Kristin Nesbit

Email: kristin.nesbit@berkeley.edu

Hometown: West Linn, OR

Education:

M.S. Ecology, Utah State University, 2023

B.A. Biology, Whitman College, 2016

I'm broadly interested in forest and fire ecology, particularly how research in these fields can inform management of western forests to restore natural disturbance regimes. Currently, I research the wildfire use effects on aboveground carbon dynamics,  the impacts of landscape-wide fuel treatments on fire severity, and the fire ecology and management of understudied western ecosystems (oak woodlands and California pygmy forests). Prior to joining the lab, I earned my M.S. from Utah State University where I studied the influence of quaking aspen forests on fire behavior and the flammability of surface and canopy fuels in aspen forests along a successional gradient from pure to mixed aspen-conifer.