C. Ken Smith
Assistant
Professor of Forestry and Geology
Chair,
Environmental Studies Program
The
University of the South
735
University Avenue
Sewanee,
TN 37383
EDUCATION:
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Ph.D., 1996 Major: Forest Ecology and Soils
M.S., 1992 Major: Forest Genetics
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
B.S., 1986 Major: Forestry
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor of
Forestry
University of the
South, Sewanee, TN July 1998 - present
I currently teach two
lecture courses (one with a lab) during the fall and spring
semesters. Courses taught include Tropical and Boreal Forest
Ecosystems (FOR 311), Forest Soils (FOR/GEO 303), Forestry in the
Developing World (FOR 212), Introduction to Forestry (FOR 121),
Forest Wildlife Management (FOR 214), Natural Resource Issues and
Policies (FOR 201), Introduction to Environmental Studies (ENST 200),
Junior Seminar (FOR/GEO332), and Senior Seminar (FOR/GEO 432).
In addition to teaching
these classes, I have also participated in the development of seven
independent academic majors (as committee chair) with the following
students:
Stephen Garrett,
Conservation Studies 1999-2001
Annie Shulman, Wildlife
Conservation 2001-2003
Leslie Myers, A Natural
Approach to Medicine 2001-2003
Derek Lemoine,
Integrative Environmental Solutions 2001-2003
Clay Gilkerson,
Politics and the Environment 2001-2003
Lydia Wheaton,
Conservation Ecology 2001-2003
Whitney White,
Conservation Studies 2002-2004
Other Teaching
Experience: Undergraduate Senior Thesis Advisor, Forestry Department,
Université Laval (1997 - 1998), Guest Lecturer, Forestry
Department, Université Laval (1997 - 1998), Silviculture
and Forest Ecology Teaching Assistant, School of Forest
Resources and
Conservation, University of Florida (1993-1994), Forestry Advisor,
School of Agrarian Sciences, Para, Brazil (1994 - 1995).
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE:
Forest Ecology and
Soils
University of the
South, Sewanee, TN July 1998 - present
I am currently working
on a research project that examines how forest harvesting and land
use change affects soil chemical and physical properties on the
Cumberland Plateau. During my initial years at Sewanee, I have also
continued to collaborate with the Forest Biology research group in
Quebec City and with the Soil Science Department at the University of
Agrarian Sciences in Pará, Brazil. In addition to these
studies, I am working with students on local research projects, I
have actively sought and received internal funding for several
academic and research activities, and I am currently searching for
funding of future research activities. I also led the effort to
construct the Tree Canopy Walkway, a structure designed to have
students research and experience the forest from 45-60 feet in the
trees.
Supervision of Independent Studies
1999-2000
Stephanie Murray, “The
effects of pine conversion on soil properties”
Knox Frank, “Soil
CO2 efflux from forests, pasture, and urban soils”
Ruthie Kirkpatrick,
“100 years of farming on the Domain”
2000-2001
Evelyn Greiner,
“Botanical Drawings of Species Native to the Domain”
Audrey Hammond, “Soil
CO2 Efflux from Wastewater Treated Soils”
2001
Mason Herring,
“Preparations for Winter: Animals and Humans on the Plateau”
2002
Annie Shulman, “The
effects of deer on forest regeneration”
John Wilson and Robert
Chapman, “Island forests on rock falls of Compartment 10”
2003
Derek Lemoine,
“University resource efficiency”
Leslie Myers, “
Local examples of complementary and alternative medicines”
PREVIOUS RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE:
Forest Ecology
Université
Laval, Forest Biology Research Center, Quebec City January
1997 - June 1998
Conducted research to
examine differences in soil nutrient dynamics and tree regeneration
among black spruce sites that were 1) fire-disturbed or 2) harvested
with protection of advanced tree regeneration (CPRS). This project
was designed to assess how selective cutting affects ecosystem
function compared to natural fire disturbance.
Forest Ecology and
Soils
University of Florida,
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville,
Florida September 1992 - December 1996
A Ph.D. study that
investigated plant-induced changes of soil carbon and nitrogen
dynamics in Brazil Amazon Basin. The study was conducted at the
Curua-Una Forest Reserve, and the primary focus of this research was
to determine if plantations consisting of tree species with different
resource requirements and biochemical characteristics altered carbon
and nitrogen dynamics when planted on an initially uniform soil.
