COLIN M BEIER Research Associate Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management Adirondack Ecological Center & Huntington Wildlife Forest SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) 311 Bray Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse NY 13210 voice: 315.470.6578 fax: 315.470.6535 [email protected] www.esf.edu/aec/beier

EDUCATION Ph.D. Systems Ecology – University of Alaska-Fairbanks 2007 NSF-IGERT Resilience and Adaptation Program Department of Biology & Wildlife, Institute of Arctic Biology, USGS Alaska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit Major professors: F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, III and A. David McGuire Regional Climate, Federal Land Management, and the Social-Ecological Resilience of Southeastern Alaska

M.Sc. Forest Ecology – Virginia Tech (VPI & SU) 2002 Department of Biology Major professor: Erik T. Nilsen Influence of Dense Understory Shrubs on the Ecology of Canopy Tree Recruitment in Southern Appalachian Forests

B.Sc. Biology – Virginia Commonwealth University 1999 Minors in Psychology and Chemistry

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Curriculum Coordinator and Program Leader 2011 – present Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences - Coupled Natural and Human Systems Section Division of Environmental Science SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Affiliate Fellow 2010 – present Gund Institute of Ecological Economics University of Vermont

Research Associate (Tenure-Track) 2007 – present Adirondack Ecological Center Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry

Graduate Research Assistantship 2005-06 School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences University of Alaska-Fairbanks

National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow 2002-05 Resilience and Adaptation Program University of Alaska-Fairbanks

Graduate Assistantship (Teaching & Research) 2000-02 Department of Biology Virginia Tech

PUBLICATIONS

Beier CM. In press. Cultural landscapes and scientific narratives. Ecology

Beier CM, Woods AM, Hotopp K, Mitchell MJ, Gibbs JP, Dovciak M, Leopold DJ, Lawrence GB, Page B. 2012. Changes in faunal and vegetation communities along a soil calcium gradient in northern hardwood forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research DOI: 10.1139/x2012-071

Beier CM, McNulty SA, Stella JA, Dovciak M. 2012. Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America. Climatic Change DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0455-z

Beier CM, Signell SA, Luttman A, DeGaetano A. 2011. High-resolution climate change mapping using gridded historical climate products. Landscape Ecology 27(3): 327-342. DOI 10.1007/s10980-011-9698-8

Beier CM. 2011. Factors influencing adaptive capacity in the reorganization of forest management in Alaska. Ecology and Society 16 (1): 40 [online] http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art40/

Resilience Alliance. 2010. Assessing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Workbook for Practitioners. Version 2.0. Online (CM Beier was one of five coauthors of the second version of this workbook)

Volk T, Beier CM, Buchholz T, Caputo J, Castellano P, Germain R, Kelleher M, Luzadis V, Malmsheimer RW. 2010. Sustainability Criteria for the New York Renewable Fuels Roadmap. In: Nostrand JM, Rutzke C, eds. Renewable Fuels Roadmap and Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Supply for New York. White Plains, NY: Pace University Energy and Climate Center. 874 pp.

Beier CM, Lovecraft AL, Chapin FS. 2009. Growth and collapse of a resource system: an adaptive cycle of change in public lands governance and forest management in Alaska. Ecology & Society 14(2): 5 [online] http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art5/

Stager JC, McNulty SA, Beier CM, Chiaranzell J. 2009. Historical patterns and effects of changes in Adirondack climates since the early 20th century. Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies 15(2): 22-38.

Horton JL, Clinton BD, Walker JF, Beier CM, Nilsen ET. 2009. Variation in soil and forest floor characteristics along gradients of ericaceous shrub cover in the southern Appalachians. Castanea 74(4): 340-352.

Beier CM, Patterson TM, Chapin FS. 2008. Ecosystem services and emergent vulnerability in managed ecosystems: a geospatial decision-support tool. Ecosystems 11(6): 923-938

Beier CM, Sink SE, Hennon PE, D’Amore DV, Juday GP. 2008. Twentieth-century warming and the dendroclimatology of declining yellow-cedar forests in southeastern Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38(6): 1319-1334.

Beier CM. 2008. Influence of political opposition and compromise on conservation outcomes in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Conservation Biology 22(6): 1485-1496.

