Curriculum Vitae (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

Project: Examining the drivers of spatial patterns of fire severity in mixed severity forest ecosystems.

Research interests:

• Understanding the causes and ecological consequences of spatial variation of burn severity
• Examine the influence of climate change on temporal and spatial variation in fire regimes
• Integrating contagious disturbance processes into climate-based models of vegetation distribution

Current project:

Post-fire regeneration at the alpine-upper treeline ecotone

Upper treeline environments have been hypothesized to be some of the most sensitive to changes in climate but research has shown that environmental variation and biotic feedbacks at local scale often override the influence of regional climate on seedling germination, survival, and recruitment. Additionally, climate change is likely to affect the occurrence and magnitude of disturbances process in these ecosystems. This study will use remote sensing data, field data, and spatial modeling to address the influence of local environmental and biotic factors and regional climate on post-fire tree regeneration at the alpine-upper treeline ecotone in the Cascade Range and northern Rocky Mountains.

Job Announcement:  Summer Field Position in Fire & Treeline Ecology
 
The Fire and Mountain Ecology Lab www.cfr.washington.edu/research.FME at the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences seeks to hire 2 field research assistants for a research project on post-wildfire tree regeneration in the subalpine-parkland ecotone. Field work will consist of measuring overstory tree structure, tree regeneration, and site characteristics in burned areas in the Northern Cascade Range and Northern Rocky Mountains.