Detailed C.V.

Education and Experience:

• Professor of Biology, Bennington College. 1986-present
• Instructor, University of Vermont, Field Naturalist Graduate Program, Winter 1995
• Professor, Central European University, Environmental Science Graduate Program. Summer, 1991
• Post-doctoral Associate (Daniel B. Botkin) and Instructor, Biology and Environmental Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara. 1983-1986
• Assistant Professor, Biology, St. Olaf College. 1982-1983
• Post-doctoral Associate (Margaret B. Davis) and Instructor, Ecology, University of Minnesota. 1980-1982
• Ph.D., 1981, Cornell University. Ecology (minors in Soil Science, Statistics): Advisors: R.H. Whittaker, P.L. Marks
• B.A., 1975, Illinois College, summa cum laude. Biology and Physics

• Manierre Research Award, Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation 2000
• Bullard Fellowship, Harvard University 1997
• VT-EPSCoR -- NSF Sabbatical Fellowship 1997
• National Science Foundation Fellow 1975-1978
• Phi Beta Kappa 1975

• Ecological Society of America (Chair, Professional Ethics Committee 1999-2004; Chair Annual Meeting 2007; Co-Chair, Meetings Committee, 2008 )
• British Ecological Society
• Society for Conservation Biology

• Program Chair, national meetings Ecological Society of America, 2007 (member program committee, 2004-2008, Co-Chair 2008)
  
• Vice-Chair, North American Section, International Association for Vegetation Science, 2008
• Advisory Board, Issues in Ecology (publications of Ecological Society of America), 2007-
  
• Associate Editor, Journal of Vegetation Science, 2001-   (Editorial Board since 1999)
• Associate Editor, Ecology and Ecological Monographs, 2001 -
• Director of Research, Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation, 2004-
• Program Committee, Ecological Society of America, 2004- (National Program Chair 2007)
  
• Scientific Advisory Committee, Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve and Research Station, 2000-
• Forest Management Advisory Committee, Merck Forest and Farmland Trust, 2001-
• Manuscript and grant proposal review for >25 journals and granting organizations
• ad hoc Committee on Data Sharing and Archiving, Ecological Society of America, 1995-1999
• Ecological Society of America Council Member 1994-
• Professional Ethics Committee, Ecological Society of America, 1991-; Chair, 1994-.
• Small College Development Committee, VT-EPSCoR/NSF, 1988-
• Accreditation Visiting Teams for New England Assoc. Schools and Colleges, 1990-98
• Flora Advisory Committee to Vermont Endangered Species Committee, 1988-
• Institutional Representative, School for Field Studies College Consortium, 1989-.
• Board of Directors, Mt. Anthony Preservation Society, 1992-1996
• Board of Directors, Equinox Preservation Trust 1991-.
• Co-Organizer, Vermont Field Biology Conferences, 1990-1993.
• VT Governor's Advisory Committee on Science Research Funding, 1990.
• Symposium Organizer, Moderator, Ecological Society Meetings, 1985, 1990, 1995.
• Preserve Management Committee, The Nature Conservancy, Minnesota, 1980-1983.
• Universities Space Research Assoc.: Pilot Land Data System Working Group, 1985.
• Science Advisory Group, Earth Observing System, NASA, 1985.
• College Service:
• Committees: Academic Policies 1995-1998, Faculty Review, 1998-, Facilities (chair), Educational Counseling 1988-92, Freshman year ad hoc (chair) 1989-90, Field Work Term 1993- , Professional Ethics ad hoc (chair) 1993-94, Campus Renewal Comm. 1996-7, College Farm Supervisory Board 1996-
• Secretary, Div. Natural Science and Math, 1988-1990.
• Academic Council, Budget Committee, 1993-4; Academic Policies Committee, 1995-7.

• Woods, K.D. 1979. Reciprocal replacement and the maintenance of codominance in a beech-maple forest. Oikos 33:31-39.
• 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Woods, K.D. 1988. Northern hardwood forests. Journal New England Wild Flower Soc.
• Woods, K.D. and M.B. Davis. 1989. Paleoecology of range limits: beech in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Ecology 70:681-696.
• 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. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 21:974-989.
• Woods, K.D. and D.J. Hicks. 1991. Re-viewing ecology [review of three ecology texts]. Ecology 72:765-767.
• Woods, K.D. 1991. Invaders and Biogeography [book reviews]. Ecology 72:1173-1175.
• Davis, M.B., K.D. Woods, M. Schwartz. 1991. Detecting a species limit from pollen in sediments. Journal of Biogeography 18:653-668.
• Hall, F.G., K. Huemmrich, D. Strebel, S. Goetz, K.D. Woods. 1992. Biophysical, morphological, canopy optical properties, and productivity data from the Superior National Forest. NASA Tech. Memo. 104568
• Woods, K.D. 1993. Consequences for forest communities of invasion by Lonicera tatarica L.. American Midland Naturalist 130:62-74.
• 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. 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.
• Woods, K.D. 2000. Dynamics in late-successional hemlock-hardwood forests 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. 2001. A preliminary ecological land-type classification for the northern Taconic Mts.  Report to Green Mt. National Forest.
  
