Richard T. Conant

• Education
  

  May 1997

  Ph.D

  Botany (Ecology)

  Arizona State University

  Dissertation title: Carbon pools and fluxes along a semiarid gradient in Northern Arizona.

  Dec 1990

  B.A.

  Environmental Biology

  University of Colorado

  Undergraduate Research: Effects of nutrient amendments on plant nutrient concentrations in two Alpine Tundra communities.

  
  
• Work Experience
  
  

  Period	Position	Department	University
  2001-Present	Faculty Affiliate	Department of Rangeland and Ecosystem Science	Colorado State University
  2000-Present	Scientist	Natural Resource Ecology Lab.	Colorado State University
  1998-1999	Research Associate	Natural Resource Ecology Lab.	Colorado State University
  1997-1998	Research Associate	Dept. of Microbiology	Arizona State University
  1998	Lecturer -PLB 108	Dept. of Plant Biology	Arizona State University
  1993-1997	Teaching Assistant -Plant Ecology -Survey of the plant kingdom -General Botany	Dept. of Plant Biology	Arizona State University
  1993-1997	Research Associate (Contract work)	Intermountain Resaerch Station	USDA Forest Service
  1992-1993	Research Assistant	Dept. of Plant Biology	Arizona State University
  1992	Field Technician	Center for Limnology	University of Colorado Boulder
  1990-1991	Research Assistant -NSF REU Program	Dept. of EPO Biology	University of Colorado Boulder

  
  
• Professional Service / Outreach:

  • Reviewer: Ecology, Global Change Biology, Soil Science Society of America Journal, Environmental Pollution
  • Chapter Secretary, Rocky Mountain Chapter, Ecological Society of America (10/98-8/00).
  • Contributing Author - IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry, 2000.

• Honors and Awards

  • Graduate Tuition Scholarship 1995-1996, 1996-1997
  • Member Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1993-Present
  • Grant award from the Graduate Research Development Program at ASASU for research relating Nutrient- and Water-Use Efficiencies

• Publications

  • Conant, R. T., J. Six, and K. Paustian. Land use effects on soil carbon fractions in the southeastern United States I: Management intensive versus extensive grazing. Geoderma (In Prep.)
    
    
  • Conant, R. T., G. Smith, and K. Paustian. Spatial Variability in Soil Carbon in Forested and Cultivated Sites. Journal of Environmental Quality. (In Prep.)
    
    
  • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. Potential Soil Carbon Sequestration in Overgrazed Grassland Ecosystems Global Change Biology. Global Change Biology. (In Prep.)
    
    
  • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. Databases for Regional Biogeochemical Modeling I : Intercomparison of Land Use / Cover Datasets. Global Change Biology. (In Prep.)
    
    
  • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. Spatial Variability of Soil Organic Carbon: Implications for Detecting Change at Different Scales. Environmental Pollution (Submitted 12/00)
    
    
  • Six, J., R. T. Conant, E. A. Paul, and K. Paustian. Stabilization mechanisms of protected versus unprotected soil organic matter: Implications for C-saturation of soils. Plant and Soil. (Submitted 12/00.)
    
    
  • Sampson, R. M., et al (including R. T. Conant). 2000. Additional human-induced activities - article 3.4. Pages 180-281 in R. T. Watson, I. R. Noble, B. Bolin, N. H. Ravindranath, D. J. Verardo, and D. J. Dokken, editors. Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry. Camridge University Press, Cambridge.
    
    
  • Conant, R. T., Paustian, K., and E. T. Elliott.  Pasture landuse in the southeastern US: Implications for C sequestration. in 'Agricultural practices and policies for carbon sequestration in soil' (Submitted)
    
    
  • Conant, R. T., Paustian, K., and E. T. Elliott.  Changes in soil carbon from improved grassland management. Ecological Applications 11:343-355.
    
    
  • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian.  1998.  Carbon sequestration in pastures. Pages  32-40 in  M. Orlic, editor.  The Ruminant Livestock Efficiency Program Annual Conference. US Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, GA.
    
    
  • Conant, R. T., J. M. Klopatek, and C. C. Klopatek.  Environmental factors controlling soil respiration in three semiarid ecosystems.  Soil Science Society of America Journal 64:383-390.
    
    
  • Conant, R. T., J. M. Klopatek, and C. C. Klopatek.  Carbon pools and fluxes along an environmental gradient in Northern Arizona:  Potential effects of climatic change.  Biogeochemistry 43: 43-61
    
    
  • Klopatek, J. M., R.T. Conant, J. M. King, R. A. Malin, K. L. Murphy, and C. C. Klopatek.  1996. Implications of spatial and temporal patterns of carbon flux across a semiarid ecotone.  Landscape and Urban Planning 39:  309-317
    
    
  • Bowman, W. D. and R. T. Conant. 1994. Shoot growth dynamics and photosynthetic response to increased nitrogen availability in the alpine willow Salix glauca. Oecologia 97: 93-99
    
    
  • Bowman, W. D., T. A. Theodose, J. C. Schardt, and R. T. Conant.  1993. Constraints of nutrient availability on primary production in two alpine tundra communities. Ecology 74: 2085-2097
    
    

• Recent Abstracts/Presentations

  • Conant, R. T., J. Six, K. Paustian, and E. A. Paul. 2001. Saturation in soil C fractions: How can it occur?. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Madison, WI. 8/01.
    
