Learn more about our Tucson-based leadership role, and apply at: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/7850?c=arizona. The position is open until filled. The UA Sky School provides science education programs (1-4 days) to Arizona students in grades 4–12. We deliver 30+ programs to 1000+ students annually, via strong partnerships with area teachers and school districts. Programs are taught by instructors…

When did woolly mammoths go extinct, and when and how did humans drive this extinction? We have a new lab paper out on this subject, led by Damian Fordham and with other senior colleagues from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, in Copenhagen. I made a fairly minor methodological and writing contribution. You can…

Who belongs in the mountains and towns of the intermountain west? I just wrote a long-form essay for Colorado Magazine exploring these themes, centered around the town of Gothic, where we now do work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. It also touches on my personal history and the long history of political violence that…

We need field help! Our lab is starting up a project investigating the genetic basis of drought mortality in quaking aspen. We are going to be growing aspen genotypes in a greenhouse, and measuring their ecophysiological properties before and after experimental drought. As a foundation for the work, we are collecting root samples for propagation…