Jesse Eugene Bell
 
NSF “Engineering in Practice” Fellow
The University of Oklahoma
Department of Botany and Microbiology
770 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-0245
Phone: 405-325-5003
Fax:     405-325-7619
Email: Jesse.E.Bell-1@ou.edu      

Curriculum vitae

Education

 2004-     Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

              The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

              Dissertation: Changes in temperature and precipitation on the

  rainfall use efficiency and soil water dynamics in temperate 

  prairie ecosystems.

1999-2003         B.S., Biology, 2003

Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

Independent Project: The germination rates and seed bank size

  of cleistogamous and chasmogamous seeds of the invasive

  weed Lespedeza cuneata.

Interests

·       Ecosystem Ecology

·       Ecohydrology

·       Biogeochemistry

·       Global Climate Change

·       Changes in ecosystem process from invasive species

·       Sustainability

·       Understanding how humans alter natural systems

·       Environmental Policy

·       Science Education

Research

My current research focus is looking at how ecosystem water cycle is altered by climate change. I use modeling, data analysis and field experiments to understand this connection of climate change to ecosystem water cycle. 

Publications

Bell, J. E., E. Weng, & Y. Luo. 2007. Potential changes in the water cycle

      from climate change: a modeling analysis of a tallgrass prairie. In    preparation.

Bell, J.E., R. Sherry, & Y. Luo. 2007. Effects of experimental warming and

      increased precipitation on soil moisture dynamics in a North

      American grassland. In preparation.

Knapp, A., C. Beier, D. Briske, A. T. Classen, M. Reichstein, S.D. Smith,

      J.E. Bell, R. Sherry, J.L. Heisler, B. Smith, M. Smith, Y. Luo, J.

      Yarie, J. Weltzin, & S.W. Leavitt. 2007. Consequences of more

      extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems. Bioscience,

      In press.

Honors and Awards

Engineering in Practice Fellow. National Science Foundation, GK-12 Program. 1 August 2007 – 1 August 2008.

KREST Institute Funding. Part of the K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal. National Science Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. June 18-29, 2007

George L. and Cleo Cross Graduate Student Endowed Scholarship. 2007.

The University of Oklahoma’s Research and Creativity Grant. Changes in temperature and precipitation on the rainfall use efficiency and water use efficiency in temperate prairie ecosystems. The University of Oklahoma. 2006.

East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI). Full funding to travel and work in the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany. National Science Foundation. 2006.

TERACC/EU funding for all travel and stay costs to Denmark for a workshop. One of five graduate students from the Unites States selected to go to the TERACC/EU meeting in Denmark on “Effects of Precipitation Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems a Workshop and Networking Activity (EPRECOT)”. 2006.

Honorary inductee into Sigma Xi. Emporia State University. 2003.

Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Academics and Research. Department of Biology, Emporia State University. 2003.  

Honorary inductee into Southwestern Associate of Naturalist. 2002.