Malcolm Itter
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am broadly interested in the development and application of Bayesian statistical methods to understand and predict forest responses to global change and inform adaptive management. Most of my work centers on modeling forest demographic processes that drive forest dynamics across space and time. To this end, I work with a diversity of forest data types including continuous forest inventory, tree rings, and functional trait samples. I am always looking for motivated students and researchers to join our growing lab. While most of our work is methodological there are opportunities to participate in targeted field data collection.
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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am broadly interested in the development and application of Bayesian statistical methods to understand and predict forest responses to global change and inform adaptive management. Most of my work centers on modeling forest demographic processes that drive forest dynamics across space and time. To this end, I work with a diversity of forest data types including continuous forest inventory, tree rings, and functional trait samples. I am always looking for motivated students and researchers to join our growing lab. While most of our work is methodological there are opportunities to participate in targeted field data collection.
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Postdocs
Daniel Buonaiuto
I am a plant ecologist broadly interested in the impacts of global change on the structure and function of plant communities. As a postdoc in the Forest Dynamics lab, I am working to develop new joint species distribution models to forecast the compositions of plant communities in the northeast United States under future climates to provide ecological practitioners with state of the art decision-making tools to guide climate-smart ecological restoration, conservation and natural resource planning efforts.
I am a plant ecologist broadly interested in the impacts of global change on the structure and function of plant communities. As a postdoc in the Forest Dynamics lab, I am working to develop new joint species distribution models to forecast the compositions of plant communities in the northeast United States under future climates to provide ecological practitioners with state of the art decision-making tools to guide climate-smart ecological restoration, conservation and natural resource planning efforts.