Bryan A. Black
PRESENT POSITION
Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport,
OR
Assistant Professor, Senior Research. Hatfield Marine Science
Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Science
PAST APPOINTMENTS
Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport,
OR
Faculty Research Associate in the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources
Studies
EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Ph.D. Forest Resources December, 2003
Thesis title: A boundary-line approach to establishing dendroecological release criteria
M.S. Forest Resources December, 1998
Thesis title: Physiographic analysis of witness tree distribution and surveyor bias in the pre-European settlement forests of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
B.S. Biology May, 1996
Magna Cum Laude
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
MS Love, MM Yoklavich, BA Black, and AH Andrews. 2007. Age of Black Coral (Antipathes dendrochristos) Colonies with Notes on Its Invertebrate Species. Bulletin of Marine Science 80:391-400
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
SL Rathbun and BA Black. 2006. Modeling and spatial prediction of pre-settlement patters of forest distribution using witness tree data. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 13:427-448.
S Helama, BR Schone, and BA Black. 2006. Constructing long-term proxy series for aquatic environments with absolute dating control using a sclerochronological approach: introduction and advanced applications. Marine and Freshwater Research. 57:591-599.
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
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2005. Disturbance history and climate response in an old-growth hemlock-white pine forest, central Pennsylvania. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 132(1):103-114.
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2005. An evaluation of the boundary-line release criteria for eleven North American tree species. IN Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology. Edited by I. Heinrich and M. Monbaron. Volume 3.
BE Splechtna, G Gratzer, and BA Black. 2005. Disturbance history of a gap-phase, mixed-species forest in Central Europe, applying the boundary-line approach. Journal of Vegetation Science. 16:511-522.
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2004. Development and application of boundary-line release criteria. Dendrochronologia. 22:31-42.
HT Foster, BA Black, and MD Abrams. 2004 A witness tree analysis of the effects of Native Americans on the pre-European settlement forests of east-central Alabama. Human Ecology 32(1) 27-47.
CG Mahan, KS Sullivan, BA Black, and KC Kim. 2004. Overstory tree composition of eastern hemlock stands threatened by the hemlock wooly adelgid at Delaware Water Gap. Castanea 69(1): 30-37.
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2003 A boundary-line approach to establishing dendroecological release criteria. Ecological Applications 13:1733-1749.
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
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.
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.
MD Abrams, CA Copenheaver, BA Black, and S VanDeGevel. 2001. Dendroecology and climatic impacts for a relict, old-growth, bog forest in the Ridge and Valley Province of central Pennsylvania, USA. Canadian Journal of Botany 79:58-69.
MD Abrams and BA Black. 2000. Dendroecological analysis of a mature loblolly pine – mixed hardwood forest at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument, eastern Virginia. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 127(2):139-148.
RESEARCH REPORTS
K Sullivan, BA Black, C Mahan, MD Abrams, KC Kim, and R Yahner. 1997. Overstory tree composition of hemlock and hardwood forest stands in the Delaware Water Gap N.R.A., Pennsylvania. Center for biodiversity research, Environmental Resources Research Institute, Penn State University.
PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW
BA. Black, D Gillespie, SE MacLellan, and CM. Hand. Age validation of Pacific geoduck using the tree-ring technique of crossdating. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
BA Black, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Spatial and temporal variability of yelloweye rockfish growth in the northeast Pacific. Fisheries Oceanography
GRANTS
BA Black. Improving geoduck age estimation through the tree-ring technique of crossdating. Fishieries and Oceans Canada. $21,000 9/2007-9/2008.
BA Black, J Dunham. Reconstructing water temperatures in Oregon streams through
analysis of growth increments in long-lived pearlshell mussels. Oregon Watershed
Enhancement Board $47,649. 10/2007-10/2008.
BA Black. Shortspine thornyhead ageing and chronology development.
NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center. 9/2007 – 9/2009 $85,000
BA Black. Late-Holocene drought reconstruction from the Browder
Creek watershed. United States Geological Survey. 9/2006 – 9/2007 $6,000
BA Black, Robert Allman, Michael Schirripa, and George Boehlert.
Tree-ring techniques for age validation and establishing long-term effects
of climate
variability
on the growth of Gulf of Mexico red snapper. NOAA Fisheries and the Environment
(FATE) program. 9/2007 – 9/2008. $54,266
BA Black, Jeffrey Stone, David Shaw. A dendrochronological
reconstruction of Swiss needle cast outbreaks in the western Oregon Coast Range.
Swiss Needle
Cast Cooperative. 3/2007 – 3/2008 $10,407
BA Black, George Boehlert, Ralph Mayo, Jay Burnett. Long-term
relationships among climate, somatic growth, and recruitment in Acadian redfish
and the implications
for stock assessment. NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program. 9/2006 – 9/2008
$86,807
GW Boehlert and BA Black Spatial variability of growth in
yelloweye rockfish. NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program. 7/2005 – 7/2007.
$79,841
J Dunham, BA Black, M Torres. Reconstructing thermal regimes in streams from
sclerochronology of freshwater mussels United States Geological Survey 1/01/2006-12/31/2006.
