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COLIN M BEIER
Research Ecologist
Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management
Adirondack Ecological Center & Huntington Wildlife Forest
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)
6312 State Route 28N, Newcomb, NY 12852
voice: 518.582.4551 fax: 518.582.2181
[email protected]
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
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
2005-06
National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow
Resilience and Adaptation Program
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
2002-05
Graduate Assistantship (Teaching & Research)
Department of Biology
Virginia Tech
2000-02
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Beier CM. In press. Adaptive capacity in the reorganization of forest management in Alaska. Ecology & Society.
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, Chiaranzelli 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
Beier CM, McNulty SA, Stella JA, Dovciak M. In review. Local climatic drivers of changes in ice phenology and
duration on high-elevation lakes in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Climatic Change.
Beier CM, Woods AM, Hotopp K, Mitchell MJ, Gibbs JP, Dovciak M, Leopold DJ, Lawrence GB, Page B. In review.
Soil calcium influences communities at multiple trophic levels in the northern hardwood forests of the Adirondack
Mountains, NY. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
Beier CM, Luttman A, Signell SA, Signell R, DeGaetano A. In preparation. Landscape mapping of climate change
using gridded historical data products. Global Change Biology.
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).
Beier CM. In preparation. Land use policy and ecosystem services across a forest landscape. Ecological Economics.
GRANTS CURRENT & PENDING
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 ($153,966 – 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. 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-Northeastern States Research
Cooperative – Theme Two ($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).
Kimmerer RW, Beier CM, Gibbs JP, Diemont SA, Limburg KE. IGERT – Helping Forests Walk: Engaging Scientific and
Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Build Resilience in Cultural Landscapes Facing Environmental Change. National
Science Foundation ($3,160,000 – pending).
Beier CM, Limburg KE, Luzadis VA. Collaborative Research – Bioenergy and Resilience of the Northern Hardwood
Forest. Collaborative multi-institution proposal led by P. Groffman and G. Likens (Cary Institute of Ecosystem
Studies). National Science Foundation ($450,000 ESF ($1,600,000 total) – pending).
Volk TA, Beier CM, Amidon T, Germain R, Luzadis VA and others. AFRI CAP: Northeast Woody Biomass (NEWBio)
Consortium for Sustainable Woody Biomass Feedstocks. SUNY ESF Subcontract for collaborative multi-institutional
proposal involving Penn State (Tom Richard, Lead PD), University of Vermont, University of Maine and several others.
USDA NIFA – AFRI ($45,000,000 total, $11,500,000 SUNY ESF).
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 – Theme Four ($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 YellowCedar 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).
SELECTED SCIENTIFIC TALKS (from > 40 total since 2002; *indicates graduate student advisee)
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 perception 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 yellowcedar 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 530 – 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. Alaska Fairbanks)
BIOL 108/109 – Biology Laboratory for Majors (Virginia Tech)
BIOL 101/102 – Biology Laboratory for Non-Majors (Virginia Tech)
2003-04
2001-02
2000-01
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Major Professor:
Abigail Larkin (MS, Conservation Biology); Andrew Boslett (MS, Forest Resources
Management); Jesse Caputo (PhD, Forest Resources Management); Daniela Manuschevich
(PhD, Fulbright, Environmental & Natural Resource Policy); John Wiley (PhD, Ecology); Paul
Goldner (MPS, Environmental & Natural Resources Policy); Jennifer Yantachka (MS, Ecology)
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Panel Reviewer
USDA Forest Service
USDA NIFA
NSERC (Canada)
2007-
Associate Editor
Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies
2009-
Manuscript Reviewer (ad-hoc)
Ecology and Society, Ecosystems, Conservation Biology, Sustainability,
Environmental Management, Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Forest Ecology & Management, Northeastern Naturalist
Graduate Education Committee
Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
2008-
Coordinator – Roosevelt Wild Life Internship Program
Adirondack Ecological Center
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
2007-
Sector Lead – Forest and Land Management Task Force
Adirondack Climate Action Program (ADKCAP), US Climate Action Conference
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, Tupper Lake, NY
2007-
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. ($2,200)
NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training Fellowship (IGERT). Regional Resilience and
Adaptation Program. University of Alaska Fairbanks ($~50,000)
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 Intelligence 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 and Stockholm University,
Stockholm, Sweden.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
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Climate Change: Collaborator with NOAA Climate Data Center to manage and analyze high-resolution
interpolated climate data for the northeastern United States. Leader of Forest and Land Management Group of
the US Climate Action Conference and Adirondack Climate Action Program (ADKCAP) (2008-).
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Sustainability: Contributor to the High Latitude Sustainability Workshop at Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
(2003 and 2008), co-author of the second edition of the Resilience Alliance ‘Resilience Practitioner’s Workbook’.
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Ecosystem Services: Collaborator with the MIMES (Multiscale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services) Project
and the ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services) Project at the Gund Institute of Ecological
Economics; ongoing collaborations with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland,
OR and Juneau, AK) and US Geological Survey (Blacksburg, VA) for ecosystem services research.
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Biofuels/Renewable Energy: Co-leader of Sustainability Metrics Group for the NE Woody Biomass AFRI CAP
proposal with Penn State, UVM, UMaine, ESF and others. Co-PI on NY State Biofuels Roadmap project. Leader
of Forest and Land Management Task Force for the Adirondack Climate Action Program (ADKCAP)
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Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Fellow of the Resilience & Adaptation IGERT program at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks; Member and 2009 Fellow of the Coupled Human and Natural Systems Network (CHANS-Net).
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 (USGS Troy, NY); Scott Bailey (US Forest Service, Plymouth, NH); Peter Groffman and Gene Likens (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 (Cornell University), Dan Spada (Adirondack Park Agency, Ray Brook, NY); Jonathan Horton (UNCAsheville, Asheville, NC); John Walker (Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC); Art DeGaetano (Cornell University/NOAA
Northeast Regional Climate Center); Richard Signell (USGS Woods Hole, MA); Charles Driscoll (Syracuse University);
Sarah Pabian (Penn State University); Neil Pederson (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY).