JOSEPH (JAY) SKILES - NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

MS 239-20, Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone:  650-604-3614     Fax:  650-604-1088     Email:  Joseph.W.Skiles@nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for Investigation 7, "Hind-Casting Past Environments".

Related Experience Summary

Thirty plus years of experience in ecology, ecosystem simulation, physiological plant ecology, botany.  International experience in Africa.  Use of computers and computational techniques since 1966.  Multiple university teaching roles including curriculum. development.

Employment History

• Research Scientist, Ecosystem Science & Technology Branch, NASA/Ames, 9-2000 - present
• Principal Investigator, SETI Institute, NASA/Ames (1998 - 2000)
• Senior Research Scientist, Johnson Controls World Services, NASA/Ames (1996 - 1997)
• Research Scientist, Johnson Controls World Services, NASA/Ames (1990-1995)
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Biology, San Diego State Univ. (1987 - 1990)
• Research Fellow, Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State Univ. (1987 - 1990)
• Research Associate, Systems Ecology Research, Group, San Diego State Univ. (1986 - 1987)
• Systems Ecologist, NW Watershed Research Center, USDA-ARS, Boise, Idaho (1983 - 1986)
• Consultant in Systems Ecology, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Integrated Project for Arid Lands, Nairobi, Kenya (1982)
• Research Assistant Professor/Research Associate, Systems Ecology Group, Department of Range Science, Colorado State Univ. (1979 - 1982)
• Lecturer, Program In Social Ecology, UC Irvine (1978 - 1979)
• Teaching Assistant, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine (1977)
• Lecturer, Dept. of Biology, Calif. State University at Los Angeles (1976)
• Teaching Associate, Program In Social Ecology, UC Irvine (1974 - 1976)
• Lecturer, Dept. of Biology, Calif. State University at Los Angeles (1975)
• Writer/Consultant, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, Colorado (1974)
• Teaching Assistant, Program In Social Ecology, UC Irvine (1972 - 1974)
• Research Assistant, Population and Environmental Biology, UC Irvine (1972)
• Regents appointed Fellow as Instructional Assistant in biology, University of Idaho (1969 - 1971)
• Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Redlands (1968 - 1969)

Education

1969 B.S. University of Redlands, Redlands CA (biology).
1971 M.S. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (botany).
1977 Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, CA (ecology and evolutionary biology)

Professional Societies

American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Botanical Society, Ecological Society of America, International Society for Ecological Modeling

Selected Relevant Publications

Skiles, JW, JD Hanson, W Parton. 1983. Simulation of above and belowground nitrogen and carbon dynamics of Bouteloua gracilis and Agropyron smithii. pp. 467-473 In Lauenroth, WK, GV Skogerboe, M.Flug (eds). Analysis of Ecological Systems: State-of-the-Art in Ecological Modeling. Developments in Environmental Modelling, 5. Elsevier Scientific Pub Co Amsterdam 992p.

Hanson, JD, WJ Parton, and JW Skiles. 1983. SPUR plant growth component.  pp. 68-73  In Wight, JR (ed.), SPUR - Simulation of Production and Utilization of Rangelands: A Rangeland Model for Management and Research. US Department of Agriculture, Misc Publication No. 1431. 120p.

MacNeil, MD, JW Skiles, JD Hanson. 1985. Sensitivity analysis of a general rangeland model. Ecological Modelling 29:57-76.

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