NESB B225
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Campus Mail 1499
Fort Collins , CO 80523-1499

Phone: (970) 491-1968
Fax: (970) 491-1965
Email: jill@nrel.colostate.edu
Alt. Email: jill_baron@usgs.gov

Areas of Interest:

• United States Geological Survey
• Biogeochemical cycling / ecosystem ecology
• Aquatic ecology
• Fostering sustainable human societal/ environmental interactions
• Increasing opportunities for women and minorities in ecology.
• Balancing environmental and human needs for freshwater
• South Platte Basin Integrated Assessment
• Assessing ecosystem response to atmospheric deposition in western U.S. mountains

Current Projects and Links:

• Curriculum Vitae
• NREL
• Loch Vale Watershed Web page
• STAR Project
• Western Mountain Initiative
• Rocky Mountain Ecological Observatory
• USGS Fort Collins Science Center
• Mountain Studies Institute

Biography: Dr. Jill S. Baron is an ecosystem ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and a Senior Research Ecologist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. Her recent interests include applying ecosystem concepts to management of human-dominated regions, and understanding the biogeochemical and ecological effects of climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition to mountain ecosystems. Baron has edited two books: Rocky Mountain Futures: an ecological perspective (Island Press 2002), which addresses the past present, and possible future human influences on ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains, and Biogeochemistry of a Subalpine Ecosystem (Springer-Verlag 1992) which summarized the first 10 years of long-term research to the Loch Vale Watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park. Dr. Baron received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University in 1991, and has undergraduate and master’s degrees from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin. She has received a number of achievement awards for her work from the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and USDA Forest Service, including the Department of Interior Meritorious Service Award in 2002. She has been a member of the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America, serves on several Science Advisory Boards, has given testimony to Congress on western acid rain, and is an associate editor for Ecological Applications. Baron is married to another ecosystem ecologist, Dennis Ojima, and they have two children.