Laura J. Martin
Department of Natural Resources
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
LJM222@cornell.edu
Education
PhD candidate, Natural Resources (2010–present)
Cornell University
MS, Natural Resources (2007–2010)
Cornell University
BS, Biophysics with honors (2002–2006)
Brown University
Awards and Fellowships
2013 Institute for the Social Sciences Grant, Cornell University
2012 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship in Ecological History
2012 Sigma Xi Grant, Cornell University
2012 Andrew W. Mellon Student Research Fellowship
2011 Society for the Humanities Grant, Cornell University
2010 Selected proposal for Ecological Society of America Emerging Issues Conference: Developing ecologically-based conservation targets under global change (with Bernd Blossey, Dov Sax)
2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2008 Doris Duke National Conservation Leadership Fellowship
2006 Associate Membership, Sigma Xi Research Society
2004 Judge Elmer J. Rathbun Scholarship, Brown University
2003 Leo M. Goldberg Class of 28’ Scholarship, Brown University
2002 Blackstone Valley Environmental Leader Scholarship
Publications
Martin, L.J. and C. E. Kraft. Rapid evolution of tolerance to deer browse in Impatiens capensis. In preparation.
Martin, L.J. and S. Rainford, B. Blossey. Effects of plant litter species, origin, and diversity on larval toad performance. In preparation.
Martin, L.J., J. Quinn, E. Ellis, R. Shaw, M. Dorning, N. Haddad, L. Hallett, N. Heller, R. Hobbs, E. Law, N. Michel, M. Perring, P. Shirey, R. Swaisgood, R. Wiederholt. Conservation in the anthromes. In review.
Karl, J.W., J.E. Herrick, R.S. Unnasch, J.K. Gillan, E. Ellis, W.G. Lutters, L.J. Martin. Geo-semantic Searching: discovering ecologically-relevant knowledge from published studies. In press, BioScience.
Martin, L.J. and B. Blossey. The runaway weed: costs and failures of Phragmites australis management in the U.S.A. In press, Estuaries and Coasts.
Martin, L.J. and B. Blossey. Intraspecific variation overrides origin effects in impacts of litter-derived secondary compounds on larval amphibians. In press, Oecologia.
Martin, L.J., B. Blossey, E. Ellis. 2012. Mapping where ecologists work: Biases in the global distribution of terrestrial ecological observations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 195-201.
Martin, L.J. 2012. Where are the women in ecology? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 177-178.
Martin, L.J. and B. Blossey. 2012. Invasive plant cover impacts the desirability of lands for conservation acquisition. Biodiversity and Conservation 21: 1987-1996.
Martin, L.J. 2010. Metaphor and the idea of a dominant conservation ethic. Conservation Biology 24: 1172-1173.
Martin, L.J. 2010. Reclamation and reconciliation: Land-use history, ecosystem services, and the Providence River ecosystem services preference-ordering. Urban Ecosystems 13: 243-253.
Martin, L.J. and B. Blossey. 2009. A framework for ecosystem services valuation. Conservation Biology 23: 494-496.
Wilczek, A., J. Roe, M. Knapp, M. Cooper, C.M. Lopez-Gallego, L.J. Martin, C. Muir, S. Sim, A. Walker, J.Anderson, J.F. Egan, R. Petipas, A. Giakountis, E. Charbit, G. Coupland, S.M. Welch, and J. Schmitt. 2009. Effects of genetic perturbation on seasonal life history plasticity. Science 323: 930-934.
Reid, J.L., J.B. Harris, L.J. Martin, J.R. Barnett, R.A. Zahawi. 2008. Distribution and abundance of nearctic-neotropical songbird migrants in a forest restoration site in southern Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 1-4.
Teaching Assistantships
Nature and Culture (2008, 2011, 2012)
Environmental Ethics (2011)
Introduction to Natural Resources (2010)
Professional Activities
Participant, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center "Evolution of the Indoor Biome" working group (2013–present)
Participant, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network working group 2: terrestrial species monitoring (2013–present)
Gardener, Finger Lakes Native Plant Society (2013 - present)
Co-founder, CREST: Cornell Roundtable on Environmental Studies Topics (2010–present)
Organizing Committee Member, ESA Emerging Issues Conference (2010–2012)
Member, Ithaca City Conservation Council (2008–2010)
President, Cornell Dept. of Natural Resources Graduate Student Association (2009–2010)
Reviewer for Natural Areas Journal, Journal of Environmental Management, Society & Natural Resources
Book reviewer for Quarterly Review of Biology
Presentations
American Society for Environmental History, April 2013
Toronto, Ontario
Session organizer, "Coral, competition, cold war: Eugene and Howard Odums’ ecological research at Eniwetok Atoll"
Cornell Science Studies Research Group, April 2013
Ithaca, New York
"Materializing ecosystems: coral, competition, cold war"
Cornell Science Communication Workshop, March 2013
Ithaca, New York
Invited speaker, "Blogging on ecology"
Cornell Society for the Humanities, February 2013
Ithaca, New York
"Bridging the two cultures through a history of ecosystem stability"
American Society for Environmental History, April 2012
Madison, Wisconsin
“Making non-nativity visible”
Finger Lakes Native Plant Society, November 2012
Ithaca, New York
Invited speaker, “Evolution of Impatiens capensis in response to heavy deer browse”
Ecological Society of America Emerging Issues Conference, February 2012
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Co-organizer, “Mapping where ecologists work”
Cornell Science Studies Research Group, November 2011
Ithaca, New York
“Anticipating nature: statistical treatment of variation and ecologists’ tacit beliefs”
Cornell Roundtable on Environmental Studies, November 2010
Ithaca, New York
“Conservation benchmarking”
Biological Control for Nature, October 2010
Northampton, Massachusetts
Invited speaker, “Quantity counts, origin does not: a tale of traits and ecosystem impacts"
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Ecology: not in our backyards”
Cornell Americas Colloquium, April 2010
Ithaca, New York
“On the origin of species: Americans and biological nativeness”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service workshop, February 2010
Patuxent, Maryland
Invited speaker, “The current landscape of Phragmites australis management”
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 2009
Albuquerque, New Mexico
“The effect of intraspecific variation in plant detrital traits on amphibian development”
PhD Committee
Cliff Kraft, chair (Natural Resources)
Sara Pritchard (Science & Technology Studies)
Aaron Sachs (History)
Harry Greene (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Anurag Agrawal (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)