Curriculum Vitae

William R. Burnside National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center 1 Park Place, Suite 300 Annapolis, MD 21401 Ph: office (410) 919-4992, cell (505) 908-4387 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://billburnside.weebly.com/

Education PhD University of New Mexico 2012 Biology Major advisor: James H. Brown

Graduate Summer school, 2006 Complexity science Santa Fe Institute

Phd student Univ of Texas, Austin 2003-2005 Ecology, evolution, & behavior

MS University of Michigan 1995 Natural Resources & Environment

BA Stanford University 1989 Human Biology, concentration in human-environment interactions

Relevant Employment SESYNC Annapolis, MD 8/12-present Postdoctoral Fellow • Researching the question “Is economic development and its relative sustainability usefully visible in patterns of socio-environmental diversity?” • For 2014-15, helping develop and leading the implementation of the SESYNC Socio- Environmental Immersion postdoctoral program

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Albuquerque, NM 9/06-12/09 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology • TAed core graduate ecology & mixed grad & undergrad biogeography; lead laboratory sections of undergraduates in upper-division Principles of Ecology course and core evolution and ecology course

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Albuquerque, NM 9/07-12/07 Instructor, Department of Biology • Co-created and co-taught a grad/undergrad seminar-style course on Perspectives in Human Ecology to a mix of students from biology, anthropology, economics, and sociology

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Austin, TX 9/03-5/05 Teaching Assistant, College of Natural Sciences • Taught discussion sessions to undergraduates in various biology core courses

SELF EMPLOYED Austin, TX 8/02-9/03 Freelance educational writer and editor • Wrote and edited high school biology and environmental science materials under contract with The College Board and Holt, Rinehart & Winston

HOLT, RINEHART and WINSTON (division of Harcourt) Austin, TX 4/97-6/02 Associate editor, Editor • Edited environmental science and biology materials to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and age-level appropriateness

Field Work Sevilleta LTER site, 2008, 2009, foraging ecology of desert harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex spp) Barro Colorado Island, Smithsonian Trop Research Institute, Panama: ant colony scaling, 2007 Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, Gothic, CO: plant ecology, ant-plant interactions, 2002

Honors Best student paper (Paz et al. The value of information), 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Paris, France AAAS Neimark Travel Assistance award, AAAS 2011, Washington, DC Coupled Human and Natural Systems Fellowship, AAAS 2011, Washington, DC NSF Travel Grant, Internat Biogeography Society conference, Merida, Mexico, Jan. 2009 (declined) Sevilleta Graduate Research grant, summer 2008, $2700 Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship, 2007 Winner, Best student poster: Ecogeographic Rules session, International Biogeography Society conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Jan 2007 NSF Travel Grant ($1400), Internat Biogeog Society conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Jan. 2007 New Mexico Higher Education Department Graduate Scholarship, ($7200/yr), UNM, 2006-2009 Grove Summer Scholarship ($3000), Dept of Biology, U. of New Mexico, 2006 SFI Complex Systems Summer School (tuition, room, and board), 2006, Santa Fe, NM NSF Biocomplexity Fellowship, ($13,500 plus tuition) University of New Mexico, 2005-2006 Pack Term Paper award (university-wide, for best paper on forest-related issue), University of Michigan, May 1995 Rackham Merit Fellowship (tuition, fees, and stipend), University of Michigan, 1993-1995

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Burnside, W.R., Erhardt, E.B., Hammond, S.T., and Brown, J.H. 2014. Rates of biotic interactions scale predictably with temperature despite variation. Oikos 123(12): 1449-1456.

Brown, J.H., Burger, J.R., Burnside, W.R., Chang, M., Davidson, A., Fristoe, T., Hamilton, M.J., Hammond, S.T., Kodric-Brown, A., Mercado-Silva, N., Nekola, J.C., and Okie, J.G. 2013. Macroecology and macroeconomics: Resource scarcity and global sustainability. Ecological Engineering.

Paz, T., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, M., & Moses, M. 2012. Quantifying the effect of colony size and food distribution on harvester ant foraging. PloS One 12(12) e39427.

Burger, J.R., Brown, J.H., Allen, C., Burnside, W.R., Davidson, A., Fristoe, T., Hamilton, M.J., Mercado-Silva, N., Nekola, J.C., Okie, J.G., & Zuo, W. 2012. The macroecology of sustainability. PloS Biology 10(6) e1001345.

Burnside, W.R., Brown, J.H., Burger, O., Hamilton, M., Moses, M., & Bettencourt, LMA. Feb. 2012. Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecology. Biological Reviews 87(1): 194-208.

Flanagan, T.P., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, G.M., & Moses, M.2011. How ants turn information into food. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE). Ieee. pp. pp. 178–185.

Brown, J.H., Burnside, W.R., Davidson, A., DeLong, J.P., Dunn, W.C., Hamilton, M.J., Mercado- Silva, N., Nekola, J.C., Okie, J.G., Woodruff, W.H., & Zuo, W. 2011. Energetic limits to economic growth. Bioscience 61(1): 19-26. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000)

Scarborough, V., & Burnside, W. 2010. Global change: Mapping culture onto climate. Ch 9 in Climate Crises in Human History. Eds. Mainwaring, B., Giegengack, R., and Vita-Finzi, C. American Philosophical Society, Lightning Rod Press, vol 6 (Special Transactions #1): Philadelphia, PA.

Scarborough, V.L. & Burnside, W.R. 2010. Complexity and sustainability: Perspectives from the ancient Maya and modern Balinese. American Antiquity 75(2): 327-363.

Publications accepted

Wei, C., Burnside, W.R., and Che-Castaldo, J. Teaching socio-environmental synthesis with the case-studies approach. Accepted 11/27/14 at Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Publications in preparation

Jean, K.*, Burnside, W.R.*, Carlson, L., Smith, K., and Guégan, J-F. An “equilibrium theory” signature in the island distribution of human pathogens (* contributing equally)

Burnside, W.R., Okie, J.G, Erhardt, E.B., and Hamilton, M.J. The metabolic ecology of range size in traditional human societies

Burnside, W.R. and Muñoz, I. Urbanization changes the effect of livelihood diversification on household income in developing countries

Burnside, W.R. Toward first principles for sustainability science

Other writing (non peer-reviewed)

Burnside, W.R. June 2014. Temperature and the scaling of biotic interaction rates. Oikos Blog. http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/temperature-and-the-scaling-of-biotic-interaction-rates/

Burnside, W.R. Nov 2012. Storms and synthesis. SESYNC Blog. https://blog.sesync.org/2012/11/05/storms- and-synthesis/

Burnside, W.R. Oct 2010. Commentary: Differences in climate and soil partly predict land use, population density, and conflict. Frontiers of Biogeography http://www.biogeography.org/html/fb/FBv02i03.html

Posters Burnside, W.R., Brown, J.., Burger, J.R., Davidson, A.D., Fristoe, T., Hamilton, M.J., Mercado- Silva, N., Okie, J.G., Nekola, J.C., and Zuo, W. Toward a macroecology of sustainability. AAAS 2011. Washington, D.C.

Paz, T., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, M., & Moses, M. How ants turn information into food. UNM Dept of Biology Research Day, March 2010

Burnside, W. and Okie, J. Cultural ecogeography: Environmental determinants of hunter-gatherer geographic patterns. 13th Anthropology Grad Student Union Symposium, U. New Mexico, Feb. 28, 2009

Burnside, W.R., Okie, J., & Phillips, Zachary. A Bergmann’s rule for social group size? Latitudinal variation in group size within terrestrial mammal species. International Biogeography Conference, Merida, Mexico. 8-11 Jan., 2009

Burnside, W.R & Brown, J.H. Metabolic ecology of ant foraging: Effects of temperature on rates of predation, parasitism, and competition. GRC Metabolic Basis of Ecology biennial conference, Biddeford, Maine, July 6-11, 2008

Paz, T., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, M., & Moses, M. The metabolic ecology of ant foraging: Scaling of recruitment with colony size. GRC Metabolic Basis of Ecology biennual conference, Biddeford, Maine, July 6-11, 2008

Burnside, W. and Okie, J. Cultural ecogeography: Environmental determinants of hunter-gatherer geographic patterns. International Biogeography Conference, Tenerife, Spain. 9-13 Jan., 2007

Organized Symposia Organizer (lead) and Moderator, Symposium #8: Human Macroecology, ESA 2009, Albuquerque (http://eco.confex.com/eco/2009/techprogram/S4152.HTM)

Co-organizer, Human Macroecology symposium, AAAS Southwest and Rocky Mtn Division annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April, 2008.

Conference Presentations Burnside, W.R. The functional ecology of economic diversity? Eco**2 Summit, 9/8-10/14, London School of Economics, UK

Burnside, W.R. Toward a functional ecology of livelihood diversity. Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 2014.

Burnside, W.R. and Che-Castaldo, J. 2014. Lessons from a SESYNC Short Course on Teaching S-E Synthesis with Case Studies. In Proctor, J., Wei, C., Burnside, W.R., Montelbanco, A., and Caplow, S. 2014. Teaching about Socio-environmental Synthesis with the Case Study Approach. Association for Environmental Sciences and Studies: AESS 2014 Session Group C. Pace University, New York, NY.

Burnside, W.R and Okie, J. Ecological determinants of hunter-gatherer foraging patterns. Human Macroecology symposium. AAAS SWARM meeting. April, 2008, Albuquerque, NM.

Scarborough, V.W., and Burnside, W.R. March, 2007. Sustainable complexity among the ancient Maya and the Balinese. Integrated History & Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) Asia Workshop, Japan.

Invited Talks Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University March, 2013

Teaching Co-developing a short course on Using the Case Study Method to teach Socio-environmental Synthesis, SESYNC, winter and spring 2013

Co-conceived, co-created, and co-taught Perspectives in Human Ecology, a joint undergrad/grad course in UNM Biology & Anthropology, fall 2007

Teaching assistant, Ecology and undergraduate biology courses, UT Austin, U. New Mexico

Service Ecology faculty search committee member, UNM Dept of Biology, fall 2011 Travel Application reviewer, Graduate Research Allocation Committee, UNM Biology Graduate Student Association Graduate mentor, SEEDS, University of New Mexico chapter, Ecological Society of America, 2007

Reviewing Ecosystems, Global Ecology and Biogeography, PloS One, EcoHealth, Global Ecol & Conservation NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program

Memberships American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Ecological Society of America (& human ecology section) Association of American Geographers Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences International Biogeography Society CHANS-Net, http://chans-net.org/ (coupled human and natural systems network)