Education
PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2001
BA in Environmental Studies and Biology, University of California (UC) Santa Cruz
1995
Professional Experience
Co-Director, Boston University Stable Isotope Laboratory
2006-Present
Assistant Professor, Boston University
2005-Present
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley
2001-2005
Graduate Student, Cornell University
1996-2001
Research Assistant, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
1996
Polgar Fellow, Hudson River Foundation
1995
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Institute of Ecosystem Studies
1994
Honors and Awards
SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START) - International Young Scientists Global Change Conference, Trieste, Italy. Selected Participant
2003
Teresa Heinz Environmental Scholars Award
1999
President of Graduate Student Association. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
1998
National Science Foundation Graduate research fellowship
1996-2001
Polgar Fellowship, Hudson River Foundation
1995
Honors undergraduate senior thesis
1995
National Science Foundation - Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Selected participant.
1994
Grants and Fellowships
USDA Forest Service - Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC). Effects of winter climate change on growing season sap flow and carbon exchange in the northern hardwood forest. Submitted with Mark Friedl and Nathan Phillips.
2009
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Impacts of winter dynamics on growing season plant nutrient uptake and forest productivity in a northeastern hardwood forest.
2007
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Impacts of the hemlock Woolly Adelgid and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on forest nitrogen saturation status.
2006
USDA Forest Service - Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC). Determination of atmospheric deposition and nitrogen saturation status in Class I Willderness Areas of the Northeastern United States: Refining natural abundance nitrate techniques. Submitted with Kathleen Weathers.
2006
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Working Group. Fate of nitrogen inputs in terrestrial ecosystems. Submitted with Michelle Mack and Knute Nadelhoffer.
2004-2005
Hudson River Foundation. Effect of dominant tree species on Catskill Mountains' nitrogen retention.
1999
Mellon Foundation. Role of tree species in nitrogen retention of Catskill Mountain watersheds.
1999
Cornell Institute of Intl. Food, Agriculture and Development. Availability of nitrogen for forest regeneration in changing land uses of the Los Haitises region, Dominican Republic.
1997
Cornell Agroforestry Working Group. Availability of nitrogen for forest regeneration in changing land uses of the Los Haitises region, Dominican Republic.
1997
Cornell Biogeochemistry Training Grant. Effect of tree species on nitrogen retention in the Catskill Mountains.
1997
Publications
Craine JM, AJ Elmore, MPM Aidar, M Bustamante, TE Dawson, EA Hobbie, A Kahmen, MC Mack, KK McLauchlan, A Michelsen, GB Nardoto, LH Pardo, J Penuelas, PB Reich, EAG Schuur, WD Stock, PH Templer, RA Virginia, JM Welker, IJ Wright. 2009. Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with nitrogen availability. New Phytologist 183:980-992.
Miller-Rushing AJ, RB Primack, PH Templer, S Rathbone and S Mukunda. 2009. Long-term relationships among atmospheric CO2, stomata, and intrinsic water use efficiency in individual trees. American Journal of Botany 96:1779-1786.
Ewing HA, KC Weathers, PH Templer, TE Dawson, MK Firestone, AM Elliott and VKS Boukili. 2009. Fog water and ecosystem function: heterogeneity in a California redwood forest. Ecosystems 12:417-433.
Huygens D, P Boeckx, PH Templer, L Paulino, O Van Cleemput, C Oyarzun, C Muller and R Goody. 2008. Mechanisms for retention of bioavailable nitrogen in volcanic rainforest soils. Nature Geoscience 1:543-548.
Templer, PH, WL Silver, J Pett-Ridge, K DeAngelis, and MK Firestone. 2008. Plant and microbial controls on nitrogen retention and loss in a humid tropical forest. Ecology 89:3030-3040.
Templer, PH , MA Arthur, GM Lovett and K Weathers. 2007. Plant and soil natural abundance δ15N: indicators of relative rates of nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems. Oecologia 153: 399-406.
