Education                        

• Stony Brook University, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution
• University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Integrative Biology and Environmental Sciences

• National Parks Ecological Research Post-doctoral Fellow, 2004-2007
• STAR Graduate Student Fellow, Environmental Protection Agency, 1999-2002
• Graduate Council Fellow, Stony Brook University, 1998-2004
• Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1998-2003

• Funk, J. & Vitousek, P. (2007). Resource use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature, 446, 1079-1081.  
• Funk, J., Jones, C., & Lerdau, M. (2007). Leaf- and shoot-level plasticity in response to varying nutrient and water availability. Tree Physiology 27, 1731-1739.
• Funk, J., Giardina, C., Knohl, A., & Lerdau, M. (2006). The influence of nutrient availability, stand age, and canopy structure on isoprene flux in a Eucalyptus saligna experimental forest. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, G02012, doi: 10.1029/2005JG000085.
• Funk, J. (2005). Hedychium gardnerianum invasion into Hawaiian montane rainforest: interactions among litter quality, decomposition rate, and soil nitrogen availability. Biogeochemistry 76, 441-451.
• Funk, J., Jones, C., Lerdau, M., Gray, D., Throop, H., & Hyatt, L. (2005). Variation in isoprene emission from Quercus rubra: sources, causes and consequences for estimating fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, D04301, doi:10.1029/2004JD005229.