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Fiona M Soper
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology Lab • PI Cory Cleveland
College of Forestry & Conservation
University of Montana
[email protected] • www.fionasoper.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
B.Sc.
Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2010-2016
Dissertation: Effects of woody legume encroachment on nitrogen fixation, storage and gas loss in
a subtropical semi-arid savanna. Advisor: Dr. Jed Sparks
University of Queensland, Botany, Hons Class I, 2005-2008
PUBLICATIONS
In prep
In review
2016
2015
2011
Educational
Resources
FM Soper, JP Sparks, L Derry and others, Biological pumping of mineral nutrients in a temperate
forested shale catchment
FM Soper, PG Taylor, W Wieder, S Weintraub, C Cleveland, S Porder, A Townsend, Low rates of
gaseous N loss point to conservative N cycling in a lowland tropical forest watershed
FM Soper, CK McCalley, KL Sparks, JP Sparks, Soil carbon dioxide emissions from the Mojave
Desert: isotopic evidence for a carbonate source Geophysical Research Letters 44:245-251
FM Soper, JP Sparks, Estimating ecosystem nitrogen addition by a leguminous tree: A mass
balance approach using a woody encroachment chronosequence Ecosystems In press
FM Soper, PM Groffman, JP Sparks, Denitrification in a subtropical, semi-arid savanna: field
measurements and intact soil core incubations Biogeochemistry 128:257-266
FM Soper, TW Boutton, PM Groffman, JP Sparks, Nitrogen trace gas fluxes from a semi-arid
subtropical savanna under woody legume encroachment Global Biogeochemical Cycles
30:614-628
FM Soper, AE Richards, I Siddique, MPM Aidar, GD Cook, LB Hutley, N Robinson, S Schmidt,
Natural abundance (δ15N) indicates shifts in nitrogen relations of woody taxa along a savannawoodland continental rainfall gradient Oecologia 178:297-308
FM Soper, TW Boutton, JP Sparks, Investigating patterns of symbiotic nitrogen fixation during
vegetation change from grassland to woodland using fine scale δ15N measurements Plant, Cell &
Environment 38: 89-100
FM Soper, C Paungfoo-Lonhienne et al, Arabidopsis and Lobelia anceps access small peptides
as a nitrogen source for growth Functional Plant Biology 38: 788-796
N Robinson, R Brackin, K Vinall, FM Soper et al, Nitrate paradigm does not hold up for sugarcane
PloS ONE 6(4): e19045.
FM Soper, JP Sparks, HW Greene, C McLinn (2014) ‘Empowering tomorrows field
instructors: A coupled graduate-undergraduate course for teaching research mentorship
in a field context’ Cornell Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning
SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS
2014
2013
2010-2013
2012-2013
2012
2011
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Betty Miller Francis ’47 Fund for Field Research
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Cornell Cross Scale Biogeochemistry and Climate Program Small Grants (4 total)
Andrew W Mellon Student Research Grant
Southwestern Association of Naturalists Howard McCarley Research Award
Kieckhefer Adirondack Fellowship
Total graduate research funding: $52,160
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SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016
2015
Young Alumna of the Year, Stuartholme School
Whittaker Award (Best Presentation), Cornell Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium
Ecological Society of America Early Career Mentorship Program Travel Award
Betty Miller Francis ’47 Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
Billings Award (Best Presentation), Ecological Society of America Meeting
American Australian Association Education Fellowship
Cornell University Graduate Fellowship
DA Herbert Prize in Botany, University of Queensland
2014
2013
2011
2010
2008
RESEARCH POSITIONS
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Research Technician, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
Research Projects Officer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
(CSIRO), Plant Industry Division (Brisbane, Australia)
2016
2010
2009
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015
2014
2011-2012
Teaching Assistantships, Cornell University
Ecology and Environment (Head TA)
Principles of Biogeochemistry
Deserts, Snakes and Mentorship in the Field
Introduction to Comparative Physiology
PRESENTATIONS
2016
2015
2014
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Baltimore, MD
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Sacramento, CA (education section)
Invited lecture: ‘The global methane cycle’ in BIOEE668: Principles of Biogeochemistry
Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN *Awarded Best Oral Presentation
Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Portland, OR (poster)
Ecological Society of America National Meeting, Austin, TX
2013
2012
2011
SERVICE AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Reviewer, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Functional Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecosphere, Biogeochemistry,
Biogeosciences, Oecologia, Plant and Soil, Journal of Arid Environments, Austral Ecology, PLoS
One, Geoderma Regional
Mentorship Officer, Ecological Society of America Early Career Ecologist Section, 2016-present
Selection Panel, American Australian Association Education Fellowships (2016)
Student President, National Delegate, Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, Alpha chapter (2014-2015)
Organizational Committee, Cornell Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science and Sustainability Seminar Series
(2011-present), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (2010-2011, 2013)
Grant Review Panelist, Cornell Biogeochemistry NSF IGERT small grants (2011-2015), Mellon Grants (2014)
President, Cornell Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science and Sustainability GSA (2012)
Mentor and supervisor, undergraduate honors student, Cornell Enviro-mentor Program (2010-2014)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ecological Society of America
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American Geophysical Union
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Sigma Xi
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