JENIFER WIGHTMAN

1973

2006
Revilo and Nancy Wightman Pointing to ~1973 on World Population Chart

Self Portrait

Art

My art practice explores the transition of biophysical states that co-evolve manifestations of culture and ecosystems.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Center for Book Arts, 2013
LMCC Swing Space Residency. 2012
Nordic Artists' Centre, 2007
MacDowell, 2006

PUBLICATIONS

"Winogradsky Rothko: Bacterial Ecosystem as Pastoral Landscape," Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 7(3), December 2008

GRANTS RECEIVED

Chenven Foundation
Puffin Foundation
NYSCA Community Arts Partnership Grant
NYFA Special Opportunity Stipend
Finlandia Foundation
Cornell Council for the Arts
Poets and Writers Stipend

WEBSITES

Visualizing Meaning
Fine Art Adoption Valentines
 

 

Science

My research specializes in greenhouse gas accounting and lifecycle analysis of sustainable biomass production systems.

EDUCATION

MS, Cornell, 2002, Environmental Toxicology
BS, Carnegie Mellon, 1994, Cell Biology

RECENT EMPLOYERS

Cornell University, Dept of Crop and Soil Science Research funded by DoE, NYSERDA, SunGrant, USDA/CSREES
Central NY Resource Conservation and Development (CNY RC&D) USDA/NRCS non-profit. Education outreach funded by Environmental Defense and NESARE.

PUBLICATIONS

Renewable Fuels Roadmap and Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Supply For New York, 2010.
“Retinoic acid-induced growth arrest and differentiation: retinoic acid up-regulates CD32 expression, the ectoptic expression of which retards the cell cycle.” Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 1(2002), pp. 493-506.
“Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions,” Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment 84(2001), pp. 1-20.
Sample Public Radio Reports Waste vegetable oil cars and Dwindling cicada populations

WEBSITES

www.agcarbontrading.org
www.climateandfarming.org