CURRICULUM
VITAE: Kerry David Woods
Natural Sciences, Bennington
College
Bennington, Vermont 05201
802/440-4465,
kwoods@bennington.edu
Education:
Cornell
University,
Ithaca, NY; Ph.D., Ecology, 1981. (Advisors: R. H. Whittaker, P. L.
Marks). Minor areas:
Statistics, Soil
Science.
Illinois
College,
Jacksonville, IL; B.S. summa
cum laude,1975.
(Biology,
Physics)
Awards
and Fellowships:
Visiting
Scholar/Faculty, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Spring 2020
(deferred due to CoVid)
Fulbright
Senior
Specialist Roster, 2013-2018 (project award, Univ. Ljubljana,
Slovenia, fall 2014)
Center
Fellow, National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 2008-2009
Program
Chair, National
meetings, Ecological Society of America 2007
Manierre
Research Award, Huron
Mt. Wildlife Foundation 2000
Bullard
Fellowship,
Harvard University 1997
VT-EPSCoR
-- NSF Sabbatical Fellowship 1997
Sigma
Xi 1980
National
Science
Foundation Fellow 1975-1978
Phi
Beta Kappa 1975
Professional
Appointments:
Faculty,
Bennington
College 1986-
Director
of Research,
Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation, Ives Lake Field Station 2004 -
Visiting
Professor,
Univ. VT Field Naturalist M.S. Program, Jan 1995
Visiting
Scientist, Landcare Research,
Christchurch NZ, Fall
1993
Professor, Central European Univ., Grad. Program in Envir.
Science, Budapest, summer 1991
Postdoctoral
Associate
(w/ D. Botkin) and Lecturer, Univ. California, Santa Barbara 1983-86
Assistant
Professor of
Biology, St. Olaf College 1982-1983
Instructor
and
Postdoctoral Associate (w/ M. B. Davis), University of Minnesota
1980-1982
Other
Professional
Contributions:
Founding
member ForestREplot Consortium, Ghent,
Belgium, 2014
Associate
Editor, Ecology and Ecological Monographs, 2001-2011
Associate
Editor, Journal of Vegetation
Science, 2001
-
Founding
Member,
Editorial Board, PeerJ, 2012-
Professional
Ethics
Committee (Chair), Int’l Assoc. Veg. Sci, 2011- (framed revised Code
of Ethics, 2019-20)
Chair,
N. Amer.
Section, Int’l Assoc. for Veg. Sci. 2009-2010
Advisory
Board ‘Issues in Ecology’
(ESA ‘white-paper’
series), 2008-2011
Organizer,
Ecological
Society of America Section, Researchers at Undergrad Institutions,
2008
Program
Committee,
Ecological Society of America, 2004-2009 (Chair 2008-9)
Director
of Research,
Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation, 2004-
NEON/GLACEO
(upper midwest)
Consortium 2004-2009
Scientific
Advisory
Committee, Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve
and Research
Station, 2000-
Accreditation
Visiting
Teams (10) for New England Assoc. Schools and Colleges, 1990-2016
Flora
Advisory
Committee to Vermont Endangered Species Committee, 1988-
Working
Group, National
Park Service, New England “Vital Signs”, Acadia N.P. 2004
ad
hoc
Committee on Data
Sharing and Archiving, Ecological Society of America, 1995-1999
Ecological
Society of
America Council Member 1994-2003,2008-2009
Professional
Ethics
Committee, Ecological Society of America, 1991-2003; Chair, 1994-2003.
Small
College
Development Committee, VT-EPSCoR/NSF,
1988-1997
Board
of Directors,
Equinox Preservation Trust 1991-1997.
Co-Organizer,
Vermont
Field Biology Conferences, 1990-1993.
Science
Advisory Group,
Earth Observing System, NASA, 1985.
External
reader, Ph.D.
dissertations Universities of Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec-Montreal
Manuscript
and grant
proposal review for numerous journals and agencies
Organizer
of featured
Symposia at professional meetings (Ecol. Soc. Amer., Int’l. Assoc.
Veg. Sci.)
