Dr. Bradley O'Donnell Christoffersen

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1 Dr. Bradley O'Donnell Christoffersen EDUCATION The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Biology (956) PhD, University of Arizona, 2013 Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dissertation Title: The ecohydrological mechanisms of resilience and vulnerability of Amazonian tropical forests to water stress MS, University of Arizona, 2012 Major: Atmospheric Sciences BS, Southern Nazarene University, 2003 Major: Environmental Studies EMPLOYMENT Academic - Post-Secondary Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (September 2017) Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh (March October 2014) Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona (January December 2012) Research Intern, MacArthur Agro-Ecology Research Center, Archbold Biological Station (July December 2003) Government Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory (January August 2017) Professional Research Assistant, Houston Advanced Research Center (July July 2006) PUBLICATIONS Book Chapters David Galbraith and Bradley Christoffersen. "Modelling climate impacts on forest ecosystems." The Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology. Routledge, 2015: Generated on Mar 05, 2018 Page 1 of 5

2 Conference Proceedings Hannes De Deurwaerder, Hans Verbeeck, Timothy Baker, Bradley Christoffersen, Philippe Ciais, David Galbraith, Matthieu Guimberteau, Bart Kruijt, Fanny Langerwisch, Patrick Meir, The ambiguity of drought events, a bottleneck for Amazon forest drought response modelling. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 18, (2016): BO Christoffersen, M Longo, N Restrepo-Coupe, LF Alves, KT Wiedemann, SC Stark, M Hayek, J Wu, JW Munger, Up-regulation of Amazon forest photosynthesis precedes elevated mortality under drought. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. (2015) Patrick Meir, L Rowland, ACL da Costa, M Mencuccini, A Oliveira, O Binks, BO Christoffersen, M Eliane, S Vasconcelos, B Kruijt, Drought and tree mortality in tropical rainforest: understanding and differentiating functional responses. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1, (2014): 03. BO Christoffersen, EU Gloor, S Fauset, N Fyllas, D Galbraith, TR Baker, L Rowland, R Fisher, O Binks, M Mencuccini, Linking Tropical Forest Function to Hydraulic Traits in a Size-Structured and Trait-Based Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1, (2014): Sophie Fauset, N Fyllas, D Galbraith, BO Christoffersen, TR Baker, MO Johnson, Y Malhi, OL Phillips, J Lloyd, and EU Gloor. Simulating Amazon forest carbon cycling using an individual-and trait-based model.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1, (2014): 06. David Galbraith, NM Levine, BO Christoffersen, HA Imbuzeiro, T Powell, MH Costa, PR Moorcroft, and Y Malhi. Simulating carbon flows in Amazonian rainforests: how intensive C-cycle data can help to reduce vegetation model uncertainty. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1, (2014): 04. Remke Van Dam, David Hyndman, Anthony Kendall, Kaya Diker, Bradley Christoffersen, and Scott Saleska. Multi-Scale Monitoring of Ecohydrological Processes Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography. Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (2011): D Galbraith, Bradley Christoffersen, HA Imbuzeiro, T Powell, L Rowland, MH Costa, Y Malhi, P Meir, A da Costa, Simulating Drought Impacts on Biomass Storage in Amazonian Rainforests. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 1, (2011): 08. Journal Articles Rosie Fisher, Charles Koven, William Anderegg, Bradley Christoffersen, Michael Dietze, Caroline Farrior, Jennifer Holm, George Hurtt, Ryan Knox, Peter Lawrence, Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities. Global change biology. 24, no. 1 (2018): Danielle Christianson, Charuleka Varadharajan, Bradley Christoffersen, Matteo Detto, Boris Faybishenko, Val Hendrix, Kolby Jardine, Robinson Negron-Juarez, Bruno Gimenez, Gilberto Pastorello, A metadata reporting framework (FRAMES) for synthesis of ecohydrological observations. Ecological Informatics. (2017) Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Naomi Levine, Bradley Christoffersen, Loren Albert, Jin Wu, Marcos Costa, David Galbraith, Hewlley Imbuzeiro, Giordane Martins, Alessandro Araujo, Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison. Global Change Biology. 23, no. 1 (2017): Bradley Christoffersen, Patrick Meir, and Nate McDowell. Linking plant hydraulics and beta diversity in tropical forests. New Phytologist. 215, no. 1 (2017): Jin Wu, Kaiyu Guan, Matthew Hayek, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Kenia Wiedemann, Xiangtao Xu, Generated on Mar 05, 2018 Page 2 of 5

