Nancy Golubiewski's Profile

Name:
Nancy Golubiewski
Member Since:
October 27, 2006
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Nancy.golubiewski
Last Logged in:
October 27, 2011
Biography:

Nancy Golubiewski is an ecosystem ecologist with expertise in assessing how anthropogenic perturbations affect the environment— particularly vegetation communities, soil, and ecosystem services. Her work focuses on the alterations brought about by land-use /land-cover change to landscape structure and function, plant community composition and structure, and carbon pools in soil and vegetation. From a systems perspective,she pursues unraveling interconnections in order to understand ecological integrity.

She is passionate about land-change science. Through much of her scientific research, she has investigated the ecological implications of land-use change. Projects have includedecosystem services in New Zealand, shifts in carbon pools due to urban sprawl in Colorado; forest regrowth after agricultural abandonment in North Carolina; and recovery of soil carbon and nitrogen after the cessation of grazing in New Mexico. Her ecological background encompasses research and studies in terrestrial community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and climate change, using a variety of tools, including lab analyses of vegetative and soil samples; GIS and remote sensing; and an assortment of statistical techniques. She works at a variety of scales, from field studies to regional analyses. In addition, her interest in global change propels her towards transdisciplinary interests of socio-ecological systems, with a habit of working on interdisciplinary teams.

In addition to the EoE, her research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Global Change Biology, Ecological Applications, Urban Ecosystems, and Journal of Environmental Management.

She holds a B.Sc. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Master's of Environmental Management from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She currently resides inNew Zealand (Aotearoa).


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Title Role Content Type Website Date
Amazon River dolphin Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 01 April 2011
Woody encroachment in the southwestern United States Author Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
World Bank’s retreat from direct poverty reduction and back to trickle-down infrastructure growth Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Western Africa and forests and woodlands Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Value of the world’s ecosystem services: the influence of a single paper Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Successional Soils: How edaphic conditions change within aggrading forests in a case study of the North Carolina Piedmont Author Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Species extinction without market failure Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Species influences upon ecosystem function Author Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Southern Africa and biodiversity conservation Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Scientific uncertainty and public policy Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Remote sensing’s functional role in studies of land-use/land-cover change Author Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Rate of interest Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Queensland tropical rain forests Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Preserving natural capital and biodiversity Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Perverse subsidies Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
New consumers: influence of affluence on the environment Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Need for a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable future Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Maximum power principle Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Lisbon principles of sustainable governance Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010
Limits of “consumer sovereignty” Topic Editor Article Encyclopedia of Earth 21 August 2010