Bryan A. Black

 

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PRESENT POSITION

Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR
Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, College of Forestry
Hatfield Marine Science Center

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

J Carilli, R Norris, BA Black, and S Walsh. 2009. Century-scale records of coral growth rates indicate that local stressors reduce coral thermal tolerance threshold. Global Change Biology. in press

J Carilli, R Norris, BA Black, and S Walsh. 2009. Decline in Mesoamerican coral growth resiliency. PLoS ONE. 4(7): e6324

BA Black, CA Copenheaver, D. Frank, MJ Stuckey, and RE Kormanyos. 2009. Multi-proxy reconstructions of northeastern Pacific sea surface temperature data from trees and Pacific geoduck. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology. 278:40-47.

CA Copenheaver, BA Black, MB Stine, RH McManamay, and J. Bartens. 2009. Indentifying dendroecological growth releases in American beech, jack pine, and white oak: within-tree sampling strategy. Forest Ecology and Management. 257:2235-2240.

BA Black. 2009. Climate-driven synchrony across tree, bivalve, and rockfish growth-increment chronologies of the northeast Pacific. Marine Ecology- Progress Series. 378:37-46.

BA Black, MD Abrams, PJ Gould, and J Rentch. 2009. Properties of boundary-line release criteria in North American tree species. Annals of Forest Science. 66 doi10.1051/forest/2008087.

BA Black, D Gillespie, SE MacLellan, and CM. Hand. 2008. Establishing highly accurate production-age data using the tree-ring technique of crossdating: a case study for Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:2572-2578.

BA Black, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. 2008. Establishing climate-growth relationships for yelloweye rockfish in the northeast Pacific using a dendrochronologial approach. Fisheries Oceanography 5:368-379.

BA Black, JJ Colbert, and N Pederson. 2008. Relationships between lifespan and radial growth rate within North American tree species. Ecoscience 15:349-357.

KB Arabas, BA Black, J. Speer, B. Amos, L. Lentile, K. Lewis. 2008. Disturbance history of a mixed-conifer stand in north central Idaho, USA. Tree Ring Research 64:67-80.

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.

GRANTS

BA Black, WJ Sydeman (Farallon Institute), and SJ Bograd (NOAA Pacific Fisheries Environmental Lab). Importance of Winter Upwelling to California Current Ecosystem Dynamics. National Science Foundation, Biological Oceanography. 9/2009-9/2011. $223,705

BA Black. A dendrochronological evaluation of culturally modified trees. OR Dept. of Transportation. 7/2009-7/2010. $15,000

BA Black, I Schroeder, WJ Sydeman, SJ Bograd, V Gertseva, and P Lawson. Beyond the spring transition: winter pre-conditioning and ecosystem dynamics and implications for sentinel species and fisheries. NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE). 9/2009-9/2011. $126,959

BA Black, Jeffrey Stone, David Shaw. Refining techniques for detecting Swiss needle cast outbreaks in tree-ring records from the western Oregon Coast Range Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative. 3/2008 – 3/2009 $24,000

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

Mentor, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Hatfield Marine Science Center

Summer 2009, student: Emily Whitney, Whitowrth University
Project: Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta) growth patterns reflect nearshore climate heterogeneity along the British Columbia coast

Summer 2008, student: Laura Poppick, Bates College
Project: Relationships between growth and lifespan within populations of Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta)

Summer 2007. student: Matthew Stuckey, University of California, Berkeley
Project: Composite chronologies of Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta) as a tool for reconstructing sea surface temperatures in the northern Pacific

Summer 2006. student: Rose Kormanyos, Whitman College
Project: Growth increment analysis of long-lived Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta) as a tool for climate reconstruction in the northern Pacific

Summer 2004. student: Kalin Lee, Oregon State University (co-mentor, George Boehlert)
Project: A dendroclimatological analysis of old-growth Noble fir on Marys Peak, Oregon Coast Range.

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: 2009 North American Dendroecology Fieldweek Scerochronology Group, Hampshire College and Harvard Forest, MA.
Project title: Tree-ring techniques in marine and freshwater bivalves.

Instructor and Local Host: 2006 North American Dendroecology Fieldweek Sclerochronology Group, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR
Project title: Application of dendrochronology techniques to the Pacific geoduck clam in northern British Columbia, Canada

Instructor: 2005 North American Dendroecology Fieldweek Stand Dynamics Group, McCall, Idaho
Project title: Disturbance history in a mixed-conifer stand in central Idaho.

INVITED KEYNOTE ADDRESS

BA Black. Tree rings, otoliths, and the development of annually resolved growth-increment chronologies. The Fourth International Otolith Symposium, August 2009. Monterey, CA.

BA Black. State of the Science: Sclerochronology. Application of tree-ring techniques in marine and freshwater ecosystems. The First American Dendrochronology Conference, June 2008. Vancouver, BC.

INVITED RESEARCH SEMINARS

BA Black. Otoliths, tree rings, and multidecadal perspectives of environmental variability in marine ecosystems. Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, June 2009. Charleston, OR.

BA Black. Growth increment analysis as a tool for comparing diverse taxa and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, April 2008. Panama City, FL.

BA Black. Growth increment analysis as a tool for comparing diverse taxa and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, March 2008. Seattle, WA.

BA Black. Growth increment analysis as a tool for comparing diverse taxa and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Department of Fish and Wildlife, January 2007. Corvallis, OR.

BA Black. Growth increment analysis as a tool for comparing diverse taxa and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center December 2006. Woods Hole, MA.

BA Black. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Beijing Normal University. June 2006. Beijing, China.

