Kyla Zaret

Email: kzaret@pdx.edu

Kyla brings to our lab twelve years of experience as a field biologist, an MSc in Resource Conservation from the University of Montana (focus in International Conservation and Development), and a decade of travel/research/exploration in the Southern Cone. Her research interests are a culmination of the above experiences, which have exposed her to myriad ecological/social/political/economic aspects of natural resource use and management that shape social-ecological systems. Kyla is particularly concerned by changing disturbance regimes in southwestern Patagonia and the implications for local people and the ecosystems on which they base their livelihoods. As a member of the Global Environmental Change Lab, she is investigating the long-term effects of fire and climate on the forest-peatland ecotone, and the socio-political barriers to native species restoration in the Aysén Region of Chile. Outside of academia, Kyla can be found wandering the Big Sky country of Montana, mucking about in wetlands, and daydreaming of packrafting adventures.