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

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, a Fellow of the

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, 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 Thure E. Cerling (born 1949) is a Professors in the United States#Distinguished .28teaching .2F research.29 professor, Distinguished Professor of Geology and Geophysics and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. Cerling i ...

, he established the Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and Ecology
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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".

References

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