Curriculum Vitae of Jason Dale Fridley - Plant Ecology at Syracuse

JASON D. FRIDLEY
Syracuse University
Department of Biology
107 College Place
Syracuse, NY 13244
(315) 443-3098 phone
(315) 443-2012 fax
fridley@syr.edu
EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D. in Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (R.K. Peet, Advisor)
1997 BA in Biology, Bennington College, VT (K.D. Woods, Advisor)
GRANTS AND COMPETITIVELY FUNDED PROPOSALS
2012-2017 NSF LTREB Renewal: Fourteen years of simulated climate change in an ancient
limestone grassland: connecting responses of genotypes, species, and ecosystems (DEB-
1242529, sole PI) $447,327
2011-2015 NSF Population and Community Ecology: Collaborative Research: Will climate change
alter rates of old field succession across the U.S. Eastern Deciduous Forest A crosslatitude
experimental network (DEB-1119743, co-PI with Justin Wright, Duke
University) $319,032 (SU portion)
2007-2012 NSF LTREB: Fourteen years of simulated climate change in an ancient limestone
grassland: connecting responses of genotypes, species, and ecosystems (DEB-0716360,
sole PI) $447,896
2008-2010 NSF Ecological Biology: Collaborative Research: Will climate change alter rates of old
field succession across the U.S. Eastern Deciduous Forest A cross-latitude experimental
network [pilot study] (DEB-0742861, co-PI with Justin Wright, Duke University)
$135,000
2004-2007 NSF International Research Fellowship: Connecting genes to ecosystems: how does
genetic diversity maintain species diversity in a species-rich pastureland (with J.P.
Grime, University of Sheffield, UK) $103,760
2003-2006 National Parks Foundation Ecological Research Fellowship: What controls the floristic
diversity of a National Park Species turnover as a common currency for quantifying
diversity patterns within the Great Smoky Mountains and among 23 National Parks (with
Peter White, UNC) $150,000
2002-2003 NC Biotechnology Center: Characterization of plant communities surrounding North
Carolina agricultural ecosystems (with Robert Peet, UNC) $85,000
2000-2001 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Relationships among species diversity,
site fertility, resource heterogeneity, and ecosystem productivity in plant communities.
$9,345
2000, 1998 Sigma Xi GIAR. $717, $700
2000 Smith Research Grant, UNC Graduate School. $500

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2014 Fulbright US Scholar, Lincoln University, New Zealand
2012 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, Blavatnik Family Foundation, NY Academy of
Sciences (Faculty Winner)
2003 John L. Harper Prize for Best Paper by a Young Author, British Ecological Society
2001 Highly Commended, Keymer Prize for Best Student Talk, British Ecological Society
Winter Meeting
2001-2002 Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship, UNC Graduate School
2001-2002 Royster Society of Fellows, UNC Graduate School
1998-2001 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
1997-1998 Mrs. W.C. Coker Fellowship, UNC Biology
1995-1997 Brockway Faculty Scholarship, Bennington College, VT
PUBLICATIONS
Ravenscroft, C.H., Fridley, J.D., and Grime, J.P. Intraspecific functional differentiation suggests local
adaptation to long-term climate change in a calcareous grassland. Journal of Ecology, in press.
Raney, P.A., Fridley, J.D., and Leopold, D.J. Characterizing microclimate and plant community variation
in wetlands. Wetlands, in press.
Heberling, J.M. and Fridley, J.D. 2013. Resource-use strategies of native and invasive plants in Eastern
North American forests. New Phytologist 200: 523-533.
Fridley, J.D. 2013. Plant invasions across the Northern Hemisphere: a deep-time perspective. Annals of
the New York Academy of Sciences 1293: 8-17.
Fridley, J.D. 2013. Successional convergence, stochastic assembly, and the future of tropical forests.
Journal of Vegetation Science 24: 415-416.
Fridley, J.D. 2012. Extended leaf phenology and the autumn niche in deciduous forest invasions. Nature
485: 359-362.
Fridley, J.D., Grime, J.P., Huston, M.A., Pierce, S., Smart, S.M., Thompson, K., Börger, L., Brooker,
R.W., Gross, N., Liancourt, P., Michalet, R. and Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y. 2012. Comment on
"Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness". Science 335: 1441b.
