Remote Sensing of Arctic and Boreal Vegetation: Co-I on NASA funded collaborative research project quantifying terrestrial biome shifts in the Arctic and boreal zones. Our project, funded under the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), will improve maps of lichen and shrub cover in much of Alaska to enable habitat analyses of caribou herds and better quantify shrub expansion.
Lichens of Chilean Fog Deserts: Collaborator on National Geographic supported study examining effects of extreme fog deposition on lichen functional trait variation, community composition and genetic structure along elevation gradient in the Atacama, the world's driest desert located in northern Chile.
Vegetation of Rock Glaciers Collaborator on Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund supported project studying the environmental drivers behind community and genetic variation of lichens within and between talus slopes with perennial ice (rock glacier) in northern Maine.
Climate Change & Lichens: Collaborator on lichen component in climate change experiment (SPRUCE) led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and US Forest Service.
Lichens of Chilean Fog Deserts: Collaborator on National Geographic supported study examining effects of extreme fog deposition on lichen functional trait variation, community composition and genetic structure along elevation gradient in the Atacama, the world's driest desert located in northern Chile.
Vegetation of Rock Glaciers Collaborator on Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund supported project studying the environmental drivers behind community and genetic variation of lichens within and between talus slopes with perennial ice (rock glacier) in northern Maine.
Climate Change & Lichens: Collaborator on lichen component in climate change experiment (SPRUCE) led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and US Forest Service.
Kurupa Lake, Gates of the Arctic, Alaska
* Volcanoes and Lichens: North and South America
Project quantifying effects of different eruption disturbances on lichen communities after two different eruptions in Chile and one in Washington State, USA. Work ongoing with latest visit to Chilean field sites in April 2015. See Nelson et al (2015) (in review) as a part of a book on ecological work in the 35 years since the Mt St Helens eruption and Nelson and Wheeler (2015) (in review) in Bosque on Cordon-Caulle eruption, Chile.
Parque Nacional Queulat, Chile,
Lichen of the Valdivian Rainforest, Chile
*Lichen florisitic and ecological studies in over 15 national and private parks and preserves in south central Chile. Bi-lingual field guide to the lichens of the Valdivian Rainforest in prep.
*Lichen florisitic and ecological studies in over 15 national and private parks and preserves in south central Chile. Bi-lingual field guide to the lichens of the Valdivian Rainforest in prep.
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