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Ross Virginia

Professor and Director, Institute of Arctic Studies- within the Dickey Center for International Understanding

Ross Virginia is an ecosystem ecologist interested in human influence on biogeochemical cycles. His emphasis is on understanding how processes such as desertification and climate change alter plant-soil interactions and the ecology and biodiversity of soils. Prof. Virginia's research examines carbon and nitrogen cycling in deserts, including arid lands of the southwest and the polar deserts of Antarctica, the McMurdo Dry Valleys. He is also interested in the relationships between the disciplines of ecology, ecosystem science and environmental law.

Selected Publications

  • Barrett., J. E., R. A. Virginia and others. 2007. Biogeochemical stoichiometry of Antarctic Dry Valley ecosystems. JGR: Biosciences Vol.112, No. G01010, February, 07.
  • Barrett, J. E., R. A. Virginia and others.  2006. A soil carbon turnover model for the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. In press.
  • Barrett, J.E., R. A. Virginia, A. Parsons, and D. Wall. 2005. Potential C and N turnover in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 37:107-116.B
  • Barrett J. E., R. A. Virginia , and others. 2004. Variation in Biogeochemistry and Soil Biodiversity across Spatial Scales in a Polar Desert Ecosystem. Ecology 85:3105-3118
  • Parsons, A. N., J. E. Barrett, D. H. Wall, and R. A. Virginia. 2004. Soil Carbon Dioxide Flux in Antarctic Dry Valley Ecosystems. Ecosystems 7: 286-295.
  • Brooks, R. O., R. Jones , and R. A. Virginia . 2002. Law and Ecology: The Rise of the Ecosystem Regime. Ashgate Publishers Ltd.: Aldershot , Brookfield USA, Singapore, Sydney. 411 pp. For the series, Ecology and Law in Modern Society, R. O. Brooks and R. A. Virginia, eds.

Courses

  • ENVS 15 – From Pole to Pole: Environmental Issues of the Earth’s Cold Regions
  • ENVS 25 Ecological Agriculture
  • AFSP- Africa Foreign Study Program

Office: 109 Steele

Phone: 603-646-0192

Email: ross.a.virginia@dartmouth.edu

Web Page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ravirg/index.htm

Faculty Directory: http://dfd.dartmouth.edu/directory/show/285

Last Updated: 3/3/08