People
Meet our talented team of dedicated professionals who bring a diverse set of skills and expertise to the table, and whose contributions to the Sweet lab have been immeasurable.
Current Members
Principal Investigator | Assistant Research Ecologist
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.
Professor and Landscape Ecologist | CCB Director
Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside. Director, Center for Conservation Biology.
Landscape and Ecosystem Scientist.
Research Interests: Ecological scaling • Coupled biogeochemical cycles • Terrestrial-hydrologic linkages • Societalbiophysical interactions
Dr. Jenerette is the Director of the Center for Conservation Biology, and a research collaborator.
Collaborators
Past Collaborators
Stacey Villalobos
(they/them/elle)
Climate Resilience Assistant | Lab Assistant 2022/2023
Alyssa Diaz
(she/her/ella)
Lab Assistant
Julia Parish
(she/her/ella)
Data Science Fellow
2022
Aidan Koch
Lab Assistant
2023
There are currently no open positions to join the Sweet Lab.