Hennon P, D’Amore D, Wittwer D, Johnson A, Schaberg P, Hawley G, Beier CM, Sink S, Juday G. 2007. Climate warming, reduced snow, and freezing injury could explain the demise of yellow-cedar in Southeast Alaska. World Resource Review 18(2): 427-450.

Beier CM, Horton JL, Walker JF, Clinton BD, Nilsen ET. 2005. Carbon limitation leads to suppression of first year oak seedlings beneath evergreen understory shrubs in Southern Appalachian hardwood forests. Plant Ecology 176(2): 131-142.

Chapin FS, Peterson G, Berkes F, Callaghan TV, Anglestam P, Apps M, Beier CM, Bergeron Y, Crepin AS, Danell K, Elmqvist T, Folke C, Forbes B, Fresco N, Juday G, Niemela J, Shvidenko A, Whiteman G. 2004. Resilience and vulnerability of northern regions to social and environmental change. Ambio 33: 344-349.

Walker JF, Miller OK, Horton JL, Beier CM, Clinton BD, Nilsen ET. 2002. Distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi on tree seedlings grown in gradients of ericaceous shrubs in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Inoculum 53(3): 58. MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW & PREPARATION

Signell SA, Beier CM, McNulty SA. In review. Integrating open-source geodatabase and web-mapping tools to foster regional coordination and decision-making in the Adirondack Park (USA). Environmental Modelling & Software

Beier CM, Bishop DA, Signell SA, DeGaetano AT. In review. Cross-validation of high-resolution gridded historical climate data products for the US Northeast. Journal of Applied Climatology

Beier CM, Patterson TM, Chapin FS. In preparation. Landscape assessment of ecosystem services for adaptive management of resource systems. Proceedings of National Academy of Science (US).

Larkin AM*, Beier CM, Luzadis VA. In preparation. Wilderness and values differ among residents and visitors of the Adirondack Park, New York (USA). Ecological Economics

Beier CM. In preparation. Institutional fit of land use policy with ecosystem services supply and use across a forest landscape. Ecological Economics.

Wiley JJ*, Beier CM, Mountrakis G, Zhuang W. In preparation. Field validation of LIDAR-derived vegetation structure along a old- field successional chronosequence. Ecological Applications

GRANTS CURRENT & PENDING

Kimmerer R, Beier CM, Cook M, Van Lopik W, Mitchell B. from the Land: A Cross-Cultural Partnership in Forest Stewardship Education for Climate Change Adaptation in the Northern Forest Region. US Department of Agriculture – Higher Education Challenge Program ($750,000 – funded, project begins Jan 2013).

Vidon, P, Mitchell MJ, Beier CM. Determination of Climatic and Geomorphological Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Forested Landscapes of the US Northeast. USDA CSREES ($77,807 - current).

Beier CM, Groffman P, Volk TA, Limburg KL. Impacts of Forest Management on Regulating Services in Northern Forest Watersheds – Development of the Forest Ecosystem Services Toolkit. USDA Forest Service - Northeastern States Research Cooperative ($117,115 – current).

Fuller R, Josephson D, Kraft C, Beier CM, Lawrence G, Baldigo B, Dovciak M. Whole-ecosystem Restoration Through Liming of Acidified Tributary Streams in the Honnedaga Lake Basin in the Adirondack Mountains. Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute ($70,000 – current).

Dovciak M, Beier CM. Global Change Fingerprints in Montane Boreal Forests: Implications for Biodiversity and Management of Northeastern Protected Areas. USDA Forest Service - Northeastern States Research Cooperative ($89,497 – current).

Beier CM, Dovciak M. Coupling Local-Scale Climate Change and Forest Ecosystems in the Adirondack Mountains, NY. USDA- CSREES ($51,799 – current).

McNulty SA, Beier CM. Application of GIS to Resource Inventory for Unit Management Planning. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation ($335,000 – current).

Mountrakis G, Beier CM, Zuckerberg B, Porter WF. Using LiDAR to Assess the Roles of Climate and Land-Cover Dynamics as Drivers of Changes in Biodiversity. NASA ROSES ($910,800 - current).

Im J, Dovciak M, Beier CM, Quackenbush L. Characterization of Montane Forest Ecosystems Using Advanced Remote Sensing Technology. USDA CSREES ($79,543 – current).

