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Tim Hilton working with Elliott Campbell and Michael Loik
I seek to understand the terrestrial biological carbon cycle at regional scales using a combination of atmospheric composition observations, ecosystem – atmosphere flux observations, atmospheric and ecosystem models, and data assimilation methods. Considering a group of field observation sites as a collection in space can yield information that is not apparent from considering each site individually, and I am particularly interested in using models to extract such information.
Goals of my work include diagnosing the causes and spatial behavior of variations in the terrestrial biological carbon cycle. Broad research interests include modeling of geophysical phenomena and anthropogenic influences on geophysical systems.
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Simone Des Roches working with Eric Palkovacs
I am interested in the interplay between ecological processes and contemporary evolution. Specifically, how does rapid phenotypic adaptation affect species’ interactions with their environment, and how does the environment affect species’ ecology and phenotypic adaptation? Rapidly evolving species, which inhabit ecologically young and ecologically distinctive ecosystems, provide a model backdrop for investigating these questions.
My early research examined the first half of the eco-evo relationship by demonstrating how rapid phenotypic evolution of threespine stickleback in postglacial lakes affects attributes of the surrounding environment, such as water chemistry and community structure. My subsequent doctorate work investigated the other half of the eco-evo relationship by showing how drastic changes in ecological surroundings can lead to large ecological shifts and rapid phenotypic adaptation across three separate lizards species in White Sands, NM.
I am extremely excited to begin my postdoc through the ISEECI program where I will be working in Eric Palkovacs’ lab at UCSC. Here, I plan to simultaneously study both sides the eco-evo relationship in the increasingly relevant context of climate change. In particular, I will focus on coastal aquatic systems in California that have recently experienced drastic climactic changes due to drought and El Niño conditions. It is my hope that through the ISEECI program I will be able to demonstrate the importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics in the conservation of our drastically changing ecosystems.
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Katie Stuble working with Andrew Latimer and Laurel Fox
I’m a community ecologist broadly interested in the impacts of global climate change on communities and ecosystems. I did my masters degree at the University of Georgia in the Southeast’s beautiful longleaf pine savannas and Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee looking at ants in deciduous forests. This was followed by a postdoc at the University of Oklahoma in the grasslands of the Great Plains and, most recently, a postdoc in Truman Young’s lab at UC Davis.
Most of my research has focused on the nature and importance of interspecific interactions and how these interactions may be disrupted by various global change drivers. I’ve been particularly interested in mutualisms between ants and plants, as well as competitive interactions among plant species. As the ISEECI postdoc in community ecology, I hope to begin harnessing the collective power of data from the Natural Reserve System to begin making predictions about the types of ecological responses we might expect to be most sensitive to climate change as we prepare for a warmer future.
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Kevin Brown working with Peter Alagona
I am an environmental historian. Over the last decade I’ve been working on projects centered on understanding the changing historical relationships between humans and nature. I received my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, where I wrote a dissertation on the lumber industry and forestry in Minnesota and Louisiana from the 1890s to the 1930s. After a brief stint as a journalist, I’ve spent the last 2.5 years writing an environmental history of an endangered desert fish (Devils Hole pupfish) for the National Park Service. At ISEECI, I’ll be blending these interests as I investigate the history of land use, ecological change, and climate on California’s Channel Islands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Anthony Ambrose working with Todd Dawson
I’m a plant physiological ecologist interested in understanding how trees function and interact with their environment. The overarching goal of my research is to advance our knowledge of the physiological mechanisms controlling tree performance and forest responses to climate change. I study how the uptake, transport and usage of water and carbon by trees are coordinated, and how they are affected by tree structural properties and by variability in soil and atmospheric conditions.
My research combines diverse methods and tools from the fields of plant physiology, forest ecosystem ecology, stable isotope biogeochemistry, dendrochronology, remote sensing, and micrometeorology. I also utilize advanced rope-based climbing techniques in order to directly study tree and forest canopy structure, function, and biological diversity.
My current research with ISEECI is focused on examining water use strategies and environmental responses of coast redwood and coast live oak trees at the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve on the central coast of California, and comparing these species with southwestern white pine and quaking aspen trees in northern Arizona in order to better understand and predict how these trees and forests might respond to future climate changes. I am also coordinating the installation and maintenance of wireless microclimate monitoring systems and phenological cameras at ten different UC Natural Reserves representing diverse ecosystems throughout California, ranging from southern chaparral and deserts to eastern mountains to northern mixed conifer forests.
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