College of Forestry
Black, Bryan
Assistant Professor, Senior Research Scientist
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Office Location:
HMSC
Phone:
541-867-0283
Email Address:
Faculty Websites:
Specialty:
Growth increments and environmental history (dendrochronology/ sclerochronology)
Educational Background:
- 1996 BS Biology, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
- 1998 MS Forest Resources. Penn State University, University Park, PA
- 2003 PhD Forest Resources. Penn State University, University Park, PA
Courses:
FS 199: Ecology of Oregon Coastal Forests
Research Interests:
- Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) to investigate forest history, disturbance, and influences of climate and disease on growth.
- Application of tree-ring techniques to the growth-increments of long-lived marine and freshwater animal species, including fish, bivalves, and corals.
- Pre-European settlement forest composition and the impacts of Native American populations
Research Support:
- BA Black, WJ Sydeman and SJ Bograd. Importance of Winter Upwelling to California Current Ecosystem Dynamics. National Science Foundation Biological Oceanography. $223,705. 9/09-9/11.
- 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 – 9/2009 $24,000
- BA Black. Improving geoduck age estimation through the tree-ring technique of crossdating. Fisheries and Oceans Canada 9/2007-9/2008. $21,000
- BA Black, J Dunham. Reconstructing water temperatures in Oregon streams through analysis of growth increments in long-lived pearlshell mussels. Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board 10/2007-10/2008. $47,649
- BA Black. Shortspine thornyhead ageing and chronology development. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center. 9/2007 – 9/2009. $85,000
Selected Publications:
- BA Black, I Schroeder, W Sydeman, S Bograd, and P Lawson. 2010 Wintertime ocean conditions synchronize rockfish growth and seabird reproduction in the central California Current Ecosystem. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. In Press
- BA Black, D Shaw, and J Stone. Impacts of Swiss needle cast on overstory Douglas-fir forests of the western Oregon Coast Range. Forest Ecology and Management 259:1673-1680
- 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 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02043.x
- 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.