SEAN T. MICHALETZ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona [email protected] | www.seanmichaletz.org EDUCATION 2012 2005 2001 PhD plant ecology, University of Calgary. MSc plant ecology, University of Calgary. BA biology (honors) and environmental studies in chemistry, Hamline University. Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Since 2017 2015‐2017 2012‐2015 Postdoctoral research associate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. Director’s postdoctoral fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Postdoctoral research associate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. AWARDS 2013 2011 2009 2006 2004 Plant, Cell and Environment Postdoctoral Award, Physiological Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America WD and SM Billings Award (honorable mention), Physiological Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America J Stan Rowe Award, Canadian Botanical Association Vito Volterra Award, Theoretical Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America E Lucy Braun Award, Ecological Society of America PUBLICATIONS (REFEREED) Zhou J, Y Deng, L Shen, C Wen, Q Yan, D Ning, Y Qin, K Xue, L Wu, Z He, J Voordeckers, JD Van Nostrand, V Buzzard, ST Michaletz, BJ Enquist, MD Weiser, M Kaspari, R Waide, Y Yang & JH Brown. 2016. Correspondence: Reconsidering recent analyses of continental‐scale forest soil microbial diversity. In press, Nature Communications. Weiser MD, ST Michaletz, Y Deng, Z He, L Shen, BJ Enquist, R Waide, J Zhou & M Kaspari. Toward a theory for diversity gradients: The Abundance‐Adaptation Hypothesis. In press, Ecography. Michaletz ST, MD Weiser, NG McDowell, J Zhou, M Kaspari, BR Helliker & BJ Enquist. 2016. The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation. Nature Plants 2:16129. Zhou J, Y Deng, L Shen, C Wen, Q Yan, D Ning, Y Qin, K Xue, L Wu, Z He, J Voordeckers, JD Van Nostrand, V Buzzard, ST Michaletz, BJ Enquist, MD Weiser, M Kaspari, R Waide, Y Yang & JH Brown. 2016. Temperature mediates continental‐scale diversity of microbes in forest soils. Nature Communications 7:12083. Tu Q, Y Deng, Q Yan, L Lin, Z He, L Wu, JD Van Nostrand, V Buzzard, ST Michaletz, BJ Enquist, MD Weiser, M Kaspari, R Waide, JH Brown & J Zhou. 2016. Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in North America. Molecular Ecology 25:2937‐2948. Grossiord C, S Sevanto, HD Adams, AD Collins, LT Dickman, N McBranch, ST Michaletz, EA Stockton, M Vigil & NG McDowell. 2017. Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi‐arid ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 105:163‐175. Michaletz 1
Enquist BJ, ST Michaletz & AJ Kerkhoff. 2016. Toward a general scaling theory for linking traits, stoichiometry, and body size to ecosystem function. In EA Johnson and Y Martin (eds). A Biogeoscience Approach to Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 9‐46. Michaletz ST, D Cheng, AJ Kerkhoff & BJ Enquist. 2016. Corrigendum: Convergence of terrestrial plant production across global climate gradients. Nature 537:432. Michaletz ST, MD Weiser, J Zhou, M Kaspari, BR Helliker & BJ Enquist. 2015. Plant thermoregulation: Energetics, trait‐environment interactions, and carbon economics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30: 714‐724. Greene DF & ST Michaletz. 2015. The role of fire in forest ecosystems. In K Peh, R Corlett, and Y Bergeron (eds). Handbook of Forest Ecology. Routledge. pp. 114‐126. Michaletz ST, D Cheng, AJ Kerkhoff & BJ Enquist. 2014. Convergence of terrestrial plant production across global climate gradients. Nature 512:39‐43. Pounden E, DF Greene & ST Michaletz. 2014. Non‐serotinous woody plants behave as aerial seed bank species when a late‐summer wildfire coincides with a mast year. Ecology and Evolution 4:3830‐
3840. Michaletz ST, EA Johnson, WE Mell, & DF Greene. 2013. Timing of fire relative to seed development may enable non‐serotinous species to recolonize from the aerial seed banks of fire‐killed trees. Biogeosciences 10:5061‐5078. Michaletz ST, EA Johnson & MT Tyree. 2012. Moving beyond the cambium necrosis hypothesis of post‐
fire tree mortality: Cavitation and deformation of xylem in forest fires. New Phytologist 194: 254‐263. Macias Fauria* M, ST Michaletz* & EA Johnson. 2011. Predicting climate change effects on wildfires requires linking processes across scales. WIREs Climate Change 2:99‐112. (Invited.) *contributed equally to the work. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. 2008. A biophysical process model of tree mortality in surface fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28: 2013‐2029. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. 2007. How forest fires kill trees: a review of the fundamental biophysical processes. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 22:500‐515. (Special feature.) Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. 2006. A heat transfer model of crown scorch in forest fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 2839‐2851. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. 2006. Foliage influences forced convection heat transfer in conifer branches and buds. New Phytologist 170: 87‐98. SELECTED GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2016 2015 2005 2003 Laboratory Directed Research & Development ($16,300), leaf and wood chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory (PI ST Michaletz) Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship ($347,400), Los Alamos National Laboratory Ingenuity PhD Studentship ($125,500 CAD), Alberta Ingenuity Fund Challenge Grants in Biodiversity ($6400 CAD), Alberta Conservation Association TEACHING EXPERIENCE Since 2015 2013 2014 2014 Instructor: Plant Functional Traits Course, Sichuan Province, China (www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/97477/plant‐functional‐traits‐course‐2) Instructor of record: Plant Structure, Function, and Diversity (ECOL 340, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona) Instructor of record: Honors independent study (ECOL 399H) and independent study (ECOL 399), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona) Lectures: Plant Structure, Function, and Diversity (ECOL 340, Department of Ecology Michaletz 2
