Colleen M. Iversen
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    • Honors and Awards
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    • Press and Public Outreach
    • Invited Presentations
    • Presentations at Annual Meetings
  • Current Projects
  • Completed Projects
    • PiTS
    • ORNL FACE >
      • Data-Model Interactions
      • Belowground harvest
      • Nutrient Cycling Throughout the Soil Profile
      • Digging Deeper
      • Missing Links in the Root-SOM Continuum
      • Root-Derived Input to the Soil
      • Nitrogen Limitation
      • Root decomposition
    • Nutrient-limited peatlands
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Service.

2018 - Present

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2014 - 2018

Associate Editor
New Phytologist 
Editorial Advisory Board
New Phytologist 

​2017 - 2020

Distinguished Fellowship Review Committee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2015 - 2017

Insitutional Review Committee
Laboratory-Directed Research and Development 
Integrated Studies of Complex Biological and Environmental Systems
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2016

Search Committee
Ecosystem Ecologist Position
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2016

Institutional Review Committee
Named Fellows
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2016

UT Battelle Awards Night Committee
Technical Support for Research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Professional activities.

Reviewer

Acta Oecologica; Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; Annals of Botany; AoB PLANTS; Biogeosciences; Biology and Fertility of Soils; Biological Invasions; Canadian Journal of Forest Research; Climate Change Responses; Ecology; Ecology Letters; Ecosphere; Global Biogeochemical Cycles; Global Change Biology; Global Ecology and Biogeography; Journal of Ecology; Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences; Marine Ecology Progress Series; National Geographic Society; Nature; New Phytologist; Oecologia; Plant Physiology; Plant and Soil; Polar Science; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Soil Biology and Biochemistry; Soil Science Society of America Journal; Tree Physiology; National Science Foundation; National Institute for Climate Change Research; Department of Energy, Office of Science.

Leadership program attendee

Alda-Kavli Leadership Program ‘Science Communication Workshop’, conducted by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in November 2016. 

Organizer

‘Roots in Models’ workshop held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA in June 2014, and funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science.

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‘Advancing minirhizotron use to examine ephemeral root dynamics in peatland and high carbon ecosystems’. Small workshop hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in October 2010, and funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science and New Phytologist Trust.

Co-organizer

‘Bridging the Gap Between Fine-Root and Fungal Functional Traits’. Organized Oral Session at the annual Ecological Society of America, Virtual Meeting, August 2020. Part of the ‘Ecology Underground’.

‘
A path forward for improved representation of fine roots in large-scale models: Linking models, data, and experiments’. Organized Oral Session at the annual Ecological Society of America meeting, August 2014, in Sacramento, CA, USA.

​‘Missing links in the root-soil organic matter continuum’. Organized Oral Session at the annual Ecological Society of America meeting, August 2009 in Albuquerque, NM, USA.

Organizing committee member

‘Trait-Based Methods for Representing Change in Belowground Ecosystems’, Ignite Session at Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August, 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA.

39th New Phytologist Symposium. ‘Trait covariation: Structural and functional relationships in plant ecology’, June 2017 in Exeter, UK.

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DOE workshop on trait methods for representing ecosystem change’, held in Rockville, MD, USA in November 2015, and funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science.

‘Scaling Root Processes: Global Impacts’ workshop held in Washington, DC, USA, in March 2012 and funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science.

Society member

American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, Ecological Society of America.

Mentoring.

Post-doctoral advisees

Camille Defrenne (2019 – Present)
Climate Change Science Institute and
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Root and fungal dynamics in a warming bog

Avni Malhotra (
2016 – 2018)
Climate Change Science Institute and
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Linking root traits with ecosystem processes
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Verity Salmon (2016 – 2019)                                    
Climate Change Science Institute and
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Arctic plant traits

Doctoral dissertation committees

Kristine Cabuago (2016 – Present)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bredesen Center
Root microbiome

Mallory Ladd (2016 – 2018)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bredesen Center
Mass spectrometry and arctic soils

Zach Langford (2016 – 2017)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bredesen Center
Remote sensing

Tyler Poppenwimer (2017 – Present)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mathematical models of root demography

Ingrid Slette (2016 – Present)
Colorado State University
Department of Biology
Belowground responses to drought

Daniela Yaffar (2016 – 2018)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tropical forest root traits​
  • Home
  • CV
    • Refereed publications
    • Published data sets
    • Education and Experience
    • Honors and Awards
    • External Funding
    • Service and Professional Activities
    • Press and Public Outreach
    • Invited Presentations
    • Presentations at Annual Meetings
  • Current Projects
  • Completed Projects
    • PiTS
    • ORNL FACE >
      • Data-Model Interactions
      • Belowground harvest
      • Nutrient Cycling Throughout the Soil Profile
      • Digging Deeper
      • Missing Links in the Root-SOM Continuum
      • Root-Derived Input to the Soil
      • Nitrogen Limitation
      • Root decomposition
    • Nutrient-limited peatlands
  • People
  • Contact
  • Learn More