Zoe Cardon

BIOGRAPHY

Zoe Cardon is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member John Hobbie to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

Zoe Cardon also has responsibility for checking the contents of the following journals to ensure that the highest quality research relevant to their own interests within these publications is comprehensively and systematically evaluated for F1000:

- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

EDUCATION:
• BS Biology, BA Spanish, Utah State University, 1988; College of Science valedictorian; graduation Magna Cum Laude
• PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 1994

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• National Merit Scholar (1983-87)
• Presidential Scholar (1983)
• Phi Kappa Phi James R Slater Fellow, for excellence in plant sciences (1988-89)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1988-90)
• Morrison Institute for Population Studies, Stanford University, travel award (1991-92)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1990-93)
• Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-95)
• University of Connecticut University-wide Outstanding Faculty Advisor (1999)
• Invited member of international review panel for the National Phytotron at Duke (2001)
• Invited participant at Carey Conference IX, 'Understanding Ecosystems: The Role of Quantitative Models in Observation, Synthesis, and Prediction', Institute of Ecosystem Studies (2001)
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department, Harvard University (Fall Semester, 2002)
• Invited panelist, NSF 'Frontiers in Belowground Carbon Cycling Research' workshop (2003)
• Visiting scientist, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory (Fall Semester, 2003)
• Invited member of Program Leaders Committee for NSF-funded SAMSI program
• Editorial Board, Oecologia (2004-)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• How interactions among organisms and soils shape, and are shaped by, terrestrial biogeochemistry
• Biodiversity of eukaryotic microbes in soils, specifically very diverse unicellular desert green algae that promise to contribute greatly to understanding of the evolution and ecology of advanced photosynthetic life on land
• Technique development

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