ABOUT ME...

I am originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, near the southern limit of the boreal forest. My research background has focused on geographic range limits of trees, as well as environmental change in continuous and discontinuous permafrost zones. I am broadly interested biotic and abiotic interactions in shaping species distributions. I use bioinformatics, citizen science, long term environmental monitoring, and field/lab experiments to evaluate controls on species' ranges limits along environmental gradients in natural and anthropogenically disturbed ecosystems.
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A bright, winter day over the treeline ecotone near Churchill, Manitoba.