3 Richard Wehr, Bradley Christoffersen, Guofang Miao, Rodrigo Silva, Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales. Global change biology. 23, no. 3 (2017): Jin Wu, Loren Albert, Aline Lopes, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Matthew Hayek, Kenia Wiedemann, Kaiyu Guan, Scott Stark, Bradley Christoffersen, Neill Prohaska, Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests. Science. 351, no (2016): Bradley Christoffersen, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, Nikolaos Fyllas, David Galbraith, Timothy Baker, Bart Kruijt, Lucy Rowland, Rosie Fisher, Oliver Binks, Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v. 1-Hydro). Geoscientific Model Development. 9, no. 11 (2016): Oliver Binks, Patrick Meir, Lucy Rowland, Antonio Costa, Steel Vasconcelos, Alex Oliveira, Leandro Ferreira, Bradley Christoffersen, Andrea Nardini, and Maurizio Mencuccini. Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought. New Phytologist. 211, no. 2 (2016): Michelle Johnson, David Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Matthieu Guimberteau, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, Hans Verbeeck, Celso Randow, Abel Monteagudo, Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. Global change biology. 22, no. 12 (2016): Lucy Rowland, Raquel Lobo-do-Vale, Bradley Christoffersen, Bart Kruijt, Steel Vasconcelos, Tomas Domingues, Oliver Binks, Alex Oliveira, Daniel Metcalfe, After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration. Global change biology. 21, no. 12 (2015): L Rowland, Anna Harper, Bradley Christoffersen, David Galbraith, HMA Imbuzeiro, TL Powell, C Doughty, NM Levine, Yadvinder Malhi, Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses. Geoscientific Model Development. 8, no. 4 (2015): Rafael Oliveira, Bradley Christoffersen, Grazielle Teodoro, Paulo Bittencourt, Mauro Brum-Jr, and Ricardo Viani. Changing precipitation regimes and the water and carbon economies of trees. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology. 26, no. 1 (2014): Bradley Christoffersen, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, M Arain, Ian Baker, Bruno Cestaro, Phillippe Ciais, Joshua Fisher, David Galbraith, Xiaodan Guan, Lindsey Gulden, Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado. Agricultural and Forest meteorology. 191, (2014): E Joetzjer, C Delire, Herve Douville, Philippe Ciais, B Decharme, R Fisher, Bradley Christoffersen, JC Calvet, LV Ferreira, Predicting the response of the Amazon rainforest to persistent drought conditions under current and future climates: a major challenge for global land surface models. Geoscientific Model Development. 7, no. 6 (2014): Thomas Powell, David Galbraith, Bradley Christoffersen, Anna Harper, Hewlley Imbuzeiro, Lucy Rowland, Samuel Almeida, Paulo Brando, Antonio Costa, Marcos Costa, Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought. New Phytologist. 200, no. 2 (2013): Celso Von Randow, Marcelo Zeri, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Michel Muza, Marcos Costa, Alessandro Araujo, Antonio Manzi, Humberto da Rocha, Scott Saleska, Inter-annual variability of carbon and water fluxes in Amazonian forest, Cerrado and pasture sites, as simulated by terrestrial biosphere Generated on Mar 05, 2018 Page 3 of 5

4 Other models. Agricultural and Forest meteorology. 182, (2013): Jordan Borak, Marcos Costa, Scott Saleska, Ian Baker, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Michel Muza, Benjamin Poulter, Hans Verbeeck, Joshua Fisher, Overview of the large-scale biosphere--atmosphere experiment in Amazonia Data Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP). Agricultural and Forest meteorology. 182, (2013): Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Humberto da Rocha, Lucy Hutyra, Alessandro da Araujo, Laura Borma, Bradley Christoffersen, Osvaldo Cabral, Plinio de Camargo, Fernando Cardoso, What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 182, (2013): Koichi Sakaguchi, Xubin Zeng, Bradley Christoffersen, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Scott Saleska, and Paulo Brando. Natural and drought scenarios in an east central Amazon forest: Fidelity of the Community Land Model 3.5 with three biogeochemical models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 116, no. G1 (2011) N Restrepo-Coupe, HR da Rocha, LR Hutyra, AC da Araujo, LS Borma, Bradley Christoffersen, OMR Cabral, PB de Camargo, FL Cardoso, ACL da Costa, What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of. Issue: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Bradley Christoffersen. Pantropical Tree Sapwood Area Data, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). (2016) AWARDS AND HONORS Outstanding Senior in Biology, Southern Nazarene University (May 2003) President s Award, Southern Nazarene University (May 2003) PRESENTATIONS Hsuying Ward, Ian Werkheiser, Bradley Christoffersen, Ignacio Rodriguez, Arlett Lomeli, Rupesh Kariyat, and Angela Chapman. "Accessibility Learning Community: Creating Student Success through Universal Design for Learning," UTRGV Teaching Excellence Symposium, Center for Teaching Excellence, Edinburg. (February 16, 2018) TEACHING Courses Taught SERVICE Adv Plant Physiology Biology Problems I Plant Physiology Department Service Generated on Mar 05, 2018 Page 4 of 5

5 Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Evaluation for Ecology. (December 2018) Committee Member, Graduate Program. (December 2017) College Service Participant, McAllen Center for Urban Ecology. (January 2018) University Service Other, Engaged Scholar Award Reviewer. (November 29, December 6, 2018) Development Activities Attended Workshop, "Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Student Expression and Faculty Reflection," UTRGV Accessibility Learning Community (ALC). (December 11, 2018) Workshop, "Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Representation and Engagement Principles," UTRGV Accessibility Learning Community. (December 4, 2018) Workshop, "Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Providing Multiple Means for Action and Expression," UTRGV Accessibility Learning Community (ALC). (January 22, 2018) Professional Service Committee Chair, Subtropical Agriculture and Environments Society (January 2018) Guest Speaker, Texas A&M Ecosystem Science and Management Spring 2018 Seminar Series, College Station, (April 10, 2018) Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences (December 8, January 12, 2018) Guest Speaker, Texas Water Resource Network (TWRN), Austin, (January 11, 2018) Generated on Mar 05, 2018 Page 5 of 5