Mitchell J. Power CV  - October 2007

University of Edinburgh

Institute of Geography/School of Geosciences

Drummond Street

Edinburgh, EH8 9XP

United Kingdom

e-mail: Mitch.Power@ed.ac.uk

    1997-1998 Teaching Assistant, Northern Arizona University, Center for Environmental Sciences and Education: Instructor for two lab sections, [ENV101] Environmental Science 101,

        (Fall and Spring)

    1996 Teaching Assistant at Northern Arizona University for Center for Environmental Sciences and Education: Instructor for field-based lab sections for introductory and 3rd-year

        courses in Ecology [ENV101; ENV180; ENV370]

    1996 Archaeological Field Assistant, Rumford Falls Project, Rumford, Maine.  Phase III archaeological excavations at prehistoric site ME 49-28

    1995 Teaching & Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University, Center for Environmental Sciences and Education: Instructor for lab sections, [Env101] Environmental Science and

            researcher for Laboratory of Paleoecology, analysis of plant macrofossils

    1994 Site Supervisor, Lake Ilo Archaeological Project: Joint project between Northern Arizona University & University of North Dakota.  Paleo-Indian excavations located in Killdeer,

        North Dakota.

    1993 Field Assistant, University of Southern Maine archaeological excavations at Loring Air Force Base CRM, Caribou, Maine: Phase I

    1992 Field and Lab Assistant, University of Southern Maine archaeological excavations at: Gilman Falls, Old Town; Eddington Bend; Mosher Island Prehistoric Burial Site

    1991 Field and Lab Supervisor, Environmental Archaeology Field School, University of Southern Maine: Basin Site, Phippsburg, Maine, Test Pit & Test Unit excavations

    1991 Assistant Supervisor for Maine Audubon Society and the University of Southern Maine: Archaeological research on Mosher Island excavations

    1991 Field and Lab Assistant, University of Southern Maine archaeological excavations in Fryeberg, Maine and in Norridgewock, Maine:  Phase I Survey & archaeological excavations

    1990 Field and Lab Assistant, University of Maine, Orono, Archaeology lab: archaeological investigations at Gilman Falls, Old Town; analysis of lithic material from the Hirundo Site

    1990 Field Assistant, University of Southern Maine archaeological investigations at: Cold Water Farms, Kennebunk; Durham Boat Landing, Durham: Phase I Survey & archaeological

        excavations funded by Central Maine Power Company

    1990 Summer Field School Assistant, University of Southern Maine Environmental Archaeology Field School, archaeological excavations and vibracoring of beach sediments at the

        Basin Site, Phippsburg, Maine

    1989 Field Assistant, University of Southern Maine archaeological investigations at Rumford Falls, Rumford, Maine

GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND AWARDS

    2007 Past Global Changes Program (PAGES), Sponsorship for the Global Palaeofire Working Group workshop ($6000.00)

    2007 Integrated Land Ecosystem – Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS), a core project of the IGBP, Sponsorship for the Global Palaeofire Working Group workshop (€1500.00)

    2006 United States Geological Survey (USGS) Paleoecological investigations in Yellowstone National Park ($2516.00)

    2005 Finalist for University of Oregon Doctoral Research Fellowship, Geography Department

    2004 17^th Biennial American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) meeting, Anchorage, Alaska travel award ($600.00)

    2002 16^th Biennial American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas, travel award ($545.02)

    2001 University of Oregon, Summer Research Grant for field work ($483.00)

    1998 Participant, Pole-Equator-Pole (PEP-I), Paleoclimate of the Americas. Merida, Venezuela, March 16-23

    1996 Fieldtrip Assistant, 14^th Biennial American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) meeting, Paleoecology of the Verde Valley and Mojave Desert May 20-28

    1996 13^th Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, Extreme Events and Uncommon Episodes, April 14-17, Asilomar Conference Center, travel award  ($600.00)

 
PUBLICATIONS

Mayle FE, and Power, MJ (in review) Impact of a drier early-mid Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Power MJ, Marlon J, Ortiz N, Bartlein PJ, Harrison SP, Mayle FE,  Ballouche A, Bradshaw RH, Carcaillet C, Cordova C, Mooney S, Moreno P, Prentice IC, Thonicke K, Tinner W,

    Whitlock C, Zhang Y, Zhao Y, Ali AA, Anderson RS, Beer R, Behling H, Briles C, Brown KJ, Brunelle A, Bush M, Camill P, Chu GQ, Clark J, Colombaroli D, Connor S, Daniau A-L,

    Daniels M, Dodson J, Doughty E, Edwards ME, Finsinger W, Foster D, Frechette J, Gaillard M-J, Gavin DG, Gobet E, Haberle S, Hallett DJ, Higuera P, Hope G, Horn S,

    Inoue J, Kaltenrieder P, Kennedy L, Kong ZC, Larsen C, Long CJ, Lynch J, Lynch EA, McGlone M, Meeks S, Mensing S, Meyer G, Minckley T, Mohr J, Nelson DM, New J,

    Newnham R, Noti R, Oswald W, Pierce J, Richard PJH, Rowe C, Sanchez Goñi MF, Shuman BJ, Takahara H, Toney J, Turney C, Urrego-Sanchez DH, Umbanhowar C,

    Vandergoes M, Vanniere B, Vescovi E, Walsh M, Wang X, Williams N, Wilmshurst J, Zhang JH (in press) Changes in fire regime since the Last Glacial Maximum:

    an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics. XX:XX-XX.

