Jess Pletcher
Jess is a Conservation Ecologist studying the impacts of vegetation treatments on the habitat usage of various wildlife species in the SageSTEP woodland network. Her primary interests lie in understanding changes in biodiversity and individual species’ abundance through time, especially post-fire.
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Marco Donoso is a Botanist at the University of Nevada, Reno. He provides field and technical support to SageSTEP.
Read MoreGénie MontBlanc
Génie MontBlanc is the Program Manager for the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, based at the University of Nevada Reno. She works with research and land management partners in the Great Basin to increase communication and collaboration around fire, fuels, and restoration challenges, and develops products to make technical information easier to access and understand.
Read MoreCorey Gucker
Corey divides her time between writing and updating forb species reviews house in the online book, Western Forbs: Biology, Ecology, and Use in Restoration, and supporting science delivery activities and developing technical information resources for the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange and its partners, which include SageSTEP.
Read MoreJon Dinkins
Jon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences at Oregon State University. His position focuses on sagebrush wildlife ecology, which includes research and outreach through Extension. He also teaches habitat analysis courses on Corvallis campus and Ecampus. Jon’s interests include topics related to community ecology, habitat selection and quality, human-wildlife…
Read MoreScott Allen
Scott Allen is an Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Reno that studies the physical processes occurring in ecosystems and how they interact with vegetation structure and function. Research questions focus on the critical-zone and soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, advancing fundamental understanding of ecosystem processes and better representing them in predictions, models, and concepts. At present, Scott’s…
Read MoreSteve Hanser
Steve is currently the Deputy Center Director of the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. His research interests include use of geospatial data, remote sensing, and field-based measures to improve the understanding of the multi-scale environmental drivers of habitat use and population change. Steve has been coordinating the avian research component of SageSTEP since 2009. For…
Read MoreJenny Harris
Jenny Harris is a Research Technician at USGS. She is the crew lead for the SageSTEP West network.
Read MoreClaire Williams
Claire Williams is a Research Technician at UNR and manages the SageSTEP East network.
Read MoreBenjamin Rau
Ben Rau is a Soil Scientist for the USDA-ARS. His work with SageSTEP is related to vegetation shifts and ecosystem rehabilitation effects on total carbon and nitrogen budgets and plant-soil interactions in the Great Basin. Ben is coordinating the SageSTEP soil and vegetation chemistry studies.
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