National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
University of California, Santa Barbara
735 State St. Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3351
Phone: (805) 892-2523
Fax: (805) 892-2510
williams@nceas.ucsb.edu I am interested in how plant communities have responded to past climate
changes and the feedbacks between the vegetation and atmosphere.
By studying vegetational responses to the complex climate changes that
occurred during the most recent deglaciation, I hope to help assess how
plant communities may respond to future climate change. At NCEAS,
I am working upon estimates of the total amount of carbon sequestered in
North American ecosystems since the last glacial maximum, and in the process
am integrating paleoecological datasets with terrestrial biogeochemical
models (more). I started at NCEAS in
September, 1999, after finishing my doctoral studies at the
Department
of Geological Sciences at Brown University.
Professional Materials Curriculum
Vitae (PDF)
Statements of Research
and Teaching (PDFs)
Animations
of Late-Quaternary plant migrations - very cool!
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Curriculum
Vitae (PDF)