Julia Klein
Research Scientist
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Julia A. Klein will join the faculty in the Department of Forestry, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State University in August 2006. Dr. Klein received a B.A. in International Relations and Political Science from Cornell University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecosystem Science from the University of California at Berkeley. For the past decade, Dr. Klein has been investigating the effects of climate warming and land use change on the rangelands of the Tibetan Plateau. Her dissertation research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, was titled “Climate warming and pastoral land use change: implications for carbon cycling, biodiversity and rangeland quality on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau”. As a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Dr. Klein scaled up her field investigations by incorporating ecosystem modeling into her studies. Among other projects, Dr. Klein is currently working with the United Nations Environment Program to guide restoration and rehabilitation projects under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. She continues to examine how global changes and human activities are altering the structure and function of ecological systems and the ecosystem services provided by the Tibetan Plateau and Western China.