Current Research Projects

North America

• Hydrothermal influences on the vegetation history of Yellowstone National Park

• Vegetation, climate, and fire history of Yellowstone National Park

• Multi-scale reconstructions of human-climate-fire interactions in mixed-conifer forests of the Northern Rockies

• Yellowstone Lake's eruptive history

• Biodiversity potential in the northwestern U.S.

• Historical drivers of ecosystem dynamics in the northern US Rocky Mountains

South America

• Holocene history of the forest-steppe border in Patagonia

• Causes and consequences of increased fire activity in altered ecosystems, Chile