Townsend CV - pg. 1 Alan R.

Townsend Short Curriculum Vitae (last updated November 2013)

Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Environmental Studies Program, & INSTAAR Campus Box 450, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0450 Education and Training Ph.D. B.A., magna cum laude Tel: 303-492-6865 Fax: 303-492-6388 alan.townsend@colorado.edu http://alantownsend.net

1994 1988

Stanford University Amherst College

Biological Sciences Biology

Professional Appointments 2012-2013 Director, Division of Environmental Biology, NSF (on detail from CU Boulder) 2010-2012 Director, University of Colorado Environmental Studies Program 2010Professor, INSTAAR and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder 2005-2009 Associate Director, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) 2004-2009 Associate Professor, INSTAAR and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder 1997 - 2004 Assistant Professor, INSTAAR and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder Selected Fellowships and Awards Google Science Communication Fellow (2011) Fellow, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program (2001) CU Junior Faculty Development Award (1999) NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994-1996) NASA Global Change Graduate Fellowship (1991-1993)

Selected Examples of Professional Service Co-Director (2014-2016) & Program Governance Committee (2010-current), Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Lead Author, 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment (Biogeochemistry Chapter) Director, NSF Division of Environmental Biology, 2012-2013 Director, North American Nitrogen Center, 2007-2010 Chair, Ecological Society of America Biogeosciences Section, 2006-2008 International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) Steering Committee, 2005-2011 Ecological Society of America Visions Committee, 2002-2004 Ecological Society of America Rapid Response Team, 2004-2012 Ecological Society of America Research Committee, 2001-2004 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Science Advisory Board, 1999-2001 Associate Editor, Biogeochemistry, 1998-2004; Ecological Applications, 2001-2012; Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2012-present

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Selected Publications (104 total) (Google Scholar Stats: h-index = 45; 10,490 total citations; 22 papers with >100 citations each) Townsend AR and GP Asner. 2013. Multiple dimensions of resource limitation in tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.1301606110. Sullivan, B.W., S.C. Castle, S.A. Alvarez Clare, S. Porder, S.C. Reed, L. Schreeg, A.R. Townsend and C.C. Cleveland. 2013. Assessing nutrient limitation in complex forested ecosystems: alternatives to large-scale fertilization experiments. Ecology, in press. Weintraub, SR, AE Russell, AR Townsend. 2013. Native tree species regulate nitrous oxide fluxes in tropical plantations. Ecological Applications, in press. Townsend A.R. and S. Porder. 2012. Agricultural Legacies, Food Production and its Environmental Consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203766109 Townsend, AR, PM Vitousek, BZ Houlton. 2012. The climate benefits of better nitrogen and phosphorus management. Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2012. Reed, S.C., A.R. Townsend, E.A. Davidson and C.C. Cleveland. 2012. Patterns in foliar nutrient resorption and stoichiometry across multiple scales. New Phytologist 196: 173180 Davidson, E.A., M. B. David, J. N. Galloway, C. L. Goodale, R. Haeuber, J. A. Harrison, R. W. Howarth, D. B. Jaynes, R. R. Lowrance, B. T. Nolan, J. L. Peel, R. W. Pinder, E. Porter, C. S. Snyder, A. R. Townsend, and M. H. Ward. 2012. Excess nitrogen in the U.S. environment: trends, risks, and solutions. Issues in Ecology, Report Number 15, Ecological Society of America. Townsend, A.R., C.C. Cleveland, B.Z. Houlton, C.B. Alden and J.W.C. White. 2011. Multi-element regulation of the tropical forest carbon cycle. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 9(1):9-17 Cleveland, C.C., A.R. Townsend et al. 2011. Relationships Among Net Primary Productivity, Nutrients and Climate in Tropical Rain Forest: A Pan-Tropical Analysis. Ecology Letters, doi: 10.1111/j.14610248.2011.01658.x Townsend, A.R. and S. Porder. 2011. Boundary Issues. Environmental Research Letters, 6 011001 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/011001. Reed, SC, CC Cleveland and AR Townsend. 2011. Functional ecology of free-living nitrogen fixation: A contemporary perspective. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 42: 489-512 Taylor, P. T. and A.R. Townsend. 2010. Stoichiometric controls over carbon-nitrate relationships from soils to the sea. Nature, 464:1178-1181. Townsend, A.R. and R.W. Howarth. 2010. Fixing the Nitrogen Problem. Scientific American, Feb 2010, pp 64-71. Cleveland, C.C., W.Wieder, S.C. Reed and A. R. Townsend. 2010. Experimental dry-down in a wet tropical forest increases CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Ecology, 91: 2313-2323.

