News

See the new story map created by former Turner Lab graduate students Dr. Kristin Braziunas and Dr. Nathan Kiel, “Forest change in a future with more fire”! Please share!

Now available! Our video, Future landscapes of Greater Yellowstone, explain how climate change could alter landscapes of Yellowstone. It was developed for general audiences and is suitable for classroom use. Please share!

Congratulations to Alli Kneisel, who won the campus-wide 2023-24 TA award for Early Excellence in Teaching, Dorothy Powelson Award; Garrett Knowlton, selected as a 2024 Graduate Student Policy Award from the Ecological Society of America; …

Read Nathan Kiel’s and Monica Turner’s new article in the winter 2023 issue of “Park Science” to find out what happens to Yellowstone’s plant communities when forests don’t come back after wildfire.

Come along on our long-term research in Greater Yellowstone and see what it’s like in the field.

Welcome to Dr. Seth Spawn-Lee who joins us as a postdoc and to Lucy McGuire who joins as a post-graduate research intern.

Congratulations to Julia Warren as she begins her PhD program at Northern Arizona University, and to Ojaswee Shrestha on completing her MS!

Dr. Monica Turner has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her decades of contributions to the ecological study of the forests and landscapes in Greater Yellowstone.

Read and listen to Nathan Kiel’s reflective fieldnotes essay on the summer 2022 field season in Greater Yellowstone for “Edge Effects”, a digital magazine about environmental issues produced by graduate students.

Read about Monica’s long-term research in Yellowstone’s forests in the May 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine.