Profile

Dr. Joshua B. Fisher is a research and teaching fellow in the Terrestrial Ecosystems Group within the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. He works across plant, ecosystem, global and social scales with a combination of field ecology, biometeorology, modelling, GIS, remote sensing and sociology. Dr. Fisher received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy & Management, and has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).

Current Projects

• Modelling nitrogen cycling in the UK Earth System model. [QUERCC, QUEST]
• Nutrient dynamics of the Peruvian Andes. Management of a large scale nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisation experiment along an elevation gradient from the cloud forest (3000 m) to the rain forest. [NERC]
• Modelling the land-atmosphere water flux.

Recent Publications

• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Tan, S.-Y., Sitch, S., Huntingford, C., in review. The carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally-applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation and fixation. Submitted to: Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
• Fisher, J.B., Fortmann, L.P., in review. Governing the data commons: Policy, practice, and the advancement of science. Submitted to: Information & Management.
• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., de Araújo, A.C., Bonal, D., Gamo, M., Goulden, M.L., Hirano, T., Huete, A.R., Kondo, H., Kumagai, T., Loescher, H., Miller, S., Nobre, A.D., Nouvellon, Y., Oberbauer, S.F., Panuthai, S., von Randow, C., da Rocha, H.R., Roupsard, O., Saleska, S., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, N., Tu, K.P., in press. The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics. Global Change Biology.
• Phillips, O.L., Aragão, L., Lewis, S.L., Fisher, J.B., et al., in press. Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science.
• Fisher, J.B., 2009. Book review of "Quantifying and Understanding Plant Nitrogen Uptake for Systems Modeling" edited by Ma et al. Experimental Agriculture 45(3).
• Fisher, J.B., Nawaz, R., Fauzi, R., Nawaz, F., Sadek, E., Latif, Z., Blackett, M., 2008. Balancing water, religion and tourism on Redang Island, Malaysia. Environmental Research Letters 3(2): 1-6.
• Fisher, J.B., Tu, K., Baldocchi, D.D., 2008. Global estimates of the land-atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites. Remote Sensing of Environment 112(3): 901-919.
• Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D.D., Misson, L., Dawson, T., Goldstein, A.H., 2007. What the towers don't see at night: Nocturnal sap flow in trees and shrubs at two AmeriFlux sites in California. Tree Physiology 27(4): 597-610.
• Dawson, T.E., Burgess, S.S.O., Tu, K.P., Oliveira, R.S., Santiago, L.S., Fisher, J.B., Simonin, K.S., Ambrose, A.R., 2007. Nighttime transpiration in woody plants from contrasting ecosystems. Tree Physiology 27(4): 561-575.
• Fisher, J.B., Trulio, L.A., Biging, G., Chromczak, D., 2007. An analysis of spatial clustering and the implications to wildlife management: A burrowing owl example. Environmental Management 39(3): 403-411. (Cover article).
• Fisher, J.B., Kelly, N.M., Romm, J., 2006. Scales of environmental justice: Combining GIS and spatial data analysis for air toxics in West Oakland, California. Health & Place 12(4): 701-714.
• Fisher, J.B., DeBiase, T.A., Qi, Y., Xu, M., Goldstein, A.H., 2005. Evapotranspiration models compared on a Sierra Nevada forest ecosystem. Environmental Modelling & Software 20(6): 783-796.

Publications in preparation

• Fisher, J.B., Whittaker, R., Malhi, Y., in preparation. ET Come Home: A re-examination of evapotranspiration in geographical ecology.
• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Torres, I.-C., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Tan, S.-Y., van de Weg, M., Girardin, C.A.J., Salinas, N., Metcalfe, D.B., Martinson, G.O., in preparation. Nutrient dynamics of the Peruvian Andes.
• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Sitch, S., Huntingford, C., Joshi, M., in preparation. Nitrogen cycling in the QUEST Earth System Model.
• Fisher, J.B., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., in preparation. Tropical hydrology: 20 years of precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff and soil moisture in the tropics.

A full list of publications by J. Fisher can be found at: http://josh.yosh.org/ under publications.