University of Minnesota Department of Geography 414 Social Science Building Minneapolis MN 55455 Bryan N. Shuman Assistant Professor Phone: 612-625-8591 Fax: 612-624-1044 E-mail: bshuman@umn.edu Education Brown University Geological Sciences Ph.D., 2001 Brown University Geological Sciences Sc.M., 1997 The Colorado College Geology B.A., 1994 Ph.D. Thesis: Vegetation Response to Moisture-Balance and Abrupt Climate Change in Eastern North America during the Late-Quaternary. Advisor: Dr. Thompson Webb III Research Interests Quaternary Paleoecology; Quaternary Paleoclimatology; Global Change Professional Experience 2003- Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota 2001-2003 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Oregon (with Dr. Patrick Bartlein) 1995-2001 Graduate Student, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University Honors and Awards NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship ($84,000), 2001-2003 Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society, Full Member, 2001 Edward Deevey Award for Student Presentation in Paleoecology, Honorable Mention, Ecological Society of America, 2000 William Fischer Special Award in Geology, The Colorado College, 1994 Phi Beta Kappa, 1994 Professional Service Chair, Paleoecology Section of the Ecological Society of America, 2003- Organizer, Cultural and Environmental Controls on Past Fire Regimes in Inhabited Woodlands Symposium at the 2004 ESA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon. 1
Professional Service (continued) Co-organizer, "Application of Regional Pollen Databases" Session at the 11th International Palynological Congress, Grenada, Spain 2004. Vice-chair, Paleoecology section of the Ecological Society of America, 2002-2003. Chair, The Future of Paleoecology workshop committee, 2003 Ecological Society of America meeting, Savanna, Georgia. Referee, AAG Annals, Ecology, Geographie Physique et Quateraire, Holocene, Quaternary Research Referee, NSF Earth System History Program Research Publications Shuman, B., P. Newby, J. Donnelly, A. Tarbox, and T. Webb III. A record of late-quaternary moisture-balance change and vegetation response in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. AAG Annals, submitted. Newby, P. N., J. Bradley, A. Spiess, B. Shuman, and P. Leduc. A Paleoindian Response to Younger Dryas Climate Change. Quaternary Science Reviews, in revision following reviews. Huang, Y., B. Shuman, Y. Wang, and T. Webb III (2004). Hydrogen isotope ratios of individual lipids in lake sediments as novel tracers of climatic and environmental change: a surface sediment test. Journal of Paleolimnology, in press. Shuman, B., P. Newby, Y. Huang, and T. Webb III (2004). Evidence for the close climatic control of New England vegetation history. Ecology, in press. Williams, J. W., B. Shuman, T. Webb III, P.J. Bartlein, and P.L. Leduc (2004). Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics in North America: scaling from taxa to biomes. Ecological Monographs, in press. Shuman, B. (2003). Controls on loss-on-ignition variation in cores from small New England lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 30 (4): 26-41. Webb, T. III, B. Shuman, and J. W. Williams (2003). Climatically forced vegetation dynamics in North America during the late-quaternary. In: Developments in Quaternary Science, Volume 1: The Quaternary Period in the United States, (A. Gillespie, S. Porter, and B. Atwater, eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam. pp. 459-478. Webb, T. III, B. Shuman, P. Leduc, P. Newby, and N. Miller (2003). Late Quaternary climate history of western New York State. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, in press. Huang, Y., B. Shuman, Y. Wang, and T. Webb III (2002). Hydrogen isotope ratios of palmitic acid in lacustrine sediments record late-quaternary climate conditions. Geology 30: 1103-1106. 2
Shuman, B., P. Bartlein, N. Logar, P. Newby, and T. Webb III (2002). Parallel climate and vegetation responses to the early-holocene collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1793-1805. Shuman, B., T. Webb III, P. Bartlein, and J. W. Williams (2002). The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern North America during the Younger Dryas chronozone. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1777-1791. Donnelly, J. P., S. Bryant, J. Butler, J. Dowling, L. Fan, N. Hausmann, P. Newby, B. Shuman, J. Stern, K. Westover, and T. Webb III, (2001). A 700-year sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England. Geological Society of America Bulletin 113: 714-727. Summary in Science (292, Issue of 8 June 2001, p. 1799) Editor s Choice. Shuman, B., J. Bravo, J. Kaye, J. A. Lynch, P. Newby, and T. Webb III, (2001). Late-Quaternary water-level variations and vegetation history at Crooked Pond, southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research 56: 401-410. Williams, J. W., B. Shuman, and T. Webb III, (2001). Dissimilarity Analyses of Late-Quaternary Vegetation and Climate in Eastern North America. Ecology 82: 3346-3362. Summary in Science (295, Issue of Jan 18 2002, p. 407) Editor s Choice. Newby, P. C., P. Killoran, M. Waldorf, B. Shuman, R. S. Webb, and T. Webb III, (2000). 13,500 years of sediment, vegetation and water-level changes at the Makepeace Cedar Swamp, Southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research. 53: 341-351. Williams, J. W., T. Webb III, B. Shuman, and P. J. Bartlein (2000). Do Low CO2 Concentrations Affect Pollen-Based Reconstructions of LGM Climates? A Response to "Physiological Significance of Low Atmospheric CO2 for Plant-Climate Interactions" by Cowling and Sykes. Quaternary Research 53: 402-404. Research Funding University of Minnesota Graduate School Grant-in-Aid of Research, Effects of fire and climate on the vegetation history of the Big Woods of Minnesota. ($35,570) Pending. PI: B. Shuman. National Science Foundation (NSF) Earth System History (ESH) Program, Collaborative Research: Surface-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Holocene Climate Variations in Eastern North America: Linkages, Impacts, and Governing Mechanisms. ($198,532). Oct. 2003 Sept. 2007., PI: B. Shuman. NSF ESH Program, Centennial-Scale Climate Variability in New England During the Holocene: New Insights from Compound-Specific Hydrogen Isotope Analysis. ($318,314 to Brown U.). Sept. 2003 Aug. 2006., PI: Y. Huang (Brown U.) B. Shuman is collaborator. NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship ($84,000), 2001-2003 3
