CURRICULUM VITAE -- Chris J. Peterson, Professor Areas of expertise: forestry, wind damage to trees, arboriculture, severe weather, treefall Address: Dept. of Plant Biology, 2502 Plant Sci. Bldg., Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Telephone: Office: (706) 542-3754; cell: (706) 347-2336 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION B.A. 1985, Biology and Environmental Science, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana. Ph.D. 1992, Graduate Program in Ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. POSITIONS HELD Postdoctoral Researcher. 1992-1994, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Assistant Professor. 1994-2000, Department of Botany, University of Georgia. Associate Professor. 2000-2013, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia. Professor, 2013-present, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia. Fulbright Fellow. 2004, Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki. EXPERT WITNESS EXPERIENCE 2018-2019 Burnham Brown, Los Angeles, California 2019 Adler, Pollock and Sheehan, Providence, Rhode Island. 2019 Cozen O’Conner, Atlanta, Georgia 2019 Apperson Crump, Memphis, Tennessee CONSULTING EXPERIENCE 2010-2018 California Department of Water Resources: tree stability and risk of treefall for trees in river levees; guidance for “Levee Vegetation Management” standards. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (SCHOLARLY ARTICLES): In review: Peterson, C.J. In review. First-decade biomass and carbon accumulation, and woody community change after severe wind damage in a hemlock-white pine forest remnant. Forests, submitted Jan. 2021. Oldfield, C.A., and C.J. Peterson. In review. Tree wind resistance tested with static winching: an investigation of two common eastern U.S. hardwoods and meta-analysis. Trees, Forests and People, submitted Sept. 2020. San-Jose, M., L. Werden, C.J. Peterson, F. Oviedo-Brenes, and R. Zahawi. In review. Large tree Mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve. J. Vegetation Science, submitted Dec. 2020. Published or in press: Oldfield, C.A., and C.J. Peterson. 2021. Biomass and carbon accumulation 19 years post windthrow and salvage logging. Forests, 12: 173. Doi: 10.3390/f12020173. Mansour, M.A., D.M. Rhee, T. Newson, C.J. Peterson, and F.T. Lombardo. 2021. Estimating wind damage in forested areas due to tornadoes. Forests, 12:17. Doi: 10.3390/ f12010017. Peterson, C.J. 2020. Change in tree spatial pattern after severe wind disturbance in four North American northern hardwood and sub-boreal forests. Frontiers of Forests & Global Change, 3:57. Doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00057. Peterson, C.J. 2019. Twenty-five years of aboveground biomass and carbon accumulation following extreme wind damage in an old-growth forest. Forests, 10(2), art289. Doi: 10.3390/fl0030289. Peterson, C.J., G.H.P.M. Ribeiro, R. Negron-Juarez, D. Marra, J.Q. Chambers, N. Higuchi, A. Lima, and J.B. Cannon. 2019. Critical wind speeds suggest wind could be an important disturbance agent in Amazonian forests. Forestry, 94(2): 444-459. Doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpz025. Oldfield, C., and C.J. Peterson. 2019. Woody species composition, diversity, and recovery 6 years after wind disturbance and salvage logging of a southern Appalachian forest. Forests, 10(2), 29. Doi: 10.3390/f10020129. Peterson, C.J. 2019. Damage diversity as a metric of structural complexity after forest wind disturbance. Forests, 10(2), 85 doi: 10.3390/f10020085. Cannon, J.B., S.K. Henderson, M.H. Bailey, and C.J. Peterson. 2019. Interactions between wind and fire disturbance in forests: competing amplifying and buffering effects. Forest Ecology & Management, 436: 117-128. Doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.01.015. Morimoto, J., K. Nakagawa, K.T. Takano, M. Aiba, M. Oguro, Y. Furukawa, Y. Mishima, K. Ogawa, R. Ito, T. Takemi, F. Nakamura, and C.J. Peterson. 2019. Comparison of vulnerability to storm wind between Abies plantation forests and natural mixed forests in northern Japan. Forestry, 94(4): 436-443. Doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpy045. Zahawi, R.A., F. Oviedo-Brenes, and C.J. Peterson. 2017. A degradation debt? Large scale shifts in community composition and loss of biomass in a tropical forest fragment after 40 years of isolation. PLOS One, 12: e0183133. Cannon, J.B., C.J. Peterson, J.J. O’Brien, and S.J. Brewer. 2017/2018. A review and classification of interactions between forest disturbance from wind and fire. Forest Ecology & Management, 406: 381-390. Zenoble, M., and C.J. Peterson. 2017. Remotely visible width and discontinuity of 50 tornado damage paths through forested landscapes. Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology, 12: 1-21. Godfrey, C.M., and C.J. Peterson. 2017. Estimating enhanced Fujita scale levels based on forest damage severity. Weather & Forecasting, 32: 243-252. Ribeiro, GHPM, J.Q. Chambers, C.J. Peterson, S.E. Trumbore, D.M. Marra, C. Wirth, J.B. Cannon, R.I. Negron-Juarez, A.J.N. Lima, E.V.C.M. de Paula, J. Santos, and N. Higuchi. 