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			Project Themes
	Steve Archer	Ecology of grasslands, savannas and shrublands, plant-soil-animal interactions, tree-grass dynamics, terrestrial carbon cycle, land cover change	carbon climate change rangelands land-use change
	Grant M. Casady	landscape ecology, disturbance ecology, dryland vegetation dynamics, time-series remote sensing, land surface phenology, invasive species	wildfire invasive species rangelands land-use change
	David Chan	Ecosystem Services, Landcover Change, GIS	land-use change ecohydrology
	Emily Dynes	Disturbance regimes and impact on carbon cycling on high elevation pine forests	carbon climate change wildfire land-use change ecohydrology
	Larry A. Fisher	Ecosystem management, landscape conservation, public lands management, environmental mediation, international conservation and sustainable development.	restoration conservation biology land-use change
	Moira Hough	Biotic and abiotic drivers of ecosystem processes; ecosystem response to changes in climate, resource availability, and biotic community; social-ecological interactions	carbon climate change watershed land-use change
	Eva Marie Levi	Ecology and Management of Rangelands	carbon climate change invasive species rangelands land-use change ecohydrology
	Stuart E. Marsh	Land Use and Land Cover Change; Impacts of Climate and Anthropogenic Change on Arid Lands; Remote Sensing; Application of Geospatial Technologies to Environmental Studies; Development of Decision Support Systems for Natural Resource Management	climate change decision support systems land-use change sustainability
	Christopher (Kit) O’Connor	Forest ecology, reconstruction of historical disturbance events, dendroecology, landscape dynamic models	climate change wildfire restoration conservation biology land-use change sustainability
	Brittany Oleson	wildlife conservation and management; population modeling; biomass estimation; avian, mammalian, and invertebrate ecology	conservation biology land-use change wildlife & fisheries
	Aloah Pope	Developing an agent-based model of coupled human and natural riparian systems.	decision support systems watershed land-use change ecohydrology
	Valerie Rountree	*	climate change land-use change sustainability
	Zulia Mayari Sanchez Mejia	Semi arid lands, land surface-atmospheric interactions, soil moisture-plant interactions, land surface energy budget	climate change watershed rangelands land-use change ecohydrology
	Willem van Leeuwen	Land Surface Phenology; Biogeography; Remote Sensing Science and Applications of Coupled Natural and Human Systems; Geospatial & Temporal Decision Support Systems and Tools for Land and Water management; Assessing Impact of Fire and Drought on Vegetation Response and Drylands around the World.	climate change wildfire decision support systems rangelands land-use change
	Craig Wissler	GIS, database design and development	decision support systems rangelands land-use change sustainability