Curriculum Vitae

 

Dennis Shoji Ojima

Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Colorado State University

Ft. Collins, CO  80523

Phone:  (303) 491-1976

E-mail: dennis@nrel.colostate.edu

 

Academic Training:

B.A.                            1975                         Botany                                  Pomona College

M.Ag.                         1978                         Plant Ecology                        University of Florida

Ph.D.                          1987                         Ecosystem Science                Colorado State University

 

Professional Experience:

1996-                        Sr. Research Scientist            Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU

1993-1996               Research Scientist               Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU

1992-                        Assistant Professor Rangeland Ecosystem Science Dept., CSU

1990-1991               Visiting Scientist                     Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, UCAR

1988-1990                Programme Officer International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

 

Publications:

Adams, R. M., B. A. McCarl, K. Segerson, C. Rosenzweig, K. J. Bryant, B. L. Dixon, R. Conner, R. E. Evenson, and D. Ojima.  1999.  Economic effects of climate change on US agriculture.  In The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy, Robert Mendelson and James E. Neumann (eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 18-54.

Ojima, D., L. Garcia, E. Elgaali, K. Miller, T.G.F. Kittel, and J. Lackett.  1999.  Potential Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Great Plains. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 35(6):1443-1454.

Schimel, D.S., P. Vitousek, J.J. McCarthy, T. Chapin, C. Field, P. Matson, S. Carpenter, J. Baron, D.S. Ojima, T. Powell, D. Strong, and J. Cole.  1999.  Changes to the biology and biogeochemistry of ecosystems.  Chapter 4.  NRC Report on Global Change: Pathways for the Next Decade.

Chuluun, T., D. Ojima, L. Tiezsen, R. Bataar, O. Chognii, G. Erdenejar, and Z. Chen. 2000.  Inter-Comparison of Soil Stable Isotopes and Organic Carbon in Grasslands of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, pp. 73-86.  In Proceedings of the Land Use in Temperate East Asia Workshop: Current Status and Future Trends.

Daly, C., D. Bachelet, J.M. Lenihan, R. Neilson, W. Parton, and D. Ojima. 2000.   Dynamic simulation of tree-grass interactions for global change studies.  Ecological Applications 10(2):449-469.

Del Grosso, S.J., W.J. Parton, A.R. Mosier, D.S. Ojima, A.E. Kulmala, and S. Phongpan. 2000. General Model for N2O and N2 Gas Emissions from Soils Due to Denitrification.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 4:1045-1060.

Del Grosso, S.J., W.J. Parton, A.R. Mosier, D.S. Ojima, C.S. Potter, W. Borken, R. Brumme, K. Butterbach-Bahl, P.M. Crill, K. Dobbie, and K.A. Smith.  2000.  General CH4 oxidation model and comparisons of CH4 oxidation in natural and managed systems.  Global and Biogeochemical Cycles 4:999-1019.

Groffman, P.M., R. Brumme, K. Butterbach-Bahl, K.E. Dobbie, A.R. Mosier, D. Ojima, H. Papen, W.J. Parton, K.A. Smith, C. Wagner-Riddle. 2000.   Evaluating annual nitrous oxide fluxes at the ecosystem scale.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14:1061-1070.

Ojima, D, A. Mosier, S. Del Grosso, and W.J. Parton.  2000.  TRAGNET analysis and synthesis of trace gas fluxes.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14:995-997.

Ojima, D.S.  2000.  Integrated Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Land Use in Temperate East Asia (LUTEA):  Integration of Ecosystem and Economic Factors Determining Land Use under Climate Change, pp. 1-18.    In Proceedings of the Land Use in Temperate East Asia Workshop: Current Status and Future Trends.

Hall, D.O., J.M.O. Scurlock, D.S. Ojima, and  W.J. Parton.  2000.  Grasslands and the global carbon cycle: modelling the effects of climate change.  Pp. 102-144 In T.M.L. Wigley and D.S. Schimel (eds.) The Carbon Cycle, Cambridge University Press.            

