Theme: Coupled natural-human systems interactions
Climate-driven changes in human-wildlife interactions
Forecasting climate-driven changes in human-wildlife interactions.
Wildfire and carbon cycling in forests and grasslands
Using cutting-edge remote sensing data to examine the decadal-long effects of wildfires on vegetation biomass and carbon.
Post-fire revegetation in a Changing Climate
Assessing post-fire vegetation changes of western forests as a response to environmental variability due to climate change and human land management practices.
Addressing Shifting Phenology in High School Classrooms
Enhancing high school students' understanding of phenology (nature’s calendar), how climate change is causing shifts, and the subsequent impacts on people.
LASER (Life-cycle Assessment Synthesized with Ecosystems and Risk)
Enhancing the assessment of Forest-Natural Climate Solutions (fNCS) by developing a scalable, spatially-explicit method to evaluate their climate, ecosystem, and social impacts.
Impact of mammal community intactness on human health in low- to middle-income countries
This project will use large-scale survey data from low- to middle-income countries to examine how mammal community intactness and abundance declines affect human health, providing insights into future health outcomes under global environmental change.