College
Service: many
Committees, including Faculty Review, 18 yrs (Chair 4 yrs)
Professional
Societies:
Ecological
Society of America
British
Ecological Society
International
Association for Vegetation Science
Scholarly
Publications:
Brzeziecki,
B., K.D. Woods... (plus 4). 2020. Over 80 years without major
disturbance, late‐successional Białowieża woodlands exhibit complex
dynamism, with coherent compositional shifts towards true old‐growth
conditions. Journal of Ecology 108 (3), 1138-1154
Dye,
Alex, K.D. Woods. 2019. Growth and Climate Response of Four New
Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carrière (Eastern Hemlock) Tree-Ring
Chronologies from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Great Lakes Botanist
58:193-204.
Dornelas,
M., L. H. Antao …K.D. Woods…(many
others).
2018. BioTIME: A database of biodiversity
time series
for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:760–786.
Verheyen, K.,…
K.D. Woods… (many others).. 2016. Combining
biodiversity resurveys across regions to advance global change
research. BioScience 67:73–83.
Fahey,
R. T., A. T. Fotis, and K. D. Woods.
2014. Quantifying canopy complexity
and effects on productivity and resilience in late-successional
hemlock–hardwood forests. Ecological Applications 25:834–847.
Woods,
K. D. 2014.
Multi-decade biomass dynamics in an old-growth hemlock-northern
hardwood
forest, Michigan, USA. PeerJ 2:e598.
Woods,
K. D. 2014.
Problems with edges: tree lines as indicators of climate change (or
not).
Applied Vegetation Science 17:4–5.
De Frenne,
P.,…others,…, K. D. Woods, M. Wulf, B. J. Graae, and K. Verheyen.
2013.
Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming.
Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 110:18561–18565.
Woods,
K.D., D.J. Hicks,
J. Schultz. 2012. Losses in understory diversity over three decades in
an
old-growth cool-temperate forest in Michigan, USA. Canadian Journal of
Forest
Research, 42: 532-549.
Woods,
K.D. 2009. Multi-decade,
spatially explicit population studies of canopy dynamics in Michigan
old-growth
forests. Ecological Archives E090-251-D1.
Woods,
K.D. (compiler)
2008. An all-taxa
biodiversity inventory
of the Huron Mountain Club. Version September 2008. Occasional papers
of the
Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation, No. 5. [http://www.hmwf.org/]
Woods,
K.D. 2008.
Living long by staying small; stem-layering as an adaptive
life-history trait
in shade-tolerant seedlings. Canadian Journal of Forest Research,
38:480-487.
Bekker,
R.M., van der Maarel, E., Bruelheide,
H. &
Woods, K. 2007. Long-term datasets: From descriptive to predictive
data using
eco-informatics. Journal of Vegetation Science 18:457-462.
[Introduction to
special issue on Ecoinformatics, including next paper.]
Woods,
K.D. 2007.
Predictability, contingency, and convergence in late succession: slow
systems
and complex data-sets. Journal
of
Vegetation Science 18: 543-554
Papaik,
M.J., C.D. Canham, E.F. Latty,
K.D. Woods.
2005. Effects of an introduced pathogen on resistance to natural
disturbance:
beech bark disease and windthrow. Can. J. For. Res.35:1382-1843.
Woods, K.D. 2004. Intermediate disturbance in a late-successional
hemlock-northern hardwood forest. Journal of Ecology 92:464-476.
Woods,
K.D. 2000.
Dynamics of a late-successional hemlock-hardwood forest over three
decades.
Ecology 81:110-126.
Woods,
K.D. 2000.
Long-term change and spatial pattern in a late-successional
hemlock-northern
hardwood forest. Journal of Ecology 88:267-282.
Woods,
K.D. 1996.
Community response to plant invasion. Invited Chapter IN: J.O. Luken and J.W. Thieret
(eds) Assessment
and
Management of Plant Invasions. Springer-Verlag.
J.
Jenkins, K. D.
Woods. 1995. How to destroy high-diversity native wetlands: draw-downs
and invasion
by Myriophyllum spicatum. Tech. Reports, VT
DEC (MS in
prep for journal).
Woods,
K.D and C.V. Cogbill. 1994. Upland
old-growth forests in the Adirondack
Park, New York. Natural Areas Journal 14:241-258.
Woods,
K.D. 1993.
Consequences for forest communities of invasion by Lonicera tatarica L..
American Midland
Naturalist 130:62-74.
Hall,
F.G., K. Huemmrich, D. Strebel,
S. Goetz,
K.D. Woods. 1992. Biophysical, morphological, canopy optical
properties, productivity
data
from Superior N.F. NASA Tech. Mem. 104568
Hall,
F.G., D.B.Botkin, D.E. Strebel,
K.D.
