My research is focused on understanding the dynamic spatial and temporal responses of ecosystems to climate variability by combining rigorous field surveys with remote-sensing techniques and a paleoecological perspective. Read more...

Postdoctoral Associate

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

735 State Street

Suite 300

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

pau@nceas.ucsb.edu

**I will be starting as Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Florida State University starting January 2013.

News & Links:

1. •Check out my new paper about using NDVI to predict species richness.
   

1. •Here is a video that cheers me up while I work on my clouds and flowering phenology project (thanks DKO!).
   

1. •I led a short workshop for UCLA grad students about using NASA’s MODIS satellite data and the importance of using the Quality Assurance SDS.  Nice tutorials on reading bit fields here and here.
   

1. •The NCEAS Forecasting Phenology Working Group I was a part of has a new paper out in Nature.
   

1. •I will be at ESA’s late breaking poster session in Portland presenting new work about the influence of clouds in tropical forest phenology. 
   

1. •Tropical dry forests of the Pacific (including links to our Gentry transect data).