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Arnold Bloom, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, presents “A new paradigm for vascular plant photosynthesis and respiration”.
With a name like Bloom, many assume that I was destined to become a botanist, but my career path followed a circuitous route. I received an undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University but spent several years conducting research on tRNA with Dieter Söll. I then spent several years developing computer models of the spread of air pollution over cities for the Germany government. I received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University with Hal Mooney and conducted postdoctoral research with F. Stuart Chapin III on the temperature responses of plants at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
For over forty years, I have been on the faculty of the University of California at Davis. I have served on science advisory boards for the international Space Station and for several biotechnology companies. I have represented the faculty of the entire University of California system to federal funding agencies for five years. My publications range from major reviews on the economics of resource allocation in plants to the future of agriculture under rising carbon dioxide levels. I have coauthored textbooks on Plant Physiology, Plant Mineral Nutrition, and Global Climate Change and led an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to develop content about Climate Change for undergraduates in the United States.
Host: Dr. Christine Diepenbrock (chdiepenbrock@ucdavis.edu)