{"id":2923,"date":"2012-08-06T22:24:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=2923"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T22:14:24","slug":"zobitz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/zobitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Zobitz, John M."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Me<\/h2>\n<p>My intrinsic motivation to study mathematics derives from a passion to understand my surroundings through numbers. As a professor I am committed to engage and nurture that same passion in my students.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my life, I have been fascinated with the intersection of numbers and technology. I grew up in northern Minnesota and continue to enjoy wilderness opportunities in the region\u2019s many lakes. Today my fascination manifests itself through mathematical modeling, more specifically mathematical biology (the application of mathematics to solve biological problems) and research in environmental science.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematical modeling can take many different forms, and usually the goal is correlative (finding relationships between disparate data) or predictive (forecasting when the data will reach a certain level based on the assumptions). In both cases, the objective is to infer additional information from the data so that the sum is greater than the individual parts.<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. in Mathematics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.utah.edu\/\">University of Utah<\/a><\/li>\n<li>M.A. in Mathematics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.utah.edu\/\">University of Utah<\/a><\/li>\n<li>B.A. in Mathematics and Spanish (with a minor in Physics), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csbsju.edu\/\">St. John&#8217;s University<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<h3>Links to the journal website are provided when possible<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>J. M. Zobitz, &#8220;Quantifying the atmospheric impact and carbon footprint of an urban biomass incinerator\u201d, Winter 2009, Science Education and Civic Engagement: an International Journal.<\/li>\n<li>J. M. Zobitz, &#8220;Honoring Our Commitments Yields Hope, Love, and Joy,\u201d Spring 2009, Till and Keep.<\/li>\n<li>J. M. Zobitz, S. P. Burns, M. Reichstein, D. R. Bowling, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1365-2486.2008.01609.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Partitioning net ecosystem carbon exchange and the carbon isotopic disequilibrium in a subalpine forest<\/a>,\u201d 2008. Global Change Biology, 14(8):1785-1800.<\/li>\n<li>J. M. Zobitz, D. Moore, W. J. Sacks, R. K. Monson, D. R. Bowling, D. S. Schimel, \u201cIntegration of Process-based Soil Respiration Models withWhole-Ecosystem CO2 Measurements,\u201d 2008. Ecosystems, 11:250-269.<\/li>\n<li>J. M. Zobitz, S. P. Burns, J. Oge\u0301e, M. Reichstein, D. R. Bowling, \u201cPartitioning net ecosystem exchange of CO2 : A comparison of a Bayesian\/isotope approach to environmental regression methods,\u201d 2007. Journal of Geophysical Research &#8211; Biogeosciences, 112, G03013, doi:10.1029\/2006JG000282.<\/li>\n<li>D. Pataki, D.R. Bowling, J.R. Ehleringer, J. M. Zobitz, \u201cHigh resolution atmospheric monitoring of urban CO2 sources,\u201d 2006. GeophysicalResearch Letters, 33, L03813, doi:10.1029\/2005GL024822.<\/li>\n<li>J.M.Zobitz, J.P.Keener, H.Schnyder, D.R.Bowling, \u201cSensitivity analysis and quantification of uncertainty for isotopic mixing relationships in carbon cycle research,\u201d 2006. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 136:56-75, doi:10.1016\/j.agrformet.2006.01.003.<\/li>\n<li>J.M.Zobitz,\u201cPascal Matrices and Differential Equations,\u201d 2003. Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Vol. 11(8): 437-444.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Presentations and Talks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>4\/1\/09: Augsburg Mathematics Colloquium Talk: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.augsburg.edu\/~zobitz\/mathAndClimate_010409.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Math and Climate&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Current Research<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.augsburg.edu\/~zobitz\/dataAssimilation.html\">Computer code and data files for data assimilation paper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me My intrinsic motivation to study mathematics derives from a passion to understand my surroundings through numbers. As a professor I am committed to engage and nurture that same passion in my students. Throughout my life, I have been fascinated with the intersection of numbers and technology. 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