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My dissertation furthers work in ecosystem resilience and social-ecological resilience to global change, in the systems of a) the northern boreal forest of interior Alaska, where climate change drives a changing wildfire regime; and b) a central Californian estuary, where N pollution and sea-level rise (due to climate change) converge at the land-sea interface, impacting rare salt marsh habitats and their provision of ecosystem services. The first study explores impacts of a changing wildfire regime on a suite of wild species important for subsistence livelihoods, including game animals, furbearers, fish, and plants. Fire is a primary determinant of landscape pattern in the boreal forest. My review of 17 species...
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My dissertation furthers work in ecosystem resilience and social-ecological resilience to global change, in the systems of a) the northern boreal forest of interior Alaska, where climate change drives a changing wildfire regime; and b) a central Californian estuary, where N pollution and sea-level rise (due to climate change) converge at the land-sea interface, impacting rare salt marsh habitats and their provision of ecosystem services. The first study explores impacts of a changing wildfire regime on a suite of wild species important for subsistence livelihoods, including game animals, furbearers, fish, and plants. Fire is a primary determinant of landscape pattern in the boreal forest. My review of 17 species...
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In the summer of 1999, glacier-dammed Iceberg Lake drained catastrophically and completely, exposing to subaerial erosion a lacustrine sediment package that records over 1500 years of continuous deposition. Situated in southcentral Alaska at the heart of the world's largest nonpolar icefields, this record offered an unprecedented opportunity to characterize at high resolution the history of climate and glacier response for a remote, understudied region previously known only by a 50 year historic/instrumental record, 500+ years of tree rings, and patchy records of late Holocene glacier advances. Combining Iceberg Lake's unique and well-exposed stratigraphic record with additional evidence that includes results from...
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In the summer of 1999, glacier-dammed Iceberg Lake drained catastrophically and completely, exposing to subaerial erosion a lacustrine sediment package that records over 1500 years of continuous deposition. Situated in southcentral Alaska at the heart of the world's largest nonpolar icefields, this record offered an unprecedented opportunity to characterize at high resolution the history of climate and glacier response for a remote, understudied region previously known only by a 50 year historic/instrumental record, 500+ years of tree rings, and patchy records of late Holocene glacier advances. Combining Iceberg Lake's unique and well-exposed stratigraphic record with additional evidence that includes results from...
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In the summer of 1999, glacier-dammed Iceberg Lake drained catastrophically and completely, exposing to subaerial erosion a lacustrine sediment package that records over 1500 years of continuous deposition. Situated in southcentral Alaska at the heart of the world's largest nonpolar icefields, this record offered an unprecedented opportunity to characterize at high resolution the history of climate and glacier response for a remote, understudied region previously known only by a 50 year historic/instrumental record, 500+ years of tree rings, and patchy records of late Holocene glacier advances. Combining Iceberg Lake's unique and well-exposed stratigraphic record with additional evidence that includes results from...
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