John C. Withey Graduate Program on the Environment
The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Olympia, WA 98505 witheyj 'at' evergreen 'dot' edu Lab 1 - 2013 Evergreen home page |
News and Events
2020
A special issue, 'Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions' has been published by the Royal Society. I worked with co-authors at UW on the research article 'Planning for climate change through additions to a national protected areas network', also covered in this UW press release. 2019 I have been collaborating with the Science for Nature and People Program (SNAPP)-funded "Better Land-Use Decisions" working group on sage grouse habitat. One paper in PLoS ONE from this research considers the extent to which sage grouse serves as an 'umbrella species' by providing protections for other species from localized and landscape-scale threats. Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere (ed. by T.E. Lovejoy & L. Hannah) is out with a chapter I co-authored (lead author C. Littlefield) on Ecosystem-based Adaptation. 2018 The NSF-funded Pheno Mismatch group is up and running. Visit pheno-mismatch.org for updates! Master's students in the Winter 2018 Urban Ecology program contributed projects to our class web site. Their contributions ranged from audio podcasts to research articles to creative writing. I hope you learn as much as I did! 2017 Evaluating multiple lines of evidence to assess climate change consequences is important - but what happens when different sources are in conflict with each other? Our article in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment uses 3 case studies from the Pacific Northwest to help answer this question. Scientific Reports published our paper examining potential mismatch between spring arrival times by migratory birds, and vegetation green-up. There's a writeup on EurekaAlert (by AAAS) with some nice graphics too. We are continuing this work with additional collaborators that will bring in datasets on Lepidopterans, so stay tuned and visit our ResearchGate project site. A paper on whether critical habitat designation affects land development rates is out in Resource and Energy Economics. Find me on Google Scholar - ResearchGate - LinkedIn - and Twitter 'at' johnwithey |
Current Research
As an ecologist it is my goal to collaborate across disciplines to understand the responses of native wildlife to land-use and climate change, especially in urban areas, in order to provide strategies for adaptation and mitigation. I use a combination of on-the-ground field studies, modeling and quantitative tools, and spatial analyses using GIS in my work.
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