Eallonardo, A.S., Leopold, D.J., Fridley, J.D., and Stella, J.C. 2012. Salinity tolerance and the decoupling
of resource axis plant traits. Journal of Vegetation Science 24: 365-274.
Siefert, A., Ravenscoft, C., Althoff, D., Alvarez-Yapiz, J.C., Carter, E., Glennon, K., Heberling, M., Jo,
I., Pontes, A., Sauer, A., Willis, A., and Fridley, J.D. 2012. Scale dependence of vegetationenvironment
relationships: a meta-analysis of multivariate data. Journal of Vegetation Science
23: 942-951.
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Heberling, J.M. and Fridley, J.D. 2012. Biogeographic constraints on the worldwide leaf economics
spectrum. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21: 1137-1146.
Fridley, J.D. and Wright, J.P. 2012. Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of
the Eastern U.S.: climate, soils, and species pools. Oecologia 168: 1069-1077.
Grime, J.P. and Fridley, J.D. 2012. Species richness in herbaceous vegetation. In: Levin, S.A., Ed.
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd Edition. Elsevier.
Askew, A.P., Fridley, J.D., and Grime, J.P. 2011. Predicting future impacts of global change on grassland
ecosystems: the role of long-term manipulations of climate. In Lemaire, G. (Ed), Grassland
Productivity and Ecosystem Services, CABI Press, pp. 123-128.
Moser, B., Fridley, J.D., and Grime, J.P. 2011. Simulated migration in a long-term climate change
experiment: invasions impeded by dispersal limitation, not biotic resistance. Journal of Ecology
99: 1229-1236.
Manthey, M. Fridley, J.D., and Peet, R.K. 2011. Niche expansion after competitor extinction A
comparative assessment of habitat generalists and specialists in the tree floras of south-eastern
North America and south-eastern Europe. Journal of Biogeography 38: 840-853.
Fridley, J.D., Grime, J.P., Askew, A.P., Moser, B., and Stevens, C.J. 2011. Soil heterogeneity buffers
community response to climate change in species-rich grassland. Global Change Biology 17:
2002-2011.
Fridley, J.D. 2011. Biodiversity as a bulwark against invasion: conceptual threads since Elton. In:
Richardson, D.M. (Ed.) Fifty years of invasion ecology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 121-130.
Fridley, J.D. 2011. Invasibility of communities and ecosystems. In: Simberloff, D. and Rejmanek, M.,
eds. Encyclopedia of biological invasions. University of California Press, pp. 356-360.
Frank, D.A., Pontes, A.W., Maine, E.M., Caruana, J., Raina, R., Raina, S., and Fridley, J.D. 2010.
Grassland root communities: species distributions and how they are linked to aboveground
abundance. Ecology 91: 3201-3209.
Fridley, J.D. and Grime, J.P. 2010. Community- and ecosystem-level consequences of intraspecific
genetic diversity in grassland microcosms of varying species diversity. Ecology 91: 2272-2283.
Wright, J.P. and Fridley, J.D. 2010. Biogeographic synthesis of secondary succession rates in Eastern
North America. Journal of Biogeography 37: 1584-1596. [Editor's Choice, Sept]
Fridley, J.D. 2010. Review of Resource strategies of wild plants by Joseph M. Craine [book review].
Quarterly Review of Biology 85: 233-234.
Fridley, J.D., Senft, A., and Peet, R.K. 2009. Vegetation structure of field margins and adjacent forests in
agricultural landscapes of the North Carolina Piedmont (USA). Castanea 74: 327-339.
Fridley, J.D. 2009. Downscaling climate over complex terrain: high fine-scale spatial variation of nearground
temperatures in a montane forested landscape (Great Smoky Mountains, USA). Journal of
Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48: 1033-1049.
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Manthey, M. and Fridley, J.D. 2009. Beta diversity metrics and the estimation of niche width via species
co-occurrence data: reply to Zeleny. Journal of Ecology 97: 18-22.
Fridley, J.D. 2008. Of Asian forests and European fields: Eastern U.S. plant invasions in a global floristic
context. PLoS ONE 3: e3630.
