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Teri Balser
PeerJ Editor
300 Points

Contributions by role

Editor 300

Contributions by subject area

Ecology
Ecosystem Science
Soil Science
Climate Change Biology
Biogeochemistry
Biosphere Interactions
Aquatic and Marine Chemistry
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Agricultural Science
Mycology

Teri Balser

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Professor Teri Balser is Dean of Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, where she came after having been Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. in soil microbiology came from the University of California at Berkeley, and she completed postdoctoral research in ecosystem ecology at Stanford University. She is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, and was recently named to the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

Her research centers on understanding microbial community-level ecophysiological responses to stress, disturbance, and change, and the consequences of these for ecosystem functioning. She has worked in countries worldwide studying restoration, carbon sequestration, invasive species, biodiversity, and land use/land cover.

In addition to international recognition as an accomplished research scholar, Dr. Balser is widely known in higher education as a change agent and leader in Science, Technology Engineering and Math education (STEM). She is a co-founder of the Society for Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), a National Vision and Change Fellow with the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE), and was a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair to India in 2015 to help build capacity at the national level for pedagogically advanced and responsive STEM education.

Agricultural Science Biodiversity Biogeochemistry Biogeography Biosphere Interactions Climate Change Biology Ecology Ecosystem Science Ecotoxicology Environmental Contamination & Remediation Environmental Impacts Forestry Natural Resource Management Soil Science

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Florida
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Curtin University of Technology

Work details

Dean and Professor

Curtin University of Technology
June 2015
Science and Engineering

Assistant and Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 2001 - May 2011
Soil Science

Dean and Professor

University of Florida
July 2011 - December 2014
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 2

Academic Editor on

August 28, 2018
Greenhouse gas emissions limited by low nitrogen and carbon availability in natural, restored, and agricultural Oregon seasonal wetlands
Laurel Pfeifer-Meister, Laura G. Gayton, Bitty A. Roy, Bart R. Johnson, Scott D. Bridgham
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5465 PubMed 30186683
May 15, 2018
Knowing your neighbourhood—the effects of Epichloë endophytes on foliar fungal assemblages in perennial ryegrass in dependence of season and land-use intensity
Julia König, Marco Alexandre Guerreiro, Derek Peršoh, Dominik Begerow, Jochen Krauss
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4660 PubMed 29780665