2016. Mechanical vulnerability and resistance to snapping and uprooting for Central Amazon tree species. Forest Ecology & Management 380: 1-10. Cannon, J.B., J. Hepinstall-Cymerman, C.M. Godfrey, and C.J. Peterson. 2016. Landscape-scale characteristics of forest tornado damage in mountainous terrain. Landscape Ecology 31: 2097-2114. Doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0384-8. Nagendra, U.J., and C.J. Peterson. 2016. Plant-soil feedbacks differ in intact and tornado- damaged areas of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. Plant and Soil, 402(1-2): 103-116. Royo, A. A., C. J. Peterson, J. Stanovick, and W. P. Carson. 2016. Evaluating the ecological impacts of salvage logging: can natural and anthropogenic disturbances promote coexist- ence. Ecology, 97: 1566-1582. Sugiyama, A. and C.J. Peterson. 2015. Transplant experiments reveal the importance of distance from forest edge and inconsistent maternal effects on seedling performance in a pioneer tree species Ficus tonduzii (Moraceae). Tropics, 24: 91-99. Cannon, J.B., M.J. Barrett, and C.J. Peterson. 2015. The effect of species, size, failure mode, and fire-scarring on tree stability. Forest Ecology & Management, 356: 196-203. Peterson, C.J., J.J. Dosch, and W.P. Carson. 2014. Pasture succession in the Neotropics: Extending the nucleation hypothesis into a matrix discontinuity hypothesis. Oecologia, 175(4): 1325-1335. Cannon, J. B., J. J. O’Brien, E. L. Loudermilk, M. B. Dickinson, and C. J. Peterson. 2014. The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics. Forest Ecology & Management, 330: 294-303. Sobhani, V.M., M.J. Barrett, and C.J. Peterson. 2014. Robust prediction of treefall pit and mound sizes from tree size across 10 forest blowdowns in eastern North America. Ecosystems, 17(5): 837-850. Waldron, K., J.-C. Ruel, S. Gauthier, L. DeGrandpre and C.J. Peterson. 2014. Effects of post -windthrow salvage logging on microsites, plant composition and regeneration. Applied Vegetation Science, 17(2): 323-337. Peterson, C.J., L. Krueger, S. Stark, A.A. Royo, and W.P. Carson. 2013. Disturbance size and severity covary in small and mid-size wind disturbances in Pennsylvania northern hardwoods forests. Forest Ecology & Management, 302: 273-279. Peterson, C.J., and V. Claassen. 2013. An evaluation of the stability of Quercus lobata and Populus fremontii on river levees assessed using static winching tests. Forestry, 86: 201-209. Cowden, C.C., and C.J. Peterson. 2013. Annual and seasonal dynamics of ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing white pine (Pinus strobus) seedlings following catastrophic windthrow in northern Georgia, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 43: 215-223. Sugiyama, A., and C.J. Peterson. 2013. Inter-annual higher seed germination from smaller than medium-sized premontane wet forest fragments for an animal-dispersed tree species in Costa Rica. Plant Ecology, 214: 115-125. Sugiyama, A., and C.J. Peterson. 2013. Edge effects act differentially on multiple early regeneration stages of a shade-tolerant tree Tapirira mexicana. Biotropica, 45: 37-44. Hovick, S.M., C.J. Peterson, and W.P. Carson. 2012. Predicting invasiveness and range size in wetland plants using biological traits: a multivariate experimental approach. Journal of Ecology, 100: 1373-1382. Hovick, S.M., D.E. Bunker, C.J. Peterson, and W.P. Carson. 2011. Purple loosestrife suppresses colonization far more than broad-leaved cattail: experimental evidence with plant community implications. Journal of Ecology, 99(1): 225-234. Krueger, L.M., C.J. Peterson, A.A. Royo, and W.P. Carson. 2009. Evaluating relationships among tree growth rate, shade tolerance, and browse tolerance following disturbance in an eastern deciduous forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 39(12): 2460-2469. Krueger, L.M., and C.J. Peterson. 2009. Effects of woody debris and ferns on herb-layer vegetation and deer herbivory in a Pennsylvania forest blowdown. Ecoscience 16(4): 461-469. Cowden, C.C., and C.J. Peterson. 2009. A multi-mutualist simulation: Applying biological market models to diverse mycorrhizal communities. Ecological Modelling 220: 1522- 1533. de Chantal, M., S. Lilja, C.J. Peterson, T. Kuuluvainen, I. Vanha-Majamaa, and P. Puttonen. 2009. Tree regeneration before and after restoration treatments in managed boreal Picea abies stands. Applied Vegetation Science 12 (2): 131-143. Peterson, C.J. and W.P. Carson. 2008. Processes constraining woody species succession on abandoned pastures in the tropics: on the relevance of temperate models of succession. pp. 367-383 in Tropical Forest Community Ecology, eds W.P. Carson & S. Schnitzer. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Peterson, C.J., and A.D. Leach. 2008. Limited salvage logging effects on forest regeneration after moderate-severity windthrow. Ecological Applications 18 (2): 407-420. Peterson, C.J., and A.D. Leach. 2008. Salvage logging after windthrow alters microsite abundance and environment, but not vegetation. Forestry 81 (3): 361-376. Lilja-Rothsten, S., M. de Chantal, C. Peterson, T. Kuuluvainen, I. Vanha-Majamaa, and P. Puttonen. 2008. Microsites before and after restoration in managed Picea abies stands in southern Finland: effects of fires and partial cutting with dead wood creation.