conservation Congress,

Honolulu, HI. 2017

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Using isotopes to help answer tough ecological questions”, Kellogg

Biological Station, Michigan State University. 2017.

Invited Seminar Speaker, "What happens after the animals are gone? Investigating ecosystem

function post the removal of non-native ungulates", Natural Resources and Ecosystem

Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2016

Invited Seminar Speaker, "Whole ecosystem warming effects on nutrient cycling in

tropical forests – lessons from a highly constrained MAT gradient in Hawaii", Chinese

Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China, 2015

Invited Seminar Speaker, "What happens after the animals are gone? Investigating ecosystem

function post the removal of non-native ungulates", EMAPi, Waikaloa, HI, 2015

Invited Seminar Speaker, “North American Deserts: Ecological Surprises”, School of Natural

Resources, University of Nebraska, 2014.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Overcoming academic struggles as a Cornell undergraduate”, College

of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, 2014.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “The scientific life: from first-generation college student to Cornell

Professor”, Biology Scholars Program, Cornell University, 2014.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “North American deserts: Ecological surprises”, University of Texas at

Austin, 2014.

Invited Special Session Speaker, "Small changes in the timing of precipitation on the arid

Colorado Plateau leads to large changes in nitrogen biogeochemistry mediated through

biocrust moss mortality", American Geophysical Union, December 2012.

Invited Special Session Speaker, "Methods for quantifying methane fluxes during shale

hydraulic fracturing", Goldschmidt Conference, June 2012.

Invited Seminar Speaker, "North American Drylands: Systems on the Edge in a Changing

World", Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 2012.

AEEP "Generating a Dry Nitrogen Deposition Estimate for the Upper Susquehanna Basin",

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2012.

Special Session Speaker, “Trace gas emissions during woody encroachment”, American

Geophysical Union. December 2011.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Lecture, “Undergraduate biology at Cornell: Research experiences for

undergraduates” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 2011

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Surface biogeochemistry of aridlands: implications of global change”,

Texas A&M, College Station, TX, February 2011

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Deserts in a changing world”, Smith College, Northhampton, MA,

November 2010

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Surface biogeochemistry of carbon and nitrogen: Surprises from arid

lands”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, September 2010

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions”, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,

March 2010

Special Session Speaker, “Carbonate chemistry as a source of CO2 in hyper-arid landscapes”,

American Geophysical Union. December 2009.


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Invited Seminar Speaker, “Foliar uptake of reactive nitrogen: Implications for ecosystem

function” University of Hawaii-Manoa. January 2009.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Growth, carbon cycling, and nitrogen dynamics in Hawaiian dry

forests”, University of Hawaii-Hilo. December 2008.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Transfer of reactive nitrogen”,

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. March 2007.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive nitrogen”, Ithaca College,

Ithaca, NY. January 2007.

Invited Seminar Speaker, “Implementation of experimental equipment into undergraduate

teaching”, Ecological Society of America. August 2006.

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, Raleigh, 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


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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

PUBLICATIONS * indicates Post-doctoral, graduate, undergraduate advisee or Sparks Lab technical staff

In Press

Craig, E.*, T. King, J.P. Sparks, and P. Curtis. Seasonal interactions play a limited role

in Double-crested Cormorant life history. Journal of Avian Biology.

2017 Chamberlain S.D.*, Groffman P.M., Boughton E.H., Gomez-Casanovas N., DeLucia

E.H., Bernacchi C.J., and J.P. Sparks. The impact of water management practices on

subtropical pasture methane emissions and ecosystem service payments. Ecological

Applications. 27(4):1199-1209.

Pierre, S., Hewson, I., Sparks, J.P., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C., Groffman, P.M., and T.J.

Fahey. Ammonia oxidizer populations vary with nitrogen cycling across a tropical

montane mean annual temperature gradient. Ecology. 98(7):1896-1907.

Ramirez-Valiente, J.A., Center, A., Sparks, J.P., Sparks, K.L., Etterson, J.R., Longwell,

T., Pilz, G., and J. Cavender-Bares. Population-Level Differentiation in Growth Rates

and Leaf Traits in Seedlings of the Neotropical Live Oak Quercus oleoides Grown under

Natural and Manipulated Precipitation Regimes. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8: Article

585.

