Sharon Martinson

Professor (Courtesy)
Climate Change Modeling & Plant Population Ecology

FSL 209, Global Change
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Office: FSL 209
• Phone: 541-758-8805
• Fax: 541-750-7329

• B.S. 2000, Keene State College, Keene, NH
• Ph.D. 2007, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Climate change effects on terrestrial ecology and evolutionary biology. Population dynamics/population regulation. Theoretical ecology. Forest entomology (bark beetles). Plant-Herbivore interactions and co-evolution. Plant defense theory.

I am currently employed as a research scientist at University of California-Santa Cruz with Michael Loik. I’m working with collaborators at University of Wyoming (Dan Doak) and the PNW Forest Service research station Global Change group (under Ron Neilson) to create a new dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) that will simulate terrestrial biomass under future climate scenarios. This model, Biomap, will include realistic, explicit formulations of plant population dynamic processes, especially reproduction and recruitment. This model will also allow for the range expansion and migration of species through time, across space.

1. USDA, Southern Research Station Grant ($35,600), 2006
2. Dartmouth College Alumni Research Grant ($2,000), 2003
3. Dartmouth College Teaching Assistantship ($196,000), 2001-2006
4. Dartmouth College Presidential Graduate Award ($1,500), 2001
5. Keene State College Academic Talent Scholarship ($56,000), 1996-2000
6. Keene State College Undergraduate Research Grant ($750), 1999-2000

• Lotka Award, Best theoretical ecology paper, ESA meeting, 2007
• Edmund A. Gianferrari Biology Award for excellence, 2000
• Keene State College Scholar-Athlete of the Year (1998-'99) & (1999-2000)

1. 2007 Martinson, S.J. R.W. Hofstetter, and M.P. Ayres. Why does longleaf pine have low susceptibility to southern pine beetle? Can. J. For. Res. 37(10): 1966–1977 (2007)
2. 2007 Friedenberg, N.A, B.M. Whited, D.H. Slone, S.J. Martinson, and M.P. Ayres. Differential impacts of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis, on Pinus palustris and Pinus taeda. Can. J. For. Res. 37(8): 1427–1437 (2007)
3. 2007 Martinson, S.J., D.A. Cook, and K.R. Cangialosi. Seasonal distribution and abundance of spiders along and in forested streams in New England. abstract published, manuscript pending. Journal of Arachnology
4. 2008 in prep. Martinson, S.J. Evaluating the role of iteroparity and predation in populations of Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). For submission to Environmental Entomology.
5. 2008 in prep. Martinson, S.J. T. Ylioja, B. Sullivan, R. Billings, and M.P. Ayres. The evidence and ecology of multiple equilibria in population dynamics of the southern pine beetle. For submission to Ecology.
6. 2008 in prep. R.W. Hofstetter, S.J. Martinson, M.L. Gaylord, and M. Wagner. Differences in attraction of primary and secondary bark beetles and their predators to terpene levels and pheromone combinations in Arizona. For submission to the Ecological Entomology.

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