CHRISTOPHER NEILL Senior Scientist Phone: (508) 444-1559 Woods Hole Research Center Email:
[email protected] 149 Woods Hole Road Fax: (508) 444-1859 Falmouth, MA 02540 EDUCATION: 1992. Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 1988. M.S. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 1980. B.S. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: July 2016 –present. Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA November 2012 – June 2016. Director, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA February 2010 – June 2016. Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA February 2010 – 2017. Director, Brown-MBL Partnership and Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences August 2004 – January 2010. Associate Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA June 2005 – 2017. Associate Professor (MBL), Brown University, Providence, RI June 2001 – February 2015. Director, Hands-on Environmental Laboratory for MBL’s Logan Science Journalism Program. May 1997 – July 2004. Assistant Scientist. The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA July 1994 - May 1997. Research Associate. The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. November 1991 - July 1994. Post-Doctoral Research Associate, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. June – August during 1991 and 1993. Graduate Faculty, Masters of Science in Environmental Studies Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Taught Ecosystem Ecology. September 1985 - October 1991. Graduate Research Assistant and Instructor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Watershed biogeochemistry, ecosystem responses to deforestation and other land use changes, soil carbon and nutrient dynamics and trace gas exchanges, ecosystem restoration, tropical agriculture, wetland plant ecology and biogeochemistry, use of stable isotopes in ecosystem research RECENT AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 2019-present.