Long, M.S., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., Deenik, J., Cole, R.J. and J.P. Sparks. Impact

of nonnative feral pig removal on soil structure and nutrient availability in Hawaiian

tropical montane wet forests. Biological Invasions. 19(3):749-763.

Soper F.M.*, McCalley C.K.*, Sparks K.L.* and J.P. Sparks. Soil carbon dioxide

emissions from the Mojave desert: isotopic evidence for a carbonate source. GRL.

44(1):245-251.

Hasselquist, E.M.*, Hasselquist N.J., Sparks J.P. and C. Nilsson. Recovery of nitrogen

cycling in riparian zones after stream restoration using delta N-15 along a 25-year

chronosequence in northern Sweden. Plant and Soil. 410(1-2): 423-436.

Low C. and J.P. Sparks. Insect herbivory is associated with microsite quality. Journal of

the Torrey Botanical Society. 144(1):26-34.


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2016 Soper F.M.* and J.P. Sparks. Estimating ecosystem nitrogen addition by a leguminous

tree: A mass balance approach using a woody encroachment chronosequence.

Ecosystems. DOI 10.1007/s10021-016-0100-1.

Leigh K.L.*, Sparks J.P., and W.E. Bemis. Food preferences of Atlantic hagfish, Myxine

glutinosa, assessed by experimental baiting of traps. Copeia. 104(3):623-627.

Linderholm A., D. Spencer, V. Battista, L. Frantza, R. Barnetta, R. Fleischer, H.F. James,

D. Duffy, J.P. Sparks, D.R. Clements, L. Andersson, K. Dobney, J. Leonard, G. Larson.

A Novel MC1R allele for black coat colour reveals the Polynesian ancestry and

hybridisation patterns of Hawaiian feral pigs. Royal Society Open Science. 3(9):Article

number 160304.

Soper F.M.*, Boutton T.W., Groffman P.W., and J.P. Sparks. Nitrogen trace gas fluxes

from a subtropical, semi-arid savanna under woody legume encroachment. Global

Biogeochemical Cycles. 30(5):614-628.

Soper F.M.*, Groffman P.M, and J.P. Sparks. Denitrification in a subtropical, semi-arid

North American savanna: field measurements and intact soil core incubations.

Biogeochemistry. 128(1-2):257-266.

Chamberlain, S.D.*, Ingraffea, A.R., and J.P. Sparks. Sourcing methane and carbon

dioxide emissions from a small city: Influence of natural gas leakage and combustion.

Environmental Pollution. 218:102-110.

Chamberlain S.D.*, Walter M.T., Gomez-Casanovas N., Boughton E.H., Bernacchi C.J.,

DeLucia E.H., Groffman P.M., Keel E.W., and J.P Sparks. Influence of transient

flooding on methane fluxes from subtropical pastures. JGR Biogeosciences. 121(3):965-

977.

S.M. Collins*, J.P. Sparks, S.A. Thomas, S.A. Wheatley, and A.S. Flecker. Increased

light availability reduces the importance of bacterial carbon in headwater stream food

Webs. Ecosystems. 19(3):396-410.

K.K. Coe* and J.P. Sparks. Cyanobacteria associations in temperate forest bryophytes

revealed by δ15N analysis. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 143(1):50-57.

Craig, E.*, T. King, J.P. Sparks, and P. Curtis. Aquaculture depredation by Double-

crested Cormorants breeding in Eastern North America. Journal of Wildlife Management

80:57-62.

2015 Craig, E.*, S. Elbin, J.P. Sparks, and P. Curtis. Identifying important foraging habitats

for colonial waterbirds in an urban estuary: A stable isotope approach. Waterbirds

38:330-338.


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Craig, E.*, B. Dorr, K. Hanson-Dorr, J.P. Sparks, and P. Curtis. Isotopic discrimination

in the Double-crested Cormorant. PLOS ONE 10:e0140946.

C. L. Goodale, G. Fredriksen, M. S. Weiss, C. K. McCalley*, J. P. Sparks, and S. A.

Thomas. Soil processes drive seasonal variation of 15N retention in a deciduous forested

catchment. Ecology. 96(10):2653-2668.

