天美传媒

Dr. Colin Beier’s expertise lies in forest landscapes as social-ecological systems, their responses to multiple drivers of change - including climate, land use, invasives and pollution - and developing frameworks and tools for making better real-world decisions.
He teaches several areas of ecology - forest, landscape, global change - as well as seminars in ecological economics, adaptive management and regional sustainability. Beier is an ecologist interested in the complex relationships between economies, institutions and the ecosystems upon which society depends.
He is a broadly trained ecologist interested in the functions, dynamics, and adaptive capacity of forest ecosystems and landscapes - including humans and our economic, political, and cultural institutions - in a rapidly changing world.

Grant Harley’s research interests lie within the broad domain of physical geography, but focus on climatology, biogeography, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction over the past ca. 2,000 years. Currently the overarching goal of Grant’s research program is focused on integrating information about current and past climatic and ecological processes to better understand how natural resources (like plant communities and water) are likely to become altered in the future due to human-induced changes. Grant uses dendrochronology and spatial analysis as research tools to investigate landscape鈥恠cale dynamics (those initiated and/or controlled by both human and natural processes), which must be tempered with a historical perspective.
Topics: climate change, drought, hot-droughts, floods, avalanches, snowpack, atmospheric rivers, wildfires, river discharge, forest ecology, insect outbreaks, dendrochronology (tree-ring science)