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 perceptions 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. Learning 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