Chamberlain, S.D.* and J.P. Sparks. Underlying ecosystem emissions exceed cattle-

emitted methane from subtropical lowland pastures. Ecosystems. 18(6):933-945.

T. Butler, R. Marino, D. Schwede, R. W. Howarth, J. P. Sparks and K. L. Sparks*.

Atmospheric ammonia measurements at low concentration sites in the northeastern USA:

implications for total nitrogen deposition and comparison with CMAQ model estimates.

Biogeochemistry. 122(2):191-210.

Soper F.M.*, T.W. Boutton, and J. P. Sparks. Investigating patterns of symbiotic

nitrogen fixation during vegetation change from grassland to woodland using fine scale

δ15N measurements. Plant, Cell and Environment. 38(1):89-100.

D. L. Lombardozzi*, S. Levis, G. Bonan, P.G. Hess and J.P. Sparks. The influence of

chronic ozone exposure on global carbon and water cycles. Journal of Climate.

28(1):292-305

2014 L.E. Nave, J.P. Sparks, J. Le Moine, B.S. Hardiman, K.J. Nadelhoffer, B.D. Strahm*,

and P.S. Curtis. Changes in soil nitrogen cycling in a northern temperate forest ecosystem

during succession. Biogeochemistry. 121(3):471-488.

K. K. Coe* and J. P. Sparks. Physiology-based prognostic modeling of the influence of

changes in precipitation on a keystone dryland plant species. Oecologia. 176(4):933-942.

L.C. Mejíaa, E.A. Herre, J.P. Sparks, K. Winter, M.N Garcia, S. A. Van Bael, J. Stitt, Z.

Shi, Y. Zhang, M.J. Guiltinan, and S.N. Maximova. Pervasive effects of a dominant foliar

endophytic fungus on host genetic and phenotypic expression in a tropical tree. Frontiers

in Microbiology. 5:479.

D. R. Caulton, P. B. Shepson, R. L. Santoro, J. P. Sparks, R. W. Howarth, A. Ingraffea,

M. O. Cambaliza, C. Sweeney, A. Karion, K. J. Davis, B. Stirm, S. Montzka, and B.

Miller. Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from

shale gas development. PNAS. 111(17): 6237-6242.

K.K. Coe*, J.P. Sparks, & J. Belnap. Physiological ecology of dryland biocrust mosses.

In Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration: Photosynthesis in Bryophytes and Early

Land Plants. 37:291-308.


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2013 D. L. Lombardozzi*, J. P. Sparks, and G. Bonan. Integrating O3 influences on terrestrial

processes: Photosynthetic and stomatal response data available for large-scale modeling.

Biogeosciences. 10(11):6815-6831.

R. C. Bell, A. Belmaker, J. M. Brown, C. S. Couch, K. S. Francisco, M. Manuel, K. M.

Marchetto, J. L. Simonis, R. Q. Thomas, J. P. Sparks. Effectiveness of Erythrina gall wasp

biocontrol and implications for the recovery of threatened Wiliwili trees (Fabaceae:

Erythrina sandwicensis). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 140(2):215–224.

D. M. Vallano* and J. P. Sparks. Foliar δ15N patterns influenced by foliar nitrogen uptake,

soil δ15N, and mycorrhizae along a regional nitrogen deposition gradient. Oecologia.

172(1): 47-58.

I. Smajlović, K.L. Sparks, J.P. Sparks, I. Leskošek Čukalović & S. Jović. Ethanol

isotope method (EIM) for uncovering illegal wine. Natural Product Research. 27(6):

513-517

2012 D. L. Lombardozzi*, S. Levis, G. Bonan, and J. P. Sparks. Predicting photosynthesis

and transpiration responses to ozone: decoupling modeled photosynthesis and stomatal

conductance. Biogeosciences. 9(8): 3113-3130.

Hamilton J., A. R. Zangerl, M. Berenbaum, J. P. Sparks, L. Elich, A. Gattis, A. Eisenstein,

and E. DeLucia. Elevated atmospheric CO2 alters arthropod community structure in a forest

understory. Acta Oecologia. 43: 80-85.