$32,134
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate teaching assistant, Penn State University School of Forest Resources
Forest Ecology (Forestry 308) Fall 1999-Fall 2002
Dendrology (Forestry 203) Fall 1998
Graduate teaching assistant, Penn State Department of Biology
General Concepts (Biology 110) Fall 1997-Summer 1998
Populations and Communities (Biology 220W) Spring 1997-Spring 1998
Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Westminster College Department of Biology
General Biology Fall 1995, Spring 1996
Instructor: 2005 North American Dendroecology Fieldweek Stand Dynamics Group,
McCall, Idaho
Project title: Disturbance history in a mixed-conifer
stand in central Idaho.
INVITED SEMINARS
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries
Science Center. December 2006. Woods Hole, MA. Growth increment analysis as
a tool for comparing
diverse taxa and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest
Beijing Normal University. June 2006. Beijing, China. Rockfish, tree rings, and
climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station. May 2006. Corvallis, OR. Relationships between growth and lifespan in trees: grow fast and die young?
Beijing Normal University. June 2006. Beijing, China. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, April 2006. Seattle, WA. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Oregon State University Department of Fish and Wildlife, January 2006.
Corvallis, OR. Rockfish, tree rings, and linkages between marine and terrestrial
ecosystems.
Oregon State University Ecosystem Informatics Colloquium. November 2005. Corvallis,
OR. Biochronologies and climate: trees, marine fish and marine-terrestrial linkages.
USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station. September 2005. Juneau, AK. Biochronologies
in the Pacific Northwest: trees, marine fish, and marine-terrestrial linkages.
Willamette University. March 2005. Salem, OR. Biochronologies and climate:
trees, marine fishes, and marine-terrestrial linkages.
College of Forestry, Oregon State University. September 2004. Corvallis, OR. Biochronologies and climate: trees, marine fishes, and marine-terrestrial linkages.
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. June 2004. Newport, OR. Effects of Native American populations on the pre-European settlement forests of the eastern United States.
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. April 2004. Newport, OR. Application of tree-ring analyses to otolith growth increments: methods for age validation and relating fish growth to ocean variability.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center. April 2004. Santa Cruz, CA. Application of tree-ring analyses to otolith growth increments: methods for age validation and relating fish growth to ocean variability.
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. May 2003. Tucson, AZ. A boundary-line approach to establishing dendroecological release criteria.
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. May 2003. Newport, OR. Effects of climate and competition on biological growth dynamics: an example from tree-ring analysis.
USDA Forest Service, NE Research Station. December 2002. Warren, PA. Influence of Native American populations on the pre-European settlement forests of the Allegheny Plateau.
Westminster College. March 2000. New Wilmington, PA. Tri Beta Lecture Series. Techniques in historical ecology: evaluating human impact on Pennsylvania’s forests.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Fisheries and the Environment Annual Conference. August, 2007. San Jose,
CA. Multidecadal growth chronologies for rockfish in the North Atlantic and
North Pacific (oral).
1st International Conference on Sclerochronology. July, 2007. St. Petersburg,
FL. Tree-ring techniques in sclerochronlogy (oral).
Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. April 2007. San Francisco,
CA. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial
ecosystems (oral).
7th International Conference on Dendrochronology. June 2006. Beijing, China. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems (oral).
14th Western Groundfish Conference. February 2006. Newport,
OR. Otoliths, tree rings and climate: long term growth reconstructions and
effects of ocean
variability on splitnose rockfish (oral).
Climate and Fisheries: Impacts, Uncertainty, and Responses of Ecosystems
and
Communities. October 2005. Victoria, British Columbia. Growth increment biochronologies
as a tool for establishing climate-growth relationships in Pacific rockfish.
(oral)
American Fisheries Society Annual Conference. September 2005. Anchorage, AK.
Tree-ring techniques for Pacific rockfish otoliths: age validation, chronology
development, and effects of ocean variability. (oral)
Ecological Society of America Annual Conference. August 2004. Portland, OR.
Applicability of boundary-line release criteria to North American tree species.
(oral)
Third International Symposium on Fish and Otolith Research and Application, July 2004. Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Cross-correlating time series of otolith growth increments to validate ages in long-lived fishes. (oral)
American Geophysical Union, January 2004. Portland, OR. Developing time series in otoliths of long-lived fishes; validating ages and showing the relationship to ocean variability. (poster)
Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies Annual Review. October 2003. Hatfield Marine Science Center. Newport, OR. Long-term annual growth indices in long-lived groundfish. (oral)
Ecological Society of America Annual Conference. August 2002. Tucson, AZ. A boundary-line approach to establishing release criteria in old-growth hemlock. (oral)
Penn State College of Agriculture Research Exhibition. March 2000. University Park, PA. Influences of surveyor biases and Native American activities on witness tree distribution in southeastern Pennsylvania (poster).
Ecological Society of America Annual Conference. August 1998. Baltimore, MD. Physiographic analysis of witness tree distribution and surveyor bias in the pre-European settlement forests of Lancaster County, PA (poster)
REFEREE
Journal of Ecology
Forest Science
Ecological Applications
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ecological Society of America
Torrey Botanical Society
American Fisheries Society
American Geophysical Union
The Tree-Ring Society