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Education:
1994 Ph.D. Botany,
University of California, Riverside.
Dissertation:
Developmental Stability and Floral Ontogeny in Self- and
Cross-pollinating Populations of Clarkia tembloriensis (Onagraceae).
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth M.
Lord
1986 Bachelor of Arts in
English, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Minor: Botany
Experience:
2008 – Present Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Co-PI on two NSF- and DOE-funded
climate experiments in tallgrass prairie.
Oct.
2002 – 2007 Research
Scientist, Department of Botany and Microbiology,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Primary responsibility supervising
5–10
students, postdocs, and visiting scholars gathering field data from two
NSF-
funded warming experiments in tallgrass prairie. Data gathered include
floristics,
plant phenology, plant community structure, biomass estimates, and soil
moisture,
as
well as photosynthesis, soil respiration and related measures using a
LiCor
6400
portable photosynthesis system. Perform data analysis, prepare oral
presentations, and write grant applications and scientific papers for
publication.
Aug. 2006 – 2007 Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and
Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Taught Principles of
Plant
Ecology, Methods in Plant Ecology, and Ecology and Environmental
Quality.
Jan. 2000 – June 2002
Botanist/Environmental Analyst, LSA Associates, Inc., Point
Richmond, CA. Conducted rare plant surveys, biological resource and
habitat
assessments, and wetland delineations. Prepared habitat management plans
and
restoration plans for native grasslands, oak woodlands, wetlands, and
streambanks. Created a habitat classification system for Contra Costa
County
Flood Control District to use in defining best management practices.
1999 Adjunct Assistant
Professor, Skyline College, San Mateo Community College
District, San Bruno, CA. Taught Introductory Biology for
non-majors.
1995-98 Postdoctoral
Associate, University of Missouri, Columbia. Research duties
involved studying plant development in relation to ecology. Taught the
upper
division courses Evolution (3years) and Plant Population Ecology Lab for
the
Division of Biological Sciences, and Forest Ecology for the Department
of
Forestry.
1990-94 Teaching Assistant,
University of California, Riverside. Taught labs for Plant
Morphology, General Botany, Plants and Human
Affairs, and Spring
Wildflowers.
1989-94 Laboratory Research
Assistant, University of California, Riverside.
1986-88 Secondary School
Teacher, Pakalinding Secondary Technical School, The Gambia, West
Africa.
Qualified to teach:
General Biology, General Botany, Spring Wildflowers, Plants
and Human Affairs, Oklahoma
Wildflowers and Plant Communities, Economic Botany,
Plant Anatomy, Plant Morphology,
Ecology, Evolution, Plant Ecology, Plant Population
Ecology, Plant Ecological
Morphology, Plant Reproductive Biology, Terrestrial Impacts
of Climate Change.
Research Support:
2008 – 2011 Experimental and Modeling
Study of Interactive Effects of Warming and
Altered Precipitation on Function and Structure of a Tallgrass Prairie
in
the
Great Plains. Co-PI: Dr. Yiqi Luo. United States Department of
Energy National Institute for Climate Change Research (NICCR)$444,008
2008 – 2012 Interactive Effects of Warming
and Clipping on Function and Structure of
a
Tallgrass Prairie in the Great Plains: Effects on Water Use Efficiency.
Co-PI: Dr. Yiqi Luo. National Science Foundation, Long-Term Research
in
Environmental Biology (LTREB)
$
497,635
1997 Phototropism and
Blue-light receptors. Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of
Missouri, Columbia.
1992-93
Floral Development in Clarkia tembloriensis. Dissertation
Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside.
1990 Development of
Spinach flowers.
Chancellor’s Patent Fund, University of
California, Riverside.
Honors and Awards:
1988-89 Dean’s Fellowship,
Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside.
1986 Honors Program
Graduate, Colorado State University.
1983-86 Annual Colorado State
Creative and Performing Arts Scholarships for Creative Writing.
