QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Dr. Ann Odasz has thirty-four years of professional experience in the
areas of plant ecology, quantitative vegetation analysis, plant population
genetics and autecology, ecophysiological response to airborne pollutants,
and multivariate statistics. Project experience includes the design and
execution of baseline vegetation and soils studies, evaluation of long-term
natural plant community dynamics, nitrate reductase activity in nitrogen
rich habitats, and Landsat-satellite detection of plant physiological
status in high latitudes. Ann's projects have been performed in the states
of Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska, and in high latitudes of Europe and Russia.
ALASKA / WYOMING PLANT STUDIES
Plant and soil analyses were conducted to describe ecotone vegetation types within the Picea glauca treelimit of the Brooks Range of Alaska in 1978, 1980 and 1981. Vascular plants and bryophytes were collected throughout Wyoming with Dr. Ronald Hartman, curator of the University of Laramie herbarium in 1980. A number of new occurrences were described for the state. In 1982 Ann conducted a rare and endangered plant survey in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness area of the Wind River Range for the U.S. Forest Service.
GRASSLAND / GRAZING EXPERIENCE
Ann led a team of graduate students in a long-term grazing study in a
semi-polar desert grassland. Plant response to timing and intensity of
defoliation by ungulate grazing patterns showed graminoid overcompensation
in moderate grazing regimes. Multi-year response to migratory patterns
of ungulate grazing was assessed in a model plant species, Polygonum viviparum,
by monitoring preformation of buds and leaves. Results showed that forced
early ungulate migration due to overstocking rates decreased long-term
plant production in arctic perennial plants.
MONITORING STUDIES EXPERIENCE
In Colorado, Ann has participated in ESCO Associate's studies for the purpose of monitoring reclaimed vegetation on the Lakewood Pipeline route and in the alpine of Winter Park Ski Resort. She also assisted in the vegetation monitoring of the NEON site on the Pawnee Grassland.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Ann participated as the Norwegian representative in the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). This international long-term study analyzed the response of circumpolar arctic and alpine plants in an experimental climate change monitoring program.
For the National Science Foundation of Norway, Ann was leader of the
committee funding and managing an eight year multi-disciplinary ecological
study on Svalbard, Norway. Results were published in numerous international
scientific journals.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
l983 - Ph.D. Biology - Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology
Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
l977 - Graduate course work - Subarctic Bioclimatology, Abisko Research
Station, Sweden
l976 - B.S. Ecological Interrelationships/Botany - University of California,
Davis, California, USA
l974-l975 - Undergraduate and l977 - graduate biology course work - University
of Lund, Sweden
OTHER TRAINING
l992 - Nordic Council Course, Large herbivores and Savannah Dynamics,
plant-herbivore interactions, Uppsala, Sweden
l992 - Nordic Council Course, Leadership Skills, University of Oslo, Norway
and University of Linköping, Sweden
l990, l992 - Electrophoretic Genetic Techniques, Genetics Department,
University of Oulu, Finland
l988 - Post-doctoral workshop, Theoretical Ecology: Tackling Variability,
European Science Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
l988 - International Society of Ecological Modeling Workshop, University
of California, Davis, USA,
l988 - Post - doctoral course, Plant Biogeography, Institute of Ecological
Botany, University of Uppsala, Sweden,
l986 - Post - doctoral course, Population Biology and Ecophysiology, Abisko
Research Station, Sweden
l986 - Post - doctoral course, Geographic Parthenogenesis, Finse, Norway
l986 - Post - doctoral course, Non - Island Biogeography, Tvärminne
Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland
l984 - Post - doctoral course, Community Stability and Diversity, University
of Uppsala, Sweden
l984 - Svalbard - course, Ecology of the High Arctic, Ny - Ålesund,
Svalbard, Norway
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Botanical Society of America, USA
Ecological Society of America, USA
British Ecological Society, England
American Bryological and Lichenological Society, USA
American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA
Arctic Institute of North America, USA
Northwest Science Association, USA
American Institute of Biological Science, USA
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2007-present - ESCO Associates, Boulder, CO
2003-2007 - Publication writing, Department of Arctic Biology, Institute
of Medical Biology,
University of Tromsø, Norway and University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado, USA
l998-2003 - Associate Professor, Department of Arctic Biology, Institute
of Medical Biology,
University of Tromsø, Norway
l988-l997 - Associate Professor, Ecology Department, Institute of Biology
and Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway
l986-l988 - Post - Doctoral Research Associate, Norwegian Science Council
- Bird-cliff project Svalbard, Institute of Biology and Geology, University
of Tromsø, Norway
l984-l986 - Post - Doctoral Research Associate, National Science Foundation
Award, USA, with Prof. Eilif Dahl, Botany Institute, Agricultural University
of Norway, Ås
l978-l983 - Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental, Population,
and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
l980 - Wilderness Ranger, Rare and Endangered Plant Survey, Fitzpatrick
Wilderness, U.S. Forest Service, Wyoming, USA
l980 - Field Research Assistant, Wetlands Vegetation Analysis, Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, USA
l979 - Teaching Assistant with Prof. Jack Major, University of California,
Alpine Ecology of the Teton Mountains, Teton Science School, Wyoming,
USA
l979 - Assessment Committee, Saddlestring Ranch Research Center, Wyoming,
USA
l978 - Research Assistant, Plant Ecology, Institute of Arctic and Alpine
Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
l977 - Doctoral thesis translation, Swedish to English, Lund Institute
of Technology, Sweden
l976 - Field Biologist, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Lander, Wyoming,
USA
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
l984-present - Field research on Svalbard and Northern Norway, population
biology and genetics, field and laboratory ecophysiology and vegetation
ecology, microclimatic monitoring, nutrient cycling in arctic ecosystems,
plant-herbivore ecology
l99l - Expedition to Franz Josef Land, Russian-Norwegian-Polish co-operative
project to establish a permanent biological station. Plant collection
for herbarium and for nitrate reductase analyses, bryophytes and soils
collected and analyzed for nutrient content
l985-l992 - University of Tromsø, physiological ecology laboratory
analyses, cold tolerance, photosynthesis, transpiration and enzyme activities
in phytotron
l989 - Electrophoresis analyses on plants, Genetics Department, Oulu,
Finland, 2 weeks, l990 - 3 weeks, l99l - 2 weeks
l989 - Research Visit, Dr. B. Schaals DNA "finger-printing"
lab, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
l987-l988 - Nitrate reductase analyses conducted on 7l species, performed
in greenhouse on Svalbard and phytotron in Tromsø, Norway
l985-l988 - Norwegian Polar Institute in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Field
research- population biology, frost resistance during March and April
and nitrate reductase activity of vascular plants below a birdcliff
l985 - Laboratory analyses of 200 Scandinavian and Alaska soil samples
for N, C, loss on ignition, pH, CEC and exchangeable cations Ca, Mg, K,
and Na, Botanical Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden
l984, l985 - Field research- vegetation analyses in subalpine and subarctic
habitats; Törnetrask and Kamasjäre, Sweden, and Kongsvold and
Rondane, Norway
l982 - Dendrochronology course, analysis of Alaska spruce with Dr. G.
Jacoby, Lamont, Doherty Tree- ring Laboratory, Columbia University, New
York, USA, 2 months
l978-l982 - Field research for Ph.D. degree-upper Alatna River drainage,
Central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA
l977 - Plant collection- La Buffa and Chihuahua, Mexico with Drs. Bye
and W.A. Weber from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
l977 - Delphinium plant collection, Tatra Mountains, Poland with doctoral
students, University of Lund, Sweden
l975 - Plant collection trips- in Lapland, Sweden, 4 months
l974 - Undergraduate research- three-months, plant collection and community
analysis, Mitkoff Island, Alaska, USA
l97l-l973 - Undergraduate research- analysis of hen response to poultry-house
conditions- with Dr. D. Grau, Avian Science Department, University of
California, Davis, USA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Bråthen, K.A. & Odasz-Albrigtsen, A.M. 2000. Response of the
arctic graminoid Luzula arcuata ssp. confusa to simulated grazing in two
nitrogen environments. . Canadian Journal of Botany, 78: 1008-1013.
Odasz-Albrigtsen, A.M., Tømmervik, T. & Murphy, P. 2000. Estimation of photosynthetic efficiency in plant species exposed to multiple airborne pollutants along the Russian-Norwegian Border. Canadian Journal of Botany, 78: 1021-1033.
Wegener, C. & Odasz-Albrigtsen, A.M. l998. Do Svalbard reindeer regulate standing crop of vascular plants in the absence of predators? Oecologia, 116: 202-206.
Wegener, C. & Odasz, A.M. l997. Grazing response strategies along a snow deposition gradient: A laboratory experiment on three grasses from Svalbard. Canadian Journal of Botany 75:1685-1691.
Wegener, C. & Odasz, A.M. l997. Effects of laboratory simulated grazing on biomass of the perennial Arctic grass Dupontia fisheri R. Br. from Svalbard: Evidence of overcompensation. Oikos 79:496-502.
Odasz, A.M. & Savolainen, O. l996. Genetic variation in populations of the arctic perennial, Pedicularis dasyantha (Scrophulariaceae) on Svalbard, Norway. American Journal of Botany 83 (ll):l379-l385.
Odasz, A.M. l996. Bryophyte vegetation and habitat gradients in the Tikhaia Bay Region, Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, Arctic Russia. The Bryologist 99 (4):407-4l5.
Odasz, A.M. l994. Nitrate reductase activity in vegetation below an arctic bird cliff, Svalbard, Norway. Journal of Vegetation Science 5:9l3-920.