Forest Genetics and
Tree Improvement
University of Florida,
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Gainesville, Florida
August 1990 - August 1992
Developed and
implemented an early selection research project with slash pine
families used in the Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program.
The research focus was aimed at identifying juvenile characteristics
that were predictive of mature field performance.
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE:
2001-present Environmental
Studies Chair
2000 –
present University Forester
2000-present Natural
Resource Advisory Committee
2001-present Library
Video Acquisitions Committee
ACS Environmental
Representative
Spring 2001 KA
Fraternity Advisor
1999-2002 Freshmen
Advising Program
2001-present Howard
Hughes Medical Inst. Advisory Committee
Minority Student
Mentor Program
Appointments
Committee
1999 Foreign
Student Mentor Program
Spring 2001 Search
Committee, Student Outing Program
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE :
University of the
South, University Forester, 2000 – present
Forester, Peace Corps,
United Nations-FAO Watershed Protection Project, Guinea, West
Africa, 1986 – 1989
Forest Ecology
Technician, U.S. Forest Service, Siskiyou National Forest,
Grants Pass, Oregon, 1990
Forest Ecology
Technician, Spruce-Fir Community Ecology Project, Colorado State
University, Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, 1985
Silviculture
Technician, U.S. Forest Service, St. Joe National Forest, Avery,
Idaho,1984
PUBLICATIONS:
McGrath, D., J. Evans,
D. Haskell, K. Smith, R. Gottfried. Mapping Land Use Change and
Monitoring Ecological Impact on the Cumberland Plateau in Southern
Tennessee. In preparation, will be submitted in September 2003 to
Earth Interactions (an online journal dedicated to spatial
mapping and land use change).
C.K. Smith, M. Coyea,
and A. Munson. The response of fine roots to fertilized ingrowth
cores in burned and harvested black spruce ecosystems. Submitted
July 2003 to Communications in Soil Science and Plant
Analysis.
C.K. Smith, H.L. Gholz,
and F. de Assis Oliveira. 2002. Soil carbon storage and dynamics
after forest conversion to plantations in lowland Amazonia, Brazil.
Forest Ecology and Management 164: 257-263.
McGrath, D., K. Smith,
H. Gholz, and F. de Assis Oliveira. 2001. Land use effects on soil
nutrient dynamics in Amazonia: A review of previous work. Ecosystems
4: 625-645.
C.K. Smith, M. Coyea,
and A.D. Munson. 2000. Soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stocks
and dynamics in disturbed black spruce forests. Ecological
Applications. 10(3):775-788.
C.K. Smith, H.L. Gholz,
and F. de Assis Oliveira. 1998. Soil nitrogen dynamics and
plant-induced soil changes under plantations and primary forest in
lowland Amazonia, Brazil. Plant and Soil. 200:193-204.
C.K. Smith, H.L. Gholz,
and F. de Assis Oliveira. 1998. Fine litter chemistry, early-stage
decay, and nitrogen dynamics under plantations and primary forest in
lowland Amazonia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 30(14):
2159-2169.
C. K. Smith, A.D.
Munson, and M.R. Coyea. 1998. Nitrogen and phosphorus release from
humus and mineral soil under black spruce forests in central Quebec.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 30(12): 1491-1500.
Ken Smith, Henry L.
Gholz, and Francisco de Assis Oliveira. 1998. Litterfall and
nitrogen-use efficiency of plantations and primary forest in the
eastern Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management.
109:209-220.
K. Smith, H.D.
Davignon, and A.D. Munson. 1997. Report on the Development of
Indicators for the Criteria of the Canadian Council of Forest
Ministers. The Maintenance and Improvement of Forest Ecosystem
Productivity. Quebec Minister of Natural Resources, Quebec City,
Canada.
C.K. Smith 1996. Book
Review of The Literature of Forestry and Agroforestry. P. McDonald
and J. Lassoie Eds. Agroforestry Systems.34:221-224.
C.K. Smith, T.L. White,
G.R. Hodge, M.L. Duryea, and A.J. Long. 1993. Genetic variation in
first-year slash pine shoot components and their relationship to
mature field performance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
23: 1557-1565.
