Welcome!
We are an ecology laboratory at The Evergreen State College. Our larger mission is to promote and support engagement in ecological science at all levels of training. The lab’s current work is divided between riparian cottonwood forests in the intermountain West (US), prairie restoration research, forest research on carbon cycling, belowground ecology, stream ecology, and forest-stream interactions. We are especially excited about our ongoing work examining genetic effects on ecosystems using Cottonwood forests as a model ecosystems. Our recent work in this area has suggested tree genetics can have tremendous ecosystem-level effects on forests and streams. In summer, 2009, we began working extensively with several other labs to combine LiDAR and ground based measurments in our forest permanent plot netork (EEON). InJuly-September, 2009, we began working with Dr. Monika Moskal (http://depts.washington.edu/rsgal/) to conduct ground-based LiDAR surveys in our permanent plot network!