Ross A. Virginia

| Environmental Studies

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

B.S.                SUNY College of Environmental Science and

                      Forestry, Syracuse, New York. Forest Biology                      1972.

M.S.               University of California, Davis.  Ecology. 1974

Ph.D.              University of California, Davis.  Ecology. 1980

A.M.               Dartmouth College (Honorary).  1992.

EXPERIENCE

2003-present    Director, Institute of Arctic Studies, within the                      John Sloan Dickey Center for International

                     Understanding

1997-2004       Albert Bradley Third Century Professor in the

                          Sciences

1992-present   Professor of Environmental Studies

                     (Chair 1992-2000), Adjunct Professor of                      Biological Sciences and of Earth Sciences,

                     Dartmouth College

1985-June       Professor (1988-1992), Associate Professor

1992              (1985-1988), Department of Biology,

                     San Diego State University

1985-June      Associate Director/Director Systems Ecology 

1992             Researh Group, San Diego State University

1982-1985      Assisant Research Scientist

                    Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences

                    University of California, Riverside

1980-1982      Postdoctoral Research Scientist,

                    Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences

                    University of California, Riverside

1974-1980     Graduate Research Assistant, Teaching 

                   Associate/Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Land,                    Air and Water Resources. University of  

                   California Davis

Professional Organizations/Service

Trustee, Sterling College (Craftsbury Common, Vermont), and member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Northern Studies 2005-08.

Association of Ecosystems Research Centers (AERC).  Board of Directors, 1992-1993. Board of Directors and Treasurer, 1993-1997, 2000.  President-Elect, 1998.  President, 1999.  Treasurer, 2000

Environmental Law Center Advisory Committee, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont.  1994- 2002

ARCUS, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States.  Dartmouth College Institutional Representative.  1995- present.

Member, Corporation of the Montshire Museum of Science.  Norwich, Vermont.  1995-present

Member, U. S. National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), a committee of the National Research Council.  1996-99.

Member, Natural Systems Agriculture Science Advisory Team, The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas.  1998-present.