Ryan Pienaar
Ryan Pienaar
I am an ecologist who uses field and quantitative methods to understand how novel disturbances affect ecologocal processes. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Studying the effects of oak wilt disease on the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Previously, I completed my PhD at Brigham Young University studying how widlfires affect different plants and animal species.
Camera trap photo of a mule deer in a burned area
Experimental burn plots
Rodent tagging
Western harvester ant disk