• Woods, K.D. 2001. Book Review M.L. Hunter, Jr. 1999. Maintaining Biodiversity in Forest Ecosystems.  Journal of Ecology
• Woods, K.D. 2004. Intermediate disturbance in a late-successional northern-hardwood forest. Journal of Ecology 92:464-476.
• Papaik, M.J., Canham, C.D., Latty, E.F., Woods, K.D. 2005. Effects of an introduced pathogen on resistance to natural disturbance: beech bark disease and windthrow Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:1832-1843
  
• 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, in press.
•  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
• Woods, K.D. (compiler) 2007.  An all-taxa biodiversity inventory of the Huron Mountain Club. Version August 2007. Occasional papers of the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation, No. 5. [http://www.hmwf.org/species_list.php] (a regularly up-dated publication; prior versions on-line)
  

• "Tree Replacement in Old-Growth Forests", McIntire-Stennis, 1977-1979.
• (with D.B. Botkin and F.G. Hall), "Remote Sensing of Key Vegetation Characteristics," NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, 1985-1986.
• (with D.B. Botkin), "Estimation of total biomass for boreal forests of North America: a ground-sampling approach", Mellon Foundation, 1986-1988.
• "Remote sensing studies of forest pattern and process." NASA-GSFC, 1987-1989.
• "Response of Myriophyllum spicatum and native macrophytes to a winter draw-down." VT Agency of Natural Resources. 1988-1989
• "Pattern and consequences of biological invasions: Tatarian honeysuckle in northeastern forests". Vermont EPSCOR/NSF, 1989.
• "Permanent plot studies in hemlock-northern hardwoods forests in Upper Michigan: Resampling and analysis", Mellon Foundation/Univ. of Minnesota. 1989.
• "Baseline studies for population monitoring of Asplenium montanum in Pownal, Vermont." Vermont Dept. of Natural Resources. 1989
• "Long-term studies of old-growth forests in the Adirondack Park." NY Nat. Heritage Prog. 1990.
• "Population biology of rare calcophilic plants in Pownal, Vermont." Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. 1990. (offered and declined)
• "Continued permanent plot studies in old-growth forests, Dukes Experimental Forest." USDA Forest Service. 1992
• "Long-term studies of old-growth forests", Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation. 1992-1994.
• "Permanent plot studies in old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests." NSF. 1993-1998.
• "Landscape modeling of forest pattern in the northern Taconic Mts." Merck Forest and Farmland Foundation. 1997-1999.
• "Continued permanent plot studies at the Dukes Experimental Forest." USDA Forest Service. 1999-2002.
• "Long-term dynamics in old-growth forests: ongoing permanent plot studies". Andrew J. Mellon Foundation. 1999-2007.
• "Ecological Land-Type classification for the northern Taconic Mts." Green Mt. National Forest. 2000-2001
• (with T. Standovar) "Biogeographical comparison of understory pattern and dynamics in homologous temperate forests." U.S.-Hungarian Joint Fund. (in prep.)

These are examples of invited talks given at some 50 institutions 

• Canopy-understory interaction and the internal dynamics of mature hardwood forests. Mt. Lake Workshop on Forest Succession, Mt. Lake, Va., 1980.
• Quaternary history of invasion; range expansion of forest trees. SCOPE Conference on Ecology of Biological Invasion, Asilomar, 1984.
• Measurement of Biological Production Using Remote Sensing. CERMA and Remote Sensing Society Conference on Resource Management, Washington, D.C., 1985.
• Studying Earth's Vegetation from Space. NY State Museum, Natural History Surv., 1989.
• Balance, extremism, and certainty; communication failures between scientists and the media. "Freedom Forum", Science and the Media, Columbia Univ. School of Journalism, 1992
• Big trees, old-growth, and forest primeval: Stability and change in ancient forests. Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation, MI, 1993, 1994
• Long-term studies in Upper Michigan's old-growth forests. Clear Lake Conf., Hiawatha National Forest, Clear Lake MI, 1995.
• The imagined forest: stability, change and illusion in the forest primeval. Illinois Natural History Survey, 1998.
• Ecological consequences of invasive shrubs in native forests.  Bar Harbor Workshop on Invasive Species, Univ. of Maine., 2000
• Long-term studies in ancient forests; succession, stability, and illusion. Harvard University, OEB, 2000.
• Between catastrophe and gap-phase: intermediate disturbance in old-growth forests. University of Ottawa 2002, University of Quebec-Montreal 2003
• Succession in old-growth forests and seedling-bank strategies. University of North Carolina, 2004
  
