James Ehleringer is an

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biologist and Distinguished Professor of at the

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. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the

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, Ecological Society of America, and

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.AGU (2016), Honoring Earth and space scientists, Eos, 97, https://doi.org/10.1029/2016EO056319. Published on 25 July 2016. He is an

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researcher. Together with Thure E. Cerling, he established the Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and Ecology
IsoCamp
summer course at the

, which "trains students in the fundamental environmental and biological theory underlying

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processes across a broad spectrum of ecological and environmental applications".

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Living people University of Utah faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science San Diego State University alumni Stanford University alumni Fellows of the Ecological Society of America Year of birth missing (living people) {{Biologist-stub