Pardo LH, PH Templer, C Goodale, S Duke, P Groffman, MB Adams, P Boeckx, J Boogs, J Campbell, B Colman, J Compton, B Emmett, P Gundersen, J Kjonaas, G Lovett, M Mack, A Magill, M Mbila, M Mitchell, G McGee, S McNulty, K Nadelhoffer, S Ollinger, D Ross, H Rueth, L Rustad, P Shaberg, S Schiff, P Schleppi, J Spoelstra and W Wessel. 2006. Regional Assessment of N saturation using foliar δ15N. Biogeochemistry 80:143-171.
Templer, PH. 2005. Tree Species Effects on Nitrogen Cycling and Retention: a Synthesis of Studies Using 15N Tracers. In Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change. D. Binkley, O. Menyailo, eds. NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Templer, PH, G Lovett, K Weathers, S Findlay, and T Dawson. 2005. Influence of tree species on forest nitrogen retention in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA. Ecosystems 8:1-16.
Templer, PH, P Groffman, A Flecker, and A Power. 2005. Land use change and soil nutrient transformations in the Los Haitises region of the Dominican Republic. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37:215-225.
Templer, PH and TE Dawson. 2004. Nitrogen uptake by seedlings of four tree species of the Catskill Mountains, NY: implications for forest N dynamics. Plant and Soil 262:251-261.
Templer, PH, S Findlay, and G Lovett. 2003. Soil microbial biomass and nitrogen transformations among five tree species of the Catskill Mountains, NY. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35:607-613.
Harris, GP, SW Bigelow, JJ Cole, H Cyr, LL Janus, AP Kinzig, JF Kitchell, GE Likens, K.H. Reckhow, D Scavia, D Soto, L.M. Talbot, and PH Templer. 2003. The Role of Models in Ecosystem Management. In C.D. Canham, J.J. Cole, W.K. Lauenroth (eds.), Role of Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press.
Dawson, TE, S Mambelli, AH Plamboeck, PH Templer, and KP Tu. 2002. Stable isotopes in plant ecology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:507-559.
Silver, WL and PH Templer. 2002. A walk through the Amazon from a biogeochemical perspective. Book review of: Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin. Eds. McClain, M., R.L. Victoria and J.E. Richey. Oxford University Press, New York, 365 pages. Ecology 83:3237-3238.
Templer, PH, S Findlay and C Wigand. 1998. Sediment chemistry associated with native and non-native emergent macrophytes of a Hudson River marsh ecosystem. Wetlands 18:70-78.
Invited Seminars
Boston College, Boston, MA
Nov 2009
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
March 2009
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, North Woodstock, NH
June 2008
Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
May 2007
University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
March 2007
University of New Hampshire, Department of Plant Biology
April 2006
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
March 2006
Harvard University, Herbaria
Feb 2006
Boston University, Department of Geography
Oct 2005
United States Department of Agriculture, Davis, CA
April 2004
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology
April 2004
Boston University, Department of Biology
Feb 2004
California State University Northridge, Department of Biology
Feb 2004
University of Granada, Spain. Department of Animal Biology and Ecology
Nov 2003
University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Feb 2003
Abstracts Since 2001
Pett-Ridge J, PH Templer and E Dubinsky, WL Silver and MK Firestone. 2007. Microbes on the redox ladder: Community and trace gas dynamics (H2, O2, CO2, N2O, CH2, CO) in a highly variable wet tropical soil. Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA.
Boukili VKS, KC Weathers, HA Ewing,PH Templer , MK Firestone and TE Dawson. 2007. Variations in coastal redwood forest decomposition and productivity along an environmental gradient. Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA.
Campbell J, S Ollinger, H Wicklein, A Bailey and PH Templer. 2007. Predicting soil frost responses to climate change and variability. Hubbard Brook Annual Meeting, Campton, NH.
Templer, PH, A Socci, J Campbell and S Ollinger. 2007. Potential impacts of winter climate change on growing season plant nutrient uptake and productivity in northern forest ecosystems. Hubbard Brook Annual Meeting, Campton, NH.
