ELISE PENDALL Department of Botany, 1000 E. University Ave. #3165, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 phone: 307-766-6293; email: pendall@uwyo.edu

Professional Preparation:
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University, Soil Science/Natural Res. (Honors), B.S., 1983
Graduate Institution: University of California at Berkeley, Soil Science, M.S., 1989.
Graduate Institution: University of Arizona, Geosciences, Ph.D., 1997.
Post-Doctoral Institution: University of Colorado, NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship, 1998-2000.

Academic Positions:
2008-2009: Visiting Associate Professor, School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
2008-present: Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming.
2002-2008: Assistant Professor, Botany Department, University of Wyoming.
2004-2008: Assistant Professor, Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming.
2000-2002: Research Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Ecology, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Awards and Fellowships:
Univeristy of Wyoming Excellence in Research, 2009
NOAA Climate and Global Change Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000
National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998 (declined)
McGinnies Scholarship in Arid Land Studies, University of Arizona, 1997
Office of Interdisciplinary Programs, University of Arizona, 1996
Geosciences Department Fellowship, University of Arizona, 1994

Recent Synergistic Activities:
Student Research Apprenticeship Program: Mentored Native American high school student for 8-week summer program, 2007
Symposium organizer, “Towards a Predictive Understanding of Belowground Ecosystem Responses to Global Change,” Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Nov. 14, 2006, Indianapolis, IN
Curriculum development for establishing the interdisciplinary, cross-college Earth System Science undergraduate major at UW, 2004-2006.
Invited workshop leader, "Modeling Ecosystem Responses to Global Change: Techniques and Recent Advances" January 9-12, 2005, Fort Meyers, FL
Women in Science Forum Mentor, led dendrochronology workshop for middle-school girls from across Wyoming, 2003, 2004, 2005

Publications (last 3 years):
Nicols, J., Booth, R.K., Jackson, S.T., Pendall, E., and Huang, Y-S. Differential hydrogen isotopic ratios of Sphagnum and vascular plant biomarkers in ombrotrophic peatlands as a quantitative proxy for precipitation—evaporation balance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, accepted with revisions.

*Bachman, S.A., Heisler-White, J., Pendall, E., Williams, D.G., and Morgan, J.A., 2010. Elevated [CO2] alters the sensitivity of ecosystem carbon fluxes to precipitation pulses in northern mixed-grass prairie. Oecologia, accepted with revisions.

*Shim, J.H., Pendall, E., Ojima, D.S., and Morgan, J.A. 2009. Wetting and drying cycles drive variations in d13C of respired CO2 in semi-arid grassland. Oecologia,160, 321-333.

Pendall, E., Rustad, L., Schimel, J., 2008. Towards a predictive understanding of belowground process responses to climate change: Have we moved any closer? Functional Ecology 22: 937-940.

*Chatterjee, A., Vance, G.F., Pendall, E., Stahl, P.D. 2008. Timber harvesting alters soil carbon mineralization and microbial community structure in coniferous forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 1901-1907.

Dijkstra, F.A., Pendall, E., Mosier, A.R., King, J.Y., Milchunas, D.G., Morgan, J.A. 2008. Long-term enhancement of N availability and plant growth under elevated CO2 in a semiarid grassland. Functional Ecology 22:975-982.

*Schwendenmann L. and Pendall, E. 2008. Soil organic carbon pool sizes and mean residence times estimated by long-term incubations and acid hydrolysis: results from tropical forest and grassland ecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils 44:1053-1062.

Morgan, J.S., Derner, J.D., Milchunas, D., and Pendall, E. 2008. Management implications of rising atmospheric CO2 for semi-arid rangelands. Rangelands, June 2008, p. 18-22.

*Kwon, H., Pendall, E., Ewers, B.E., Cleary, M.B. and Naithani, K. 2008. Spring drought regulates summer net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148: 381-391.

*Cleary, M.B., Pendall, E. and Ewers, B.E. 2008. Testing sagebrush allometric relationships across three fire chronosequences in Wyoming, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 72: 285-301.

Cuna, S., Pendall, E., Miller, J.B., Tans, P.P, and White, J.W.C. 2008. Separating natural and anthropogenic methane in air from Black Sea region, Romania. Applied Geochemistry 23: 2871-2879.

Knapp, A., Briggs, J.M., Collins, S.L., Archer, S.L., Bret-Harte, M.S., Ewers, B.E., Peters, D.P., Young, D.R., Shaver, G.R., Pendall, E. & Cleary, M.B. 2008. Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: Shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. Global Change Biology 14: 1-9.

Ewers, B.E., and Pendall, E. 2008. Spatial patterns in leaf area and plant functional type cover across chronosequences of sagebrush ecosystems. Plant Ecology 194: 67-83. DOI 10.1007/s11258-007-9275-z.

Pendall, E., and King, J.Y. 2007. Increased soil organic matter pool sizes and turnover rates under elevated CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:2628-2639. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.016.

*Schwendenmann, L, and Pendall, E., 2006. Effects of forest conversion into grassland on soil aggregate structure and carbon storage in Panama: evidence from soil carbon fractionation and stable isotopes. Plant and Soil DOI:10.1007/s11104-006-9109-0 (Online First).