NATHAN B. PIEKIELEK. The Pennsylvania State University Office: (814) L Paterno Library Fax: (814)

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1 NATHAN B. PIEKIELEK The Pennsylvania State University Office: (814) L Paterno Library Fax: (814) University Park, PA EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D. Ecology and Environmental Sciences Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 2003 M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development University of Georgia, Athens, GA 2000 B.S. Geography, Geographic Information Science The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Spanish minor SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014 GEOSPATIAL SERVICES LIBRARIAN Present Head, Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps & Geospatial Information The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, PA POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Ecology Montana 2014 State University, Bozeman, MT. Vulnerability assessment of ecological systems and species to climate and land use change GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Department of Ecology Montana 2011 State University, Bozeman, MT. Ecological condition of US National Parks: enhancing decision support through monitoring, analysis and Forecasting DATA MANAGER, US Department of the Interior National Park 2007 Service Inventory and Monitoring Program, Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network, University Park, PA GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT, University of Georgia Institute of 2003 Ecology, Athens, GA. The impact of lawn care practices on aquatic ecosystems in suburban watersheds RESEARCH ASSISTANT, The Pennsylvania State University Environment 2001 Institute, University Park, PA. 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 1 of 7

2 PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS Fish, C., & Piekielek, N. B Targeting disciplines for GIS outreach using bibliometrics. Journal of Maps and Geography Libraries, 12(3): Piekielek, N. B., et al. (2016). In Evangelos Livieratos (Ed.), Best practices for georeferencing large scale historical fire insurance maps of the USA. (pp. 10). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Piekielek, NB, AJ Hansen, T. Chang Using custom scientific workflow software and GIS to inform protected area climate adaptation planning across the Greater Yellowstone. Ecological Informatics 30: Miller, BW, L. Frid, T. Chang, NB Piekielek, AJ Hansen, and JT Morisette Combining state-and-transition simulations and species distribution models to anticipate the effects of climate change. AIMS Environmental Science 2(2): Hansen, AJ, Piekielek NB, Chang T and L Phillips Changing climate suitability for forests in Yellowstone and the Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone Science 23(1): Chang, T., AJ Hansen, and NB Piekielek Patterns and variability of projected bioclimatic habitat for Pinus albicaulis in the Greater Yellowstone Area. PLOS ONE 9(11):e Hansen, AJ, NB Piekielek, C Davis, J Haas, ST Oliff, J Gross, B Monahan and D Theobald Exposure of US National Parks to Land Use and Climate Change Ecological Applications 24: Beever, EA, SZ Dobrowski, J Long, AR Mynsberge and NB Piekielek Understanding relationships among abundance, extirpation, and climate at ecoregional scales. Ecology 94(7): Piekielek, NB and AJ Hansen Extent of fragmentation of coarse-scale habitats in and around US National Parks. Biological Conservation 155: Hansen, AJ, C Davis, NB Piekielek, J Gross, D Theobald, S Goetz and R DeFries Delineating the ecosystems containing protected areas for monitoring and management. Bioscience 61(5): PARTS OF BOOKS Piekielek, NB, Hansen, AJ and T Chang Past, present, and future climate shapes the vegetation communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem across elevation gradients, in, Climate change in wildlands: Pioneering approaches to science and management in the Rocky Mountains and Appalachians. Hansen, AJ, Monahan, W, Theobald, D and S Oliff eds. Island Press. 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 2 of 7

