Joshua Schimel

My research integrates microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, evaluating how soil microbial communities function and, in turn, regulate ecosystem-scale processes, particularly soil carbon dynamics. My focus is on bridging scales—when does fine-scale information add insight to larger-scale science and how to use models to integrate insights from the different scales. Primary research areas have been the Arctic in Alaska and Greenland, and in dry Mediterranean ecosystems of California, environments that are stressed by low water availability and wetting/drying cycles. I've has published >200 papers and am the author of "Writing Science" and of "Your Future on the Faculty," both published by Oxford University Press. I am an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, a Fellow in the Ecological Society of America, and a recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Soil Ecology Society.