Marjorie Fisher Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies Program  
Mount Holyoke College      
Clapp Laboratory
50 College Street
South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075      
phone: 413-538-2607
fax: 413-538-2548
e-mail: jbubier@mtholyoke.edu

Education

McGill University, Ph.D. Physical Geography (Biogeochemistry of Peatlands) 1994. Dean's Honours List.
"Methane flux and plant distribution in northern peatlands".

University of Vermont, M.S. Botany (Field Naturalist Program) 1989.

University of Maine School of Law, J.D. 1978.
Environmental law exchange program, Dalhousie University, 1978.

Bowdoin College, B.A. magna cum laude 1974. James Bowdoin Scholar.
Majors: Government and History. U.S. Congressional Intern, Washington, D.C.

Smith College, 1970-1972. Dean's List.

Teaching Experience

Marjorie Fisher Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Environmental Studies Program, Department of Earth and Environment, Mount Holyoke College, 2004-present; Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, 1998-2004. Courses include Introduction to Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Wetland Ecology, Biogeochemistry of Northern Ecosystems, and Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies; advised undergraduates.

Associate Professor, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, 2000-present.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire, 1997-present.
Taught classes in biogeochemistry; advised undergraduate and graduate students.

Lecturer, McGill University, Plant and Soil Science, Geography Departments, 1993-1994.
Taught classes in boreal forest ecosystem processes, bryophyte and vascular plant ecology, and biogeochemistry of northern peatlands.

Instructor, Subarctic Field School, McGill University, Schefferville, Quebec, 1992.
Taught field exercises for Biology and Geography undergraduate students in soils, wetland and upland plant ecology, and permafrost dynamics in Labrador Trough landscapes.

Consultant and advisor, Field Naturalist Program, University of Vermont, 1989-present.
Taught field exercises for Botany graduate students; advised graduate students on research methods for wetland studies.

Lecturer, University of Southern Maine, Interdisciplinary Core Curriculum, 1986-7.
Developed and taught courses on marine resource issues in the Gulf of Maine. Courses for undergraduates were team-taught with members of Geology and Political Science departments.

Faculty Member, School for Field Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983.
Taught marine mammal conservation courses in Glacier Bay, Alaska; taught field science research techniques and wilderness skills to undergraduate students from several universities.

Instructor, Hurricane Island, Dartmouth, and Minnesota Outward Bound Schools, 1978-87.

Scientific Research Experience

NSF Ecosystems Program: CAREER: Strategies for understanding the effect of global climate and environmental change on northern peatlands, 2004-09. NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science, Mount Holyoke College, 1999-2003. Conducted research on CO2 and CH4 gas exchange and plant community dynamics in northern peatlands; feedbacks of northern ecosystems to climate change; supervised undergraduate research; collaborated with scientists from McGill and Trent Universities, and University of New Hampshire on field research at Canada Fluxnet site Mer Bleue Bog, Ontario, and LTREB site Sallie’s Fen, New Hampshire.

U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, 1995-1998. Managed and conducted field and laboratory research for the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS), a U.S.- Canadian collaborative study of boreal forest processes and interactions with the atmosphere; research topics include wetland and upland plant ecology, carbon cycling, trace gas fluxes, climate change, remote sensing, fire history, permafrost dynamics, and ecosystem succession. Supervised undergraduate and graduate students. Thompson, Manitoba.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography Department, McGill University, 1994-5. Conducted research on carbon cycling in boreal, subarctic, ecosystems; topics included carbon dioxide and methane flux measurements; bryophyte and vascular plant distribution and productivity. Advised graduate students on research design and implementation.

Research Assistant, Geography Department, McGill University, 1991-2. Conducted field and laboratory research on plant communities and methane emissions in northern peatlands. Experimental Lakes Area and Clay Belt, Ontario; Labrador Trough near Schefferville, Quebec; and southern Quebec.

Research Assistant, NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 1988-90. Conducted field research on plant communities and geomorphological processes for projects on long-term climate change; peat and permafrost coring, stratigraphic analysis. Alaska and Kenai Peninsulas, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Technician and Research Assistant, Cornell and Syracuse Universities, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Thornton, New Hampshire, 1989-1990. Conducted field and laboratory research on forest and stream ecology, nutrient cycling, and plant succession.

Legal and Policy Experience

Staff Attorney and Research Associate, Marine Law Institute, Center for Research and Advanced Study, University of Maine School of Law, 1983-1987. Researched legal developments in the management of interjurisdictional resources, particularly fisheries and coastal zone resources; edited quarterly publication; advised agencies and individuals.

Legal Consultant, Maine Audubon Society, 1976-78. Researched Maine law on land use, water quality, and energy issues. Developed recommendations for proposed legislation on freshwater wetlands.

Assistant Research Librarian, Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library, University of Maine School of Law, 1976-78.

Consultant, Maine Advisory Council on Vocational Education, 1975.

Special Assistant, Office of Kenneth M. Curtis, Governor of Maine, 1974.

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

NSF RCN Program. PEATNET: Globalization of Northern Peatland Ecosystem Research ($498,905). Dr. Dale Vitt, Southern Illinois University, P.I. J. Bubier appointed to Steering Committee for 2005-2010.

Mount Holyoke College Meredith E. Cameron Faculty Research Award, 2005.

