Joshua P. Schimel

Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology	Office:	Bren Hall 4304
	Phone:	(805) 893-4505, or (805) 893-7688
	Fax:	(805) 893-8686
	E-mail:	schimel@lifesci.ucsb.edu
	Website:	http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/faculty/schimel
	Mailing Address:	Environmental Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160
	Courses:	ES 100, Environmental Ecology ES/EEMB 171, Ecosystem Processes

My research sits at the interface of ecosystem and microbial ecology. I am interested in the role of soil microbes in controlling ecosystem scale processes. I am particularly interested in the linkages between plant and soil processes, and how changes in microbial community structure affects ecosystem-scale dynamics. My work is now focusing on three ecosystems: the Arctic tundra in Alaska, the taiga forest of Alaska, and the California annual grassland-oak savanna.

Education:
Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Selected Publications:
Schimel, J. P., and J. Bennett. Nitrogen mineralization: challenges of a changing paradigm. Ecology. In press.

Weintraub, M.N. and J.P. Schimel. 2003. Interactions between carbon and nitrogen mineralization and soil organic matter chemistry in Arctic tundra soils. Ecosystems. 6:129-143.

Schimel, J.P. and M.N. Weintraub. 2003. The implications of exoenzyme activity on microbial carbon and nitrogen limitation in soil: a theoretical model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 35: 549-563.

Schimel, J.P. 2001. Biogeochemical models: implicit vs. explicity microbiology. In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles in the Climate System. E.D. Schulze, S.P. Harrison, M. Heimann, E.A. Holland, J.J. Lloyd, I.C. Prentice, and D. Schimel (Eds). Academic Press. pp. 177-183.

Schimel, J.P. 2000. Rice, microbes and methane. Nature. 403: 375-377.