Education

2009      Ph.D., Geography, University of Oregon
2003      M.S., Geography, University of Oregon
1991      B.S., Business Administration, University at Albany, State University of New York

Interests

Climate Change & Extreme Weather, Wildfires, Paleoclimate, Risk Perceptions and Decision-making, Science Communication

I study climate change. I examine physical processes, especially wildfires, at local to global spatial scales and over long time periods. I study fires to learn how they increase or decrease in size and frequency in response to changing temperatures and human activities. I also study social processes, like how people respond to changes in their local environment (e.g., temperature changes, hurricanes, heat waves), and whether they link changes in weather and climate to global warming. Much of my work also focuses on science and risk communication, which I conduct in collaboration with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and our partners.

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