• Are old-growth forests special or just old? Harvard Forest, 2004
• Ecological Insights and Analytical Challenges: Processing and Visualizing Multiple Measurements from Permanent Plots. Invited Symposium Paper, 48th Annual Symposium, International Association of Vegetation Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
  
• Old-growth forest dynamics are not equilibrial, but they are sometimes predictable.  Invited Paper, Ecological Society of American Annual Meeting, Montreal, Aug 2005

• Woods, K.D. and M.B. Davis. 1982. Sensitivity of the pollen record to short-term climatic changes: Little Ice Age response. Amer. Quat. Assoc. Abstracts.
• Davis, M.B. and K.D. Woods. 1984. Climate vs. dispersal as factors limiting Holocene range extension of beech and hemlock into the upper Great Lakes region. 6th Int'l Palyn. Conf.
• Botkin, D.B. and K.D. Woods. 1985. Developing a conceptual framework for remote sensing studies of ecological patterns. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 66:144-145.
• Woods, K.D., D.B. Botkin, F.G. Hall. 1986. Studies of regional vegetation pattern and dynamics using remote sensing. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 67:139.
• Woods, K.D., F.G. Hall, D.E. Strebel. 1988. Satellite remote sensing studies of seasonal and successional dynamics in boreal forests. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 69:347.
• Woods, K.D. 1993. Canopy demography and community change in old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forest. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 74: (Ann. meeting)
• Woods, K.D. 1995. Stability, change, and invasion in old-growth forest: canopy dynamics over six decades in a mesic forest in Michigan. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 75: (Ann. meeting)
• Hicks, D.J. and K.D. Woods. 1995. Structure of understory communities in an old-growth forest in northern Michigan, USA. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 75: (Annual meeting program)
• Woods, K.D., J.D. Fridley, J.S. Smith. 1996. Demographic patterns and disturbance history in old-growth forests from tree-ring analysis. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 76: (Annual meeting)
• Woods, K.D., G. Silberstein. 2000. Exclosure studies of deer browse in old-growth northern hardwood forests. Annual Meeting,  Ecol. Soc. Amer.
  
• Woods, K.D. 2003. Intermediate disturbance in old-growth northern hardwood forests. Society for Conservation Biology, Duluth, MN
• Woods, K.D. 2004. Stem-layering as an adaptive life-history trait in suppressed Acer saccharum seedlings.  Annual Meetings, Ecological Society of America, Portland OR.
• Woods, K.D. 2005 Ecological Insights and Analytical Challenges: Processing and Visualizing Multiple Measurements from Permanent Plots.  Symposium, "Long-term data sets: from descriptive to predictive data using ecoinformatics", 48th annual symposium, International Association for Vegetation Science
• Woods, K.D. 2005. Old-growth forests are rarely equilibrial, but they are sometimes predictable. Annual Meeting, Ecol. Soc. Amer. (invited)" Invited paper, presented in session "Predictability in vegetation dynamics"
• Brese, D., K.D. Woods. 2005. Tip-Up Mounds in Large Gaps Play an Important Role in Old-Growth Forest Dynamics." Annual Meeting, Ecol. Soc. Amer.

• Brese, D.  Vegetation on tip-up mounds in large gaps in an old-growth forest.
  
• Ravenscroft, C.  Microhabitat influences on seedling growth.
• Bogonovich, M. Investigations of Rapoport's Rule in ranges of North American plants.
  
• Lawlor, J. Fine-scale vegetation pattern in a  Maine coastal bog.
• Visser, D.  Ecological patterns in sugar-bush management in Bennington Co., VT
  
• Fridley, J. Weed communities and yield in multi-cropped agricultural systems
  
• Teten, S. Effects of fragment habitation on breed bird populations.
• LoDolce, R.  Foraging strategies and specialization by individual workers in ant colonies
• Fridley, J. Effects of different cropping systems on seed banks and weed communities.
• Bennett, SL. Resource allocation and maternal inheritance in mustards.
• Wallace-Senft, DA. Ecology of shrubby honeysuckle invasion in northeastern forests.
• Wallace-Senft, DA. Maple syrup production on Bennington College campus.
• Lopez, L Back to Earth: models for sustainable communities.
• Brockmann, JB. Effects of canopy trees on seedling community in a beech-maple forest.
• Stinson, KA. Succession following catastrophic windthrow in a northern hardwood forest.
• Chapin, JJ. The politics of wolf reintroduction programs in the United States.
• Scheer, NS. Science in the political arena: systemic influences on environmental policy
• Vlachoutsikou, A. Monk seals of Zakynthos, Greece; field studies and conservation.

• Cambridge NY Central School , Board of Education 2001- 2005 (President, 2002-2004)
• Trustee of Hubbard Hall Projects, Cambridge NY (arts presenting organization)
• Founding member, Battenkill Chorale