Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Outreach Notice
Post-doctoral Research Ecologist
GS-0408-11/12
Two-year Appointment
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Respond by August 28, 2020
![[photo:] Pagami Creek Fire.](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_disturbance.jpg "Landscape Disturbances")
![[photo:] Landscape Scales](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_landscape_scales.jpg "Landscape Scales")
![[photo:] Little brown bat](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_conservation.jpg "Protecting Populations of Conservation or Restoration Concern")
![[photo:] Woody Crop Systems](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_woody-crop-systems.jpg "Woody Crop Systems")
![[photo:] climate Change.](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_climate_change.jpg "Climate Change")
![[photo:] Rhinelander Experimental Forest](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_rhinelanderef.jpg "Rhinelander Experimental Forest")
As the Institute of Applied Ecosystem Studies (IAES), Northern Research Station scientists are working to better integrate science with landscape-scale restoration and contemporary conservation challenges. We are assisting land managers by describing ecological change at different scales and disturbance gradients, and we develop tools that bridge site-specific experimental results to meet the broader scale information needs of policy makers and resource managers. Our research is guided by five focus areas
Research Focus Areas
- Increase resilience of forest ecosystems to extreme disturbances that alter large-scale spatial patterns
- Maintain forest ecosystem services at landscape scales using decision support tools
- Ensure populations of conservation or restoration concern remain connected in changing landscapes
- Advance renewable energy sources and pollution remediation through short rotation woody crop production systems
- Improve forest management guidelines in changing climate and atmosphere
Recent Publications
- Sturtevant, Brian R.; Hanberry, Brice B. 2021. Processes underlying restoration of temperate savanna and woodland ecosystems: Emerging themes and challenges. Forest Ecology and Management
- Jr., Ronald S. Zalesny; Zhu, J. Y.; Headlee, William L.; Gleisner, Roland ; Pilipovic, Andrej ; Acker, Joris Van; Bauer, Edmund O.; Birr, Bruce A.; Wiese, Adam H. 2020. Ecosystem services, physiology, and biofuels recalcitrance of poplars grown for landfill phytoremediation. Plants. 9(10): 1357. 26 p.
- Thapa, Bina ; Wolter, Peter T.; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Townsend, Philip A. 2020. Reconstructing past forest composition and abundance by using archived Landsat and national forest inventory data. International Journal of Remote Sensing
- Yi, Xueling ; Donner, Deahn M.; Marquardt, Paula E.; Palmer, Jonathan M.; Jusino, Michelle A.; Frair, Jacqueline ; Lindner, Daniel L.; Latch, Emily K. 2020. Major histocompatibility complex variation is similar in little brown bats before and after white-nose syndrome outbreak. Ecology and Evolution
- Robert, Louis-Etienne ; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Kneeshaw, Daniel ; James, Patrick M. A.; Fortin, Marie-Josee ; Wolter, Peter T.; Townsend, Philip A.; Cooke, Barry J. 2020. Forest landscape structure influences the cyclic-eruptive spatial dynamics of forest tent caterpillar outbreaks. Ecosphere. 11(8): e03096. 18 p.
Science Delivery
- 2015 NES Program description
- 2012 NES Program description
- 2011 NES Program description
Recent Scientific Presentations
| Venue Title | Presentation Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th Session of the International Poplar Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Berlin, Germany | Establishment of hybrid poplar for surface mine reclamation in the southern coalfield of West Virginia, USA | Ron Zalesny, etal | 2016 |
| North American Ornithological Conference, Washington, D.C. | Proactive Management of the Kirtland’s Warbler under Changing Environmental and Management Conditions | Donner, Deahn | 2016 |
| Face-to-Face meeting with Chippewa NF; Cass Lake, MN | Using LANDIS-II to guide management under a changing climate: a research-management collaboration on the Chippewa National Forest | Gustafson, Eric; Sturtevant, Brian | 2016 |
| 31st Annual U.S. Landscape Ecology Symposium; Asheville, NC | Using first principles to increase the robustness of forest landscape models for projecting climate change impacts | Gustafson, Eric; Miranda, Brian; Sturtevant, Brian | 2016 |
| 75th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN | Population viability analyses to evaluate post-delisting management of the Kirtland’s warbler | Donner, Deahn | 2016 |
| North American Joint Bat Working Group Meeting; St. Louis, MO | Resistance to White-Nose Syndrome in bat populations of the Northern Forest: exploring the critical disease-genotype-microbiome link. | Donner, Deahn; Marquardt, Paula | 2015 |
| 3rd Science in the Northwoods Conference; Boulder Junction, WI | Beaver management in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin | Donner, Deahn | 2015 |
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Last updated on: July 16, 2020