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Wildfire Resilience Index

From data to action: announcing the Wildfire Resilience Index

Modeled after the success of the Ocean Health Index, the WRI will provide the first holistic quantitative metric of wildfire resilience in the North American West.

ORCAS: Integrating thermal physiology and species interactions to forecast community response to climate change

Principal Investigator(s): Brian S Cheng, Benjamin S. Halpern

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Trevyn Toone

Trevyn is a restoration ecologist and postdoctoral researcher at NCEAS where he is synthesizing and evaluating various approaches to deep-sea coral restoration. Prior to joining NCEAS, Trevyn studied marine biology at Duke University before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and a prior postdoctoral position at North Carolina State University.

Maggie Klope (she/her)

Maggie was a Projects Data Coordinator for the Arctic Data Center. Through this position, she helped researchers submit and archive their data so that their research is findable, reusable, and reproducible. Maggie is interested in utilizing data science to facilitate ecological research. Earlier in her career, she worked for California States Parks, as a biological consultant, and as a lab manager at UC Santa Barbara. Maggie holds a Master’s in Ecology from UC Santa Barbara where she studied the interaction between climate and herbivory on California plant communities.

Alyona Kosobokova (she/her)

As a Research Software Engineer Alyona focuses on advancing big data collection and discovery. Alyona is trained in astrophysics and astronomical data processing. In addition to her academic experience, she built a career as a full-stack software engineer. Alyona led critical projects improving the infrastructure and user experience of Hulu, Disney, and Airtable applications. On her YouTube channel, Dork Matter Girl (https://www.youtube.com/@dorkmattergirl), Alyona explores scientific theories of consciousness with silly cats and memes.

Mai Fung (she/her)

Mai was a Post-Doctoral Scholar conducting research with a Gulf Ecosystem Initiative working group on the impact of severe weather on fisheries. Her doctoral research focused on understanding eutrophication and its interactions with mercury cycling. Mai completed a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the University of South Alabama and an M.P.H. in public health and a B.A. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley.

Marisa Morse (she/her)

Marisa (she/her/hers) was a postdoctoral scholar investigating the environmental and economic costs of plastic pollution and marine debris in the United States. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a scientific diver to help manage invertebrate fisheries off the coast of California. Her doctoral work assessed Palmyra Atoll’s communities (terrestrial arthropods and parasites in marine fish) to understand how species distributions changed with scale. She also focused on using Bayesian techniques to account for imperfect detection in community surveys. Marisa completed a Ph.D.