Devan Allen McGranahan Curriculum Vitae

Devan

Allen

McGranahan

Post-doctoral Fellow, Environmental Studies Sewanee, The University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 E-mail: mcgranah@alumni.grinnell.edu Web: http://devanmcgranahan.info Education
2011 2008 2004

I OWA S TATE U NIVERSITY

Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

I OWA S TATE U NIVERSITY

Master of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Animal Ecology

G RINNELL C OLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts in Biology

Academic positions
2011 200611 2005 Environmental Studies Post-doctoral Fellow, Sewanee, The University of the South Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Natural Resources Ecology and Management, Iowa State University Visiting Scholar, Brown University

Peer-reviewed papers
McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, S.D. Fuhlendorf, J.R. Miller, and D.M. Debinksi. In press. An invasive cool-season grass complicates prescribed re management in a native warm-season grassland. Natural Areas Journal McGranahan, D.A. 2011. Identifying ecological sustainability assessment factors for ecotourism and trophy hunting operations on private rangeland in Namibia. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 19:115131. McGranahan, D.A. 2008. Managing private, commercial rangelands for agricultural production and wildlife diversity in Namibia and Zambia. Biodiversity and Conservation 17:1965 1977. McGranahan, D.A., S. Kuiper, and J.M. Brown. 2005. Temporal patterns in use of an Iowa woodlot during the autumn bird migration. The American Midland Naturalist 153:6170.

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Grants and Awards

Funded grant proposals I have written: Engle, D.M., D.A. McGranahan, J.J. Veenstra. 2010. Patch-burn grazing as a tool for the ecological management of invasive species and restoration of carbon sequestration and ecosystem processes in working landscapes. Environmental Protection Agency P3 Award. $10,000. Harr, R.N., D.A. McGranahan, D.M. Engle, J.J. Veenstra. 2010. E2010-16: Increasing carbon sequestration of working prairie by reducing invasive species in a re and grazing system. Awarded by: Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University. $25,000 McGranahan, D.A. 2004. Sustainable grazing and the management of native mammals on African ranches. Awarded by: Thomas J. Watson Foundation. $22,000

Selected research presentations

McGranahan, D.A. and D.M. Engle. "An invasive grass alters tallgrass prairie fuelbed characteristics and reduces burn probability." Society for Range Management, Billings, MT. February, 2011. (Invited symposium paper) McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, B. Wilsey, S. Fuhlendorf, J.R. Miller, D.M. Debinski. "Disturbance history and dominant invaders affect exotic-native plant diversity in a grassland system." Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, Ames, IA. March 27, 2010. McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, S. Fuhlendorf, J.R. Miller, D.M. Debinski. "Grazing history, soil carbon, and invasion by an exotic cool-season grass explain extraordinary community diversity in a working prairie landscape." Society for Range Management, Denver, CO. February 8, 2010. McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, R.N. Harr, S. Fuhlendorf, J.R. Miller, D.M. Debinski. Invasive species, land-use history, and the Quest for Heterogeneity: A primer on patch-burn grazing research in the Grand River Grasslands. Patch-burn Working Group. Lamoni, IA. September, 2009. McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, R.N. Harr, S. Fuhlendorf, J.R. Miller, D.M. Debinski. Heterogeneity and selectivity: A review of patch-burn grazings key components. Patchburn Working Group. Aurora, NE. September, 2008. McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, J.R. Miller, and D.M. Debinksi. Explaining extraordinary community diversity among neighboring tallgrass prairie remnants via exotic plant invasions. North American Prairie Conference, Winona, MN. August 7, 2008. McGranahan, D.A., D.M. Engle, R.N. Harr, J.R. Miller, and D.M. Debinksi. The ecological oddity of an invasive Eurasian grass that lengthens re return interval. Ecological Society of America, Milwaukee, WI. August 6, 2008. McGranahan, D.A. and D.M. Engle. Forage, re and fescue: The considerations and challenges of applying a patch-burn grazing model on tall fescue-dominated tallgrass prairie." Society for Range Management, Louisville, KY. January 29, 2008. (Invited symposium paper)

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Teaching experience
Instructor, The Development of Leopolds Land Ethic. Developed syllabus, created reading and writing assignments, and led discussion for this mixed undergraduate and graduate student course. Iowa State University. Autumn 2010 Teaching Assistant, Wildlife Ecology and Management. Capstone course in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. Conducted labs and graded for 2 lab periods/week and occasionally lectured. Iowa State University. Autumn 2009

Research experience
Graduate Research Assistant, Rangeland Ecology Lab, Iowa State University. I primarily monitor rstand second-order re effects in the plant community on grazed and ungrazed prairie tracts in a working landscape in southern Iowa as part of a collaborative research effort. 20062011 Visiting Scholar, Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University. Conducted research on the game ranching industry in southern Africa upon returning from my year in the eld, and occasionally presented my work to Environmental Studies classes and the Brown community. Autumn 2005 Watson Fellowship: Southern African game ranching. Spent one year living on ranches and game reserves studying the socio-ecology of native biodiversity conservation on private land. Summer 2004-5 Independent Research Project: Bird migrations in Central Iowa. Developed a bird census and vegetation survey on Grinnell College property, which was published in a peer-reviewed journal. Autumn 2003 Summer research project: Landscape ecology of Maya home gardens. Participated in a small group of peers conducting botantical surveys of Maya homegardens in the Cayo District of Belize. Summer 2003 Research trip: Brasilian Amazon. Visited Rio Negro with faculty and students to study local agriculture and forestry, on the nutrient-rich, anthropogenic soils of the Amazon basin. Winter 2002-3

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Certications and Qualications

National Wildre Coordinating Group (NWCG) qualications: Type II wildland reghter (FFT2) Faller level A trainee (FAL-A) NWCG coursework: S-130-190/I-100, Fireghter Type II Training, Intro to Wildland Fire Behavior S-212, Wildland Power Saws S-290, Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior Rx-310, Introduction to Wildland Fire Effects S-390, Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations S-490, Advanced Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations