Education
| Ph.D |
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Biological Sciences |
Current |
| M.S |
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Biology |
2005 |
| B.S. |
Elizabethtown College |
Environmental Science |
2000 |
Work Experience
| 2005 - 2006 |
Research Technician: Institute of Arctic Biology, Univerisity of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2002 - 2004 |
Research Assistant: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2001 |
Assistant Researcher: USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Science CenterLa Crosse, WI |
| 2000 |
Research Assistant: Toolik Field Station, North Slope, AK, for the Ecosystem Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA |
| 1999 |
Research Assistant: Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Missoula, MT |
Teaching Experience
| 2002 – 2005 |
Teaching Assistant – Biology and Wildlife Department,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK |
- Fundamentals of Biology I (BIOL 105)
- Fundamentals of Biology II (BIOL 106)
- Principles of Ecology (BIOL 271)
- Principles of Genetics (BIOL 362)
- Structure and Function in Vascular Plants (BIOL 334)
- Limnology (BIOL 473)
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Publications
- O’Donnell, J.A., M.R. Turetksy, J.W. Harden, K.L Manies, L.E. Pruett, and J.C. Neff. 2007 (in prep). The effect of fire, soil drainage, and litter quality on CO2 fluxes in black spruce stands of interior Alaska. Ecosystems.
- O’Donnell, J.A., E.S. Kane, G.R. Aiken, J.B. Jones, and J.W. Harden. 2007 (in prep). DOC composition at spring snowmelt and summer baseflow in boreal forest streams of interior Alaska.
- Kane, E.S., E.F. Betts, A.J. Burgin, H.M. Clilverd, C.L. Crenshaw, J.B. Fellman, I.H. Myers-Smith, J.A. O’Donnell, D.J Sobota, W.J. Van Verseveld, J.B. Jones. 2007 (in prep). Precipitation control over nitrogen retention across watersheds: a synthesis of Long-Term Ecological Research.
- O’Donnell, J.A., and J.B. Jones. 2006. Nitrogen retention in the riparian zone of watersheds underlain by discontinuous permafrost. Freshwater Biology 51: 854 – 864.
- Bartsch, M.R., T.J. Newton, J.W. Allran, J.A. O’Donnell, and W.B. Richardson. 2003.
Effects of pore-water ammonia on in situ survival and growth of juvenile mussels
(Lampsilis cardium) in the St. Croix Riverway, Wisconsin, USA. Environmental
toxicology and chemistry 22: 2561-2568.
- Newton, T.J., J.W. Allran, J.A. O’Donnell, M.R. Bartsch, and W.B. Richardson. 2003.
Effects of ammonia on juvenile unionid mussels (Lampsilis cardium) in
laboratory sediment toxicity tests. Environmental toxicology and chemistry 22: 2554-2560.
Presentations
- O’Donnell, J.A., E.S. Kane, J.B. Jones, G.R. Aiken, and J.W. Harden. 2006. DOC composition at spring snowmelt and summer baseflow in boreal forest streams of interior Alaska. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California (poster)
- O’Donnell, J.A., E.S. Kane, J.B. Jones, G.R. Aiken, and J.W. Harden. 2006. DOC quality in boreal forest streams along a latitudinal gradient through interior Alaska. Biogeomon, Santa Cruz, California (poster)
- O’Donnell, J.A., J.W. Harden, L.E. Pruett, and K.L. Manies. 2005. The effect of fire and drainage on CO2 fluxes in black spruce stands of interior Alaska. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California (poster)
- O’Donnell, J.A. and J.B. Jones. 2005. Nitrogen retention in the riparian zone of watersheds underlain by discontinuous permafrost. North American Benthological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. (oral presentation)
- O’Donnell, J.A. and J.B. Jones. 2004. Denitrification in watersheds with discontinuous
permafrost in boreal forests of interior Alaska. American Water Resources
Association Regional Meeting, Fairbanks, Alaska. (oral presentation)
- O’Donnell, J.A. and J.B. Jones. 2003. Denitrification in watersheds with discontinuous
permafrost in the boreal forest of interior Alaska. Long-term ecological research
All-scientist Meeting 2003, Seattle, Washington. (poster presentation)
- O’Donnell, J.A., T.J. Newton, M. Bartsch, L.M Thorson. Lethal and sublethal effects of
un-ionized ammonia to juvenile Unionids in sediment toxicity tests. St Croix
River Research Rendezvous, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, October 2001. (oral presentation)
- O’Donnell, J.A. and T.E. Murray. Use of Barley Straw as an Algicide in Lake
Management. Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Reading, Pennsylvania, April 2000. (poster presentation)
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