Grime, J.P., Fridley, J.D., Askew, A.P., Thompson, K., Hodgson, J.G., and Bennett, C.R. 2008. Longterm
resistance to simulated climate change in an infertile grassland. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA 105: 10028-10032.
Palmer, M., McGlinn, D., and Fridley, J.D. 2008. Artifacts and artifictions in biodiversity research. Folia
Geobotanica 43: 245-257.
Qian, H., Fridley, J.D., and Palmer, M.W. 2007. The latitudinal gradient of species-area relationships of
vascular plants of North America. The American Naturalist 170: 690-701.
Fridley, J.D., Grime, J.P., and Bilton, M. 2007. Genetic identity of interspecific neighbours mediates
plant responses to competition and environmental variation in a species-rich grassland. Journal of
Ecology 95: 908-915. [Editor's Choice of the Sept issue]
Fridley, J.D., Vandermast, D.B., Kuppinger, D.M., Manthey, M., and Peet, R.K. 2007. Co-occurrencebased
assessment of habitat generalists and specialists: a new approach for the measurement of
niche width. Journal of Ecology 95: 707-722.
Fridley, J.D., Stachowicz, J.J., Naeem, S., Sax, D.F., Seabloom, E.W., Smith, M.D., Stohlgren, T.J.,
Tilman, D., and Von Holle, B. 2007. The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in
species invasions. Ecology 88: 3-17.
Fridley, J.D., Qian, H., White, P.S., and Palmer, M.W. 2006. Plant species invasions along the latitudinal
gradient in the United States: comment. Ecology 87: 3209-3213.
Fridley, J.D., Peet, R.K., van der Maarel, E., and Willems, J.H. 2006. Integration of local and regional
species-area relationships from space-time species accumulation. The American Naturalist 168:
133-143.
Bruno, J.F., Fridley, J.D., Bromberg, K.D., and Bertness, M.D. 2005. Insights into biotic interactions
from studies of species invasions. In: Sax, D.F., Gaines, S.D., and Stachowicz, J.J., eds. Species
invasions: insights into ecology, evolution, and biogeography. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
Fridley, J.D., Peet, R.K., White, P.S., and Wentworth, T.R. 2005. Connecting fine- and broad-scale
species-area relationships of southeastern U.S. flora. Ecology 86: 1172-1177.
Fridley, J.D., Brown, R.L., and Bruno, J.F. 2004. Null models of exotic invasion and scale-dependent
patterns of native and exotic species richness. Ecology 85: 3215-3222.
Peet, R.K., Fridley, J.D., and Gramling, J.M. 2003. Variation in species richness and species pool size
across a pH gradient in forests of the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Folia Geobotanica 38:
391-401.
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Fridley, J.D. 2003. Diversity effects on productivity in different light and nutrient environments: an
experiment with communities of annual plants. Journal of Ecology 91: 396-406. [Winner of 2003
John L. Harper Prize]
Brown, R.L. and Fridley, J.D. 2003. Control of plant species diversity and community invasibility by
species immigration: seed richness versus seed density. Oikos 102: 15-24.
Fridley, J.D. 2002. Resource availability dominates and alters the relationship between species diversity
and ecosystem productivity in experimental plant communities. Oecologia 132: 271-277.
Fridley, J.D. 2001. The influence of species diversity on ecosystem productivity: how, where, and why
Oikos 93: 514-526.
Huston, M.A., Aarssen, L.W., Austin, M.P., Cade, B.S., Fridley, J.D., Garnier, E., Grime, J.P., Hodgson,
J., Lauenroth, W.K., Thompson, K., Vandermeer, J.H., and Wardle, D.A. 2000. No consistent
effect of plant diversity on productivity (Technical Comment). Science 289: 1255a.
Fridley, J.D. 1998. The flora and fauna of Duke Paul’s Missouri. In: Hans von Sachsen-Altenburg and
Robert L. Dyer, Duke Paul of Wuerttemberg on the Missouri Frontier: 1823, 1830 and 1851.
