Elizabeth (Libby) Pansing, PhD
Former PhD Candidate
I received my BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2010. Sometime after graduating, I realized that I wanted to conduct research on topics that had long held my fascination: how trees establish and persist in harsh environments, as well as how they recover from population declines following disturbance. In the spring of 2014, I received my M.S. from UCD after studying how microsite characteristics and cache pilferage influence patterns and success of whitebark pine regeneration. That same semester, I entered UCD’s doctoral program. I am broadly interested in understanding how climate change influences forest resiliency following wildfire and how changes to both climate and fire regimes influence tree demography. My goal is to continue to research tree regeneration and its influences on demography. I am a teaching assistant for Biostatistics, and previously for Biological Data Analysis, Ecology, and General Biology I and II.
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