Team

Meghan is a first-year masters student working on a project focused on the energy transfer of leaf-litter in stream ecosystems.

Lauren is interested in how changing disturbance regimes in boreal forests are affecting stand dynamics and carbon cycling. Her research focuses on how increasing fire frequency and severity affects post-fire regeneration and forest resilience in Interior Alaska.

Hampton’s research focuses on the ecology and management of global change, and microbial ecology from humans to the globe. Her research occurs in woodlands and forests in the temperate zone. Through applied research, Hampton hopes to contribute to improvements in ecosystem health and efforts to mitigate global climate change. Current Read more…

Research Interests Tim wants to improve our understanding of terrestrial ecosystems by studying how individual plants and plant communities function. He uses observations, experiments, simulations and theory to achieve this goal. Currently, he focuses on how and why trees grow wood, due to the huge importance of wood for many Read more…

Selected Publications: Chan, F.C., Arain, M.A., Khomik, M., Brodeur, J.J., Peichl, M., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Thorne, R., Beamesderfer, E., McKenzie, S., Xu, B. and Croft, H., 2018. Carbon, water and energy exchange dynamics of a young pine plantation forest during the initial fourteen years of growth. Forest Ecology and Management, 410, Read more…

Finley’s research interests involve investigating how human activities affect nutrient cycling in terrestrial systems and possible feedbacks to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Her interests range from microbial ecology to global change questions. She is interested in continuing research to address pressing ecological questions as well as developing outreach Read more…

Katharyn is an Earth-Systems scientist who focuses on the temperature response of the terrestrial biosphere. Her research integrates point-based measurements of phenology and land-carbon uptake into remotely sensed and globally gridded scales for digestion into Earth-system models. Katharyn is a proponent of open and reproducible data science, a contributor to Read more…

Caroline is a a plant and soil ecologist working at the interface of community and ecosystem ecology. Her research program broadly seeks to understand the ecology of terrestrial ecosystems and their responses to global change. She is currently a postdoc at the US Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center and Read more…

Bijan is a quantitative environmental scientist with special expertise on geospatial analyses, remote sensing, hierarchical Bayesian statistics and physics-based modeling. The overarching questions that he is interested in are: “how does climate change influence ecosystem dynamics?” and “how do climate change impacts vary spatially and temporally?” Full Curriculum Vitae Selected Read more…