Pekitanoui, Boonville, MO.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS [1 st author only]
Fridley, J.D. 2013. The modern invasive species problem: a world Darwin envisioned Annual Alaska
Invasive Species Conference, Fairbanks, AK
Fridley, J.D. 2013. Phenology and forest invasions: evidence for empty niches Annual Alaska Invasive
Species Conference, Fairbanks, AK
Fridley, J.D. 2013. Plant invasions across the Northern Hemisphere: a deep-time perspective. Annual
Alaska Invasive Species Conference, Fairbanks, AK
Fridley, J.D. 2013. Leaf phenology and plant invasions: a role for genome size Ecological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Fridley, J.D. 2013. Are there tradeoffs between cool and warm season growth in temperate woody
vegetation International Association for Vegetation Science Annual Symposium, Tartu, Estonia
Fridley, J.D. 2012. Are East Asian invaders shifting the growth phenology of Eastern North American
forests International Association for Vegetation Science Annual Symposium, Mokpo, South
Korea
Fridley, J.D. and Sax, D.F. 2011. Revisiting a Darwinian framework for invasion biology: global
invasion patterns and the evolutionary sophistication of regional biotas. Ecological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
Fridley, J.D., Grime, J.P., Askew, A.P., Moser, B. and Ravenscroft, C. 2011. The basis of community
resistance to climate change in a limestone grassland, and why it may not last. International
Association for Vegetation Science Annual Symposium, Lyon, France
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Fridley, J.D., Grime, J.P., and Askew, A.P. 2010. Grassland resistance to climate change: an evaluation
of processes that limit plant community response in a 17-year climate manipulation. Ecological
Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
Fridley, J.D. 2009. Present and future near-ground microclimates across Great Smoky Mountains NP:
Forecasts from the GSMNP temperature network. Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere
Annual Conference: Climate change in the Southern Appalachians. Asheville, NC
Fridley, J.D., Grime, J.P., and Askew, A.P. 2009. Soil heterogeneity buffers vegetation response to longterm
climate manipulation in limestone grassland. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting,
Herefordshire, UK
Fridley, J.D. 2009. Why do Asian shrubs dominate Eastern U.S. forests A multi-genus, common garden
study of native, naturalized, and invasive understory shrub ecophysiology. Invasive Plants in the
Northeast of Asia and America: Trading Problems, Trading Solutions. Storrs, CT
Fridley, J.D., and Grime, J.P. 2009. Fine-scale substrate variation buffers community response to climate
change in species-rich limestone grassland. International Association for Vegetation Science
Annual Symposium, Chania, Greece
Fridley, J.D. and Grime, J.P. 2008. Linking genes to ecosystems: local genetic diversity drives
production in species-rich limestone grassland. International Association for Vegetation Science
Annual Symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Fridley, J.D. and Grime, J.P. 2008. Genetic diversity and species diversity interact to influence the
productivity of species-rich limestone grassland. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Milwaukee, WI
Fridley, J.D. and Grime, J.P. 2007. Genetic identity of interspecific neighbours mediates plant responses
to competition in a species-rich grassland. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow,
UK
Fridley, J.D. and Grime, J.P. 2006. The relative impact of genetic diversity versus species diversity on
ecosystem function in plant communities. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Memphis, TN
Fridley, J.D., Bruno, J.F., and Brown, R.L. 2005. Scale-dependent invasion patterns and null models of
community assembly. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal
Fridley, J.D. 2005. Park biodiversity surveys: does vegetation science suggest where to look George
Wright Society Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Fridley, J.D. and Peet, R.K. 2004. Accumulation of local biodiversity in space-time. British Ecological
Society Annual Meeting, Lancaster, UK
Fridley, J.D. and Peet, R.K. 2004. Accumulation of local biodiversity in space-time: solving Preston’s
riddle. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
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Fridley, J.D., Gramling, J.M., Jobe, R.T., Kaplan, J.A., McKnight, M., Senft, A., Vandermast, D.B., and
Peet, R.K. 2003. Fine-scale species-area relationships of the vascular flora of the Southeast.