K. K. Coe*, J. Belnap, and J. P. Sparks. Precipitation-driven carbon balance controls

survivorship in the desert biocrust moss Syntrichia caninervis. Ecology. 93(7): 1626-

1636.

S. C. Reed, K. K. Coe*, J. P. Sparks, D. C. Housman, T. J. Zelikova, and J. Belnap.

Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility.

Nature-Climate Change. 2:752–755.

K. K. Coe*, J. Belnap, E. E. Grote, and J. P. Sparks. Physiological ecology of the desert

biocrust moss Syntrichia caninervis following ten years exposure to elevated CO2:

evidence for enhanced photosynthetic thermotolerance. Physiologia Plantarum. 144(4):

346-356

D. L. Lombardozzi*, J. P. Sparks, G. Bonan and S. Levis. Ozone exposure causes a

decoupling of conductance and photosynthesis: implications for the Ball-Berry stomatal

conductance model. Oecologia. 169(3): 651-659

2011 L.E. Nave, C.M. Gough, K. Maurer, G. Bohrer, B.S. Hardiman, J. Le Moine, A.B.

Munoz, K.J. Nadelhoffer, J. P. Sparks, B.D.Strahm*, C.S. Vogel, and P.S. Curtis.

Disturbance, decoupling and resilience of carbon and nitrogen cycles in a northern


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temperate forest: initial results from the Forest Accelerated Succession ExperimenT

(FASET). JGR-Biogeosciences. 116: G04016, doi:10.1029/2011JG001758.

Baker D.M.*, K. Kim, J. Andras, J. P. Sparks. Light-mediated 15N fractionation in

Caribbean gorgonian octocorals. Coral Reefs. 30: 709-717.

McCalley C.K.*, B. D. Strahm*, K. L. Sparks*, A. S.D. Eller*, and J. P. Sparks. The

effect of long-term exposure to elevated CO2 on nitrogen gas emissions from Mojave

Desert soils. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. 116: G03022,

doi:10.1029/2011JG001667.

Sparks, J. P., S. Chandra, L. A. Derry, M. V. Parthasarathy, C. S. Daugherty, and

R. Griffin*. The distribution of silicon and germanium in tissues of annual blue grass

(Poa annua L.): Evidence for differential and active transport from SIMS ion

microscopy. Biogeochemistry. 104: 237-249.

Eller, A. S. D.*, K. L. McGuire and J. P. Sparks. Responses of sugar maple and hemlock

seedlings to elevated carbon dioxide under altered above- and belowground nitrogen

sources. Tree Physiology. 31: 391-401.

2010 J. T. Anderson*, J. P. Sparks and M. A. Geber. Phenotypic plasticity despite source–

sink population dynamics in a long-lived perennial plant. New Phytologist. 188: 856–867.

E. E. Grote, J. Belnap, D. Hausman, and J. P. Sparks. Carbon exchange in biological soil

crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications

for global change. Global Climate Change. 16: 2763–2774

Monson R. K., M. R. Prater, J. Hu, S. P. Burns, J. P. Sparks, K. L. Sparks, L. E. Scott-

Denton. Tree species effects on ecosystem water-use efficiency in a high-elevation,

subalpine forest. Oecologia. 162(2):491-504.

2009 McCalley, C. K.* and J. P. Sparks. Abiotic gas formation drives nitrogen loss from a desert

ecosystem. Science. 326(5954):837-840.

Sparks, J.P. Ecological ramifications of the direct foliar uptake of nitrogen. Oecologia.

159(1):1-13.

Agrawal A. A., M. Fishbein, R. Jetter, J. Salminen, J. B. Goldstein, A. E. Freitag* and J. P.

Sparks. Phylogenetic ecology of leaf surface traits in the milkweeds (Asclepias spp.):

chemistry, ecophysiology, and insect behavior. New Phytologist. 183:848-867.

Barney J.N.*, J. P. Sparks, J. Greenberg, T. H. Whitlow, and A. Guenther. Biogenic volatile

organic compounds from an invasive species: impacts on plant-plant interactions. Plant

Ecology. 203:195-205.


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2008 Miller, C. T.*, W. B. Miller, and J.P. Sparks. Comparison of total chlorophyll content

with chlorophyll meter readings in Oxalis regenellii. HortScience. 43:1097.

