James R. Gosz
James R. Gosz is a professor of biology at the University of New Mexico and became director of the New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR) in 2001. NM EPSCoR facilitates the coordination and collaboration of resources and expertise from the state’s academic institutions, national labs, private industry, and state and federal sources to obtain federal resources that benefit scientific research, education, and the New Mexico economy. Since 2001, the EPSCoR status for New Mexico has resulted in over $75 million in new Federal grants for research and education, much of which represents unique new infrastructure and increased capacity to compete for additional federal funding opportunities.
He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Biogeochemistry; and for Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy, a new e-journal. He is Chairman of the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network funded by the National Science Foundation and a recent past Chairman of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network. He presently serves the advisory board for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, on the scientific panel for the Joint Infrastructure Fund for the U.K. and the Multidisciplinary Assessment Committee of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. He also serves a Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for Research, University of New Mexico.
Dr. Gosz has served the scientific community in a wide variety of roles, including as a scientific advisor for: the Jornada Desert Long Term Ecological Research Program, the Konza Prairie Long Term Ecological Research Program, the Forest Research Program at U.C. Berkeley and the H.J. Andrews Long Term Ecological Research Program. He has been a reviewer on panels for NASA, the National Science Foundation and a program reviewer for the National Park Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Dept. of Energy, and U.S. Army. He was awarded the Faculty Scholars Award by the University of New Mexico in 1989.
He earned his BS in Forestry at Michigan Tech University and his Ph.D. in Forest Science from the University of Idaho. He began his teaching career at UNM in 1970 and has also served as director for the Ecosystem Studies Program and the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation.
Term: 2005-2009