David S. Schimel

Senior Scientist - Terrestrial Sciences/
Climate and Global Dynamics Division/
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO 80307

 

Education:

DEGREE
YEAR
INSTITUTION

B.A.

1977

Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

 

 

 

Ph.D.

1982

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

1986 - present

Research Scientist, NREL, Colorado State University

1988 -1989

National Research Council Senior Fellow, NASA/Ames Research Center

1989 - present

Associate Professor, Department of Forest & Wood Science

1990 - present

Project Scientist, Climate System Modeling Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

1992 - 1997

Scientist and Section Head, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research

1995

Senior Research Scientist, NREL, Colorado State University

1995

Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research

1997 – 2000

Professor and Director, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

         - present

Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research

 

Professional and Honorary Societies, Committees:

American Geophysical Union
Ecological Society of America
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: Coordinating Panels on Earth System Modeling and Atmospheric Chemistry
NASA Earth Observing System Project, Biogeochemistry Panel, chairman
NASA Topographic Science Working Group
SCOPE Working Group on Biogenic Trace Gases
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Convening Lead Author, 1994 and 1995 Reports
U.S. National Academy Committee on Global Change
Working groups on Biological Systems and Dynamics, Earth system Models, Nutrient Fluxes, and Dynamics
1990 Global Change Institute, steering committee
Committee on Global Change Research in China, National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry
National Research Council Committee on Global Change Research
University of Colorado's Global Change and Environmental Quality Program Committee
Visiting Member of the Graduate Faculty of Texas A&M University

Recent Publications: (Out of 98)

Schimel, D.S. 1995. Terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle. Global Change Biology 1:77-91.

Schimel, D.S. 1995. Terrestrial Biogeochemical cycles: Global estimates with remote sensing. ISLSCP Special Issue of Remote Sensing of Environment 51:49-56.

Schimel, D.S., B.H. Braswell, E.A. Holland, R. McKeown, D.S. Ojima, T.H. Painter, W.J. Parton, A.R. Townsend. 1994. Climatic, edaphic and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 8(3):279-293.

Schimel, D.S., I. Enting, M. Heimann, T.M. Wigley, D. Raynaud, D. Alves, and U. Siegenthaler. 1994. CO2 and the carbon cycle. In: J.T. Houghton , L.G.M. Filho, J. Bruce, H. Lee, B.A. Callander, E. Haites, N. Harris, and K. Maskell (eds.). IPCC Report. Climate Change 1994. Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Schimel, D.S. 1993. Theory and Application of Tracers. Academic Press, Inc. San Diego, California. 119 pp.

Knapp, A. K., J. T. Fahnestock, T. R. Seastedt, L. J. Statland, S. J. Hamburg and D. S. Schimel. 1993 Landscape patterns in soil-plant water relations, net photosynthesis and primary production in tallgrass prairie. Ecology 74:549-560.

Schimel, D. S., F. W. Davis and T. G. F. Kittel. 1993. Spatial Information for Extrapolation of Plant Canopy Processes. In J. Ehleringer and C. Field (eds.), Scaling and Physiological Processes: Leaf to Globe. Academic Press, San Diego. Pp. 21-38.

Davis, F. W., D. S. Schimel, M. A. Friedl, J. C. Michaelsen, T. G. F. Kittel, R. Dubayah and J. Dozier. 1992. Covariance of biophysical data with digital topographic and land use maps over the FIFE site. Journal of Geophysical Research 97:19,009-19,021.

Langford, A. O., F. C. Fehsenfeld, J. Zachariassen and D. S. Schimel. 1992. Gaseous ammonia fluxes and background concentrations in terrestrial ecosystems of the United States. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 6:459-483.

Schimel, D.S., 1992. Population and community processes in the response of terrestrial ecosystems to global change. In P.M. Kareiva, J.G. Kingsolver, and R.B. Huey (eds.), Biotic Interactions and Global Change. Sinauer Associates, Massachusetts. pp. 45-54.

Hobbs, N. T., D. S. Schimel, C. E. Owensby and D. S. Ojima. 1991. Fire and grazing in the tallgrass prairie: Contingent effect on nitrogen budgets. Ecology 72:1374-1382.

Moore, B. III, J. Dozier, M.R. Abbott, D.M. Butler, D.S. Schimel, M.R. Schoeberl. 1991. The restructured Earth Observing System: Instrument recommendations. EOS 72:510.

Mosier, A., D.S. Schimel, D. Valentine, K. Bronson and W.J. Parton. 1991. Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in native, fertilized and culitivated grasslands. Nature 350:330-332.

Schimel, D. S., T. G. F. Kittel, A. K. Knapp, T. R. Seastedt, W. J. Parton and V. B. Brown. 1991. Physiological interactions along resource gradients in a tallgrass prairie. Ecology 72:672-684.

Schimel, D. S., T. G. F. Kittel and W. J. Parton. 1991. Terrestrial biogeochemical cycles: global interactions with the atmosphere and hydrology. Tellus 43 AB:188-203.

Schimel, D. S., W. J. Parton, T. G. F. Kittel, D. S. Ojima and C. V. Cole. 1990. Grassland biogeochemistry: Links to atmospheric processes. Climatic Change 17:13-25.