Ross A. Virginia

Myers Family Professor
Professor of Environmental Studies
Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences
Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Departments and Programs Biological Sciences Earth Sciences Environmental Studies Related Links Environmental Studies Program Institute of Arctic Studies IGERT Polar Environmental Change

Contact Information

Email: ross.a.virginia@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603 646-0192

Hinman Box: HB 6182

Education

• B.S. SUNY College Envl. Sci & Forestry; M.S. University of California Davis; Ph.D. University of California Davis

Areas of Expertise

• Ecosystem ecology and terrestrial biogeochemical cycling; polar ecosystems and environmental change; soil carbon cycling in arctic and antarctic ecosystems; ecosystem ecology and relationships with environmental law; arctic policy

Selected Works

• Ball, B A and R A Virginia, Meltwater Seep Patches Increase Heterogeneity of Soil Geochemistry and Therefore Habitat Suitability, Geoderma , 189-190 (2012) 652-660
• Levy L, M A Kelly, J A Howley, and R A Virginia, Age of the Ørkendalen Moraines, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland: Constraints on the Extent of the Southwestern Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews , 52 (2012) 1-5
• Holm, L K, L A Grenoble, and R A Virginia, A Praxis for Ethical Research and Scientific Conduct in Greenland, Études/Inuit/Studies , 35 (2011) 187-200
• Virginia, R A, An Ecosystem Approach to Mountain Resorts in Mountain Resorts: Law and Ecology , J E Milne, J LaMense and R A Virginia (eds.) (2009) 24-38
• Barrett, J E, R A Virginia, et al., “Persistent Effects of a Discrete Climate Event on a Polar Desert Ecosystem,” Global Change Biology , 14:10 (2008) 2249-2261.
• Chapin, F S III, M Berman, T V Callaghan, et al., “Polar Systems,” in Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series, Vol. 1 , R Hassan, R Scholes and N Ash (eds.), (2005) 717-743.
• Brooks, R O, R T Jones, and R A Virginia, Law and Ecology: The Rise of the Ecosystem Regime , (2002).

Current Projects

• Integrative Graduate Education Research and Traineeship (IGERT) Program: Polar Environmental Change; University of the Arctic Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy: An Interdisciplinary Dialog Between the Academy, Northern Peoples, and Policy Makers; Long-Term Ecological Research; The Role of Resource Legacy on Contemporary Linkages between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley Long Term Ecological Research Program, Antarctica; Resistivity Mapping of Subsurface Microbial Habitats in the McMurdo Region, Antarctica