3 Hansen, AJ, C. Davis, J. Haas, NB Piekielek Towards assessing the vulnerability of US National Parks to land use and climate change. In Protected Areas: Are they safeguarding biodiversity? L. Joppa, J. Baillie, J. Robinson, editors. Wiley- Blackwell Cambridge, United Kingdom. Gross, JE, Hansen, AJ, Goetz, SJ, Theobald, DM, Melton, FM, NB Piekielek and Rama Nemani Remote Sensing for Inventory and Monitoring of the U.S. National Parks in Remote Sensing of Protected Lands, ed. Y.Q. Wang. Taylor and Francis. TECHNICAL REPORTS Piekielek, NB, C Davis and AJ Hansen GIS Mapping Standard Operating Procedure Ecosystem type change and fragmentation: from pre Euro-American settlement to the present day. Natural Resource Program Center, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. Standard Operating Procedure Piekielek, NB, C Davis and AJ Hansen GIS Mapping Standard Operating Procedure Estimating protected-area centered ecosystems. Natural Resource Program Center, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. Standard Operating Procedure Piekielek, NB, C Davis and AJ Hansen GIS Mapping Standard Operating Procedure Analyzing protected-area centered ecosystems. Natural Resource Program Center, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. Standard Operating Procedure Piekielek, NB Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network Data Management Plan. Natural Resource Report NPS/NER/NRR 2009/20. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region. Philadelphia, PA. Published report Greb, E, A Matus, NB Piekielek, M Marshall and C Brewer Socioeconomic indicator mapping: data collection and definitions for socioeconomic indicator mapping. Natural Resource Report NPS/ERMN/NRR 2009/073. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region. Philadelphia, PA. Published report Marshall, M and NB Piekielek Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network Ecological Monitoring Plan. Natural Resource Report NPS/ERMN/NRR 2007/017. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region. Philadelphia, PA. Published report AD-HOC MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS Ecological Informatics (2); Conservation Biology (1); Ecology and Society (1); Environmental Engineering and Management (1); Journal of Maps & Geography 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 3 of 7

4 Libraries (1); Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (1); PLoS One (1); Remote Sensing (1); Remote Sensing of Environment (1). SELECT RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS AWARDED 2017 Evaluating open-source tools to increase the discoverability and usefulness of historic aerial photographs $21,966 Piekielek, NB 2016 Geospatial resource round-up: improving access to library resources in support of university research and teaching $21,288 Piekielek, NB 2015 Developing educational materials to integrate geospatial concepts $20,352 and techniques into graduate and undergraduate curriculum Piekielek, NB 2015 A feasibility study of automating the georeferencing of historic $3,000 aerial photographs in the Maps Library Collection Piekielek, NB and H. Ross Streamlined MODIS image processing for information delivery $17,550 and analysis Piekielek, NB with D. Thoma and J. Norris NPS I&M Program, NCPN, SCPN and GRYN Networks Investigating climate drivers and potential mechanisms of ($236,000) American Pika (Ochotona princeps) extinction in mountain ecosystems Piekielek, NB, E. Beever, G. Peterson, T. Millette and S. Dobrowski USGS Mendenhall Research Fellowship (declined) 2014 A multi-scale analysis of long-term trends in vegetation indices $11,000 for montane meadows in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Piekielek, NB. D. Debinski, Iowa State University Informing implementation of the Greater Yellowstone $450,000 Coordintaing Committee s Whitebark Pine Management Strategy based on climate sciences, ecological forecasting, and valuation of WBP-related ecosystem services. Hansen, A., Buermeyer, K., Legg, K., Reinhart, D., Kelly, V., Pederson, G., Olliff, T., Gross, J., 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 4 of 7

5 Monahan, B., Iglesias, V., Kipfer, T., Whitlock, K., Piekielek, NB, Shanahan, E. and H. Naughton. USGS North Central Climate Science Center USGS North Central Climate Science Center Foundational $140,000 Science Team Lead Ecological Impacts Group Award. Hansen, A and NB Piekielek. USGS North Central Climate Science Center. SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Pennsylvania State University Research Advisor, World Campus Master of GIS Capstone Research Project (1). Pres. Directed Student Learning, Graduate Research Assistants (2), Undergraduate Interns (9). Montana State University 2013 Lab instructor, Ecological Biology 515 Landscape Ecology GIS lab. 1 section (3cr) Team-teacher, Ecological Biology 491 Macroecology: understanding ecological systems through global comparison. 1 section (3cr) Graduate Teaching Assistant, General Biology 170 Principals of biological diversity, an inquiry based laboratory. 3 sections (3cr) Team-teacher, General Biology 100 Organism function, large lecture for nonmajors. 2 sections (3cr) Graduate Teaching Assistant, General Biology 160 Principles of living systems. 3 sections (3cr) Graduate Teaching Assistant, General Biology 170 Principals of biological diversity, an inquiry based laboratory. 1 section (3cr). SELECT SERVICE 2017 Member, International Scientific Committee, International Cartographic Society Annual Professional Meeting (ICS2017), Washington D.C Co-Organizer, ICS2017 Preconference workshop, Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital Scholarship 2016 Member, Data Services Model Working Group, Penn State University Libraries 2016 Session Chair, GIS Activities in Academic Libraries of Pennsylvania, PAGIS Conference, The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 5 of 7