Dovciak M, Beier CM. Forest Change in the Adirondacks Over Forty Years of Multiple Stressors. USDA CSREES ($54,034 – current)

Beier CM, Mitchell MJ, Gibbs JP, Dovciak M, Fierke M. Impacts of Acidic Deposition and Soil Calcium Depletion on Terrestrial Biodiversity and Food Webs in Northern Hardwood Forests. USDA Forest Service -Northeastern States Research Cooperative ($144,488 – current).

Angermeier P, Frimpong E, Limburg K, Bennett E, Beier CM, Beard D. Spatial Analysis of Relationships among Conservation Practices, Aquatic Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being. USGS Aquatic Gap Program ($265,500 - current).

GRANTS COMPLETED

Beier CM, Mitchell MJ, Gibbs JP, Leopold DJ, Dovciak M. Importance of Calcium-Rich Substrates for Supporting Refugia of Biodiversity and Productivity in an Increasingly Acidified Landscape. USDA Northeastern States Research Cooperative ($41,543).

Volk TA, Luzadis VA, Beier CM, Buchholz T, Amidon T, Malmsheimer R, Germain R. Sustainable Biofuels Roadmap for New York State. Collaborative multi-institution project led by Pace University. New York State Energy and Regulatory Development Agency (ESF subcontract: $115,300).

Beier CM. Impacts of Climate Change on Tongass National Forest Management: Widespread Decline of Yellow-Cedar and its Sustainability as a Timber Resource in Alaska. Center for Global Change, International Arctic Research Consortium ($10,000).

Beier CM, Juday GP. Salvage Logging of Declining Yellow-Cedar in Southeast Alaska: Information for Sustained Yield Management of Alaska’s Most Valuable Timber Resource Under Climate Change. USDA New Crops ($68,600).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (from > 60 total since 2002; *graduate student advisee)

Beier CM, Stella JC, Dovciak M. 2012. Changes in Adirondack lake ice indicate rapid warming in the High Peaks region. Adirondack Research Consortium 2012 Conference, Lake Placid, NY. Invited talk.

Beier CM. 2012. Landscape assessment of ecosystem services for adaptive management: applications in the Southeast Alaska resource system. Coastal Temperate Rainforest Symposium, Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center, Juneau, AK. Invited talk.

Beier CM. 2011. High-resolution climate change mapping for research and adaptation. Climate Change and New York Ecosystems Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Invited talk.

Bishop DA*, Beier CM, Signell SA, Luttman A, DeGaetano AT. 2011. Mapping climate change in the Adirondacks: local-scale comparison of trend maps based on two-high resolution gridded data products. NYSERDA Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Protection Conference, Albany, NY.

Beier CM, Mountrakis G, Porter WF, Zuckerberg B, Zhang L, Blair B. 2011. Using LiDAR to assess the roles of climate and land cover dynamics as drivers of changes in biodiversity. NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Joint Workshop, Alexandria, VA.

Beier CM, Lovecraft AL, Chapin FS. 2011. Growth, collapse and renewal of a resource system: an adaptive cycle of change in public lands governance and forest management in Alaska. Resilience 2011, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Wiley JJ*, Beier CM, Mountrakis G. 2011. Using LiDAR to model forest regeneration: preliminary model development. NY Society of American Foresters Annual Conference, Syracuse, NY.

Beier CM. 2010. Sustainability science in forest landscapes. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Seminar Series, Millbrook, NY. Invited talk.

Beier CM, Woods AM, Hotopp K, Mitchell MJ, Gibbs JP, Dovciak M, Leopold DJ, Lawrence GB, Page B. 2010. Soil calcium shapes communities across multiple trophic levels in Adirondack northern hardwood forests. Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative (NERC) 2010 Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Beier CM. 2010. Calcium, acid rain and forest biodiversity in the Adirondacks. Biology Seminar Series – Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. Invited talk. Beier CM, Woods AM, Hotopp K, Mitchell MJ, Gibbs JP, Dovciak M, Leopold DJ, Lawrence GB, Page B. 2010 Variability in land snail and amphibian communities along a soil calcium gradient in upland hardwood forests of the Adirondack Mountains, NY. Ecological Society of America 2010 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

Larkin A*, Beier CM. Wilderness mapping in the Adirondack Park, New York. Representing Reality: Imagery in the Cognitive, Social and Natural Sciences, University of Buffalo (NCGIA), Buffalo, NY.