Woods, S.J.Goetz. 1991. Large-scale
patterns of
forest succession as determined by remote sensing. Ecology 72:628-640.
Woods,
K.D., A. Feiveson, D.B. Botkin. 1991.
Statistical error analysis for
biomass density and leaf area estimation.
Can. Journal of Forest Research 21:974-989.
Davis,
M.B., K.D.
Woods, M. Schwartz. 1991. Detecting a species limit from pollen in
sediments.
Journal of Biogeography 18:653-668.
Woods,
K.D. and M.B.
Davis. 1989. Paleoecology of range limits: beech in northern Michigan
and
Wisconsin. Ecology 70:681-696.Woods, K.D. 1988. Northern hardwood
forests.
Journal New England Wild Flower Soc.
Davis,
M., K.D.Woods, S.Webb,
and R.Futyma. 1986. Dispersal versus
climate: expansion of Fagus
and Tsuga into the Upper Great Lakes region. Vegetatio
67:93-103.
Botkin,
D.B., T. Reynales, K.D. Woods. 1985.
Adding spatial considerations
to the JABOWA model of forest growth. IN Proceedings of XII Annual
Symposium on
Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data, LARS, Purdue.
Woods,
K.D. 1984.
Patterns of tree replacement: canopy effects on understory pattern in
hemlock-northern hardwood forests. Vegetatio
56:87-107. (Republished, 1985, IN Peet (ed),
Papers in
Plant Ecology in Honor of R. H. Whittaker.
Woods,
K.D. and R.H.
Whittaker. 1981. Canopy-understory interaction and the internal
dynamics of
mature hardwood and hemlock-hardwood forests. IN West, Shugart, and
Botkin (eds), Forest Succession: Concepts
and Applications.
Springer-Verlag.
Woods,
K.D. 1981. Interstand and Intrastand
Pattern
in Hemlock-Northern Hardwood Forests. Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell, Univ.
Woods,
K.D. 1979.
Reciprocal replacement and the maintenance of codominance in a
beech-maple
forest. Oikos 33:31-39.
Research
Grants from:
National
Science
Foundation
U.S.
Forest Services,
NASA,
Mellon
Foundation,
Huron
Mt. Wildlife
Foundation,
Vermont
Agency Natural
Resources
Merck
Forest and Farm
Foundation
Michigan
Botanical Club
Selected
Invited
Professional/Research Talks (from > 75):
Permanent
plots and
heritage data-sets offer our best insights into dynamics of primeval
forests.
Keynote address, International Conference on Temperate and Boreal
Primeval Forests
in the Face of Global Change, Lviv,
Ukraine, 2019
Imagined
Forests: How
do we know what we think we know about (eastern deciduous) old-growth
forests?
University of Vermont, Fall 2018
Cross-continental
comparisons
of tree mortality in old-growth temperate forests show non-equilibrial
dynamics. Invited Paper, Annual Symposium, International Assoc for
Veg. Sci,
Palermo, Italy. 2017
Retrospective
permanent-plot
data offer deeper understanding of late-successional forest
dynamics. Annual Symposium, International Association for Vegetation
Science,
Brno, Czech Republic, 2015
New
models
for old growth from long-term studies in eastern deciduous forests.
Invited paper, Annual meeting, Ecological
Society of
America, Baltimore 2015
‘Heritage’
data-sets
offer important insights into forest dynamics and response to
environmental change. Forestry Dept., Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
2014
Historical
contingency
in old-growth forests: Implications for community patterns in the
face of environmental change. Invited paper, Annual
meeting Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, 2010
Seedling
regeneration,
shade-tolerance, deer browse, and patch dynamics in late-successional
forests: a synthetic view. SUNY Coll. Envir.
Science
and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 2006.
Ecological
insights
and analytical challenges: processing and visualizing multiple
measurements from permanent plots. IAVS Symposium, Plenary Session,
Lisbon, Portugal,
July 2005
Predictability
and
contingency in late-successional landscapes. Invited paper, Annual
meeting Ecological Society of America, Montreal, 2005
Teaching
Experience:
Bennington
College:
wide array of courses in field biol. ecology, evolution, environmental
studies
University
of Vermont:
Graduate field course in Ecological Field Methods and Desert Ecology
Central
European University:
Graduate Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy.
Univ.
Calif.-Santa
Barbara. St. Olaf
College, various
undergrad and grad ecology courses