6 2016 Member, Digital Scholarship Working Group, Penn State University Libraries 2016 Member, New Faculty Search Committee, Digital Preservation Librarian, Penn State University Libraries Co-founder, Graduate Award for Data Visualization, Penn State Graduate Research Exhibition Task Force Representative, Big Ten Academic Network (BTAA) Geospatial Data Discovery Project ( Grant Reviewer, Research Innovation Grant, Penn State Center for Online Learning Member, New Faculty Search Committee, Science and Engineering Librarian, 2015 Member, New Faculty Search Committee, Head of Assessment, Penn State University Libraries Elected At-large Member, Library Faculty Council, Penn State University Libraries Member, Penn State Information Technology Services Box Direction Team. SELECT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (ALL ARE ORAL; * DENOTES INVITED) Piekielek, N. B. (Co-Author and Co-Presenter), (March 16, 2017). "Climate Control: vulnerabilities of American archives to rising seas, hotter days and more powerful storms," Penn State University Libraries Research Colloquium, University Park, PA. Piekielek, N. B., (Author and Presenter), (November 16, 2016). "The *NEW* Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal," Penn State GIS Day 2016, Penn State University Libraries and Department of Geography. Piekielek, N. B. (Co-Author and Co-Presenter), (October 21, 2016). "Implementing a new geospatial data discovery interface across a multi-institution consortium," North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting, North American Cartographic Information Society, Colorado Springs, CO, USA. Piekielek, N. B. (Author and Presenter), (May 17, 2016). "An overview of GIS in university libraries," PAGIS Conference, County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, The Penn Stater Conference Center and Hotel. Piekielek, N. B. (Author and Presenter), Ross, H., Henderson, C. (Penn State), Hudson, K. (Penn State), (April 11, 2016). "Best practices for georeferencing large scale historical fire insurance maps of the USA," International Cartographic Association Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital, Riga, Latvia. Piekielek, NB, et al. (Co-Author and Presenter) Tree and shrub species habitat suitability across the Greater Yellowstone under climate change. Society for 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 6 of 7

7 Conservation Biology North America Congress for Conservation Biology. Missoula, MT. Piekielek, NB, and AJ Hansen. (Co-Author and Presenter) Climate and land use change modify the patch dynamics of green forage in the Upper Yellowstone River Basin. Montana NSF EPSCoR Summit. Helena, MT. Piekielek, NB. and AJ Hansen. (Co-Author and Presenter) Biophysical controls on grassland phenology in the Upper Yellowstone River Basin and implications for conservation under climate change. Montana Chapter of Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. Bozeman, MT. *Piekielek, NB. (Author and Presenter) Remote sensing grassland phenology in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: biophysical correlates, land use effects and patch dynamics. The 11 th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Mammoth, WY. *Piekielek, NB. and AJ Hansen. (Co-Author and Presenter) Land use and climate change modifies the spatio-temporal pattern of forage availability in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Piekielek, NB (Author and Presenter). A mixed-method, multi-scale approach to quantifying the effects of land-use on phenology in the Northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. US-International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting, Snowbird, UT. Piekielek, NB (Author and Presenter). Socioeconomic indicator monitoring and mapping. NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program National Meetings. Las Cruces, NM. *Piekielek, NB (Author and Presenter). Landscape dynamics. NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program National Meetings, Fort Collins, CO. Piekielek, NB (Author and Presenter). Urban form, environmental values and ecological impacts in Greater Atlanta, GA. Ecological Society of America Annual Meetings. Tucson, AZ. *Piekielek, NB (Author and Presenter). Spatial organization and suburban dynamics of lawn-care. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings. Atlanta, GA. 4/10/2017 NBP CV Page 7 of 7