Lessons from the wild: slow but increasing long-term growth allows for maximum longevity in European beech.

s in Conference Proceedings: 189 to date; 56 since 2013. Reports: 47 to date; 16 since 2013. Professional Presentations 132 to date; 39 since 2013. Courses Taught at UNR 2001, '02, '03, '04, '05, '08, '09 Physical Geography (GEOG 103, 3 credits) 2 2008, '10, '11, '12, '14, '15 Climate Change and its Environmental Impacts (GEOG/ATMS 121, 4 credits) 3 2018, '19 Natural Resource Ecology (NRES 217, 3 credits) 1 2001, '02, '04 Field Methods (GEOG 314, 3 credits) 2006, '09, '10, '11 Understanding Climate (GEOG 321, 3 credits) 2 2017, '18, '19 Regional and Global Issues in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences (ENV/NRES 467, 3 credits) 1 2001, '03, '05, '09, '10, '12, '15, '16 Spatial Analysis (GEOG 416/616, 3 credits) 1 2000, '02, '04 Climatology (GEOG 421/621, 3 credits) 1 2002, '10, '12 Geography of Past Environments (GEOG 437/637, 3 credits) 2 2012 Geography Colloquium (GEOG 490/690, 1 credit) 2001, '03, '05, '08, '10, '12 , '16 Advanced Climatology (GEOG 721, 3 credits) 1 2002 Rural Landscapes of Northern Italy (USAC; 1 credit) 2 1 A Graduate Research Assistantship was provided by UNR’s Office of the Vice President for Research for the first three years of the grant. 2 Modified course 3 New course Biondi, Short CV – Page 8 Students and Post-docs Advised at UNR: M. Bradley (M.S., 2009), J. Cheek (M.S., 2009), M. Hay (M.S., 2012), K. Hoover (M.S., 2010), L. Jamieson (M.S., 2008), M. Kilpatrick (M.S., 2009; Ph.D., in progress), P. Kirchner (M.S., 2006), N. Miley (M.S., 2018; Temporary Research Scientist, in progress), R. Monnar (M.S., 2007), K. Solander (M.S., 2009); S. Strachan (M.S., 2011); P.C. Hartsough (Ph.D., 2008); J. Sibold (Postdoc, 2008) ; C. Truettner (Ph.D., in progress); E. Ziaco (Postdoc, 2013-2018; Research Scientist, in progress). Service Activities (since 2000) Member of the Sabbatical Committee, UNR, 2017-present. Invited Participant, 2018 and 2013, “Expert Witness Training Academy”, National Science Foundation and William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Organizer, 2016 Workshop on “Planning for a Great Basin ecological observatory: From NevCAN to the Spring Valley Field Station”, NSF-FSML Program, Hidden Canyon Retreat, Nevada, USA. Co-organizer of a special session (oral: B14C; poster: B11D) on “Ecological (A)synchrony of Forest Responses to Climate” at the 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. Co-organizer of a special session (oral: GC31G; poster: GC33B) on “Climate impacts on forest ecosystems: ecohydrologic scaling from cells to landscapes” at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. Co-organizer of the Global Fair and Workshop on “Long-Term Observatories of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems”, 16-19 July 2014, University of Nevada, Reno (in cooperation with the Mountain Research Initiative, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland). Specialty Chief Editor, 2013-present, Paleoecology (a section of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution). Subject Matter Editor, 2010-present, Ecosphere, the open-source journal of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Member, Review Panels for National Science Foundation Programs, 2006, ' 09, ' 12, ' 16, ' 17, ' 18. Editorial Board Member, 2014-2017, PLoS One. Co-organizer of a special session (GC32B) on “Environment and Ecosystem Changes in the Third Pole and Other Mountain Regions II” at the 2013 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. Member of the Courses and Curriculum Committee, College of Science, UNR, 2005-'06 and 2007-2013. Chair, Dept. of Geography Personnel Committee, UNR, 2010-2013. Member, 2010-2012, Publications Committee, American Geophysical Union (AGU). Co-organizer of a special session (B013) on “Climate impacts on ecosystems quantified using a combination of proxy records and instrumented observatories” at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. Chair (2009) and Member (2012) of Shin Research Award Committee, College of Science, UNR. Co-organizer of a special session (B36) on “Identifying and Quantifying Change in Ecological Systems” at the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA. Organizer, Interdisciplinary Working Group meeting on “Mountain-to-Valley Ecohydrology at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales”, NSF-EPSCoR Western Tri-State Consortium, UNR, 2011. Chair, Search Committees for Faculty Positions, Dept. of Geography, UNR, 2003-'04 and 2009-'10. Organizer, Special Sessions I and II on “Climate, Wildfire, and Woodland Dynamics in the Great Basin of North America”, 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Member, 2002-2006 and 2007-2009, Selection Committee for the Paper of the Year Award, Climate Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. Member, 2006, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 2,000 Year. Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Geography, UNR, 2002-'06. Member, Scientific Board, Eurodendro 2005 International Conference of Dendrochronology, Viterbo, Italy. Member, 1999-2005, Advisory Board, Dendrochronologia. Organizer, Special Sessions I and II on “Paleorecords of Changing Climate Variability”, 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 19-23, 2002, Los Angeles, California, USA. Biondi, Short CV – Page 9 Reviewer of grant proposals submitted to public and private funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to refereed journals (including Science, Nature journals, and PNAS) and books.