Kerry
David Woods
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
Awards and Honors:
- Center Fellow (sabbatical), National Center
for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 2008-2009
- Annual meeting Chair, 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 Societies and Organizations:
- Ecological Society of America (Chair, Professional Ethics
Committee 1999-2004; Chair Annual Meeting 2007; Co-Chair, Meetings
Committee, 2008 )
- International Association for Vegetation Science (Chair North
American Chapter 2009-2010)
- British Ecological Society
- Society for Conservation Biology
Other Professional Activities:
- Advisory Board, Ecological Society of America
'Issues in Ecology', 2008-
- 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, Chair 2009-10
- Advisory Board, Issues
in Ecology (publications of Ecological Society of America), 2007-
- Associate Edigor, Community
Ecology 2009-
- 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.
Selected Publications
(For REPRINTS):
- 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)
- 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.
- Woods, K.D. 2009. Multi-decade, spatially
explicit population studies of canopy dynamics in Michigan old-growth
forests. Ecological Archives
In Press.
- Woods, K.D., D.J. Hicks, J. Schultz. Submitted.
Long-term diversity declines in the understory of old-growth
hemlock-hardwood forests. Ecology
(Report).
Research Grants and Contracts:
- "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
- “All-taxon Biological Inventory for the Huron
Mountains”. Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation 2001-2004
- "Regulation of community composition and
diversity patterns in eastern old-growth forests from multi-decade
permanent plot data." (with Jason Fridley, Syracuse Univ.).
2010-1015 (in review, NSF-LTREB)
- "Infrastructure for program expansion at Ives
Lake Field Station, Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation”. 2008-2010
(NSF-FSML).
Invited Professional Presentations:
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
- 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.
Selected Abstracts:
- 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.
Representative Student
Research
Theses:
- 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.
Community Service:
- 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