Steering Committee

Patrick Martin

University of Denver

Patrick specializes in plant ecology, climate change impacts, and disturbance ecology.

Heidi Asbjornsen

University of New Hampshire

Heidi focuses on plant ecophysiology, restoration ecology, and sustainability science.

Tom Giambelluca

University of Hawaii-Manoa

Tom studies climatology, ecophysiology, and hydrology.

Ken Young

University of Texas-Austin

Ken specializes in biogeography, landscape ecology, global change, and conservation biology.

Jim Dalling

Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jim studies the community ecology of tropical trees, with a particular interest in the processes that determine their abundance and distribution.​

Rebecca Ostertag

University of Hawaii-Hilo

As tropical forest ecologist, Becky’s research involves understanding how tropical forests are structured and how tropical ecosystems function.