Ecology and Evolution Seminar (which is also a Major Issues in Modern Biology Seminar sponsored by the Storer Endowment): Landscape in transition? Climate change and disturbance regimes in Greater Yellowstone
Dr. Monica G. Turner is the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology in the Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A native New Yorker, Turner received her BS in Biology in 1980 from Fordham University, Bronx, NY, graduating summa cum laude. She obtained her PhD in Ecology in 1985 from the University of Georgia (UGA), where she studied disturbances and ecosystem processes in a salt marsh on Cumberland Island National Seashort, Georgia. She completed a 2-yr postdoc at UGA working on a landscape-level study of change in the Georgia landscape. Turner spent seven years as a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory then joined the faculty of UW-Madison in 1994. Her research emphasizes causes and consequences of spatial heterogeneity in ecological systems, focusing primarily on forest ecosystem and landscape ecology. She has conducted research on disturbance regimes, vegetation dynamics, nutrient cycling, and climate change in Greater Yellowstone for over 25 years, including long-term studies of the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. Turner also studies land-water interactions in Wisconsin, effects of current and past land use on Southern Appalachian forest landscapes, and spatial patterns of ecosystem services. She has published over 220 scientific papers; authored or edited six books, including Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice; and is co-editor in chief of Ecosystems. Turner was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2004, and she received both the ECI Prize in Terrestrial Ecology and the Ecological Society of America’s Robert H. MacArthur Award in 2008. She is currently President-elect of the Ecological Society of America.
For complete publication list and CV, please visit http://landscape.zoology.wisc.edu/
