Curriculum Vitae. Graduate Summer school, 2006 Complexity science Santa Fe Institute

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1 Curriculum Vitae William R. Burnside National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center 1 Park Place, Suite 300 Annapolis, MD Ph: (505) wburnside@sesync.org Education PhD University of New Mexico 2012 Biology Major advisor: James H. Brown Graduate Summer school, 2006 Complexity science Santa Fe Institute Phd student Univ of Texas, Austin Ecology, evolution, & behavior MS University of Michigan 1995 Natural Resources & Environment BA Stanford University 1989 Human Biology, concentration in human-environment interactions Relevant Employment 8/12-present SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellow Researching socio-environmental correlates of sustainability across systems Annapolis, MD UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Albuquerque, NM 9/06-12/09 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology TAed core graduate ecology & mixed graduate & undergraduate biogeography; lead laboratory sections of undergraduates in upper-division Principles of Ecology course and core evolution and ecology course UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO Albuquerque, NM 9/07-12/07 Instructor, Department of Biology Co-created and co-taught a grad/undergrad seminar-style course on Perspectives in Human Ecology to a mix of students from biology, anthropology, economics, and sociology UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 9/03-5/05 Teaching Assistant, College of Natural Sciences Taught discussion sessions to undergraduates in biology courses SELF EMPLOYED 8/02-9/03 Freelance educational writer and editor Wrote and edited high school biology and environmental science materials under contract with The College Board and Holt, Rinehart & Winston HOLT, RINEHART and WINSTON (division of Harcourt) 4/97-6/02 Associate editor, Editor

2 Edited environmental science and biology materials to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and age-level appropriateness Field Work Sevilleta LTER site, 2008, 2009, foraging ecology of desert harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex spp) Barro Colorado Island, Smithsonian Trop Research Institute, Panama: ant colony scaling, 2007 Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, Gothic, CO: plant ecology, ant-plant interactions, 2002 Honors Best student paper (Paz et al. The value of information), 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Paris, France AAAS Neimark Travel Assistance award, AAAS 2011, Washington, DC Coupled Human and Natural Systems Fellowship, AAAS 2011, Washington, DC NSF Travel Grant, Internat Biogeography Society conference, Merida, Mexico, Jan (declined) Sevilleta Graduate Research grant, summer 2008, $2700 Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship, 2007 Winner, Best student poster: Ecogeographic Rules session, International Biogeography Society conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Jan 2007 NSF Travel Grant ($1400), Internat Biogeog Society conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Jan New Mexico Higher Education Department Graduate Scholarship, ($7200/yr), UNM, Grove Summer Scholarship ($3000), Dept of Biology, U. of New Mexico, 2006 SFI Complex Systems Summer School (tuition, room, and board), 2006, Santa Fe, NM NSF Biocomplexity Fellowship, ($13,500 plus tuition) University of New Mexico, Pack Term Paper award (university-wide, for best paper on forest-related issue), University of Michigan, May 1995 Rackham Merit Fellowship (tuition, fees, and stipend), University of Michigan, Publications (peer-reviewed) Paz, T., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, M., & Moses, M Quantifying the effect of colony size and food distribution on harvester ant foraging. PloS One 12(12) e Brown, J.H., Allen, C., Burger, J.R., Burnside, W.R., Davidson, A., Fristoe, T., Hamilton, M.J., Mercado-Silva, N., Nekola, J.C., Okie, J.G., & Zuo, W The macroecology of sustainability. PloS Biology 10(6) e Flanagan, T.P., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, G.M., & Moses, M How ants turn information into food. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE). Ieee. pp. pp Burnside, W.R., Brown, J.H., Burger, O., Hamilton, M., Moses, M., & Bettencourt, LMA. Feb Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecology. Biological Reviews 87(1): Brown, J.H., Burnside, W.R., Davidson, A., DeLong, J.P., Dunn, W.C., Hamilton, M.J., Mercado- Silva, N., Nekola, J.C., Okie, J.G., Woodruff, W.H., & Zuo, W Energetic limits to economic growth. Bioscience 61(1): (Recommended by Faculty of 1000)

3 Scarborough, V., & Burnside, W Global change: Mapping culture onto climate. Ch 9 in Climate Crises in Human History. eds. Mainwaring, B., Giegengack, R., and Vita-Finzi, C. American Philosophical Society, Lightning Rod Press, vol 6 (Special Transactions #1): Philadelphia, PA. Scarborough, V.L. & Burnside, W.R Complexity and sustainability: Perspectives from the ancient Maya and modern Balinese. American Antiquity 75(2): Publications in review Brown, J.H., Burger, J.R., Burnside, W.R., Chang, M., Davidson, A., Fristoe, T., Hamilton, M.J., Hammond, S.T., Kodric-Brown, A., Mercado-Silva, N., Nekola, J.C., and Okie, J.G. In review at Ecological Engineering. Macroecology and macroeconomics: Resource scarcity and global sustainability. Publications in preparation Burnside, W.R. and Brown, J.H. The metabolic ecology of biotic interactions: Effect of temperature on rates of predation, parasitism, and competition. Burnside, W.R., Erhardt, E.B., Okie, J.G, and Hamilton, M.J. The metabolic ecology of range size in traditional human societies Guégan, J.F., Jean, K., Burnside, W.R., Carlson, L., and Smith, K.F. In review at PLoS Biology. Disease-free paradises, or the effects of island biogeography on insular communicable diseases in humans Burnside, W.R. Sustainability: Influential models and a search for core principles Other writing (non peer-reviewed) Burnside, W.R. Nov Storms and synthesis. SESYNC Blog. Burnside, W.R. Oct Commentary: Differences in climate and soil partly predict land use, population density, and conflict. Frontiers of Biogeography Posters Burnside, W.R., Brown, J.., Burger, J.R., Davidson, A.D., Fristoe, T., Hamilton, M.J., Mercado- Silva, N., Okie, J.G., Nekola, J.C., and Zuo, W. Toward a macroecology of sustainability. AAAS Washington, D.C. Paz, T., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, M., & Moses, M. How ants turn information into food. UNM Dept of Biology Research Day, March 2010

4 Burnside, W. and Okie, J. Cultural ecogeography: Environmental determinants of hunter-gatherer geographic patterns. 13th Anthropology Grad Student Union Symposium, U. New Mexico, Feb. 28, 2009 Burnside, W.R., Okie, J., & Phillips, Zachary. A Bergmann s rule for social group size? Latitudinal variation in group size within terrestrial mammal species. International Biogeography Conference, Merida, Mexico Jan., 2009 Burnside, W.R & Brown, J.H. Metabolic ecology of ant foraging: Effects of temperature on rates of predation, parasitism, and competition. GRC Metabolic Basis of Ecology biennial conference, Biddeford, Maine, July 6-11, 2008 Paz, T., Letendre, K., Burnside, W.R., Fricke, M., & Moses, M. The metabolic ecology of ant foraging: Scaling of recruitment with colony size. GRC Metabolic Basis of Ecology biennual conference, Biddeford, Maine, July 6-11, 2008 Burnside, W. and Okie, J. Cultural ecogeography: Environmental determinants of hunter-gatherer geographic patterns. International Biogeography Conference, Tenerife, Spain Jan., 2007 Organized Symposia Organizer (lead) and Moderator, Symposium #8: Human Macroecology, ESA 2009, Albuquerque ( Co-organizer, Human Macroecology symposium, AAAS Southwest and Rocky Mtn Division annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April, Conference Presentations Burnside, W. and Okie, J. Ecological determinants of hunter-gatherer foraging patterns. Human Macroecology symposium. AAAS SWARM meeting. April, 2008, Albuquerque, NM. Scarborough, V.W., and Burnside, W. March, Sustainable complexity among the ancient Maya and the Balinese. Integrated History & Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) Asia Workshop, Japan. Teaching Co-conceived, co-created, and co-taught Perspectives in Human Ecology, a joint undergrad/grad course in UNM Biology & Anthropology, Fall 2007 Teaching assistant, Ecology and undergraduate biology courses, UT Austin, U. New Mexico Service Ecology faculty search committee member, UNM Dept of Biology, Fall 2011 Travel Application reviewer, Graduate Research Allocation Committee, UNM Biology Graduate Student Association Graduate mentor, SEEDS, University of New Mexico chapter, Ecological Society of America, 2007

5 Reviewing Global Ecology and Biogeography, PloS One, EcoHealth NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program Memberships Ecological Society of America (& human ecology section) International Biogeography Society CHANS-Net, (coupled human and natural systems network)