Invited Presentations and Workshops Beyond Climate: Did low pco2 affect vegetation patterns during the late-quaternary? University of Minnesota, Quaternary Paleoecology Graduate Minor Program, Nov. 2003. Inferring Holocene Climate Dynamics in North America from Lake levels, Pollen, and Isotopes, University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Oct. 2003. Environmental Change and Vegetation Responses during the Past 21,000 Years in the Southeastern United States, Symposium talk at Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Savanna, Georgia, August 2003. Linking Vegetation Dynamics to Climate Change in Eastern North America over the past 21,000 years, University of Oregon, Department of Geography, May 2003. Linking Scales of Environmental Change in Eastern North America over the Past 21,000 Years, University of Minnesota, Department of Geography, December 2002. Climate and Vegetation Change during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle at Lake Tulane, Florida, Inferred from Carbon and Hydrogen Isotope Ratios, Symposium talk at Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Tuscon, Arizona, August 2002. Spatial Patterns of Rapid Paleoclimate Change: Examples from North America, 5 th Summer Institute NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, June 2002. Patterns of Millennial-Scale Climate Change in North America, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Paleoclimatology Group, July 2001. Post-glacial Vegetation History and Climate Change in New England, The Harvard Forest, April 2001. Late-Quaternary Vegetation Response to Millennial-Scale Climate Change, University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, November 2000. Vegetation Response to Millennial-Scale Climate Change in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum, Marine Biology Laboratory Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, September 2000. Choosing modern analogs for fossil pollen assemblages using lake-level data as a constraint, Paleoecology Workshop, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Aug. 2000. Vegetation Response to Abrupt Late-Glacial Climate Change in North America, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C. May 2000. 4
Long-term vegetation dynamics and possible environmental driving forces," NFR workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden. April 2000. Vegetation Response to Climate Change: A Geological Perspective, The Colorado College Department of Geology, Colorado Springs, Colorado. November 1999. Animations of Continental-Scale Vegetation Change during the Past 21,000 years and a North American Lake-Level Database, Global Pollen Database Workshop, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado. November 1999. Vegetation in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum at 1000 calendar year Intervals, Paleoclimate and Paleoclimate Modeling Workshop, European Science Foundation, Portugal. May 1999. Mapped Patterns of Late-glacial Vegetation Change in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, Integration of Ice-core, Marine, and Terrestrial Records (INTIMATE) workshop, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. August 1998. Late Quaternary record of pollen and lake-level change near Plymouth, MA. Geological Society of America Northeastern Section meeting. March 1998. Supervised Undergraduate Projects Logar, N., B. Shuman, and T. Webb III. (2000). Sedimentary Evidence for Holocene Moisture- Balance Change in Eastern North America. GSA Abstracts with Program Northeastern Section. Zipser, B. and B. Shuman (2000). Sedimentary Evidence for Holocene Water-Level Change at Davis Pond, Great Barrington, MA. GSA Abstracts with Program Northeastern Section. Tarbox, A., and B. Shuman (1999). Interpreting the Loss-On-Ignition Record in Lake Sediment Cores: A Model and Case Study from New England. GSA Abstracts with Program Northeastern Section. Teaching Experience GEOG 8980 Topics in Geography: Quaternary Paleoclimatology, Fall 2003. 11 students. Teaching Assistantships: Introduction to Earth System History, Brown University, 2001 Environmental Geochemistry, Brown University, 2000 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Brown University, 1995, 1996, 1999 Additional Teaching Experience: Guest Lecturer, Hydrology & Long-term Environmental Change, Univ. of Oregon, 2001 5
Mentor for Senior Undergraduate Research, Brown University, 1998-2000 Advised seniors as they organized, planned, and carried-out field and lab research Field Trip Organizer and Leader, 1996-1998 North Carolina Outer Banks and Florida Keys, March 1998: One-week field trip on coastal processes and marine sedimentology with 18 students co-taught with three other graduate students Quaternary Geology of Cape Cod, Sept. 1998 and Oct. 1996: Weekend Department field trips on glacial and coastal geomorphology co-led with one other graduate student Coordinated several one- or two-day field trips per semester to sites in the Northeast, such as the Hartford Basin, the Catskills, and Cape Cod. 6