Education

B.M., Violin Performance, Juilliard School of Music

B.S., Environmental Science, magna cum laude, Columbia University 

M.S., Earth Science, Montana State University

Research Interests

Fire-climate-vegetation interactions in mixed conifer forests across the Northern Rocky Mountains

Publications

Alt, M., Puseman, K., Lee, C., Chellman, N., McConnell, J., Pederson, G., McWethy, D., in press. Sediment layers preserved in ice patches: A new record of Holocene environmental change on the Beartooth Plateau, USA. Holocene.

Schiller, C.M., Alt, M., Nanavati, W.P., Wendt, J.A.F., Stahle, L.N., 2023. Getting Information from the Past: Palaeoecological Studies of Terrestrial Ecosystems. In: Clifford, N., Cope, M., Gillespie, T., French, S. (Eds), Key Methods in Geography, 4th ed. Sage Publications, pp. 393-418.

Schiller, C.M., Whitlock, C., Alt, M., Morgan, L.A., 2020. Vegetation responses to Quaternary volcanic and hydrothermal disturbances in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (USA): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 559.

McWethy DB, Alt M, Argiriadis E, Battistel D, Everett R and Pederson GT (2020) Millennial-Scale Climate and Human Drivers of Environmental Change and Fire Activity in a Dry, Mixed-Conifer Forest of Northwestern Montana. Front. For. Glob. Change 3:44. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00044

Alt, M., McWethy, D., Everett, R., & Whitlock, C. (2018). Millennial scale climate-fire-vegetation interactions in a mid-elevation mixed coniferous forest, Mission Range, northwestern Montana, USA. Quaternary Research,90(1), 66-82. doi:10.1017/qua.2018.25

Contact

mio.alt1@montana.edu