NSF Grant DEB-0346625. CAREER: Strategies for Understanding the Effects of Global Climate and Environmental Change on Northern Peatlands. ($499,941), 5/1/2004 - 4/30/2009.

Excellence in Refereeing Citation from Dr. William Reeburgh, Editor of Global Biogeochemical Cycles, one of the most cited journals of the American Geophysical Union, May 2004.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for Career Advancement ($30,000) plus $1500 for travel/expensesfor sabbatical leave research, 2001-2002.

Mount Holyoke College Faculty fellowship ($7400) for sabbatical leave 2001-2002.

NASA grant (New Investigator Program in Earth Science) to study temporal and spatial variability of carbon exchange in northern peatlands ($390,769), 1999-2003.

Mount Holyoke College Community Based Learning (CBL) grant to incorporate research at the Quabbin Reservoir into Environmental Science course curriculum (1999-2000). Award for best CBL class received May 2000 in college-wide competition.

Mount Holyoke College faculty grant and student research grants for studying carbon exchange in northern peatlands, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

NASA grant (with S. Frolking and P. Crill) to model and extrapolate carbon fluxes from BOREAS wetlands ($218,362), 1998-2000.

NASA grant (with P.Crill) to study plant community and environmental controls on net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and CH4 in a peatland complex, BOREAS experiment, Manitoba, 1996-7.

BOREAS Operations Group Award for organizing a carbon cycling workshop for integrating scientific results from the BOREAS experiment, 1996.

U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, for studying carbon cycling in northern peatlands, 1995-7.

A.J. Sharp Award for best student paper presented at an annual meeting, American Bryological and Lichenological Society, Botanical Society of America. American Institute of Biological Sciences Conference, Ames, Iowa, 1993.

Max Bell Fellowships in Canadian and Northern Studies from McGill University to study plant ecology and methane flux in northern peatlands, 1992-3, 1991-2, 1990-1.

Association of American Geographers' Dissertation Research Grant, 1992-3.

Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship and Leadership Grants, awarded to scholars for graduate studies aimed at improving the quality of the natural environment, McGill Univ., 1990-1; University of Vermont, 1988-89.

Grant-In-Aid of Research from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, to study peatland processes in Victory Basin, Vermont, 1988-89.
Olin Fellowship from the Atlantic Salmon Federation to study international management of Atlantic salmon, 1986-87.

Professional Activities

Committee Service:
Member of the Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education at NSF, 2007-09
RCN PEATNET Steering Committee Member, 2005-2010.
Ecologist Faculty Search Committee, Mount Holyoke College Biology Department, 2003-04.
Quabbin Science and Technology Advisory Committee, Metropolitan District Commission, Belchertown, Massachusetts, 1998-present.
Faculty Grants and Fellowships Committee, Mount Holyoke College, 2002 – 2005, Chair 2004-05.
Environmental Studies Committee, Mount Holyoke College, 1998-present.
Five College Coastal and Marine Science Advisory Committee, 2002 – present.

Associate editor:
Wetlands, Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists (1998-2000)

Member:
American Geophysical Union
American Bryological and Lichenological Society
Ecological Society of America
International Association of Bryologists
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
Society of Wetland Scientists

Invited speaker:
New England Botanical Club, Harvard University, 2006.
Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006.
University of Kuopio, Finland, 2006.
Climate Change seminar series, McGill University, 2005.
Center for Northern Studies Peatland Symposium, Sterling College, 2005.
Global Initiatives Faculty seminar series, Mount Holyoke College, 2004.
Conservation Biology seminar series, University of Vermont, 2002.
Organismal and Evolutionary Biology seminar series, University of Massachusetts, 2001.
State University of New York at Albany, Natural History lecture series, 2001.
Organismal and Evolutionary Biology graduate program, University of Massachusetts, 2000.
Ecosystems Center seminar series, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 2000.
Biogeochemistry Seminar Series, Cornell University, 1999.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series, University of Connecticut, 1999.
Harvard Forest Ecology Seminar Series, Harvard University, 1999.
Biology Department Seminar Series, Mount Holyoke College, 1998.
Natural Resources Seminar Series, University of New Hampshire, 1998.
Conservation Biology Seminar Series, University of Vermont, 1997.
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, 1997.
Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Mass., 1997.
Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1997.
Visiting Scholar-in-residence, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1995.
Ecology Lecture Series, Johnson State College, Vermont, 1994, 1996.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 1995.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, 1995.
BOREAS Symposium, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, 1994.
Center for Climate and Global Change Research Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1994.

Other:
Member of review panel, Academy of Finland Environmental Science Panel, June 2006.
Invited collaborator with University of Kuopio Biogeochemistry Research Group (Dr. Pertti Martikainen, host), 2006.
Invited participant of NCEAS Workshop: Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in-situ observations, satellite data, and modeling, 2006-08.
Outside reviewer for PhD defense of Tuula Larmola, student of Dr. Jouko Silvola, University of Joensuu, Finland, 2005.
External examiner (Opponent) for PhD defense of Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, student of Dr. Harri Vasander, Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2000.
Member of review panel, NASA Earth Science Graduate Fellowship Program in Terrestrial Ecology, June 2000.
Reviewer of NASA, NSF and DOE research proposals.
Reviewer of management plans for the New England Plant Conservation Program, New England Wildflower Society.
Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to scientific journals such as: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences, Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Ecological Applications, Journal of Ecology, Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, Ecosystems, Canadian Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecoscience, Polar Research, Wetlands.

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