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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries; University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN 37996 Corporate Fellow Emeritus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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https://www.virginiadale.info/
Phone
1-865-405-2025

Virginia Dale

Research Professor

Dr. Virginia Dale is a landscape ecologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. She is also a Corporate Fellow emeritus at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she worked for 33 years. Dr. Dale is interested in environmental decision making, ecosystem management in the context of large disturbances and climate change, quantifying progress toward sustainability of agricultural landscapes and energy systems, and plant succession (building from her 40+ years of observations at Mount St. Helens since the 1980 eruption). She was among the members of the international science community who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientific Assessment that in 2007 received with Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize. She has served on national scientific advisory boards for five agencies of the United States and several committees of the National Academies of Science. She and her husband helped design their energy efficient house that uses passive solar, geothermal power, and many repurposed materials. She also is a Trustee for the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and was elected to the Tennessee state Board of the Sierra Club.

Research Interest

Mathematical Ecology, Landscape Ecology

Education

  • B.A. in Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1974 (with honors)
  • M.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1975
  • Ph.D. in Mathematical Ecology (a Special Individual Ph.D. Program), University of Washington, Seattle, 1980

Research

Sustainability and ecosystem management in the context of large disturbances and climate change

Publications

Selected Publications (Total 11 books and 285 articles, chapters, and reports) (V. Dale was formerly V. Adams). View full CV here:  Dale Long CV July 2024

  1. Dale VH, S Brown, RA Haeuber, NT Hobbs, N Huntly,  RJ Naiman, WE Riebsame, MG Turner, and TJ Valone. 2000. Ecological principles and guidelines for managing the use of land. Ecological Applications 10: 639-670.
  2. Dale VH, LA Joyce, S McNulty, RP Neilson, MP Ayres, MD Flannigan, PJ Hanson, LC Irland, AE Lugo, CJ Peterson, D Simberloff, FJ Swanson, BJ Stocks, and BM Wotton. 2001. Forest disturbances and climate change. BioScience 51(9):723-734.
  3. Dale VH, Efroymson RA and Kline KL. 2011. The land use – climate change – energy nexus. Landscape Ecology 26(6):755-773.
  4. Dale VH, Kline KL, Kaffka SR, and Langeveld JWA. 2013. A landscape perspective on sustainability of agricultural systems. Landscape Ecology 28(6): 1111-1123.
  5. Efroymson RA, Kline KL, Angelsen A, Verburg PH, Dale VH, Langeveld JW, McBride A. 2016,  A causal analysis framework for land-use change and the potential role of bioenergy. Land Use Policy 59:516-527.
  6. Dale, VH and CM Crisafulli. 2017. Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens: Key Lessons and Remaining Questions. Chapter 1 in Crisafulli, CM and Dale, VH (editors). Ecological Responses at Mount St. Helens: Revisited 35 years after the 1980 Eruption. New York: Springer.
  7. Dale, VH and EM Denton. 2017. Plant succession on the Mount St. Helens debris-avalanche deposit and the role of nonnative species. Chapter 8 in Crisafulli, C.M. and Dale, V.H. (editors). Ecological Responses at Mount St. Helens: Revisited 35 years after the 1980 Eruption. New York: Springer.
  8. Dale VH and KL Kline. 2017. Interactive Posters: A valuable means for enhancing communication and learning about productive paths toward sustainable bioenergy. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefineries 11(2): 243-246. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.1753/epdf
  9. Dale VH, KL Kline, ES Parish, AL Cowie, R Emory, RW Malmsheimer, R Slade, CT Smith, TB Wigley, NS Bentsen, G Berndes, P Bernier, M Brandão, H Chum, R Diaz-Chavez, G Egnell, L Gustavsson, J Schweinle, I Stupak, P Trianosky, A Walter, C Whittaker, M Brown, G Chescheir, I Dimitriou, C Donnison, A Goss Eng, KP Hoyt, JC Jenkins, K Johnson, CA Levesque, V Lockhart, MC Negri, JE Nettles, M Wellisch (2017) Status and prospects for renewable energy using wood pellets from the southeastern United States. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 9: 1296-1305. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12445. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.12445/full
  10. Dale VH, Parish ES, Kline KL, Tobin E (2017) How is wood-based pellet production affecting forest conditions in the southeastern United States? Forest Ecology and Management 396: 143-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.03.022
  11. Duden AS, PA Verweij, HM Junginger, RC Abt, JD Henderson, VH Dale, KL Kline, D Karssenberg, JA Verstegen, APC Faaij, F van der Hilst (2017) Modelling the impacts of wood pellet demand on forest dynamics in southeastern United States. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.1803/full
  12. Fritsche, UR, G Berndes, AL Cowie, VH Dale, KL Kline, FX Johnson, H Langeveld, N Sharma, H Watson, J Woods (2017) Energy and land use. Working Paper for the UNCCD Global Land Outlook. Prepared for UNCCD and IRENA https://knowledge.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2018-06/2.%20Fritsche%2Bet%2Bal%2B%282017%29%2BEnergy%2Band%2BLand%2BUse%2B-%2BGLO%2Bpaper-corr.pdf
  13. Parish ES, Dale VH, Kline KL Abt RC (2017) Reference scenarios for evaluating wood pellet production in the Southeastern United States. WIREs Energy and Environment. e259. doi: 10.1002/wene.259. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wene.259/epdf
  14. Souza G, Ballester MVR, Cruz CHB, Chum H, Dale B, Dale VH, Fernandes E, Foust T, Karp A, Lynd L, Maciel R, Milanez A, Nigro F, Osseweijer P, Verdade L, Victoria R, Van Der Wielen L (2017) The role of bioenergy in a climate-changing world. Environmental Development 23:57-64. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464516302755
  15. Dale VH, Kline KL, Richard TL, Karlen DL, Belden WW (In press) Bridging Biofuel Sustainability Indicators and Ecosystem Services through Stakeholder Engagement. Biomass and Bioenergy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.09.016