D Huygens, P Boeckx, R Godoy, PH Templer, L Paulino, C Oyarzun, and O Van Cleemput. 2007. A 15N pulse chase study in a remote South Chilean pristine forest soil. 15N Nitrogen Workshop. Towards a better efficiency in N use. Lleida (Spain).
Templer PH, T McCann, H Lux and D Orwig. 2007. Combined impacts of the hemlock woolly Adelgid and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on forest nitrogen retention. Harvard Forest Symposium, Petersham, MA.
Templer, PH, H Ewing, K Weathers, T Dawson and M Firestone. 2006. Fog as a potential source of nitrogen for coastal redwood forest ecosystems. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
Templer, PH, M Rolph, C McLaurin, L Pardo and T Siccama. 2006. Tree wood delta 15N: Indicators of past disturbance. Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative, Durham, NH.
Templer, PH and LH Pardo. 2006. Effect of calcium availability on nitrogen uptake by sugar maple and beech trees. International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, "Regional Forest Responses to Environmental Change." Petersham, MA
Ellison, A, A Barker Plotkin, P Bettman-Kerson, E Davidson, DR Foster, B Kloeppel, E LeBlanc, H Lux, B Mathewson, P Moorcroft, D Orwig, K Savage and PH Templer. 2006. Harvard Forest hemlock removal experiment: experimental design and initial response to treatments. LTER All-Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO.
Pardo, LH, PH Templer and T Fahey. 2006. Species differences in root and foliar delta15N: causes and implications. Ecological Society of America, Memphis, TN.
Templer, PH and LH Pardo. 2006. Uptake of nitrogen by sugar maple and beech trees: does calcium availability matter? Hubbard Brook Annual Meeting, Campton, NH.
Pardo, LH, PH Templer and T Fahey. 2006. Species differences in root and foliar delta15N: causes and implications. 2006. Biogeomon, Santa Cruz, CA.
Templer, PH, G Lovett, K Weathers, S Findlay, T Dawson and M Arthur. 2005. Effect of tree species and nitrogen fertilization on nitrogen retention in the Catskill Mountains, New York. Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Canada.
Templer, PH, J Pett-Ridge, W Silver and MK Firestone. 2004. Controls on Nitrogen Retention and Loss in Tropical Forest Soils: Part I. Patterns of Nitrogen Cycling. Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.
Templer, PH, W Silver and MK Firestone. 2003. Influence of Plant and Microbial Interactions on Nitrogen Retention and Loss in Puerto Rican Forest Soils. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
Templer, PH, MK Firestone and W Silver. 2003. Plant and Microbial Controls on Nitrogen retention and loss in Puerto Rican Forest Soils. Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA.
Templer, PH, GM Lovett, K Weathers, and M Arthur. 2002. Plant and soil natural abundance delta 15N: Indicators of nitrogen cycling rates in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
Templer, PH, GM Lovett, K Weathers, S Findlay and TE Dawson. 2002. Tree species influence on 15N sinks and forest nitrogen retention in the Catskill Mountains, NY. Stable Isotope Ecology Conference, Flagstaff, AR.
Templer, PH, GM Lovett, K Weathers, S Findlay and TE Dawson. 2001. 15N sinks and retention within stands of 4 tree species of the Catskill Mountains, NY. Gordon Conference, Andover, NH.
Professional Service and Activities
Reviewer for:
American Association for the Advancement of Science Program on Europe and Central Asia Proposal Review, Biogeochemistry, Biological Invasions, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecological Applications, Ecology, Ecosystems, European Journal of Soil Biology, Global Change Biology, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Tropical Ecology, National Science Foundation (NSF) Ecosystem Studies and Globe Proposal Reviews, NSF Ecosystems Panel (External Review), Oecologia, Plant Biology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
Internships and Training
Internship in Office of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Washington DC
2000
Cornell in Washington DC Course in Science and Policy
1999
University of Utah Stable Isotope Course
1998
Tropical Biology & Conservation Program in Costa Rica, UC Education Abroad Program
1995
Natural History of California Field Quarter, UC Santa Cruz
1994