    

    • Conant, R. T., J. Six, K. Paustian, and E. A. Paul. 2001. Regional Limits to Sequestration of Atmospheric C in Soils: Influence of Soil C Fractions and Agricultural Practices. Presented at the Spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Boston, MA. 6/01.
      
      
    • Six, J., R. T. Conant, E. A. Paul, and K. Paustian. 2001. Stabilization mechanisms of protected versus unprotected soil organic matter: Implications for C-saturation of soils. Presented at the Spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Boston, MA. 6/01.
      
      
    • Johnson, D. E., H. W. Phetteplace, A. F. Siedl, and R. Conant. 2001. Impacts of livestock forage and pasture use on carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions. Invited presentation at the International Animal Agriculture and Food Science Conference. Indianapolis, IN. 7/01.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. 2000. The effects of grazing management on soil carbon (Carbon sequestration). Invited presentation at the National Grazing Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 12/00.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T., K. Paustian, J. Six, and E. T. Elliott. 2000. Pasture Management Influence on Soil Carbon in the Southeastern United States. Presented at the annual meeting of the Soil Science Society of America. Minneapolis, MN 11/00.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. 2000. Spatial Variability of Soil Organic Carbon: Implications for Detecting Change at Different Scales. Invited presentation at Advances in Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Inventory, Measurements and Monitoring. Raleigh, NC 10/00.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. 2000. Soil carbon sequestration in managed grasslands: An ecological perspective. Poster presentation at Carbon: Exploring the Benefits to Farmers and Society. Des Moines, IA 8/00.
      
      
    • Smith, G. R., K. Paustian, and R. T. Conant. 2000. Quantifying the precision of soil carbon measurements: How small of a change can we detect? Poster presented at Carbon: Exploring the Benefits to Farmers and Society. Des Moines, IA 8/00.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian. 2000. Overgrazing in grassland ecosystems: Effects on soil organic matter. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Snowbird, UT 8/00.
      
      
    • Paustian, K. and R. T. Conant. 2000. Quantifying and verifying soil carbon sequestration. Invited presentation at the Rangeland Soil Carbon Sequestration Meeting. Cheyenne, WY 7/00.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian    2000.  Quantifying Soil Carbon Credits For Greenhouse Gas Mitigation   Invited presentation at the Global Sustainability Conference.  Springfield, IL 3/00.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T., Paustian, K., and E. T. Elliott.   1999.  Changes in soil carbon from improved grassland management.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.  Spokane, WA 8/99.
      
      
    • Klopatek, C. C., Conant, R. T., Francis, J. M., and J. M. Klopatek.  Grazing and fire effects on soil nutrients and vegetation in New Mexico grasslands. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.  Spokane, WA 8/99.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T., Paustian, K., and E. T. Elliott.  1999.  Pasture landuse in the southeastern US: Implications for C sequestration. Presentation at ‘Agricultural practices and policies for carbon sequestration in soil’.  Columbus, OH 7/99.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T.  1999.  Soil sequestration in Virginia Pasture soils:  An example of harmonized GHG reductions.  Invited presentation at a special meeting of the Ruminant Livestock Efficiency Program.  Syria, VA.  3/99.
      
      
    • Conant, R. T. and K. Paustian.  1998.  Carbon sequestration in pastures. Invited presentation at the Ruminant Livestock Efficiency Program Annual Conference. US Environmental Protection Agency.  Athens, GA. 11/98.
      
      
    • Conant, R.T. and J.M. Klopatek.  1996.  Effects of soil climate modification on carbon and nitrogen cycling in three semiarid ecosystems.  Presented at the annual meeting of The Ecological Society of America 8/96.
      
      

  • Research Projects (Principal investigator or Co-principal investigator)

    • An Integrated Multi-scale Investigation of Grazing Land Management: Implications for Carbon Cycling. NASA. (12/00 - 11/03) $343,855.
    • An Integrated Approach to Develop Baseline Soil Carbon Content in Semiarid Eastern Oregon. Environmental Resources Trust. (1/01 - 12/01) $19,953.
    • Soil carbon saturation: determining limits on carbon sequestration capacity. DOE. (10/00 - 9/04) $610,000.
    • Quantifying precision of soil sampling. Environmental Resources Trust. (3/00 - 2/01) $18,764.

  • Professional Affiliations

    • Ecological Society of America
          Chapter Secretary, Rocky Mountain Chapter
    • Soil Science Society of America
    • American Geophysical Union
    • Phi Kappa Phi

  • Persons willing to provide Letters of Recommendation

  Keith Paustian	Senior Research Scientist	Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499	(970) 491-1547	keithp@nrel.colostate.edu
  Jeffrey Klopatek	Professor	Dept. of Plant Biology Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1601	(480) 965-4685	klopatek@asu.edu

  Updated by - Richard T. Conant
  Last Updated - Monday April 13th 18:23:32 2001