Whitlock C, Dean W, Rosenbaum J, Stevens L, Fritz S, Bracht B, Power MJ (in press) A 2650-year-long record of environmental change from northern Yellowstone    

    National Park based on a comparison of multiple proxy data.  Quaternary International, XX:XX-XX

Harrison SP, Power MJ, Bond W (2007) Palaeofires in the Earth system. iLEAPS Newsletter 4:8-11. [http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/ILEAPS/index.php?page=default]

Power MJ, Bartlein, PJ, Shafer, S, and N. Kohler (in prep) 20^th Century fire-climate linkages in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA.

Power MJ, Whitlock C, Bartlein PJ (in prep) Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history across an elevational gradient in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA.

Power MJ, Anderson RS (in prep) Fire, vegetation, and climate history in the upper montane forests, Sierra Nevada, California.

Power MJ, Whitlock C, Bartlein PJ, Stevens L (2006).  Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana.  Geomorphology, 75:420-436.

Power MJ (2006)   Recent and Holocene fire, climate, and vegetation linkages in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA., PhD dissertation, Department of Geography,

    University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon: 240 pp.

Anderson RS, Power, MJ, Smith SJ, Springer K, Scott E (2002). Paleoecology of MIS-3 Pond Deposits from Riverside County, Southwestern California.  Quaternary

    Research, vol. 58(3):310-317.

Power, MJ (1998)  Paleoclimatic Interpretation of an Alpine Lake in the South Central Sierra Nevada, California: Multiple Proxy Evidence. Masters Thesis, Quaternary

    Studies Program, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona: 93 pp.

Mosher J, Bennet T, Power MJ, Hamilton N (1991) Phase I Archaeological Survey for the Proposed GWEN CGS-8 Site, Fryeberg, Maine.  A Final Report prepared by

    the ARU for SRI International, Menlo Park, California, June (OSR 6-6-46198).

Mosher J, Bennet T, Power MJ, Hamilton N  (1991). Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Norridgewock Wastewater Treatment Facility, Cross Country

    Gravity Feeder, and Pump Station Sites, Norridgewock, Maine.  A final report prepared for Woodard & Curran, Inc., Westbrook, Maine: June (OSR 6-6-46199).

INVITED LECTURES

    Internal Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) 4^th International Congress, Cape Town, South Africa (May 2008)

    Vegetation on Fire History & Actuality workshop, Besançon, France (January 2008)

    Oxford University, Jesuit College, Department of Geography Guest Seminar Series (November 2007)

    International Quaternary Association XXI (INQUA): Fire Session, Fire regimes since the last glacial maximum, Cairns, Australia (August 2007)

    Oxford, Quantifying and Understanding Earth Systems (QUEST) Open Science Conference, Oxford, UK (March 2007)

    Quantifying and Understanding Earth Systems (QUEST) “Kickoff meeting”, University of Bristol, UK – Fire-climate linkages and prospects for global palaeofire data-model

            comparison (October 2006)

    Fire History and Climate Synthesis in Western North America – Fire, climate, and vegetation history in the Northern Rocky Mountains during the last 13,000 years - Workshop,

            Flagstaff, Arizona (May 2005)

PAPER/POSTER PRESENTATIONS

   Power MJ, Marlon J, Bartlein PJ, Mayle F, Ortiz N, Harrison S, IGBP FTI Participants.

            International Quaternary Association XVII, Cairns, Australia, (2007) How do differences in charcoal quantification, basin type, and fuel characteristics

            affect charcoal records? (poster)

   Power MJ, Bartlein PJ, Harrison S, Marlon J, Mayle F, Ortiz N, Thonicke K,  Paleofire FTI Workshop Participants, University of Leeds, British Tropical Ecology
             Group (2007) Fire activity in tropical ecosystems since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on syntheses and analyses of charcoal data (paper)

   Marlon J, Power, MJ, Thonicke, K, & IGBP Palaeofire FTI Participants (2006) Global Paleofire History Since the Last Glacial Maximum: Syntheses and Data-Model

            Comparison. American Geophysical Union (poster).