Yi, C., D. E. Anderson, A. A. Turnipseed, S. P. Burns, J. P. Sparks, D. I. Stannard, and

R. K. Monson. The contribution of advective fluxes to net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a

high-elevation, subalpine forest. Ecological Applications. 18(6):1379-1390.

McCalley, C. K.* and J. P. Sparks. Controls over NO and NH3 emissions from Mojave

Desert soils. Oecologia. 156:871-881.

Johnson E. G., J.P. Sparks, B. Dzikovski, B.R. Crane, D.M. Gibson, and R. Loria. Plant-

pathogenic Streptomyces species produce nitric oxide synthase derived nitric oxide in

response to host signals. Chemistry & Biology. 15(1):43-50.

Vallano, D.M.* and J.P. Sparks. Quantifying foliar uptake of gaseous nitrogen dioxide

using enriched foliar d15N values. New Phytologist. 177:946-955.

Sparks, J. P., A. J. Walker, A. A. Turnipseed, and A. Guenther. Dry nitrogen deposition

estimates over a forest experiencing free air CO2 enrichment. Global Change Biology.

14(4):768-781. 2007 Joshi, M.V., D.R.D Bignell, E.G. Johnson, J. P. Sparks, D.M. Gibson, and R. Loria.

The AraC/XylS regulator TxtR modulates thaxtomin biosynthesis and virulence in Streptomyces scabies. Molecular Microbiology. 66(3):633-642.

Derry, L. A., J. P. Sparks and S. Chandra. Ge/Si fractionation by higher plants:

mechanisms and applications to biogeochemical cycles. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta. 71(15):A219-A219 Suppl. S.

Canny, M. J., J. P. Sparks, C. X. Huang, and M. L. Roderick. Air embolisms exsolving

in the transpiration water – the effect of constrictions in the xylem pipes. Functional Plant Biology. 34(2):95-111.

Sparks, J. P. Enhancing the efficiency of nitrogen utilization in plants. The Quarterly

Review of Biology. 82(4): 422–422. Vallano, D. M.* and J. P. Sparks. Foliar 15N signatures as indicators of foliar uptake of

atmospheric nitrogen pollution. In: Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Environmental Changes, T. E. Dawson (ed.). pp. 93-109. Academic Press.

2006 Eller, A. S. D.* and J. P. Sparks. Predicting leaf-level fluxes of ozone and nitrogen

dioxide: The relative roles of diffusion and biochemical processes. Plant, Cell, and Environment. 29(9):1742-1750.

Teklemariam, T. A.* and J. P. Sparks. Leaf fluxes of NO and NO2 in four herbaceous plant

species: The role of ascorbic acid. Atmospheric Environment. 40(12):2235-2244. Turnipseed, A. A., L. G. Huey, E. Nemitz, R. Stickel, J. Higgs, D. J. Tanner, D. L. Slusher,

J. P. Sparks, F. Flocke, and A. Guenther. Eddy covariance fluxes of Peroxyacetyl nitrates


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(PANs) and NOy to a coniferous forest. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 111:D09304, doi:10.1029/2005JD006631.

2005 Holland, E. A., S. B. Bertman, M. A. Carroll, A. B. Guenther, P. B. Shepson,

J. P. Sparks, and J. Lee-Taylor. U.S. nitrogen science plan focuses collaborative efforts. EOS. 86(27):253-260.

Monson, R. K., J. P. Sparks, T. N. Rosenstiel, L. E. Scott-Denton, T. E. Huxman,

P. C. Harley, A. A. Turnipseed, S. P. Burns, B. Backlund, and J. Hu. Climatic influences on net ecosystem CO2 exchange during the transition from wintertime carbon source to springtime carbon sink in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Oecologia. 146(1):130-147.

2004 Althoff, D. M., K. A. Segraves, and J. P. Sparks. Characterizing the interaction between

the bogus yucca moth and yuccas: Do bogus yucca moths impact yucca reproductive success? Oecologia. 140(2):321-327.