2000‐2010 and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona) Teaching Assistant: Ecology (BIOL 559), Terrestrial Communities and Ecosystems (ECOL 419), Aquatic Communities and Ecosystems (ECOL 417), Quantitative Biology (BIOL 315), Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (BIOL 313), Introduction to Biology (BIOL 231 and BIOL 233), Principles of Cell Biology (BIOL 185) INVITED PRESENTATIONS Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, September 2017. Michaletz ST, VR Buzzard, Y Deng, Z He, D Ning, L Shen, Q Tu, MD Weiser, M Kaspari, RB Waide, J Zhou & BJ Enquist. Invited oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 7 August 2017. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the Michigan State University, 27 March 2017. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, 21 February 2017. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, 20 February 2017. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the University of British Columbia, 2 February 2017. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at Miami University, 10 January 2017. Michaletz ST, B Blonder, JQ Chambers, M Detto, BJ Enquist, B Faybishenko, C Grossiord, K Jardine, R Negron Juarez, C Varadharajan, B Wolfe & NG McDowell. Invited oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 16 December 2016. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at Syracuse University, 6 December 2016. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the University of Michigan, 10 November 2016. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the Association for Fire Ecology Congress, San Antonio, Texas, 19 November 2015. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the Mountain Forum 2015: Mountain Surface Processes and Environmental Changes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, 17 August 2015. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the University of New Mexico, 5 March 2014. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, 29 January 2014. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Keynote presentation at the 7th International Conference on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests, Saguenay, Quebec, 1 June 2011. Michaletz ST. Invited oral presentation at the University of Alberta, 28 September 2006. CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS Collins A, MG Ryan, C Xu, C Grossiord, ST Michaletz & NG McDowell. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 7 August 2017. Atchley AA, R Linn, RS Middleton, I Runde, E Coon, and ST Michaletz. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 16 December 2016. Collins A, MG Ryan, C Xu, C Grossiord, ST Michaletz & NG McDowell. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 14 December 2016. Michaletz ST, MD Weiser, NG McDowell, J Zhou, M Kaspari, BR Helliker & BJ Enquist. Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Biddeford, Maine, 27 July 2016. Enquist BJ, ST Michaletz & V Buzzard. Oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 14 December 2015. Enquist BJ, ST Michaletz, JH Brown, Y Deng, Z He, ST Hammond, M Weiser, M Kaspari, J McGann, A Henderson, C Sides, R Waide, JW Voordeckers, J Zhou, J Wang & L Shen. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland 11 August 2015. Michaletz 3
Michaletz ST, BJ Enquist, JH Brown, VR Buzzard, Y Deng, ST Hammond, Z He, AN Henderson, M Kaspari, Y Malhi, J McGann, H Morin, CB Sides, RB Waide, MD Weiser, JW Voordeckers & J Zhou. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, 12 August 2014. Enquist BJ, VR Buzzard, ST Michaletz, Y Deng, Z He, ST Hammond, JH Brown, AN Henderson, M Kaspari, Y Malhi, J McGann, H Morin, CB Sides, RB Waide, MD Weiser, JW Voordeckers & J Zhou. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, 12 August 2014. Zhou J, Y Deng, L Shen, K Xue, Z He, MD Weiser, M Kaspari, ST Michaletz, BJ Enquist, RB Waide, J McGann, ST Hammond & JH Brown. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, 15 August 2014. Deng Y, L Shen, K Xue, Z He, MD Weiser, M Kaspari, ST Michaletz, BJ Enquist, RB Waide, J McGann, ST Hammond, JH Brown & J Zhou. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, 15 August 2014. Michaletz ST, BJ Enquist, DL Cheng & AJ Kerkhoff. Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Biddeford, Maine, 19 July 2014. Michaletz ST, BJ Enquist, DL Cheng & AJ Kerkhoff. Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Biddeford, Maine, 21 July 2014. Michaletz ST, BJ Enquist, JH Brown, VR Buzzard, ST Hammond, AN Henderson, M Kaspari, S McMahon, L Shen, I Simova, RB Waide, MD Weiser & J Zhou. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 8 August 2013. Johnson EA & ST Michaletz. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 6 August 2012. Michaletz ST, EA Johnson, WE Mell & DF Greene. Poster presentation at the GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, 14 May 2012. Michaletz ST, EA Johnson & MT Tyree. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, 09 August 2011. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, 08 August 2011. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the 7th International Confrence on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests, Saguenay, Quebec, 31 May 2011. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 17 May 2011. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Canadian Geomatics Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 18 June 2010. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Canadian Geomatics Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 17 June 2010. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Canadian Geomatics Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 16 June 2010. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 6 May 2010. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 05 August 2009. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2 June 2009. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 28 May 2009. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, St. Michaletz 4
