Pamela Hall, Ph.D

Professional Experience

Consultant/Analyst
2005 – present

• Provide collaboration for statistical analysis and corresponding software development in investigations of ecology, population biology and demography of plant communities and species. Current collaboration: Dr. Peter Ashton, Professor Emeritus Harvard University, Differentiation of tropical trees life histories in Southeast Asian forests.

Research Associate
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
March 2005 - present

• Developed statistical software package for the analysis of long term tropical plant demographics

Research Associate
Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
January 2006 - present

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, Florida State University ,Tallahassee, FL, USA
September 1994 - present

Instructor
Center for Tropical Forest Science, International Analytical Workshops, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
August 2002 - June 2005

Research Assistant Professor
Centre for Tropical Biodiversity, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
July 1996 – September 2000

• Topic: Distribution, abundance and associations of palm species in the Amazon region of Ecuador.

Danvis Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Systematic Botany, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
July 1994 – June 1996

Research Associate
Harvard Institute for International Development and The Center for Tropical Forestry Science, Cambridge, MA, USA
March 1993 – June 1994

• Topic: Development of a felling cycle model for evaluation of economic viability of natural tropical forest management using large demographic datasets.

Research Associate
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
December 1990 – April 1993

• National Science Foundation Grant Title: Genetic Variation, Effective Population Size, Mating Systems and Gene Flow in Tropical Rain Forest Trees.

Community Activism

Water Resources Committee

• Appointed by Board of Leon County Commissioners to this advisory committee in March, 2007. The committee’s purpose is to addresses water resource preservation, conservation and use in Leon County, Florida. We participate in the writing, review and monitoring of land planning policies, development regulations, and lake protection plans throughout Leon County. The committee reports directly to the County Commissioners.

Citizens Advisory Committee to Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency

• Appointed member by Board of Leon County Commissioners to the advisory committee in June, 2007. The committee’s purpose is to provide comment regarding transportation planning proposals including addressing the transportation needs of various segments of the community’s population.

Centerville Rural Community Association

• President from 1999-2001, Vice President 2002 and 2004. CeRCA is a neighborhood association located in Leon County, Florida, USA. The purpose of this association is to preserve rural areas through quality urban planning and to protect lake water quality with scientifically valid storm water management. During my tenure this association was successful in getting the County government to adopt a sector plan that accomplishes both preservation and allows for future growth. I have provided expertise on storm water management modeling, lake ecology, conservation biology and the impact of urban planning policies and regulations.

Residential Land Availability and Affordability Committee

• Committee of developers, realtors, members of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce and other concerned citizens to investigate the availability of affordable housing in Leon County. I served on the committee and provided the quantitative analysis of the land use patterns and estimates of residential development capacities for presentation to the local Planning Commission and government.

Review & Advice Experience

• Consulting: World Bank, International Forestry Research Institute, World Wildlife Foundation Nature Conservancy, Centre for International Forestry Research, Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Forestry Institute, Forest Research Institute of Malaysia
  2001-2004: Subject editor for Biotropica, a professional academic tropical ecology and evolutionary biology chronicle
• Peer Review: Reviewer for Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Conservation Biology, American Naturalist, Forest Ecology and Management

Tropical Field Experience

• I have worked for many years since 1987 in Malaysia, both in Borneo and in the peninsular in fields of both basic and applied research on tropical forest species demography and resource management. I also have many years of experience in Costa Rica where my research has focused on the population genetics of tropical tree species. I worked for three years in the Amazon region of Ecuador investigating the distribution of palm species.

Awards & Publications

• Thorough knowledge of applied statistics including parametric and nonparametric analyses, randomization testing and other adhoc null model analyses. Development of demographic and forestry models of plant populations. Extensive experience with statistical analysis software and a variety of programming environments.
  
• Hall, P. 1985. "Survey of the Kingdoms". In: Principles of Biology I. Laboratory Manual. E.A. Godrick, E. ed. pp 137-293.
• Hall, P. and Primack, R.B. 1986. The population dynamics of tree species in mixed dipterocarp forests of Sarawak. In: 9th Malaysian Forestry Conference. Vol. II Section I (12):1-14. Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia.
• Primack, R.B. and Hall, P. 1990. Costs of reproduction in the pink lady's slipper orchid: a four year experimental study. American Naturalist. 136:638-656.
• Primack, R.B., Hall, P. and Lee, H.S. 1991. The silviculture of dipterocarp trees in Sarawak, East Malaysia. IV. Seedling establishment in a selectively logged forest and three primary forests. Malaysian Forester. 50:162-178.
• Primack, R.B. and Hall, P. 1991. Species diversity research in Bornean forests with implications for conservation biology and silviculture. Tropics. 1:91-111.
• Primack, R.B. and Hall, P. 1993. Biodiversity and forest change in Malaysian Borneo. Bioscience. 42:829-837.
• Hall, P. and Bawa, K.S. 1993. Methods to assess the impact of extraction of non-timber tropical forest products on plant populations. Economic Botany. 47: 234-247.
• Phillips, O.L., Hall, P., Gentry, A.H., Sawyer, S. and R. Vásquez. 1994. Dynamics and species-richness of tropical rain forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 91: 2805-2809.
• Hall, P., Orrell, L., and Bawa, K.S. 1994. Breeding system and population differentiation of an important timber species, Carapa guianensis (Meliaceae). American Journal of Botany. 81:1104-1111.
• Hall, P., Walker, S. and Bawa, K.S. 1996. Effect of forest fragmentation on genetic diversity and mating system in a tropical tree, Pithecellobium elegans. Conservation Biology. 10:757-768.
• Phillips, O., Hall, P., Sawyer, S. and Vásquez, R. 1997. Response to Sheil: species richness, tropical forest dynamics and sampling. Oikos. 79:183-187.
• Hall, P., Ashton, P.S., Condit, R., Manokaran, N., and Hubbell, S.P. 1998. Signal and noise in sampling tropical forest structure and dynamics. Dallmeier, F and Comsikey J.A. (Eds). In: Forest Biodiversity Research, Monitoring and Modeling. UNESCO and Parthenon Publishing Group, Paris and New York. Pp 63 - 78.
• Delission, L.J., Primack, R.B., Hall, P. and Lee, H.S. 2002. A decade of canopy-tree seedling survival and growth in two Bornean rain forests: persistence and recovery from suppression. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18:645-658.
• Vormisto, J., Svenning, J.C., Hall, P., and Balslev H. 2004. Diversity and dominance in palm (Arecaceae) communities in terra firme forest in the western Amazon basin. Journal of Ecology. 92: 577-588.

Education

• January, 1991 Ph.D. Biology
  Boston University, Boston, MA USA
  Thesis title: Structure, Dynamics and Species Compositional Change in the Three Mixed Dipterocarp Forests of Northwest Borneo
• May, 1978 B.S. Biology, B.S. Humanities
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
• Applied Statistics and Quantitative Plant Community Ecology. Six years of graduate level courses. University of Aarhus, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark.
• Basics of experimental design and analysis. Master’s level course. Católica University, Quito, Ecuador.
• European Summer School, Botanical Diversity of Tropical Forests, Aarhus University, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark.
• Ecology, upper division undergraduate level. Boston University, Boston, USA.