BA Black. Relationships between growth and lifespan in trees: grow fast and die young? USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station. May 2006. Corvallis, OR.

BA Black. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, April 2006. Seattle, WA.

BA Black. Rockfish, tree rings, and linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Oregon State University Department of Fish and Wildlife, January 2006. Corvallis, OR.

BA Black. Biochronologies and climate: trees, marine fish and marine-terrestrial linkages. Oregon State University Ecosystem Informatics Colloquium. November 2005. Corvallis, OR.

BA Black. Biochronologies in the Pacific Northwest: trees, marine fish, and marine-terrestrial linkages. USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station. September 2005. Juneau, AK.

BA Black. Applications of dendrochronology to otoliths of long-live fishes: ageing, chronology development, and relating growth to environment. North American Dendroecology Fieldweek. June 2005. University of Idaho Field Station, McCall, ID.

BA Black. Biochronologies and climate: trees, marine fishes, and marine-terrestrial linkages. College of Forestry, Oregon State University. September 2004. Corvallis, OR.

BA Black. Effects of Native American populations on the pre-European settlement forests of the eastern United States. Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. June 2004. Newport, OR.

BA Black. Application of tree-ring analyses to otolith growth increments: methods for age validation and relating fish growth to ocean variability. Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. April 2004. Newport, OR.

BA Black. 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.

BA Black. A boundary-line approach to establishing dendroecological release criteria. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. May 2003. Tucson, AZ.

BA Black. Effects of climate and competition on biological growth dynamics: an example from tree-ring analysis. Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University. May 2003. Newport, OR.

BA Black. Influence of Native American populations on the pre-European settlement forests of the Allegheny Plateau. USDA Forest Service, NE Research Station. December 2002. Warren, PA.

BA Black. Techniques in historical ecology: evaluating human impact on Pennsylvania’s forests. Westminster College. March 2000. New Wilmington, PA.

VOLUNTEERED PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

ME Matta* and BA Black. Climate-driven synchrony in otolith growth-increment chronologies for three Bering Sea flatfish species. The Fourth International Otolith Symposium, August 2009. Monterey, CA (oral).

R Allman*, BA Black, and MJ Schirripa. Relationships among otolith growth-increment chronologies, climate, and recruitment for red and gray snapper in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The Fourth International Otolith Symposium, August 2009. Monterey, CA (oral).

BA Black. Interrelationships among growth, recruitment, and climate in Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine rockfish species. Fisheries and the Environment Annual Conference. August, 2008. La Jolla, CA. (oral)

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Spatial and temporal variability in growth of yelloweye rockfish in the northeast Pacific 15th Western Groundfish Conference, February 2008. Santa Cruz, CA. (oral)

MJ Stuckey* and BA Black. High resolution reconstructions of sea surface temperatures from Pacific geoduck growth increment chronologies. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Sciences Meeting. February 2008. Santa Fe, NM. (poster)

BA Black. Multidecadal growth chronologies for rockfish in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Fisheries and the Environment Annual Conference. August, 2007. San Jose, CA. (oral).

BA Black. Tree-ring techniques in sclerochronology. 1st International Conference on Sclerochronology. July, 2007. St. Petersburg, FL. (oral).

BA Black. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. April 2007. San Francisco, CA. (oral).

R Kormanyos* and BA Black. Reconstruction of local sea surface temperatures from Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta) growth increments. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Sciences Meeting. February, 2007. Orlando, FL. (poster)

BA Black. Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology. June 2006. Beijing, China. (oral).

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Otoliths, tree rings and climate: long term growth reconstructions and effects of ocean variability on splitnose rockfish 14th Western Groundfish Conference. February 2006. Newport, OR. (oral).

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Growth increment biochronologies as a tool for establishing climate-growth relationships in Pacific rockfish. Climate and Fisheries: Impacts, Uncertainty, and Responses of Ecosystems and Communities. October 2005. Victoria, British Columbia. (oral)

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Tree-ring techniques for Pacific rockfish otoliths: age validation, chronology development, and effects of ocean variability. American Fisheries Society Annual Conference. September 2005. Anchorage, AK. (oral)

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Tree-ring techniques for Pacific rockfish otoliths: age validation, chronology development, and effects of ocean variability. Fisheries and the Environment Annual Meting. June 2005. Seattle, WA. (oral)

BA Black* and MD Abrams. Applicability of boundary-line release criteria to North American tree species. Ecological Society of America Annual Conference. August 2004. Portland, OR. (oral)

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Cross-correlating time series of otolith growth increments to validate ages in long-lived fishes. Third International Symposium on Fish and Otolith Research and Application, July 2004. Townsville, Queensland, Australia. (oral)

BA Black*, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. Developing time series in otoliths of long-lived fishes; validating ages and showing the relationship to ocean variability. American Geophysical Union, January 2004. Portland, OR. (poster)

BA Black* and MD Abrams. A boundary-line approach to establishing release criteria in old-growth hemlock. Ecological Society of America Annual Conference. August 2002. Tucson, AZ. (oral)

BA Black* and MD Abrams. Influences of surveyor biases and Native American activities on witness tree distribution in southeastern Pennsylvania Penn State College of Agriculture Research Exhibition. March 2000. University Park, PA. (poster).

BA Black* and MD Abrams. Physiographic analysis of witness tree distribution and surveyor bias in the pre-European settlement forests of Lancaster County, PA. Ecological Society of America Annual Conference. August 1998. Baltimore, MD. (poster)

* indicates presenter

REFEREE

Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Ecological Applications
Forest Science
Journal of Ecology
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
Journal of Vegetation Science
Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Ecological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
The Tree-Ring Society