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA
Fridley, J.D. 2002. Diversity effects on productivity in different environments: an experiment with
communities of annual plants. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ
Fridley, J.D. 2001. Resource availability influences the relationship between plant diversity and
ecosystem productivity. British Ecological Society Winter Meeting, Warwick, UK
Fridley, J.D. 2001. Relative effects of resource availability and species diversity on ecosystem
productivity. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Madison, WI
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Nov 2013
Alaska Invasive Species Conference, Fairbanks, Nov 2013
Buffalo State College, Department of Biology, Nov 2013
University of Sherbrooke, Department of Biology, April 2013
Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences, March 2013
Binghamton University, Biological Sciences Department, March 2013
City University of New York, Department of Biology, Feb 2013
Conservation Science Webinar Series, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Feb 2013
Boston University, Department of Biology, Oct 2012
Purdue University, Department of Biological Sciences, Sept 2012
Seoul National University, South Korea, School of Biological Sciences, July 2012
University of Sheffield, UK, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, June 2012
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology, March 2012
Mississippi State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Feb 2012
Indiana University, Department of Biology, Jan 2012
Harvard University, Herbaria Seminar Series, Nov 2011
Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Feb 2011
Northern Illinois University, Department of Geography, November 2010
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, October 2010
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ecology Curriculum, April 2010
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, March 2009
Yale University, Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, February 2009
Union College, Biology Department, October 2008
McGill University, Department of Biology, October 2008
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, April 2008
Virginia Tech, Department of Biology, April 2008
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Bennington College, Bennington, VT, April 2007
Duke University, Graduate Program in Ecology, December 2005
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, February 2005
Syracuse University, Department of Biology, February 2005
University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, February 2005
University of Sheffield, UK, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, January 2005
University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Environmental Sciences, November 2004
University of Jena/Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany, May 2004
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, April 2004
North Carolina State University, Department of Botany, March 2004
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, February 2004
The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, April 2003
Oklahoma State University, Department of Botany, March 2003
Centre for Population Biology, Silwood, Berkshire, UK, June 2002
University of Sheffield, UK, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, December 2001
Bennington College, Bennington, VT, October 2000
TEACHING
2008-2013 Ecology & Evolution (undergraduate), Syracuse
2008-2013 Conservation Biology (advanced undergraduate), Syracuse
2010 Niche modeling (graduate), Syracuse
2007 Ecology (advanced undergraduate), Syracuse
2002 Understanding Biodiversity (undergraduate), Bennington College
2002 Population, Food, and Farms (undergraduate), Bennington College
2002 Advanced Readings Seminar in Ecology, Bennington College
1997, 1999 Teaching Assistant, Plant Ecology (graduate/adv. undergraduate), UNC
1998 Teaching Assistant, Animal Behavior (undergraduate), UNC
ADVISING AND GRADUATE COMMITTEES
Postdoctoral advisees
2012- Mark Lesser, Syracuse
2007- Andrew Askew, Syracuse / U Sheffield
Graduate advisees
2013- Elise Hinman (PhD advisor), Syracuse
2012- Luka Negoita (PhD advisor), Syracuse
2011- Andrew Siefert (PhD co-advisor), Syracuse
2010- Insu Jo (PhD co-advisor), Syracuse
2010- Mason Heberling (PhD advisor), Syracuse
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2008-2013 Catherine Ravenscroft (PhD advisor), Syracuse
Graduate committees
2013- Elisabeth Bodnaruk (PhD committee), Syracuse
2012- Li Kui (PhD committee), SUNY-ESF
2011- Julie Tuttle (PhD committee), UNC-Chapel Hill
2010-2013 Maria Smith (PhD committee), Cornell
2010-2011 Adam Willis (PhD committee), Syracuse
2010- Meghan McSherry (PhD committee), Syracuse
2010-2012 Alyssa Pontes (MS committee), Syracuse
2010- John Wiley (PhD committee), SUNY-ESF
2010-2011 Anthony Cummings (PhD committee), Syracuse/Maxwell
2009-2010 Lee Davis (MS committee), SUNY-ESF
2009- Patrick Raney (PhD committee), SUNY-ESF
2008-2011 Cynthia Chang (PhD committee), Yale
2007-2009 Mike O'Brien (MS committee), SUNY-ESF
2006-2010 Kay Hayek (PhD committee), SUNY-ESF
2006-2010 Tony Eallonardo (grad committee), SUNY-ESF
2004-2008 Mary O’Connor (PhD committee), UNC
Undergraduate researchers