Beier CM. Ecosystem services: A framework for understanding and fostering sustainability in the Adirondacks? Adirondack Research Consortium 2010 Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, NY. Invited talk.

Larkin A*, Beier CM. Understanding and mapping wilderness perceptions in the Adirondacks. Adirondack Research Consortium 2010 Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, NY

Beier CM, Limburg KL, Luzadis VA, Groffman P. 2010. Bioenergy and resilience of northern hardwood ecosystems: concepts and applications of the Forest Ecosystem Services Toolbox for Hubbard Brook. Hubbard Brook Scientists Meeting – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY. Invited talk.

Beier CM, Spada D. 2010. Forest and Land Management Task Force – An Agenda for Building Adaptive Capacity in a Changing Adirondack Climate. Adirondack Climate Action Program (ADKCAP) 2010 Conference, Tupper Lake, NY.

Erickson JD, Beier CM. 2010. Alternative ways to understand and assess the impacts of environmental pollutants: Capturing the value of ecosystem services. NY State Energy Research & Development Agency 2010 EMEP Conference, Albany, NY. Invited talk.

Beier CM. 2009. A systems framework and methodology for geospatial assessment of ecosystem services. International Association for Landscape Ecology – U.S. Chapter 2009 Conference, Snowbird, Utah.

Beier CM, Patterson TM, Chapin FS. 2008. Landscape-scale assessment of emergent vulnerability: ecosystem services and disturbance feedbacks. Resilience 2008 – Stockholm University and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

Beier CM, Volk TA. 2008. Biomass forestry in the Adirondacks. Adirondack Research Consortium 2008 Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, NY.

Beier CM. 2007. Complex systems and climate change: vulnerability and adaptive capacity of forest ecosystems and institutions in Southeast Alaska. Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY-ESF. Invited talk.

Beier CM, Patterson TM, Chapin FS. 2007. Mapping social-ecological vulnerability at the regional scale: ecosystem services, societal importance, and disturbance impacts. North American Forest Ecology Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Invited talk.

Beier CM, Sink SE, Juday GP, Hennon PE, D’Amore DV. 2006. Climatic factors in the widespread decline of yellow-cedar in the mixed-conifer temperate rainforests of southeast Alaska. Ecological Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

Beier CM, Albert D, Patterson TM. 2006. Conservation of critical natural capital in southeastern Alaska: significance of wilderness, land use designations and disturbance. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Patterson TM, Beier CM. 2006. An ecosystem services assessment from the Tongass National Forest. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Beier CM, Brinkman T, Meek C, Kofinas GP, Chapin FS. 2006. Managing for regional resilience: the interface of policy and ecology in Alaska. NSF IGERT PI Conference, Washington, DC.

Beier CM, Chapin FS. 2004. Institutional inertia and adaptation of Tongass National Forest land planning in response to shifting political and economic conditions. Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, Fairbanks, AK.

Chapin FS, Baer P, Beier CM. 2004. Limits to sustainability in a directionally changing world: Circumpolar patterns and a conceptual model of regional mechanisms. International Arctic Social Sciences Association. Fairbanks, AK.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Course Instructor FOR/EFB 523 – Tropical Ecology (SUNY ESF) 2010-

Course Instructor FOR 796 – Adirondack Park: Science and Policy of Conservation (SUNY ESF) 2009-

Guest Lecturer and Field Trip Coordinator EFB 496/796 – Hudson River Watershed: From Source to Sink (SUNY ESF) 2008-

Graduate Teaching Assistant BIO 320 – General Ecology (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks) 2003-04 BIOL 108/109 – Biology Laboratory for Majors (Virginia Tech) 2001-02 BIOL 101/102 – Biology Laboratory for Non-Majors (Virginia Tech) 2000-01

ACADEMIC ADVISING Current Graduate Advisees: Abigail Larkin (PhD, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy) – MP Jesse Caputo (PhD, Forest Resources Management) – Co-MP with T. Volk Daniela Manuschevich (PhD, Fulbright, Environmental & Natural Resource Policy) - MP John Wiley (PhD, Ecology) – MP Jennifer Yantachka (MS, Ecology) – MP Cheryl Bondi (PhD, Environmental Science) – MP Daniel Bishop (MS, Forest Resources Management) – MP

