Stephen is a PhD Candidate in the Carbon Dynamics Lab in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.  He is interested in understanding how temperate forests respond to human land-use and climate change.  His dissertation uses field research and simulation modeling to assess riparian forest responses to changing climate and disturbance regimes.  More specifically he is interested in how future conditions will alter critical functions like carbon storage, resilience, and productivity in riparian forests and headwater stream ecosystems.

Before joining UVM, Stephen helped to manage ongoing research projects in an agricultural entomology lab at UC Berkeley and conducted several seasons of ecological field research in Utah and Michigan.  He received his BA in Biology and French from Vassar College where he first became interested in studying temperate forests.

Advisor: William Keeton