John’s, Newfoundland, 29 May 2007. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the International Boreal Forest Research Association 13th Scientific Conference, New Challenges in Management of Boreal Forests, Umeå, Sweden, 28‐30 August 2006. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, 9 August 2006. Michaletz, S.T. Oral presentation at workshop: Evaluating Current Methods to Predict and Confirm Physiologically Stresses That Might Result in Tree Mortality, Sisters, Oregon, 25 July 2006. Michaletz ST. Oral presentation at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Forests, Fires, Stochastic Modeling Workshop, Banff International Research Station, 7 May 2006. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution inaugural meeting, Montréal, Québec, 4 April 2006. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, 9 August 2005. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Canadian Science Writers' Association 34th Annual Conference, Jasper, Alberta, 20 June 2005. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Fields Institute Workshop on Forest Fires and Point Processes, Toronto, Ontario, 28 May 2005. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 29 April 2005. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 16 December 2004. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, 5 August 2003. Michaletz ST & M Wonham. Oral presentation at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Biology Summer Workshop, University of Alberta, 18 May 2002. Michaletz ST & EA Johnson. Oral presentation at the Prairie Universities Biological Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, 22 February 2002. SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED Michaletz ST. Organizer. A toolbox for fire ecology: Mechanisms linking fire behavior and ecological effect. Endorsed by the ESA Southeast and Rocky Mountain Chapters. (Symposium at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, 9 August 2005). Michaletz ST & KE Knudsen. Organizers. Graduate Student’s Association teaching assistantship workshop. (Workshop at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 16 January 2006). Michaletz ST & KE Knudsen. Organizers. Graduate Student’s Association teaching assistantship workshop. (Workshop at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 19 September 2005). WORKSHOPS ATTENDED Software Carpentry workshop. Organized by iPlant Collaborative. University of Arizona, 21‐22 Feb 2015. Integrating evidence on forest response to climate change: Physiology to regional abundance. A training workshop for MacroSystems research. Organizer: JS Clark. Duke University, 13‐14 May 2013. The importance of mechanism in understanding climate change effects on forest fires. Organizers: EA Johnson & Y Martin. GEOIDE Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta 19 June 2010. MITACS/GEOIDE conference on forest fire modelling. Organizers: J Braun and C Bose. MITACS/GEOIDE, Hinton Training Center, 22‐23 June 2009. Mathematical ecology. Organizers: FER McCauley & F Lutscher. Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Kananaskis Field Stations, 2006. Michaletz 5
Forests, fires, stochastic modeling workshop. Organizers: J Braun, C Dean, F He, D Martell & H Preisler. Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Banff International Research Station, 7 May 2006. Evaluating current methods to predict and confirm physiological stresses that might result in tree mortality. Organizers: RH Waring & KC Ryan. Sisters, Oregon, 25 July 2006. Mathematical biology summer workshop. Organizers: G de Vries, T Hillen, M Lewis & M Li. Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, 2002. MEDIA Interviews: National Public Radio, Pour la Science, Nature.com, Fast Forward Weekly. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript reviewer for 22 journals: Annals of Botany, Annals of Forest Science, Axios Review, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecography, Ecology Letters, Ecological Modelling, European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, Forest Ecology and Management, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Vegetation Science, Natural Resource Modeling, New Phytologist, Oikos, PLOS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, Tree Physiology Grant reviewer for 2 funding agencies: National Science Foundation – Division of Environmental Biology, Alberta Innovates – Bio Solutions. Manuscript reviewer for 1 book: Ecosystems ‐ A Biogeoscience Approach. Cambridge University Press (EA Johnson & Y Martin, eds). Judge for AGU outstanding student paper awards (2016), ESA Physiological Ecology section awards (2014), ESA Theory section Lotka‐Volterra awards (2014), ESA Buell/Braun student paper awards (2014, 2013) Graduate Representative Council, Graduate Students’ Association, University of Calgary. (2002‐2007). Committees: Academic Standing Committee; Internal Standing Committee; International Fee Differential Committee (chair); Academic Project Fund and Bursary Committee; Graduate Student Spaces Committee. Zoology Faculty Search Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary (2006) Worker Safety and Security Team, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2016 ‐ present) MEMBERSHIPS Phi Beta Kappa ‐ Zeta Chapter of Minnesota, American Geophysical Union, Ecological Society of America, European Geosciences Union, International Association of Wildland Fire, Association for Fire Ecology, Sigma Xi Michaletz 6