Dr. Lynn Sweet is a Research Ecologist at the University of California, Riverside’s (UCR) Center for Conservation Biology. She has a B.S. in Biology from Dickinson College and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from UCR. Her post-doctoral research was on tree seedling establishment in central California, and her projects focus on plant ecology, as applied to conservation in desert communities in southern California. Specifically, her research focuses on the distribution of desert vegetation as well as long-term changes in communities of plants due to drought and climate change, including monitoring and research within the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree National Park.  

Dr. Darrel Jenerette is the Director of the Center for Conservation Biology, and a research collaborator in the Sweet Lab. As a landscape and ecosystem scientist, his research focuses on the coupling between biodiversity, energy fluxes, and biogeochemical cycling embedded within ecological landscapes. 

Research Interests: Ecological scaling • Coupled biogeochemical cycles • Terrestrial-hydrologic linkages • Societalbiophysical interactions