I am a Climate Change Adaptation Scientist in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I co-direct the Conservation Science and Stewardship Lab.

My research focuses on trees in the global biodiversity hotspot of the California Floristic Province that grow nowhere else in the world and form the backbones of our ecosystems.

Our team uses field surveys, remotely sensed data, genomics, predictive modeling, meta-analysis and ecological theory to better understand how trees are already responding to climate change and how their distributions are likely to change in the future.  We work to help trees survive climate change.