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Research Highlights

Mar 23, 2020

Sleepless in the City: Urban Heat Wakes up Tree Pests

SE CASC PI, Steve Frank, and 2013-2014 Global Change Fellow, Michael Just, published a new SE CASC supported paper, Can Cities Activate Sleeper Species and Predict Future Forest Pests? A…

Mar 17, 2020

GIS Analysis of Pre-European Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) Distribution and Community Variations

USGS Ecology Research Fellow, Sarah Midolo, is working on a GIS analysis that maps the historical range of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and uses soil data to identify different community…

Mar 13, 2020

To “Native” or not to “Native”?

Spring 2018 Global Change Fellow, Sarah Parsons, and SE CASC Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Steve Frank, recently published the article “Effects of native and exotic congeners on diversity of invertebrate natural…

Mar 6, 2020

Researcher Spotlight – Lise Montefiore

2019-20 Global Change Fellow PhD Student, Department of Biological and Agricultural EngineeringAdvisor: Dr. Natalie NelsonEvery year the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change Fellows representing…

Feb 21, 2020

Researcher Spotlight – Katie McQuillan

2019-20 Global Change Fellow PhD Student, Center for Geospatial AnalyticsAdvisor: Dr. Katie MartinEvery year the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change Fellows representing colleges across…
Global Change Fellow, Rachel Sussman, looks over her shoulder and gives a smile and thumbs up to the camera in the midst of a wooded forest.

Feb 7, 2020

Researcher Spotlight – Rachel Sussman

2019-20 Global Change Fellow PhD Student, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Advisor: Dr. Carli Arendt Every year the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change…

Jan 29, 2020

Habitat Suitability Maps for At-risk Herpetofauna Species in the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

The research team of SE CASC Researcher Clinton Moore, Principal Investigator of recently completed SE CASC project, Providing Science for the Conservation of Animals in the Southeastern Longleaf Pine Ecosystem,…

Jan 24, 2020

Researcher Spotlight – Faith Johnson

2019-20 Global Change Fellow PhD Student, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental EngineeringAdvisor: Dr. Beth Sciaudone Every year the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change…
Snowshoe hare in snow

Jan 16, 2020

Color-changing Hares in Southern Edge of Range Are More Vulnerable to Phenological Mismatch

2014-15 Global Change Fellow, Marketa Zimova, is lead author on a SE CASC supported publication, Local climate determines vulnerability to camouflage mismatch, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography.  Some of…

Jan 10, 2020

Researcher Spotlight – Sam Flake

2019-20 Global Change Fellow PhD Student, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Advisor: Dr. William Hoffman Every year the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change…