Director, NEON, Inc. Board of Directors: Dr. James Gosz

Jim Gosz has over 40 years of professional experience in environmental science with emphases on ecology, forest and range productivity, biogeochemistry, and soils. Following his Ph.D. from the University Of Idaho (1968), he spent two years as a Postdoc Fellow with with Gene Likens at Dartmouth College and Cornell University working at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, on Forest Ecology and Biogeochemical Cycling. From 1970 to 2004, he was at the University of New Mexico as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the Biology Department. On three occasions he worked at the National Science Foundation as Program Director (1984?86) Division Director in Environmental Biology (1993?95) and Senior Program Director in the EPSCoR Program (2005?2007). He became Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at Univ. of Idaho in 2008. His experiences with long term ecological research include PI of the Sevilleta LTER program, elected Chairman of the Long Term Ecological Research Network and elected Chair of the International LTER Network program, a federation of ~30 countries that developed LTER programs in their respective countries.