Completed Degrees: Abigail Larkin (MS, Conservation Biology, 2011) - MP Paul Goldner (MPS, Natural Resources Management, 2011) – MP Andrew Boslett (MS, Natural Resources Management, 2011) – Co-MP with K. Limburg

Advisory Committees: Jordan Gross (MS, Natural Resources Management) Whitney Lash-Marshall (PhD, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy) Mariana Nava-Lopez (PhD, Environmental Science) Caitlin Snyder (MS, Conservation Biology) Manqi Li (MS, Forest Resource Engineering)

SERVICE ACTIVITIES Curriculum Coordinator – Coupled Natural & Human Systems 2011- Graduate Program in Environmental Science (GPES), SUNY ESF

Sector Lead – Forest and Land Management Task Force 2007- Adirondack Climate Action Program (ADKCAP), US Climate Action Conference

Panel Reviewer 2007- USDA Forest Service, USDA NIFA, NSF, NSERC (Canada)

Associate Editor 2009- Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies Manuscript Reviewer (ad-hoc) Ecology and Society, Ecosystems, Conservation Biology, Sustainability, Environmental Management, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Forest Ecology & Management, PloS ONE, PloS Biology, Ecology

Graduate Education Committee 2008- Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Coupled Human And Natural Systems Network (CHANS-Net) Fellowship to attend the 2009 US-IALE Conference in Snowbird, UT. National Science Foundation and Michigan State University ($1,000).

NCGIA Fellowship to attend Vespucci Initiative Summer Institute of GI Science, Fiesole, Italy. ($2,200)

NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training Fellowship (IGERT). Regional Resilience and Adaptation Program. University of Alaska Fairbanks ($65,000)

WORKSHOPS Maximum Likelihood Methods in Ecology. 2009. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Milbrook, NY. ARIES – Valuation of Ecosystem Services Workshop. 2009. UVM Ecoinformatics Collaboratory, Gund Institute of Ecological Economics. Burlington, VT. Artificial for Ecosystem Services (ARIES) Meeting. 2008. UVM Ecoinformatics Collaboratory, Gund Institute of Ecological Economics. Burlington, VT. NSF Biofuel Sustainability Workshop. 2007. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Milbrook, NY. Multiscale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services (MIMES) Conference. 2007. Gund Institute of Ecological Economics. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Vespucci Initiative - Summer Institute of GI Science. 2005. Spatial Data Infrastructures. Fiesole, Italy. High Latitude Sustainability Workshop. 2003. Royal Swedish Academy of the Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

COLLABORATORS & COAUTHORS F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin, Glenn Juday, and Amy Lovecraft (U. Alaska Fairbanks); Paul Hennon and Dave D’Amore (USDA Forest Service, Juneau, AK); Trista Patterson (USDA Forest Service, Sitka, AK); David Albert (The Nature Conservancy, Juneau, AK); Jon Erickson, Gary Johnson, Ferdinando Villa and Thomas Buchholz (Gund Institute of Ecological Economics and University of Vermont, Burlington, VT); Myron Mitchell, James Gibbs, Donald Leopold, Martin Dovciak, Jungho Im, Tim Volk, Karin Limburg, Giorgos Mountrakis, Melissa Fierke, Robin Kimmerer, Valerie Luzadis, Stewart Diemont, Robert Malmsheimer, Rene Germain, Stacy McNulty (SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY); Greg Lawrence and Barry Baldigo (USGS Troy, NY); Scott Bailey (US Forest Service, Plymouth, NH); Peter Groffman (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies); J. Curt Stager (Paul Smiths College); Elena Bennett (McGill University); Paul Angermeier and Erik Nilsen (Virginia Tech); Douglas Beard (USGS); Aaron Luttman (Clarkson University); Ben Zuckerberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Dan Spada (Adirondack Park Agency, Ray Brook, NY); Jonathan Horton (UNC- Asheville, Asheville, NC); John Walker (Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC); Art DeGaetano (Cornell University/NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center); Charles Driscoll and Chris Johnson (Syracuse University); Sarah Pabian (Colorado State University); Neil Pederson (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY); Dan Josephson and Cliff Kraft (Cornell University).