   Marlon J, Power, MJ, Bartlein, PJ, Whitlock, C, (2006). Meta-Analyses of Paleofire Records at Multiple Scales. American Quaternary Association 19^th biannual meeting,

            Bozeman, Montana (poster)

   Whitlock, C, Fritz, S, Bracht, B, Stevens, L, Power, MJ, Dean, W, and J Rosenbuam: 19^th annual American Quaternary Association (poster)

   Whitlock, C, Fritz, S, Bracht, B., Stevens, L, Power, MJ, Dean, W, and J Rosenbuam (2006). The last 2650 years in Northern Yellowstone National Park based on multi

            proxy data from Crevice Lake.  PACLIM XX, March 26-29, Asilomar, California (poster)

    Power MJ, Bartlein PJ, Whitlock C (2005).  20^th Century Fire-Climate Linkages in the Northern Rocky Mountains.   MTNCLIM: Consortium for Integrated Climate   

            Research in Western Mountains.  Chico Hot Springs, Prey, Montana, March 1-4. (poster)

    Power MJ, Whitlock C, Bartlein PJ  (2004) Fire-Climate Linkages in the Northern Rocky Mountains during the Holocene,  American Geophysical Union, San Francisco,

            CA, Dec 13-17. (poster)

    Power MJ, Whitlock C, Bartlein  PJ (2004) A Comparison of 20th Century versus Late- Holocene Fire, Vegetation, and Climate Variations in Northwestern Montana .

            American Association of Geographers, Philidelphia, PN,  March 22-23. (paper)

    Power MJ, Whitlock C, Bartlein PJ  (2003) Fire and Vegetation Variations of the Last 4000 years in Northwestern Montana.  Geological Society of America, Annual

            Meeting, “Geoscience Horizons”, Seattle, Washington, November 2-5.  (paper)

    Power MJ, Stone J, Stevens L, Whitlock C, Fritz S, Bartlein PJ (2002)  Calibration of Lake-Sediment Records with 20^th-Century Hydrologic and Climate Variability in

            Northwestern Montana.  American Geophysical Union, “Paleoclimate, Global Change, and the Future” (PP61A), San Francisco, California, December 6-10. (poster)

    Power MJ, Whitlock C (2002).  Vegetation Change, Fire History, and Historic Land-use in the Flathead Valley, Montana. American Quaternary Association 17^th

            Biennial Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, August 8-11. (poster)

    Power MJ, Whitlock C (2002).  High-Resolution Record of Fire History and Vegetation Change from the Flathead Valley, Montana.  American Association of Geographers,

            Annual Meeting, Las Angelas, California, March. (paper)

    Power MJ, Whitlock C (2001)  A 1800-year record of Fire and Vegetation from Northwestern Montana.  PACLIM 18^th Annual PACLIM Workshop, Asilomar State Conference

            Grounds, Pacific Grove, California. (poster)

    Power MJ, Anderson RS (2000) A Paleoclimatic Interpretation of East Lake in the southern central Sierra Nevada, CA.  American Quaternary Association 16^th Biennial

            Meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 22-24. (poster)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (only last 5 years shown)

    2006 Biogeography (GEOG 323) Past and present distribution of the world’s biota

    2005 Vegetation History and Ecosystem Dynamics (GEOG431/531) Graduate-level studies on long- term vegetation change and special topics in biogeography

    2005 Physical Geography of Oregon-Paleoenvironments (GEOG410) Self-designed course on paleoecological field methods (sediment coring, tree coring, and packrat middens)

    2005 Biogeography (spring & summer courses) (GEOG323) Past and present distribution of the world’s biota.

    2004 Geography of Oregon (GEOG206) Natural and human environments of Oregon.

    2004 Biogeography (GEOG323) Past and present distribution of the world’s biota.

    2003 Biogeography (GEOG323) Past and present distribution of the world’s biota.

    2003 Geography of Oregon (GEOG206) Natural and human environments of Oregon

    2002 Natural Environment (GEOG141) Introduction to physical geography.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

    2007 Organizer and Co-leader of the Global Palaeofire Working Group Workshop II,

            Dartington Hall, UK

    2007 Article reviews for The Holocene

    2007  Member of International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Palaeoclimate

            Commission (PALCOMM)

    2007  Report writing for PAGES and iLEAPS newsletters

    2006-present Creation/Leadership of the Global Palaeofire Working Group (GPWG)

    2005-present Advising undergraduate students on current research projects within the Environmental Change Research Group (Univ. Oregon) and

            Quaternary Palaeoecology Laboratory (Univ. Edinburgh)

    2004  Thesis Committee member for Katie Weidman, Environmental Science major and Clark Honors College graduate at the University of Oregon. 

    2002  Co-Chair session organizer.  Fire-climate Workshop, Tucson Arizona, March

    2000  Faculty Search Committee, graduate student representative, Department of Geography, University of Oregon

    2000-2005 Participation in Geography Awareness Week at the University of Oregon

    2000-present membership activity:  American Quaternary Association and American Association of Geographers, Gamma Theta Upsilon Honorary

            International Geography Society at the University of Oregon, Oregon Geographical Society

    1998-2006  Scientific Illustrations: Environmental Change Research Group logo, Fire-Climate

            Workshop logo, 2006 American Quaternary Association 20^th biannual meeting logo

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS

    2006-present IGBP Fast Track Initiative on Fire

    2006-present Global Palaeofire Working Group co-Leader: correspondence with over

            80 international collaborators and/or contributors

    2006-present QUEST-Deglaciation: Climate and biogeochemical cycles during the last

            deglaciation

ACADEMIC EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

    Canadian-American Exchange Program; Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology, Burnaby, British Columbia, 1990-1991

    German-American Exchange Program; Bonn, West Germany, sponsored by Falmouth High School, June 1987