ANTHONY DARROUZET-NARDI
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2004-present. Doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.
1999-2003. B.A. University of California, Berkeley. Integrative Biology with Honors.
1995-1999. Mountain View High School, Mountain View, California.
Research Experience
2004-present. Dissertation research. Ecosystem processing of nitrogen air pollution in an alpine-subalpine watershed, laboratory of Dr. William Bowman.
2004. Internship at the Desert Research Institute with Dr. John A. Arnone III. Acclimation of prairie plants to altered climate.
2001-2003. Honors thesis with Dr. Carla D'Antonio and Dr. Todd Dawson. Sagebrush invasion in Sierra Nevada Meadows
2001. Semester abroad on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia (Tahiti). Moth diversity and role in plant pollination.
2000. Independent research with Dr. Cheryl Briggs and Dr. Martha Hoopes. Parasitoid dispersal and foraging behavior.
1997-1998. Independent research at Stanford University: Departments of Pathology and Cancer Biology. Function of a truncated subunit of DNA polymerase alpha.
Fellowships and Grants
2008. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation.
2005-2008. Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation.
2002-2003. Beckman Scholars Program, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
2001. Biology Fellows Program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
2000. Research Experience for Undergraduates, National Science Foundation.
Publications
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., C.M. D'Antonio, and E.L. Berlow. 2008. Effects of young Artemisia rothrockii shrubs on soil moisture, soil nitrogen cycling, and resident herbs. Journal of Vegetation Science 19:23-30. [PDF]
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., C.M. D'Antonio, and T.E. Dawson. 2006. Depth of water acquisition by invading shrubs and resident herbs in a Sierra Nevada meadow. Plant and Soil 285:31-43. [PDF]
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., M.F. Hoopes, J.D. Walker, and C.J. Briggs. 2006. Dispersal and foraging behavior of Platygaster californica: Hosts can't run, but they can hide. Ecological Entomology 31:298-306. [PDF]
in preparation
Darrouzet-Nardi, A. Biogeochemical pools in heterogeneous alpine-subalpine soils.
Darrouzet-Nardi, A. Landscape heterogeneity in terrestrial nitrogen cycling.
Darrouzet-Nardi, A. Looking for nitrogen cycling hotspots in an alpine-subalpine watershed.
Conference Proceedings
Darrouzet-Nardi, A. 2007. Looking for hotspots of nitrogen cycling in an alpine-subalpine watershed. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., T.E. Dawson, and C.M. D'Antonio. 2005. Depth of water acquisition by invading sagebrush and resident herbs in a Sierra Nevada meadow. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., M.F. Hoopes, and C.J. Briggs. 2004. Observed effects of dispersal and foraging behavior on a host-parasitoid system. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., P.S.J. Verburg, and J.A. Arnone. 2004. Presence and absence of thermal acclimation of root and soil microbial respiration to warming in tallgrass prairie. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., C.M. D'Antonio, and E.L. Berlow. 2003. The effects of invading young sagebrush (Artemisia rothrockii) on the water status of an herbaceous montane meadow in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. (Also presented at the Beckman Scholars Symposium, 2003 and the Guild of Rocky Mountain Population Biologists, 2004.)
Darrouzet-Nardi, A., C.M. D'Antonio, and E.L. Berlow. 2002. Effects of invading young sagebrush (Artemisia rothrockii) on an herbaceous meadow in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts 87:339. (also presented at Berkeley Biology Fellows Program Summer Research Symposium, 2001).
Artwork
Darrouzet-Nardi, A. Young Sagebrush in Meadow Soils: Invader and Environment. May 2003-December 2003. Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Professional Society Membership
Ecological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
Volunteer Work
2007-present. Board of Directors, Boulder Housing Coalition.
1999, 2002-2003. Counselor and Photographer at "Youth in Science." San Jose State University. (10 day field science camp in the Sierra Nevada for underprivileged youth. I was paid in 1999.)
1998. Summer. Park Ranger. Hovenweep National Monument, Utah.