Timothy R. Seastedt
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and
Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309
(303-492-3303, timothy.seastedt@colorado.edu
)
Education
B.A., University of Montana, Zoology, 1971
M.S., University of Alaska, Biological Sciences, 1976
Ph.D., University of Georgia, Ecology, 1979
Post-Doctoral work: Univ. Georgia 1970-1980, Kansas State Univ., 1981-1983
Academic Experience
1996- Professor, University of Colorado
1991-96 Associate Professor, University of Colorado
1990-91
1989-91
1983-89
Visiting Scientist, NREL, Colorado State University
Associate Professor, Kansas State University
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Five Publications related to IGERT (Total publications =143)
Asner, G. P., T. R. Seastedt and A. R. Townsend. 1997. Regional carbon-nitrogen cycle decoupling: implications for global terrestrial carbon storage. BioScience 47: 226-234.
Seastedt, T.R., B.P. Hayden, C.E. Owensby and A.K. Knapp. 1998. Climate change, elevated CO2 and predictive modeling: Past and future climate change scenarios for the tallgrass Prairie. Pages
283-300 in: Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie (A.K.
Knapp, J.M. Briggs, D.C. Hartnett and S.C. Collins, eds.), Oxford Press, New York
Seastedt, T.R. and G. A. Adams. 2001. Effects of mobile tree islands on alpine tundra soils.
Ecology 82: 8-17.
Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds). 2001. Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem:
Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Oxford Press, New York.
Seastedt, T.R., W.D. Bowman, N. Caine, D. McKnight, A. Townsend, and M. Williams. 2004 The landscape continuum: A Conceptual Model for High Elevation Ecosystems. BioScience 54: 111-122.
Five Additional Publications Related to Biotic Change
Conley, A.H., E.A. Holland, T.R. Seastedt and W.J. Parton. 2000. Simulation of carbon and nitrogen cycling in an alpine tundra. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 32: 147-154.
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Litaor, M.I., T.R. Seastedt, M.D. Walker, M. Carbone, and A. Townsend. 2005. The biogeochemistry of phosphorus across an alpine topographic/snow gradient. Geoderma 124: 49-
61.
Seastedt, T.R. 2007. Resourceful Invaders. Nature 446: 985-986.
Seastedt, T.R., K.N. Suding, 2007. Biotic constraints on the invasion of diffuse knapweed ( Centaurea diffusa ) in a Colorado grassland. Oecologia 151: 626-636.
Seastedt. R.J. Hobbs and K.N. Suding. 2008. Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (in press).
Synergistic Activities :
*Participant, Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program, 1981-present. Principal Investigator of
Konza Prairie (1990-91) and Niwot Ridge (1992-2004) LTER sites. This activity requires coordination of multidisciplinary research, submission of annual undergraduate and schoolyard (K-12) research activities, and participation in outreach activities such as the creation of the virtual fieldtrip
(http://culter.colorado.edu/Field_trip/) and tundra camera (http://tundracam.colorado.edu/) activities.
*Community coordinator, Sustainable control of noxious weeds in Boulder County, Colorado. This work involves using student and community volunteers to test the efficacy of sustainable control methods for noxious weeds such as diffuse knapweed . (Program honored in Congressional Record , Vo1 147, No.
140 , Oct. 17, 2001; Winner of Boulder Pacesetter Award for work on the Environment, 2005.
*Participant, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, "The State of the Nations
Ecosystems" (grassland/shrubland group). Report published 9/02, ongoing activity.
*Editorial Board for Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Pedobiologia and Oecologia .
Collaborators (In addition to CU collaborators, last 48 months)
V. Allen (TTU), J. Blair (KSU), J. Boody (Land Stewardship) , E. Boose (Harvard), M. Carbone (UCI).
N.G. Creamer (NCSU), L.E. Drinkwater (Cornell), J.G. Gosz (UNM), R. Hobbs (Murdock, Au) K.
LeJeune, M.I. Litaor (Telhai.il) J.O. Luken (CCU), L. Lynch UMD), J.L. Havin (NCSU), L.E. Jackson
(UCD), S.T.A. Pickett (Ecostudies), L. Pitelka (UMD), A. Randall (OSU), A.S. Reed (OSU), P.
Robertson (MSU), H. Reed (UCI) R Sanford (DU K. Suding (UCI), R.B. Waide (UNM), Diana Wall
(CSU), J.J. Wolf (U.WI)
Graduate Advisors : S.F. MacLean Jr., U.AK, D.A. Crossley Jr., U. GA.
Sponsored Graduate Students (14 total at UC since 1991)
David Cervantes Knochel (exp. 2009), Nataly Ascarrunz (exp 2008), Elisa Miller (exp. 2008),
Daniel Liptzin (2007; UC-Berkeley, Post Doc), Nehalem Breiter (2005: MS USDA), Heather
Reed (2004 UCI Post Doc.), Susan Sherrod (2000; Inst. U.Denver) Grizelle Gonzalez (1999;
USFS).
Postdoctoral Associates (2) Dr. Rella Abernathy, Dr. Katharine Suding
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