About

Allison L. Dunn, Ph.D., is an Instructional Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. She has over twenty years of experience in collegiate leadership programming, working in both co-curricular and curricular spaces. Her research interests include the professional preparation of leadership educators, the efficacy of short-term academic leadership programs, and the intersection of curricular and co-curricular leadership programs. Her primary responsibility is to teach courses in the Leadership Studies minor. During her time in Student Affairs, Dr. Dunn created a leadership program for graduate students interested in public service, developed a multi-tiered university-wide co-curricular leadership certificate program, and taught courses in a leadership-themed living-learning community. She has advised student government associations, served on advisory and coordinating boards for multi-institutional leadership conferences, and advised student representatives on a state system’s board of governors. Her scholarly work includes publications on leadership motivation, educator preparation, peer-mentoring, and leadership development, contributing to the field through research and scholarship.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Pedagogy
• Management
• Public relations
• Art
• Psychology
• Medicine
• Medical education
• Art history
• Library science

Selected publications

• Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2021 · 109 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Information Retrieval
  • Computer Science

  A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00851-9.

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• THE PLACES AND SPACES STUDENT AFFAIRS PRACTITIONERS SHOULD LEARN AND PRACTICE LEADERSHIP EDUCATOR COMPETENCIES

  Journal of Leadership Education · 2021 · 5 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Medical education
  • Psychology

  Although leadership education typically is not explicitly incorporated into student affairs preparatory programs, student affairs practitioners are expected to facilitate the leadership development of their students. Thus, through two simultaneous Delphi panels, Group A: Student Affairs Practitioners (n=17) and Group B: Student Affairs Preparatory Program Faculty (n=20), this study explored the places or experiences where student affairs practitioners should learn and practice the professional competencies needed to be a student affairs leadership educator. Both expert panels agreed the graduate assistantship was the most important place to learn and practice how to be a leadership educator. Yet these findings demonstrate a gap between research and practice within student affairs preparatory programs. Four recommendations are provided to strengthen the professional preparation of student affairs practitioners as leadership educators.

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• A Critical Look at Leadership Educator Preparation: Developing an Intentional and Diverse Approach To Leadership Learning and Development: Priority 4 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020–2025

  Journal of Leadership Studies · 2020 · 13 citations

  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Management
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• The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2020 · 1726 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Data Mining
  • Computer Science

  , water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their data to create global datasets. Data were quality controlled and processed using uniform methods, to improve consistency and intercomparability across sites. The dataset is already being used in a number of applications, including ecophysiology studies, remote sensing studies, and development of ecosystem and Earth system models. FLUXNET2015 includes derived-data products, such as gap-filled time series, ecosystem respiration and photosynthetic uptake estimates, estimation of uncertainties, and metadata about the measurements, presented for the first time in this paper. In addition, 206 of these sites are for the first time distributed under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) license. This paper details this enhanced dataset and the processing methods, now made available as open-source codes, making the dataset more accessible, transparent, and reproducible.

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• Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

  Nature Climate Change · 2020 · 226 citations

  • Environmental science
  • Atmospheric sciences
  • Climatology
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Frequent coauthors

• Summer F. Odom

  Texas A&M University

  18 shared

• Lori L. Moore

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  16 shared

• Krista J. Bailey

  9 shared

• Gary E. Briers

  9 shared

• Darren E. Pierre

  2 shared

• Craig Rotter

  1 shared

• Adrian L. Bitton

  The Ohio State University

  1 shared

• Valerie McKee

  University of Florida

  1 shared

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