CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal History

Name: Allan Pierce Drew

Present Address: 4569 O'Dell Place, Jamesville, NY 13078

Mailing Address: 203 Marshall Hall, Faculty of Forestry, SUNY College of Environmental

Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210

Telephone Number: (315)492‑9123 (permanent residence)

(315)470‑6578 (work)

Email: apdrew@mailbox.syr.edu

FAX: (315)470-6956

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois

Date of Birth: January 15, 1943

Sex: Male

Marital Status: Married, 2 children

Education

Institution Years Attended Degrees Main Subject Areas

York Comm. High 1957‑1961 High School Diploma ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑

School, Elmhurst,

Illinois

Univ. of Illinois 1961‑1965 B.S. in Forestry Forest

Champaign, Illinois Production

Univ. of Arizona 1965‑1967 M.S. in Watershed Botany, Basic

Tucson, Arizona Management Sciences

Oregon State Univ. 1970‑1973 Ph.D in Forest Major:Tree Phys.

Corvallis, Oregon Management Minor: Botany

Present Position

Faculty of Forestry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY

Professor of Forestry (since 1993); tenured 1987; associate professor (1984-93); assistant professor (1980-84); Coordinator of International Programs (1991-97,1998-present); Coordinator of Graduate Education (1997-98)

Courses taught: Forest Ecology (FOR 332)

Adirondack Forest Ecology & Dendrology (FOR 301)

Tropical Ecology (FOR/EFB 523; co-taught with D. J.

Stewart, Faculty of E.F.B.)

Agroforestry (FOR 496/796)

International Forestry Seminar (FOR 797)

Professional Societies, Activities, Awards

Interdenominational Protestant Campus Ministry at Syracuse University - established the Allan Drew Peer

Ministers’ Outreach Fund - 2005

Sigma Xi ‑ scientific research honorary (Secretary of Syracuse chapter, 1986‑1989; Vice President, 1989‑90; President, 1990‑91; Past President, 1991‑92; Awards Chairman, 1992‑93).

Gamma Sigma Delta ‑ agricultural honorary

Beta Beta Beta ‑ biological sciences honorary

Xi Sigma Pi ‑ forestry honorary

Weyerhaeuser Fellow ‑ 1970‑72

Society of American Foresters

International Society of Tropical Foresters

Association for Tropical Biology

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Ecological Society of America

Union of Concerned Scientists

U.S. Poplar Council (Program Chairman ‑ 1987 Annual Meeting held jointly with Poplar Council of Canada), Executive Board 1984‑90.

Silviculture Instructors' Field Tour‑ 1988 Chairman of Tour associated with national Society of American Foresters' convention in Rochester, New York.

Received certificate for outstanding service to the Society of American Foresters ‑ 1992 (for invited presentation on tropical forestry made to New York Section on February 26‑27, 1992).

Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology

Who's Who in the East

Manuscript and proposal review ‑ National Science Foundation, “Forest Science”, “Science Books and Films”, “Reclamation and Revegetation Research”, “Canadian Journal of Forest Research”, “Botanical Gazette”, “Annals of Botany”, “Tree Physiology”, “Forest Ecology and Management”

Grants Awarded (last 5 years)

A proposal for an educational grant to cover partial costs associated with taking “Tropical Dendrology”, a course offered through the Tropical Science Center, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 26 – July 8, 2000 was funded for $300. The grant covered part of the $1800 course fee; the remaining amount was covered by internal ESF funds.

A proposal for a travel grant to attend the Association for Tropical Biology meetings in Panamá City, Republic of Panamá July 29 – August 3, 2002 was funded for $550 by the Individual Development Awards Program of the New York State United University Professions; a paper, “Assessing the restoration of ecological function of abandoned pastures on tropical wet forest lands in southwestern Costa Rica”, was presented by M. Cristina Peñuela, A. P. Drew and C. Leopold.

A proposal, “Ecological functional assessment as a tool for evaluating forest plantations and their role in restoring degraded pasturelands”, was funded by the U.S. Forest Service for $3,146 to cover summer, 2003 research at the Los Arboles field site of the Tropical Forestry Initiative in Costa Rica. The grant was to the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca and the stated proposal was included in the total grant.