C.K. Smith, T.L. White,
and G.R. Hodge. 1993. Genetic variation in second-year slash pine
shoot traits and their relationship to 5- and 15-year volume in the
field. Silvae Genetica. 42: 266-275.
PRESENTATIONS:
McGrath, D., K. Smith,
J. Kingston, J. Evans, D. Haskell, R. Gottfried. 2003. Mapping Land
Use Change and Monitoring Ecological Impact on the Cumberland Plateau
in Southern Tennessee. American Geophysical Union, Biogeochemistry
sub-group. Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2003.
Smith, K., J. Burckle,
E. Ogilvie. 2002. One hundred and four years of forest management at
Sewanee. Annual Convention of the Society of American Foresters,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 2002.
Smith, C. K., A.
Munson, and M. Coyea. 2000. Fine root responses to microsite nutrient
additions in disturbed black spruce ecosystems. 85th
Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, Utah, August
2000.
McGrath, D., K. Smith,
H. Gholz, and F. de Assis Oliveira. 2000. Land use effects on soil
nutrient dynamics in Amazonia: A review of previous work. 1st
NASA Large-scale Biosphere and Atmosphere Scientific Conference,
Belem, Para, Brazil, June 2000.
Coyea, M., A. Munson,
K. Smith, H. Margolis , and R. Paquin. 2000. Soil CO2 fluxes and
temperatures of harvested and fire-origin sites in boreal black
spruce ecosystems. The Role of Boreal Forests and Forestry in the
Global Carbon Budget, An International Science Conference. Edmonton,
Alberta, May 2000.
McGrath, D.A., C. K.
Smith. H. L. Gholz, F. de Assis Oliveira. 1999. Changes in soil N,
P, and Ca cycling after forest conversion to other land uses in the
Amazon Basin: A literature review. 84th Annual Meeting of
the Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Smith, C.K., Munson,
A.D., Coyea, M. 1999. Comparative studies of CPRS and natural
disturbance by fire: Developing a basis for sustainable practices in
black spruce ecosystems. Canadian Sustainable Forest Management
Network Conference, Edmonton, Alberta.
Smith, C.K., Munson,
A.D., Coyea, M. 1998. Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus dynamics under
disturbed black spruce ecosystems. 83rd Annual Meeting of the
Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland.
Smith, C.K., Munson,
A.D., Coyea, M. 1998. Changement des reserves et de la dynamique des
nutriments suite aux perturbations naturelles et anthropiques dans
les pessieres noires a mousses de la region centrale de Quebec. 66th
Meeting of the French-Canadian Association for the Advancement of
Science (ACFAS), Quebec City, Canada.
Smith, C.K., H.L.
Gholz, F. de Assis Oliveira. 1997. Plant-induced changes of forest
floor and soil nitrogen dynamics in lowland Amazonia. Ecological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Smith, C.K., Munson,
A.D., Coyea, M., Bernier, P. 1997. Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics
under disturbed black spruce forests in Central Quebec. Canadian
Centers of Excellence Forest Dynamics Workshop, Calgary, Alberta.
Smith, C.K., H.L.
Gholtz, F. de Assis Oliveira. 1996. Mechanisms of soil nitrogen
transformations under monocultures and native forest in the central
Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Providence, Rhode Island.
Smith, C.K., H.L.
Gholz, F. de Assis Oliveira. 1996. Fine litter nitrogen dynamics
under monocultures and primary forest in lowland Amazonia. Soil
Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.
COMPETITIVE
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
1998, Co-PI, Canadian
Sustainable Forest Management Network (NSERC), Comparative Studies of
CPRS and natural disturbance by fire: Developing a basis for
sustainable practices in black spruce ecosystems
1998, Co-PI, NASA-LBA
project, "Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in forests and
converted forest sites in the Amazon Basin: A review and synthesis of
previous research"
1997, Post-doctoral
fellowship funded by the Canadian Network of Centers of Excellence,
Forest Biology Research Center, Forestry Department, Université
Laval
1994 - 1996, Co-PI,
Competitive grant from USDA/NRI Forest, Range, and Cropland
Ecosystems Program
1995 - 1996, USDA
International Institute of Tropical Forestry Grant
1994, National Security
Education Program Fellow
1993, Grant from the
Tropical Conservation and Development Program (University of Florida)
and the USDA IITF
1992 - 1994, Jennings
Scholastic Award, School of Forest Resources and Conservation,
University of Florida
