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INFORMATION Department of Forest Resources Office: 204B, CNR building EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2006 M.S., University of Washington, Seattle, 2002 B.A., Middlebury College, Vermont, 1998 |
RESEARCH STATEMENT
My research focuses broadly on the climatic and vegetational controls of fire occurrence and fire regimes over a range of time scales. I am specifically interested in the impacts that interannual- to millennial-scale changes in climate and vegetation have on fire regimes in forested and non-forested ecosystems. How has past climate change influenced fire regimes in subalpine or boreal forests, and how can we use these natural experiments to gain insights into potential interactions between climate, vegetation, and fire in the future? I have addressed such questions using spatially-explicit modeling and quantitative analyses, dendrochronology, and charcoal and pollen in sediment records in regions including the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, and across Alaska.Current projects focus on:
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Interactions between climate, fire, and vegetation in boreal forests, subalpine forests, and arctic tundra
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Understanding the origin of sediment charcoal records and developing analytical methods for reconstructing fire regimes with sediment charcoal data