1985 Phi Beta Kappa
Professional
Activities:
Current Member: Ecological
Society of America, California Native Plant Society, Oklahoma Native
Plant Society
Current Reviewer for: Global
Change Biology, American Naturalist, Australian Journal
of Botany, Functional Ecology, Journal of
Range Management, New Phytologist,
Soil Science
Society of America Journal, Tree Physiology,
International Journal of Plant Sciences.
Peer-Reviewed
Publications:
Sherry, R.A,
Weng, S., Arnone, J.A., Johnson, D.W., Schimel, D.S., Verburg, P.S.,
Wallace, L.L.,
and Luo, Y. 2008. Lagged Effects of Experimental Warming and
Doubled
Precipitation on Annual and Seasonal Aboveground Biomass Production
in a Tallgrass
Prairie. Global Change Biology, in press.
Luo,Y., R.A. Sherry, X. Zhou, and S. Wan. 2008. Plant Regulation
of Terrestrial
Carbon-cycle feedback to climate warming: A case study in a tallgrass
prairie.
Global Change
Biology,
in press.
Arnone, J.A.,
Verburg, P.S.J., Johnson, D.W., Larsen, J.D., Jasoni, R.L., Lucchesi,
A.J.,
Batts, C.M., von
Nagy, C., Coulombe, W.J., Schorran, D.E., Buck, P.E., Braswell,
R.H., Coleman,
J.S., Sherry, R.A., Wallace, L.L., Luo, Y., and Schimel, D.S.
2008. Future CO2
Uptake Suppressed by Synchronous and Lagged Ecosystem
Responses to
Extreme Year. Nature 455-383-386.
Knapp, A.K., Beier,
C., Briske, D.D., Classen, A.T., Luo, Y., Reichstein, M., Smith,
M.D., Smith, S.D.,
Bell J.E., Fay, P.A., Heisler, J.L., Leavitt, S.W., Sherry, R.A.,
Smith, B., and
Weng, E. 2008. Consequences of more extreme precipitation
regimes for
terrestrial ecosystems. BioScience 58:811-821.
Sherry, R.A.,
X. Zhou, S. Gu, J.A. Arnone III, D.S. Schimel, P.S. Verburg,
L.L.
Wallace, and Y. Luo. 2007. Divergence of Reproductive Phenology under
Climate Warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
U.S.A.
104:198-202.
Zhou X.,
R.A. Sherry, Y. An, L.L.
Wallace, and Y. Luo,. 2006. Main and interactive
effects of warming, clipping, and doubled precipitation on soil CO2
efflux in a
grassland ecosystem. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
20,
GB1003,
doi:10.1029/2005GB002526.
Sherry, R.A.
and E.M. Lord. 2000. A comparative developmental study of the selfing
and
outcrossing flowers of Clarkia tembloriensis (Onagraceae).
International Journal of Plant Sciences
161:563-574.
Galen, C., R.A. Sherry,
and A.B. Carroll. 1999. Are flowers physiological sinks or
faucets? Costs and correlates of water use by flowers of Polemonium
viscosum.
Oecologia
118:461-470.
Sherry, R.A.
and C. Galen. 1998. Mechanism of floral heliotropism in the snow
buttercup, Ranunculus adoneus. Plant Cell and Environment
21:983-993.
Galen, C., M.L. Stanton, J.S.
Shore, and R.A. Sherry. 1997. Source-sink dynamics
along
environmental gradients: environmental effects on gene flow and
substructure in a population of the alpine buttercup Ranunculus
adoneus. Opera
Botanica
132: 179-188.
Sherry, R.A.
and E.M. Lord. 1996. Developmental stability in leaves of Clarkia
tembloriensis
(Onagraceae) as related to population outcrossing rates and
heterozygosity. Evolution 50:80-91.
Sherry, R.A.
and E.M. Lord. 1996. Developmental stability in flowers of Clarkia
tembloriensis (Onagraceae). Journal
of Evolutionary Biology 9(6):911-930.
Sherry, R.A.,
E.M. Lord, and K.J. Eckard. 1993. Flower development in dioecious
Spinacia oleracea (Chenopodiaceae).
American Journal of Botany
80(3):283-291.
Manuscripts in Review
or Preparation:
Sherry, R.A.,
L.L. Wallace, J.A. Arnone III, D.S.
Schimel, P.S. Verburg, and Y. Luo.
Changes in Plant Community Structure and Species Abundance due to
Interannual Variation in Temperature and Precipitation in a Tallgrass
Prairie
Experiment. In Preparation.
Reports and Planning
Documents (Selected):
LSA Associates, Inc. 2002.
Sausal Canyon Rock-Fall Protection, Biological Report,
Geysers Recharge Project. Report
to the City of Santa Rosa Utilities Department, Santa
Rosa, CA. Prepared by Tim Lacy,
Sean Lohmann, Eva Buxton and Rebecca Sherry, LSA
Associates, Inc., Point
Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2002.
Congdon’s Tarplant Mitigation, First Annual Report,
Parkridge Subdivision, Salinas,
CA. Report to Award Homes, Santa Clara, CA. Prepared
by Rebecca Sherry and Clint
Kellner, LSA Associates, Inc., Point Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2002.
Special-Status Botanical Resources, Third Annual Report,
Geysers Recharge Project,
Pipeline Alignments and Pump Station Locations, Sonoma
County, CA. Report to the City
of Santa Rosa Utilities Department, Santa Rosa, CA.
Prepared by Eva Buxton and
Rebecca Sherry. LSA Associates, Inc., Point Richmond,
CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2002.
Rockville Hills Regional Park Management Plan,
Recommended Draft. Submitted to
the City of Fairfield Community Services
Department, Fairfield, CA.
Prepared by George Molnar, Rachel Budelsky and Rebecca
Sherry, LSA Associates, Inc.,
Point Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2002.
Conceptual Wetland Mitigation and Monitoring Plan,
Applied Biosystems, Pleasanton
Campus. Submitted to Applied Biosystems, Pleasanton,
CA. Prepared by Sean Lohmann and
Rebecca Sherry, LSA Associates, Inc., Point
Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2001.
Contra Costa County Flood Control Habitat Classification
and Inventory System, Contra
Costa County, Flood Control and Water Conservation
District. Submitted to Contra
Costa County Department of Public Works, Martinez, CA.
Prepared by Rebecca Sherry, LSA
Associates, Inc., Point Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2001.
Special-Status Botanical Resources, Geysers Recharge
Project, Pipeline Alignments and
Pump Station Locations, Sonoma County, CA. Report
to the City of Santa Rosa
Utilities Department, Santa Rosa, CA. Prepared by Clint
Kellner, Eva Buxton and Rebecca
Sherry. LSA Associates, Inc., Point Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2001.
Native Grassland Restoration and Enhancement Plan,
Anderson-Rowe Ranch Project
Areas B, C and D. Submitted to Pell Development
Company, San Rafael, CA.
Prepared by Rebecca Sherry, LSA Associates, Inc., Point
Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2001.
Native Grassland Restoration and Enhancement at Hartzell
Park, San Rafael, CA. Submitted
to, San Rafael, CA. Prepared by Rebecca Sherry, LSA Associates, Inc.,
Point Richmond, CA.
LSA Associates, Inc. 2001. Cliff
Swallow Biology and Nuisance Abatement
Recommendations, A Report to the
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Report to
the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission, Water Quality Bureau, Burlingame, CA.
Prepared by Rebecca Sherry, LSA
Associates, Inc., Point Richmond, CA.
Book Reviews:
Sherry, R. and T. Wyka. 1996.
Review of Rock Garden Plants of North America: An
Anthology from the Bulletin of the North American Rock Garden Society,
J.
McGary, ed., 1996, Timber Press, Inc., Portland, OR. In The
Plant Science
Bulletin Vol.42(3):88-89.
Sherry, R. 1997. Review of
The Biology of Grasses by G.P. Chapman, 1996. CAB
International, NY. In The Plant Science Bulletin 43(3):79.
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