Marine-Terrestrial Linkages
	Assistant Professor, Senior Research Scientist, HMSC Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Forest Science Hatfield Marine Science Center Oregon State University Mailing Address Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365 telephone: 541-867-0283 email

Education

Ph.D. Pennylvania State University, 2003

M.S. Pennsylvania State University, 1999

B.S. Westminster College, 1996

Research Interests

Application of dendrochonrology (tree-ring analysis) to growth increments of long-lived marine and freshwater organisms with objectives of:
1) age validation, 2) development of multidecadal growth chronologies, 3) determining the effects of climate on growth, and 4) climate reconstructions.

Linkages between growth patterns of marine and terrestrial organisms, and the climatic variables affecting both systems.

Dendrochronology as a tool for evaluating stand dynamics, stand development, and the effects of climate and disturbance.

Composition, structure, and disturbance regimes of pre-European settlement forests using original land surveys (witness trees).

Effects of Native American populations on pre-European settlement forest composition.

 

Research in the Press

PBS Oregon Field Guide
Salt Lake City Morning Desert News
Corvallis Gazette-Times
OSU Press Release
Terra
Northwest Science and Technology

 

North American Dendroecology Fieldweek at HMSC

NADEF 2006 website
pictures

Selected Publications

BA Black, CM Ruffner, and MD Abrams. 2006. Effects of physiography and Native American populations on pre-European settlement forest vegetation in northwestern Pennsylvania. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 36:1266-1275. PDF

BA Black, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. 2005. Using tree-ring crossdating techniques to validate age in long-lived fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 62:2277-2284. PDF

BA Black and MD Abrams. 2004 Development and application of boundary-line release criteria. Dendrochronologia 22:31-42. PDF

BA Black and MD Abrams. 2003 A boundary-line approach to establishing dendroecological release criteria. Ecological Applications 13:1733-1749. PDF

BA Black, HT Foster, and MD Abrams. 2002. Combining environmentally dependent and independent analyses of witness tree data in east-central Alabama. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:2060-2075. PDF

BA Black and MD Abrams. 2001. Influences of physiography, surveyor bias, and Native American catchments on witness tree distribution in southeastern Pennsylvania. Ecology 82(9):2574-2586. PDF

BA Black and MD Abrams. 2001. Analysis of temporal variation and species-site relationships of witness tree data in southeastern Pennsylvania. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31:419-429. PDF