Christopher J. Earle curriculum vitae

CHRISTOPHER J. EARLE

Forest Ecologist

3118 21st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144 USA
(206) 721-0274
chris@conifers.org

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1993, University of Washington, Forest Ecology

M.S., 1986, University of Arizona, Geosciences

B.A., 1978, Whitman College, Biology and Geology

MEMBERSHIPS

International Association of Landscape Ecologists

Ecological Society of America

Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honorary

CERTIFICATIONS

Washington Department of Natural Resources Watershed Analysis Analyst: channel, hydrology, riparian function, public works/water supply, water quality and monitoring modules. Instructor for water quality module.

EXPERIENCE

JONES AND STOKES ASSOCIATES, 1999 to present. Have primarily been involved in preparing biological assessments addressing endangered salmon and other species of concern. Other projects include riparian reserve description and impact assessment; development of a forest roads maintenance plan; design of a watershed health monitoring plan; inventory and description of watershed restoration projects; wetland assessment and design of wetland mitigation plans; work on a metropolitan Habitat Conservation Plan; assessment of project impacts on sensitive plant communities; and permitting requirements for most of these activities.

BEAK CONSULTANTS INCORPORATED, 1993 to 1999. Have primarily been involved in developing and implementing techniques for watershed analysis per protocols established by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. This has included:

Performing riparian function assessments in eight watershed analyses and participating in periodic review and revision of riparian function assessment protocols.
Performing water quality assessments in five watershed analyses, acting as an instructor in DNR water quality assessment training courses, and conducting studies testing scientific assumptions incorporated in the protocols.
Performing public works/water supply assessments in five watershed analyses.
Performing a stream channel assessment in one watershed analysis.

Have also conducted similar assessments of riparian function and channel function in two British Columbia watersheds using protocols set forth under the Forest Practices Code of BC. Additional projects at Beak have included wetland delineations, rare plant surveys, support for the preparation of habitat conservation plans, and various more esoteric tasks in ecological consulting.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 1986 to 1994. Forest Ecologist and Paleoecologist. Supervised field crews of up to 12 people and managed expedition logistics for fieldwork in China, Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. Designed, acquired funding, conducted and reported research on problems including charcoal deposition in lake sediments, effects of climate change on timberline forests, long-term climate change in eastern Siberia, long-term climate and vegetation change in Alaska, land use and climate variation in subalpine forests of eastern Tibet, air pollution effects on tree growth in the Puget Sound basin, and forest recovery after subalpine fire in western Washington. Principal techniques used included dendrochronology, image analysis, and multivariate statistical analysis.

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 1984 to 1986. Dendrochronologist. Proposed and executed a a tree-ring based reconstruction of Sacramento River streamflow since before 1600 A.D. This work involved application of multivariate statistics, including multiple linear regression and ARMA modeling on several computer systems using statistical software to analyze and produce reconstructions of streamflow from instrumented streamflow and tree ring-width data.

WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, 1983 to 1984. Project Manager. Provided technical review of hydrogeologic aspects of a proposal to store high-level nuclear waste at the Hanford Reservation in Washington. Coordinated all Hanford-related activities at WashPIRG, including media relations, volunteer management, lobbying, giving testimony at state House and Senate Committee meetings, writing newsletter articles and other informational material, negotiating with U.S. Department of Energy and Westinghouse Hanford representatives, and coordinating with salaried WashPIRG staff on legal issues.

LANGUAGE

Two full years of Mandarin Chinese (most recently Fall 1992) classwork and one academic year (1988-1989) of work in China. Four years of Spanish.

AWARDS

1988-1989 Fulbright Cooperative Research Fellowship ($13,500) for research conducted in China.
1987-1988 Grant awarded by EPA Forest Response Program to assess acid rain impacts in the Puget Lowland. Co-wrote grant ($125,000) with Dr. Linda Brubaker, University of Washington, Seattle.
1985-1986 Grant by the California Department of Water Resources, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and Western Weather Corporation to produce a tree-ring-based reconstruction of Sacramento River streamflow since 1600. Co-wrote grant ($23,000) with Dr. H. C. Fritts, University of Arizona, Tucson.

PUBLICATIONS

Earle, C.J. 1998. Factors affecting peak stream temperature in the southern Washington Cascade Range [Abstract]. Program & abstracts for the seventy-first annual meeting of the Northwest Scientific Association, Olympia, Washington.

Earle, C.J. and S.W. Madsen. 1997. An assessment of variation in channel geomorphic units described under watershed analysis [Abstract]. Program & abstracts for the seventieth annual meeting of the Northwest Scientific Association, Spokane, Washington.

Earle, C.J., L.B. Brubaker and P.M. Anderson. 1996. Charcoal in northcentral Alaskan lake sediments: relationships to fire and late-Quaternary vegetation history. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 92: 83-95.

Earle, C.J. 1995. A reconstruction of presettlement forest and fishery habitat in the valley of the South Fork Nooksack River, Washington, USA [Abstract]. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 76(2): 71.

Earle, C.J., L.B. Brubaker, A.V. Lozhkin and P.M. Anderson. 1994. Summer temperature since 1600 for the Upper Kolyma region, northeastern Russia, reconstructed from tree rings. Arctic and Alpine Research 26:60-65.

Earle, C.J. 1993. Forest dynamics in a forest-tundra ecotone, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Earle, C.J. 1993. Asynchronous droughts in California streamflow as reconstructed from tree rings. Quaternary Research 39:290-299.

Earle, C.J. 1992. Evolution of a forest-tundra landscape in the Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming [Abstract]. Regional landscape change: impacts of climate and land use, the seventh annual U.S. Landscape Ecology Symposium, p. 57.

Brubaker, L.B., S. Vega-Gonzalez, E.D. Ford, C.A. Ribic, C.J. Earle and G. Segura. 1992. Old-growth Douglas-fir in western Washington. Pages 333-364 in: Olson, R. K., D. Binkley and M. Böhm, eds. 1992. The response of western forests to air pollution. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

Earle, C.J. 1991. Spatial and temporal patterns of tree establishment near timberline, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming [Abstract]. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 72: 105.

Brubaker, L.B., E.D. Ford, C.J. Earle, S. Vega-Gonzalez and C. A. Ribic. 1989. Growth variations in old-growth Douglas-fir forests of the Puget Sound area. EPA Project No. CR-814271-01-0, Final Report.

Earle, C.J. and H.C. Fritts. 1986. Reconstructing riverflow in the Sacramento basin since 1560. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson. 122 p.

Earle, C.J. 1985. Science in political debate: nuclear waste in Washington state [Abstract]. Programs with abstracts of the 66th annual meeting, Pacific Division, AAAS, p.27.

Baird, B. and C. J. Earle. 1984. High-level nuclear waste disposal at Hanford: a geologic critique. Washington Public Interest Research Group, Seattle, WA. 34 p.

Last update 31-Oct-1999

1988-1989	Fulbright Cooperative Research Fellowship ($13,500) for research conducted in China.
1987-1988	Grant awarded by EPA Forest Response Program to assess acid rain impacts in the Puget Lowland. Co-wrote grant ($125,000) with Dr. Linda Brubaker, University of Washington, Seattle.
1985-1986	Grant by the California Department of Water Resources, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and Western Weather Corporation to produce a tree-ring-based reconstruction of Sacramento River streamflow since 1600. Co-wrote grant ($23,000) with Dr. H. C. Fritts, University of Arizona, Tucson.