KELLY DECKER - CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, MONTEREY BAY

Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch - MS 242-4
NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone:  650-604-0629     Fax:  650-604-4680     Email:  kdecker@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for the modification of a mathematical model simulating microbial mat biogeochemistry, and preparation of manuscripts for publication.

Related Experience Summary

Co-creator of the MBGC model which simulates a photosynthetic microbial mat.  Additional experience in soil microbial ecology and in ecosystem ecology as a Graduate Student Assistant (Ohio State University) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vermont.

Employment History

• 12/2001-Present: Adjunct Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellow; California State University-Monterey Bay/Astrobiology Program; NASA Ames Research Center
• 12/2000-12/2001: Postdoctoral Fellow; School of Natural Resources; University of  Vermont
• 12/1996-3/1998: Graduate Research Assistant; Department of Plant Biology;  Ohio State University and Department of Biology, University of Dayton
• 12/1992-6/1993: Undergraduate Research Assistant - Humboldt State University:
• Courses Lectured: Ecosystems Ecology, Plants, People, and the Environment(II), Local Flora
• Laboratory Sections Taught: Plants, People, and the Environment (I) & (II), Local Flora
• Other Teaching/Laboratory Assistant Positions: Internship Supervisor,Field Ecology T.A.
• Evolution T.A., Plant Physiological Ecology T.A., Community Ecology T.A., Undergraduate Tutor of Chemistry, Botany, and Biology.

Education

B.S. Botany (1993) Humboldt State University
Ph.D. Ecology (2001) Ohio State University

Professional Societies

NASA Astrobiology Institute
The Ecological Society of America
Associate Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Soil Ecology Society

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation-Dissertation Enhancement Grant (1996)
Presidential Fellowship
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid
Latin America Studies Program-Tinker Foundation Grant

Selected Relevant Publications

Decker K.L.M. and C. Potter 2002. Mathematical model of a marine microbial mat ecosystem.

Abstracts of the Second Annual Astrobiology Conference. Moffett Field, CA.

Boerner, R.E.J., and K.L.M. Decker . 2000. The effect of prescribed burning on soil enzyme activities in southern Ohio oak ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32:899-908.

Decker, K.L.M., R.E.J. Boerner, and S.J. Morris.1999. Scale dependent patterns of soil enzyme activity in a forested landscape. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29:232-241.

Hevia , M.F., M.L. Minoletti O., K.L.M. Decker, and R.E.J. Boerner.1999. Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics of three Chilean Nothofagus species in relation to leaf lifespan. American Journal of Botany 86(3):447-455.

Decker, K.L.M., and R.E.J. Boerner. 1997. Ca:Al effects on growth and competitive interactions between ectomycorrhizal red oak (Quercus rubra) and arbuscular-mycorrhizal yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 124(4):286-296

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