Dr. David W. Beilman: Curriculum Vitae
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David W. Beilman - Curriculum Vitae
Marie Curie Research Fellow
14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment & Chronology (14C-AMS)
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
42 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast, U.K., BT9 6AX
Tel.: +44 28 9097 5123, Fax: +44 28 9097 3897
d.beilman(at)qub.ac.uk, www.chrono.qub.ac.uk

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Research: Queen’s University Belfast (2007-present). School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology. Mentor: Paula J. Reimer.
University of California Los Angeles (2006-2007). Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Geography. Mentor: Glen M. MacDonald.

Ph.D.: University of California Los Angeles (2006). Geography. Dissertation: Carbon accumulation and development of peatlands over the Holocene, West Siberia, Russia. Advisor: Glen M. MacDonald.

M.Sc.: University of Alberta (2001). Environmental Biology & Ecology. Thesis: Localized permafrost dynamics in boreal western Canada: plant communities. Advisor: Dale H. Vitt (now at Southern Illinois University).

B.Sc.: University of Alberta (1996). Environmental Biology (Specialization).

PUBLICATIONS

Manuscripts in Review or in Final Preparation
Beilman DW, MacDonald GM, Smith LC, and Reimer PJ.
Carbon accumulation in peatlands of West Siberia over the last 2000 years. In review, Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Beilman DW and MacDonald GM.
Holocene peatland plant community change and Sphagnum transitions in West Siberia. In preparation, for Quaternary Research.

Beilman DW and Yu Z.
Sensitivity of boreal peatland permafrost and carbon dynamics to Holocene climate variation in western Canada. In preparation, for Ecosystems.

Refereed Journal Articles
Beilman DW, Vitt DH, Bhatti JS, and Forest S. 2007.
Peat carbon stocks in the southern Mackenzie River Basin: uncertainties revealed in a high-resolution case study. Accepted Nov. 2007, Global Change Biology.

MacDonald GM, Kremenetski KV, and Beilman DW. 2007.
Climate change and the northern Eurasian treeline zone. In press, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Thormann MN, Rice A, and Beilman DW. 2007.
Yeasts in peatlands: a review of richness and roles in peat decomposition. Wetlands 27: 761-773.

MacDonald GM, Beilman DW, Kremenetski KV, Sheng Y, Smith LC, and Velichko AA. 2006.
Rapid early development of circumarctic peatlands and atmospheric CH4 and CO2 variations. Science 314:285-288.

Smith, LC, MacDonald GM, Velichko AA, Beilman DW, Borisova OK, Frey KE, Kremenetski KV, and Sheng Y. 2004.
Siberian peatlands a net carbon sink and global methane source since the early Holocene. Science 303: 353-356.

Sheng Y, Smith LC, MacDonald GM, Kremenetski KV, Frey KE, Velichko AA, Lee M, Beilman DW, and Dubinin P. 2004.
A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the West Siberian peat carbon pool. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB3004, doi: 10.1029/2003GB002190.

Nobel PS, De la Barrera E, Beilman DW, Doherty JH, and Zutta BR. 2002.
Temperature limitations on cultivating edible cacti in California. Madroño 49(4): 228-236.

Beilman DW. 2001.
Plant community and diversity change due to localized permafrost dynamics in bogs of western Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 983-993.

Beilman DW, Vitt DH, and Halsey LA. 2001.
Localized permafrost peatlands in western Canada: definition, distributions and degradation. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 33: 70-77.

Other Refereed Contributions
Beilman DW and Robinson SD. 2003.
Peatland permafrost thaw and landform type along a climatic gradient. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Permafrost, Zurich, Switzerland, Balkema Publishers, Vol. 1, p. 61-65.

Beilman DW and Yu Z. 2002.
Differential response of peatland types to climate: modelling peat accumulation in continental western Canada. In Yu, Z., Bhatti JS, and Apps MJ (eds). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Forested Peatlands: Knowledge Gaps, Uncertainty and Modeling Approaches, 23-24 March 2001. Canadian Forest Service Information Report NOR-X-383. Pp. 86-89.

Other Contributions
Beilman DW, Crow S, Spears J, Lajtha K. 2004.
Soil Nutrient Status of a Disturbed Desert Ecosystem. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. Report for US Army Corps of Engineers – CERL.

Halsey LA, Vitt DH, Beilman DW, Crow S, Mihelcic S, and Wells R. 2003.
Alberta Wetland Inventory Standards Version 2.0. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Resource Data Branch, Edmonton, AB. Pub. No. T/031.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Research Grants
Pending: Royal Society Research Grant. PIs: Beilman DW, Reimer PJ, and Hormes A. Long-term High Arctic Environmental Change: Mire Archives in Svalbard, Norway. £14,900 GBP ($31,364 USD).