A research proposal, “Sierra palm internode growth following Hurricane Georges”, was funded in January, 2004 with College research incentive funds for $768. The grant supported a July, 2004 field trip to the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico for data collection.

A proposal, “Teak (Tectona grandis) and gmelina (Gmelina arborea) plantations compared to native mixed species plantations for the amelioration of degraded tropical soils in Costa Rica”, was funded by the U.S. Forest Service for $3,490 to cover summer, 2004 research at the Los Arboles field site of the Tropical Forestry Initiative in Costa Rica. The grant was to the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca and the stated proposal was included in the total grant.

A proposal, “Participation in the annual School for Field Studies (SFS) Directors’ Academic meeting, January 19-23, 2005 at the SFS Center for Sustainable Development, Atenas, Costa Rica”, was funded for $300 by the NYS/UUP Individual Development Awards Program.

A proposal, “Agroforestry demonstration project: incorporating local community involvement to foster interest in land restoration”, was funded for $4,980 by the U. S. Forest Service to cover summer, 2005 research of Catherine Bukowski at the Los Arboles field site of the Tropical Foresry Initiative in Costa Rica. The grant was to the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca and the stated proposal was included in the total grant.

A proposal, “Assessment of subtropical wet forest growth at El Verde: sixty-second year inventory of growth plot EV-3”, was funded for $5,000 by the U. S. Forest Service to cover the summer, 2005 work of Jeremy Boley at the El Verde, Puerto Rico field site.

Sabbaticals and International Experiences

U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, Central Africa – 1967-69; worked as Assistant Conservator of Forests (Research; Special Duties)on Vipya Pulpwood Project, Chikangawa; language ability in Tumbuka.

"From Chihuahuan Desert to Tropical Forest: An Ecological Transect", traveling field seminar in Mexico sponsored by the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute and Sul Ross State University ‑ December 27, 1978 - January 11, 1979.

Sabbatical spent in Puerto Rico, January‑June 1989, with the Institute of Tropical Forestry, U.S. Forest Service, Rio Piedras; research on the Luquillo Experimental Forest with a montane rain forest species, Cyrilla racemiflora, aimed at clarifying phenology and the physiology of growth ring formation for trees growing at different elevations.

Visit to Belize, C. A. in December, 1993 (10 days) to evaluate prospects for SUNY‑ESF involvement in developing a sustainable management plan for a large tract of tropical rain forest in Toledo District; familiarity gained with Belize government forestry policies, Belizean forest ecosystems and Mayan agriculture.

Four trips to the Dominican Republic, West Indies between 1995-97 for the purpose of establishing liaison with the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo and SUNY-ESF.

Sabbatical spent at the University of Arizona in Tucson between July 1 and December 31, 1995; I participated in the teaching of Natural Resource Ecology, a 4 credit hour course taught in the School of Renewable Natural Resources, devoted time to writing papers based on my tropical research and teaching, and re-established relations with colleagues at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.

Teaching of Tropical Ecology (FOR/EFB 523) to SUNY-ESF students and others from 1991 to date on the island of Dominica, West Indies; the Archbold Tropical Research and Education Center (ATR&EC) has served as a base for this work.

Numerous trips to the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, between 1989 and the present for the purpose of conducting cooperative research with the U.S. Forest Service’s International Institute of Tropical Forestry. Research has focused on the growth of Cyrilla racemiflora L., a montane rain forest tree, on the long-term recovery of tabonuco forest from hurricane disturbance and on the growth and development of Prestoea acuminata, a dominant understory palm on the forest.

During summer, 2000 a two week traveling field course in “Tropical Dendrology” was taken through the Tropical Science Center, San Jose, Costa Rica. Tree species in the dry forest, montane forest and Atlantic lowland forest were identified and a method was learned for their easy categorization according to taxonomic family. The course has enabled me to be more effective in my teaching of tropical ecology in Dominica, W.I. and in research with various types of tropical forest.

In July, 2001 I was a visiting instructor in tropical ecology for one week in Cornell University’s Undergraduate Program in the Amazon held at Yarapa River Lodge 100 miles south of Iquitos, Peru.

Successive visits (2000, 2003, 2004) to the Tropical Forestry Initiative’s Los Arboles field site in Costa Rica have been made to advise graduate students working there on the general problem of restoration of tropical wet forests on degraded pasturelands.