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Updated 14 February 2006

North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle

Final Prospectus for Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.2

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Biography:
Lisa Dilling

Lisa Dilling
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
University of Colorado
1333 Grandview Ave., 488 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0488

EDUCATION

1997
Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, Biological Sciences

1989
B.A.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Biology, magna cum laude

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2004-present
Visiting Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder CO

2003-present
Project Scientist II, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO

2002-2003
Visiting Scientist, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO

1999-2002
Co-Chair, Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group, U.S. Global Change Research Program

1998-2002
Program Manager, Carbon Cycle Program, Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD.

1997-1998
Associate Program Manager for Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study and Atlantic Climate Change Program, Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (through UCAR), Silver Spring, MD.

1996-1997
National Sea Grant Fellow, International Development, Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/ACTIVITIES

2003-present
North American Carbon Plan (NACP) Implementation Revision Committee

2003-present
Carbon, Climate and Society Initiative, Integrated Graduate Research and Traineeship Program (IGERT), University of Colorado, Boulder

PUBLICATIONS

Moser S and Dilling L. 2004. Making Climate Hot: Communicating the urgency and challenge of global climate change. Environment 46: 32-46.

Dilling L, and MA Brzezinski. 2004. Quantifying marine snow as a food choice for zooplankton using stable silicon isotope tracers. Journal of Plankton Research 26:1105-1114.

Dilling L, Doney S, Edmonds J, Gurney KR, Harriss R, Schimel D, Stephens B, and Stokes G. 2003. The role of carbon cycle observations and knowledge in carbon management. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28:521-58.

Dilling L, and AL Alldredge. 2000. Fragmentation of marine snow by swimming macrozooplankton: A new process impacting carbon cycling in the sea. Deep Sea Res. I 47:1227-1245.

Dilling L, J Wilson, D Steinberg, and AL Alldredge. 1998. Feeding by the euphausiid Euphausia pacifica and the copepod Calanus pacificus on marine snow. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 170: 189-201.

Dilling L. and AL Alldredge. 1993. Can chaetognath fecal pellets contribute to carbon flux? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 92:51-58.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Dilling L. “Toward carbon governance: Challenges for science and policy across scales.” Association of American Geographers. 2005 Annual Meeting.

Dilling L. “In Search of Pasteur’s Quadrant: “Use-inspired” Carbon Cycle Science” 2005 Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Symposium.

Dilling L, Pielke Jr, R, and Sarewitz, D. “Pilot study on reconciling supply and demand: Who are the consumers of information on the North American carbon balance?” American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting.

Dilling L, Doney S, Edmonds J, Gurney K, Harriss R, Schimel D, Stephens B, Stokes G. “A review of the role of carbon cycle science in supporting carbon management policy” American Geophysical Union 2003 Fall Meeting.

Pielke, Jr., Sarewitz D, Dilling L, and Conant R. “Carbon Cycle Science: Reconciling Supply and Demand” North American Carbon Program 2003 PI meeting

AWARDS

CIRES Visiting Fellowship 2004-present

NOAA Cash Award, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, 1995

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1993

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Geophysical Union


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