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ENVS Graduate Program - Secondary Core prior to Fall 2012

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Alan Townsend is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, and currently serves as the Associate Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. He co-directed CU-Boulder’s Carbon, Climate and Society Initiative, and has served on numerous national and international committees and programs, including the SCOPE Nitrogen Program, the International Nitrogen Initiative, the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Visions Committee, and the Science Advisory Board for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He was selected as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2001, and is currently the Director of the INI’s North American Nitrogen Center and a member of ESA’s Rapid Response Team, a group that provides environmental information to policy-makers at both state and national levels. He and his lab group study how terrestrial ecosystems respond to and affect several aspects of human-induced environmental change, including the links between a rapidly changing nitrogen cycle and human health and welfare.

August 31 2011

CU-Boulder planning new, $100 million geosciences complex

August 28 2011

Friend and Foe: Nitrogen Pollution’s Little-Known Environmental and Human Health Threats

February 15 2011

Alan Townsend Named Google Science Communication Fellow

November 04 2010

Spotlight on: Alan Townsend, Director of Environmental Studies

July 06 2010

Green Revolution’s Dark Side Effect:  Disease

April 21 2010

Link Discovered Between Carbon, Nitrogen May Provide New Ways to Mitigate Pollution Problems

September 16 2008

Nitrogen Rise Worries Some Scientists

June 19 2006

Tropical forest CO2 emissions tied to nutrient increases

February 01 2004

Niwot Ridge provides a new model for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

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