Del Grosso, Stephen J., W.J. Parton, A.R. Mosier, D.S. Ojima, and M.D. Hartman.  2000.  Interaction of soil carbon sequestration and N2O flux with different land use practices.  Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 8-10 September 1999.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 303-311.

Schimel, D.S., J.M. Melillo, H. Tian, A.D. McGuire, D. Kicklighter, T. Kittel, N. Rosenbloom, S. Running, P. Thornton, D. Ojima, W. Parton, R. Kelly, M. Sykes, R. Neilson, Brian Rizzo, and L. Pitelka.  2000.  Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United  States.  Science 287: (5460) 2004‑2006

Parton, W.J., J.A. Morgan, R.H. Kelly, and D.S. Ojima.  2001.  Modeling Soil C responses to environmental  change in grassland ecosystems.  Pp. 371-396 In  Follett, Kimble, and Lal, (eds.) The potential of U.S. grazing lands to sequester carbon and mitigate the greenhouse effect (in press), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Joyce, L.A., D. Ojima, G.A. Seielstad, Robert Harriss, and Jill Lackett.  2001.  Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the Great Plains.  Pp. 191-217 In Climate Change Impacts on the United States.  National Assessment Synthesis Team, Cambridge University Press.

Lu, L., R.A. Pielke, Sr., G.E. Liston, W.J. Parton, D. Ojima, and M. Hartman.  2001. Implementation of a two-way interactive atmospheric and ecological model and its application to the central United States.  Journal of Climate 14:900-919.                          

Lu, Lixin, R.A. Pielke, Sr., G.E. Liston, W.J. Parton, D.S. Ojima, and M.D. Hartman.  2001. Implementation of a two-way interactive atmospheric and ecological model and its application to the central United States.  Journal of Climate 14:900-919.

Del Grosso, S.J., Parton, W.J., Mosier, A.R., Hartman, M.D., Keough, C.A., Peterson, G.A., Ojima, D.S., Schimel, D.S., 2001. Simulated effects of land use, soil texture, and precipitation on N gas emissions using DAYCENT. In: Follett, R.F., Hatfield, J.L. (Eds.), Nitrogen in the Environment: Sources, Problems, and Management. Elsevier Science Publishers, The Netherlands.

Del Grosso, S.J., W.J. Parton, A.R. Mosier, M.D. Hartman, J. Brenner, D.S. Ojima, and D.S. Schimel.  2001.  Simulated Interaction of Carbon Dynamics and Nitrogen Trace Gas Fluxes using the DAYCENT Model.  Pp. 303-332  In Shaffer et al (eds.) Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics for Soil Management , CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Parton, W.J., E.A. Holland, S.J. Del Grosso, M.D. Hartman, R.E. Martin, A.R. Mosier, D.S. Ojima and D.S. Schimel.  2001.  Generalized model for NOx and N2O emissions from soils.  Journal of Geophysical Research 106:17403-17419..

Xu, Lan, Dodd, J.L., D.S. Ojima, Y. Nan , S. Kawanabe, T. Oshida.  2001.  Reclamation of degraded meadow steppe and forest-steppe in Inner Mongolia: A case study at Wulanaodu.  Chinese J. Applied Ecology 12 (supp.):51-60.

Del Grosso, S. D. Ojima, W. Parton, A. Mosier, G. Peterson, D. Schimel. 2002. Simulated effects of dryland cropping intensification on soil organic matter and greenhouse gas exchanges using the DAYCENT ecosystem model. Environmental Pollution. 116:S75-S83.

Gill, R.A., Kelly, R.H., W.J. Parton, K.A. Day, R.B. Jackson, J.A. Morgan, J.M.O. Scurlock, L.L. Tieszen, J.V. Castle, D.S. Ojima, and X.S. Zhang. 2002. Using simple environmental variables to estimate belowground productivity in grasslands.  Global Ecology and Biogeography