Angeles, G., B. Bond, J. S. Boyer, T. Brodribb, J. R. Brooks, M. J. Burns,

J. Cavender-Bares, M. Clearwater, H. Cochard, J. Comstock, S. D. Davis, J. C. Domec, L. Donovan, F. Ewers, B. Gartner, U. Hacke, T. Hinckley, N. M. Holbrook, H. G. Jones, K. Kavanagh, B. Law, J. Lopez-Portillo, C. Lovisolo, T. Martin, J. Martinez-Vilalta, S. Mayr, F. C. Meinzer, P. Melcher, M. Mencuccini, S. Mulkey, A. Nardini, H. S. Neufeld, J. Passioura, W. T. Pockman, R. B. Pratt, S. Rambal, H. Richter, L. Sack, S. Salleo, A. Schubert, P. Schulte, J. P. Sparks, J. Sperry, R. Teskey, and M. Tyree. The cohesion-tension theory. New Phytologist. 163(3):451-452.

Sparks, J. P. Plant uptake of reactive nitrogen. In: Studying Forest Canopies from

Above: The International Canopy Crane Network, Y. Basset, V. Horlyck, and J. Wright (eds.). UNEP & Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 9962-614-05-8.

Sparks, J. P. Photosynthesis and autotrophic energy flows. In: Encyclopedia of

Energy, C. S. Cleveland (ed.). Elsevier, Inc., New York, volume 5, pp. 9-16. Sparks, J. P. The herbaceous layer in forests of Eastern North America. The Quarterly

Review of Biology. 79(3):324. Teklemariam, T. A.* and J. P. Sparks. Gaseous fluxes of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN)

into plant leaves. Plant, Cell, and Environment 27(9):1149-1158. 2003 Huxman, T. E., A. A. Turnipseed, J. P. Sparks, P. C. Harley, and R. K. Monson.

Temperature as a control over ecosystem CO2 fluxes in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Oecologia. 134(4):537-546.

Sparks, J. P., J. M. Roberts, and R. K. Monson. The uptake of gaseous organic nitrogen

by leaves: A significant global nitrogen transfer process. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(23):2189.

2002 Brooks, J. R., N. Buchmann, S. Phillips, B. Ehleringer, R. D. Evans, M. Lott,

L. A. Martinelli, W. T. Pockman, D. R. Sandquist, J. P. Sparks, L. Sperry, D. G. Williams, and J. R. Ehleringer. Heavy and light beer: A carbon isotope approach to detect C4 carbon in beers of different origins, styles and prices. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 50(22):6413-6418.


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Monson, R. K., A. A. Turnipseed, J. P. Sparks, P. C. Harley, L. E. Scott-Denton, K. L. Sparks, and T. E. Huxman. Carbon sequestration in a high elevation, subalpine forest. Global Change Biology. 8(5):459-478.

Thornton, P. E., B. E. Law, H. L. Gholz, K. L. Clark, E. Falge, D. S. Ellsworth,

A. H. Goldstein, R. K. Monson, D. Hollinger, M. Falk, J. Chen, and J. P. Sparks. Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 113(1-4):185-222.

2001 Sparks, J. P., G. S. Campbell, and R. A. Black. Water content, hydraulic conductivity,

and ice formation in winter stems in Pinus contorta: A TDR case study. Oecologia. 127(4):468-475.

Sparks, J. P., R. K. Monson, K. L. Sparks, and M. Lerdau. Leaf uptake of nitrogen

dioxide (NO2) in a tropical wet forest: Implications for tropospheric chemistry. Oecologia. 127(2):214-221.

2000 Sparks, J. P. and R. A. Black. Annual patterns of xylem embolism and resistance to

tension-induced xylem cavitation in coniferous trees from upper and lower treeline.

Journal of Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 32:101-106.

Sparks, J. P., G. S. Campbell, and R. A. Black. Liquid water content of wood tissue at

temperatures below 0 ˚C. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 30:624-630.

1999 Sparks, J. P. and R. A. Black. Regulation of water loss in populations of Populus

trichocarpa: The role of stomatal control in preventing xylem cavitation. Tree

Physiology. 19:453-459.

1998 Sparks, J. P. The consequences of xylem cavitation in several North American tree

species. Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University.

1997 Sparks, J. P. and J. R. Ehleringer. Leaf carbon isotope discrimination and nitrogen

content for riparian trees along elevational transects. Oecologia. 109:362-367

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