2011-2013 Josh Lynn (REU, thesis advisor), Syracuse
2010-2011 Paulette Lloyd (REU, thesis advisor), Syracuse
2009-2010 Robert Ramos, Syracuse
2009-2010 Sarah Fecht, SUNY-Binghamton
2007-2009 Stephen Maheux (thesis advisor), Syracuse
2007-2009 Rachel Suhl (thesis advisor), Syracuse
2004 Daniel McGlinn (thesis advisor), UNC-Chapel Hill
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2007- Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology
2009- Associate Editor, Journal of Vegetation Science
2008- Editorial Board, Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
2008- Editorial Board, Contribuţii Botanice (Romania)
2006-2009 Editorial Board, Journal of Vegetation Science
1999-2013 Manuscripts reviewed for Acta Oecologia, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,
American Journal of Botany, The American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, AoB Plants,
Applied Vegetation Science, Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Conservation,
Biological Invasions, Biotropica, Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Canadian
Journal of Forest Research, Castanea, Conservation Biology, Diversity and
Distributions, Ecography, Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Ecology Letters, Frontiers
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in Ecology and the Environment, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology,
International Journal of Plant Sciences, Journal of Ecology, Journal of the Torrey
Botanical Society, Journal of Vegetation Science, Nature, Nature Communications,
Oecologia, Oikos, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution & Systematics, Plant Biology,
Plant Ecology, PLoS ONE, PNAS
GRANT REVIEWS (ad hoc)
2013 NSF Population and Community Ecology Program, NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences
Program, Estonian Research Council
2012 NSF Population and Community Ecology Program, UK Leverhulme Trust
2011 NSF Population and Community Ecology Program (LTREB), NSF Research Initiation
Awards (RIA)
2010 NSF Population and Community Ecology Program, Estonian Science Foundation
2009 Estonian Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada
2008 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NSF Advancing Theory in Biology
Program, NSF Long-term Research in Environmental Biology Program
2007 Czech Republic Academy of Sciences Grant Agency, US-Israel Binational Science
Foundation
2006 NSF Ecosystem Studies Program
2005 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Research Commission, German Research
Foundation (DFG)
2004 USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2011 NSF Population and Community Ecology Grant Review Panel, Fall 2011
2011- Meetings Committee, International Association for Vegetation Science
2010- Project Partner, NERC (UK) grant "Contribution of intra- and interspecific plant diversity
to carbon turnover in grassland", PI Dave Johnson, University of Aberdeen
2007 Symposium Organizer, "Beyond niche vs. neutral: what we still don't know about
coexistence in plant communities", International Association for Vegetation Science
Symposium, Swansea, Wales, UK
2007 Science Program Committee, International Association for Vegetation Science
Symposium, Swansea, Wales, UK
2005 Invited Participant, “The Next Generation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Research” DIVERSITAS Workshop, Kota Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia
2005 Symposium Organizer, “Parks for Science: Examples from the National Parks Ecological
Research Program”, George Wright Society Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Invited Participant, 2004 Progress in Experimental Biodiversity Research Workshop,
Jena, Germany
2003 Invited Participant, 2003 Biotic Mechanisms of Ecosystem Regulation in the Global
Environment (BioMERGE) Adaptive Synthesis Workshop, St. Louis, MO
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2002 Co-instructor, 2002 Biocomplexity and Ecoinformatics Graduate Course, National Center
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012- Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Syracuse University
2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Syracuse University
2004, 2007 Visiting Scholar, University of Sheffield, UK
2003-2005 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, UNC
2002 Visiting Faculty, Bennington College, VT
1997-1999 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, UNC
1994-1998 Research Assistant, Hans von Sachsen-Altenburg (historian)
1995-1997 Research Assistant, Kerry D. Woods, Bennington College
1996 Science Instructor, Long Trail School (secondary), Dorset, VT
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of America
International Association for Vegetation Science
New York Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2012 Biology Chair's Advisory Committee
2011- Biology Graduate Committee (co-director, 2012-)
2011- Biology Greenhouse Committee
2010 Biology Faculty Search Committee
2006-2011 Biology Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Syracuse
TECHNICAL REPORT
Fridley, J.D. 2010. An inventory and archive of historical temperature and precipitation data for Great
Smoky Mountains National Park (Technical report for the National Park Service, GSMNP).
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