Short CV (click here for PDF version)

Education
Ph.D. 2001, University of Colorado, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
M.S. 1997, Cornell University, Natural Resources
B.A. 1992, University of Colorado, Geography

Professional Experience
Research Associate, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, 2001 - present
Adjunct Teaching Faculty, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, 2004
Graduate Research Assistant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1997 - 2001
Professional Research Assistant, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1997
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1995 - 1997
Professional Research Assistant, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 1991 - 1993

Awards and Distinctions
EEB Departmental Fellowship, University of Colorado, 2000
EEB Departmental Research Grant, University of Colorado, 2000
Jenny Kate Collins Award, University of Colorado, 1999
Sussman Environmental Internship, University of Colorado, 1999
University of Colorado Graduate Research Award, 1998
NSF Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions Fellowship, University of Colorado, 1997-1999
Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellowship, Cornell University, 1996
Kieckhefer Adirondack Research Fellowship, Cornell University, 1996
Outstanding Student Presentation, American Geophysical Union Front Range Meeting, 1993
University of Colorado Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award, 1991
University of Colorado Regents Scholarship, 1988

Publications (For PDF files of many of these papers, see IBL Publications Page)

Cleveland, C. C. and A. R. Townsend. 2005. Nitrogen and phosphorus additions cause substantial losses of soil carbon from a lowland tropical rain forest. In review.

Cleveland, C. C., A. R. Townsend and S. K. Reed. 2005. Nutrient availability and plant litter decomposition in wet tropical rain forest. Ecology (In press).

D. R. Nemergut, S. P. Anderson, C. C. Cleveland, A. P. Martin, A. E. Miller, A. Seimon, S. K. Schmidt. 2006. Microbial community succession in unvegetated, recently-deglaciated soils. Submitted to Ecology Letters.

Townsend, A. R. and C. C. Cleveland. 2005. Controls over foliar nutrient concentrations in lowland tropical rain forests of Costa Rica. Submitted to Ecological Applications.

Galloway, J. N., G. Asner, E. W. Boyer, D. G. Capone, C. C. Cleveland, F. J. Dentener, P. Greene, E. Holland, R. W. Howarth, D. M. Karl, A. F. Michaels, S. P. Seitzinger, A. R. Townsend and C. Vorosmarty. 2005. Global and regional nitrogen cycles: Past, present and future. Biogeochemistry 70: 153-226.

Cleveland, C. C., D. M. McKnight and A. R. Townsend. 2006. Links between the carbon and hydrologic cycles in terrestrial ecosystems. In: D. M. McKnight, (Ed). The Encyclopedia of Hydrological Science. John Wiley & Sons (Invited contributor, in press).

Cleveland, C. C., A. R. Townsend, B. C. Constance, R. E. Ley, and S. K. Schmidt. 2004. Soil microbial dynamics in Costa Rica: Seasonal and biogeochemical constraints. Biotropica 36: 184-195.

Boyer, E. W., R. W. Howarth, J. N. Galloway, F. J. Dentener, P. Green, C. Vorosmarty, C. C. Cleveland and G. P. Asner. 2004. Nitrogen inputs to world regions. In A. R. Mosier, K. Syers and J. R. Freney (Eds.), Agriculture and the nitrogen cycle: assessing the impact of fertilizer use on food production and the environment. Washington, D.C., Island Press.

Cleveland, C. C., J. C. Neff, A. R. Townsend and E. Hood. 2004. Composition, dynamics and fate of leached dissolved organic matter in terrestrial ecosystems: Results of a decomposition experiment. Ecosystems 7: 275-285.

Bowman, W. D., H. Steltzer, T. N. Rosenstiel, C. C. Cleveland and C. L. Meier. 2004. Litter effects of two co-occurring alpine species on plant growth, microbial activity and immobilization of nitrogen. Oikos 104: 336-344.

Townsend, A. R., R. W. Howarth, F. A. Bazzaz, M. S. Booth, C. C. Cleveland, S. K. Collinge, A. P. Dobson, P. R. Epstein, E. A. Holland, D. R. Keeney, M. A. Malin, C. A. Rogers, P. Wayne and A. H. Wolfe. 2003. Human health effects of a changing global nitrogen cycle. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1: 240-246.

Cleveland, C. C., A. R. Townsend, B. C. Constance and S. K. Schmidt. 2002. Soil microbial dynamics and biogeochemical cycling in lowland tropical rain forests and pastures of southwestern Costa Rica. Ecological Applications 13: 314-326.

Cleveland, C. C., A. R. Townsend and S. K. Schmidt. 2002. Phosphorus limitation of microbial processes in moist tropical forests. Ecosystems 5: 680-691.

Townsend, A. R., G. P. Asner, C. C. Cleveland, M. E. Lefer, and M. M. C. Bustamante. 2002. Unexpected changes in soil phosphorus dynamics following tropical deforestation to cattle pasture. Journal of Geophysical Research 107 (D20), 8067, doi: 10.1029/2001 JD000650, 2002.

Vitousek, P. M., K. Cassman, C. C. Cleveland, T. Crews, C. B. Field, N. B. Grimm, R. W. Howarth, R. Marino, L. Martinelli, E. B. Rastetter, and J. I. Sprent. 2002. Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation. Biogeochemistry 57/58: 1-45.

Asner, G. P., A. R. Townsend, W. Riley, P. A. Matson, J. C. Neff, and C. C. Cleveland. 2001. Physical and biogeochemical controls of terrestrial ecosystem responses to nitrogen position. Biogeochemistry 54: 1-39.

Cleveland, C. C., A.R. Townsend, D. S. Schimel, H. Fisher, R. W. Howarth, L. O. Hedin, S. S. Perakis, E. F. Latty, J. C. Von Fischer, A. Elseroad, and M. F. Wasson. 1999. Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N2) fixation in natural ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13: 623-645.

Fahey, T. J., C. J. Williams, J. N. Rooney-Varga, C. C. Cleveland, K. M. Postek, S. D. Smith, and D. R. Bouldin. 1999. Nitrogen deposition in and around an intensive agricultural district in Central New York. Journal of Environmental Quality 28: 1585-1600.

Cleveland, C. C. and J. B. Yavitt. 1998. Microbial consumption of atmospheric isoprene in a temperate forest soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64: 172-177.

Cleveland, C. C. and J. B. Yavitt. 1997. Consumption of atmospheric isoprene in soil. Geophysical Research Letters 24: 2379-2382.

Cleveland, C. C., D. N. Nemergut, A. R. Townsend, and S. K. Schmidt. Microbial decomposition of dissolved organic carbon in soil: A molecular analysis (In preparation).