About Emily
Forest disturbance regimes are changing in response to rapid climate change and past and ongoing forest management. The limited availability of forest measurements with sufficient dynamism, accuracy, resolution, and spatial extent challenges our ability to understand and manage shifting forest disturbance regimes. To address this challenge, my lab develops new systems to quantify forest structure, composition, and moisture and their dynamics by integrating measurements derived from remote sensing with field plot data. We then combine those new measurements of forest properties with ecological frameworks and in some cases, simulation models, to improve understanding of forest disturbances and develop tools and data products to support forest management. Current projects in the lab are focused on wildfire and bark beetle disturbances in forests in the southwestern and western US.
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- Forest ecology
- Forest disturbances
- Fire ecology
- Forest inventory
- Remote sensing
- Lidar
- Forest demography
- Global change
Education
Ph.D. , Environmental Earth System Science - Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 2019
B.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, 2013
Memberships
- Ecological Society of America