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D. R. Nemergut, E. K. Costello, M. Hamady, C. Lozupone, L. Jiang, S. K. Schmidt, N. Fierer, A. R. Townsend, C. C. Cleveland, L. Stanish, R. Knight. 2010. Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa. Environmental Microbiology, 13(1):135-144. S. C. Reed, A. R. Townsend, C. C. Cleveland, D. R. Nemergut. 2010. Microbial community shifts influence patterns in tropical forest nitrogen fixation. Oecologia. 164: 521-531. Johnson, P.T.J., A.R. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland, P.M. Gilbert, R.W. Howarth, V.J. McKenzie, E. Rejmankova, M.H. Ward. 2010. Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife. Ecological Applications, Volume 20, Issue 1 pp. 16-29 Vitousek, P.M., R. Naylor, T. Crews, M. David, L. Drinkwater, E. Holland, J. Katzenberger, L. Martinelli, P. Matson, G. Nziguheba, D. Ojima, C. Palm, G.P. Robertson, P. Sanchez, A.R. Townsend, F.S. Zhang. Nutrient imbalances along trajectories of agricultural development. 2009. Science, 324:1519-1520. Wieder, W., C.C. Cleveland and A.R. Townsend. 2009. Controls over leaf litter decomposition in wet tropical forests. Ecology, 90(12): 3333-3341 Townsend, A.R., G.P. Asner and C.C. Cleveland. 2008. The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(8):424-431. Galloway, JN; Townsend, AR; Erisman, JW; Bekunda, M; Cai, ZC; Freney, JR; Martinelli, LA; Seitzinger, SP; Sutton, MA. 2008. Transformation of the nitrogen cycle: Recent trends, questions, and potential solutions. Science 320 (5878): 889-892. Reed, S.C., C.C. Cleveland and A.R. Townsend. 2008. Tree species control rates of free-living nitrogen fixation in a lowland tropical forest. Ecology, 89(10): 2924-2934 McKenzie, V. and A.R. Townsend. Parasitic and Infectious Disease Responses to a Changing Global Nitrogen Cycle. 2007. EcoHealth, 4(4):384-396. Townsend, A.R., C.C. Cleveland, G.P.Asner and M.M.C. Bustamante. 2007. Controls over foliar N:P ratios in tropical forests. Ecology, 88(1): 107-118. Cleveland, C. C. and A. R. Townsend. 2006. Nitrogen and phosphorus additions cause substantial losses of soil carbon from a lowland tropical rain forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(27):10,316-10,321. Cleveland, C.C., S.C. Reed and A.R. Townsend. 2006. Nutrient regulation of organic matter decomposition in a tropical rain forest. Ecology 87: 492-503. Bern, C.B., A.R. Townsend and G.L. Farmer. 2005. Unexpected dominance of parent-material strontium in a tropical forest on highly weathered soils. Ecology, 86(3):626-632. Palmer, M.A., E. Bernhardt, E. Chornesky, S.L. Collins, A. Dobson, C. Duke, B. Gold, R. Jacobson, S. Kingsland, R. Kranz, M. Mappin, M. L. Martinez, F. Micheli, J.L. Morse, M. Pace, M. Pascual, S. Palumbi, J, Reichman, W.H. Schlesinger, A. Townsend, and M. G. Turner. (alphabetical after first).

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2004. Ecology for a Crowded Planet. Science 304:1251-1253. Seastedt, T.R., W.D. Bowman, D. McKnight, A.R. Townsend and M. Williams. 2004. The Landscape Continuum: A Conceptual Model for High Elevation Ecosystems. BioScience, 54 (2): 111-121 Townsend, A.R., R.W. Howarth, F.A. Bazzaz, M.S. Booth, C.C. Cleveland, S.K. Collinge, A.P. Dobson, P.R. Epstein, E.A. Holland, D.R. Keeney, M.A. Mallin, C.A. Rogers, P. Wayne and A.H. Wolfe. 2003. Human health effects of a changing global nitrogen cycle. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(5): 240246. Neff, J.C. , A.R. Townsend , G. Gleixner, S.J. Lehman, J. Turnbull and W.D. Bowman. 2002. Variable effects of nitrogen additions on the stability and turnover of organic carbon. Nature, 419: 915-917 ( Equal 1st Authors).
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Townsend, A.R., G.P. Asner, P.P. Tans and J.W. C. White. 2002. Tropical land use effects on atmospheric 13C imply a sizable terrestrial carbon sink in equatorial latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 29, NO. 10, 10.1029. Townsend, A.R., G.P. Asner, C.C. Cleveland, M.E. Lefer and M. M. C. Bustamante. 2002. Unexpected changes in soil phosphorus dynamics following tropical deforestation to cattle pasture. Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 107, NO. D20, 8067-8076. Asner, G.P, A.R. Townsend and B.H. Braswell. 2000. Satellite observation of El Nio effects on Amazon forest productivity. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(7):981-984. Martinelli, L., M. Piccolo, A.R. Townsend, P.M. Vitousek, E. Cuevas, W. McDowell, G.P. Robertson, O.C. Santos and K. Treseder. 1999. Nitrogen stable isotopic composition: tropical vs. temperate forests. Biogeochemistry 46(1-3):45-65. Matson, P.A., W.H. McDowell, A.R. Townsend and P.M. Vitousek. 1999. The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences. Biogeochemistry 46(1-3):67-83. Cleveland, C.C., A.R. Townsend, D.S. Schimel, H.Fisher, R.W. Howarth, L.O. Hedin, S.S. Perakis, E.F. Latty, J.C. Von Fischer, A. Elseroad and M.F. Wasson. 1999. Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N2) fixation in natural ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13(2):623-645. Townsend, A.R., B.H. Braswell, E.A. Holland and J.E. Penner. 1996. Spatial and temporal patterns in terrestrial carbon storage from anthropogenic nitrogen deposition. Ecological Applications 6(3):806-814. Howarth, R.W., G.Billen, D. Swaney, A.R. Townsend, N. Jaworkski, K. Lajtha, J.A. Downing, R. Elmgren, N. Caraco, T. Jordan, F. Berendse, J. Freney, V. Kudeyarov, P. Murdoch and Z. Zhao-Liang. 1996. Riverine inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus to the North Atlantic Ocean: fluxes and human influences. Biogeochemistry 35(l):75-116. Townsend, A.R., P.M. Vitousek and S.E. Trumbore. 1995. Soil carbon dynamics along gradients in temperature and land-use on the island of Hawaii. Ecology 76:721-733. Townsend, A.R., P.M. Vitousek and E.A. Holland. 1992. Tropical soils could dominate the short-term carbon cycle feedbacks to increased global temperatures. Climatic Change 22(4):293-303.