Pending: CAREER: Quaternary Climatic and Tectonic Signals from 3-D Paleo Lake Shorelines across the Tibetan Plateau. PI: Sheng Y. (UCLA). Submitted July 2007 to National Science Foundation (USA) BCS – Geography and Regional Science. Named Collaborator, Beilman DW portion $35,000 USD (total: $678,341 USD).

2007-09: European Commission, Marie Curie Actions, Grant 40974: European High Arctic Wetland Change (Svalbard). €220,142 ($323,712 USD). PIs: Beilman DW, Reimer PJ, Hall VA, and Charman DJ.

2004-05: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. $12,000 USD. PIs: Beilman DW and MacDonald GM.

2003: Geological Society of America Graduate Research Grant.

2000: Northern Science Training Program of Canadian Circumpolar Institute.

2000: Challenge Grants in Biodiversity, Alberta Conservation Association.

University Awards
2005-06: UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship
2004: UCLA European and Eurasian Studies Dissertation Fellowship
2003-05: UCLA Geography Travel Grants (3)
2003: UCLA Summer Research Mentorship (Quality of Graduate Education)
2002-04: UCLA Geography Teaching Assistantship
2002-04: UCLA Graduate Division Tuition Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Talks (12) or posters (4) delivered at professional meetings as first author

July 2008: (upcoming) Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, AK, USA
April 2008: (upcoming) American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, USA
April 2007: American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dec. 2006: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mar. 2006: American Association of Geographers, Chicago, IL, USA
Nov. 2005: Bayesian Statistics and Age-modeling Workshop, Guanajuato, Mexico
Dec. 2004: American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA
July 2004: The Science of Changing Climates, Edmonton, AB, Canada
July 2003: International Quaternary Association. Reno, NV, USA
Mar. 2002: Int’l Workshop on Northern Peatlands II: Permafrost. Montreal, PQ, Canada
Aug. 2001: Western Siberian Peatlands and the Carbon Cycle. Noyabrsk, Russia
May 2001: Society of Wetland Scientists, 22nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA
Mar. 2001: Int’l Workshop on Northern Peatlands I: Modelling. Edmonton, AB, Canada
Feb. 2001: Partners in Conservation, Alberta Conservation Association, Nisku, AB, Canada
Aug. 2000: Millennium Wetland Event, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
Feb. 2000: Circumpolar Ecosystems 4, Churchill, MB, Canada
Aug. 1999: Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA, USA

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Queen’s University Belfast (May 2007 - present), Marie Curie Research Fellow, 14CHRONO Centre for Climate, Environment, and Chronology (14C-AMS), School of Geography, Archaeology, and Palaeoecology.

UCLA (July 2006-April 2007). Los Angeles, CA, USA. Postdoctoral Researcher. Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Geography.

UCLA (2002-2005). UCLA Department of Geography. Research and Teaching Assistant.
Oregon State University (Spring 2005 and Summer 2003). Corvallis, OR, USA. Summer Curricular Practical Training. Soil organo-mineral complexes and organic matter stabilization (2005). Soil nitrogen in a disturbed Mojave desert ecosystem (2003).

Natural Resources Canada – Canadian Forest Service (2000-01). Edmonton, AB, Canada. Climate Change Group, Northern Forestry Centre. Boreal forest and peatland soil carbon modeling.

University of Alberta (1998-2000). Research and Teaching Assistant.

University of Alberta (1996-97). Wetland resource inventory. Plant community and soil surveys, landscape classification and mapping.

TEACHING

Instructor, UCLA – Introductory Biogeography: Biodiversity in a Changing World (2005)
Teaching Assistant, UCLA – Biogeography, Physical Geography (2002-2004).
Teaching Assistant, University of Alberta – Introductory Biology, Introductory Ecology, Vascular Plant Biology (1998-2000).
Recognition – University of Alberta, Faculty-nominated Teaching Award, Graduate Student’s Association. (1999).

MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE

Member – American Association of Geographers (AAG), American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Society of Wetland Scientists
Reviewer – Ecosystems, Quaternary Research, Boreas
Session Organizer and Chair – Carbon and Water Cycles in the Changing Arctic: Past, Present, Future, AAG Annual Meeting, April 2008 (upcoming). Quaternary Environment of the Americas, Wetlands, AAG Annual Meeting, April 2007.
Recent Invited Talks: Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Galway (Nov 2007); 14CHRONO Centre, Queen’s University Belfast (Feb. 2007); Purdue Climate Change Research Center (Oct. 2006); Center for Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (Sept. 2006); Commencement Address, Department of Geography, UCLA (June 2006).