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John C. Withey

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Graduate Program on the Environment
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505


witheyj 'at' evergreen 'dot' edu
Lab 1 - 2013


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News and Events

2025
I will be co-teaching Tropical Ecology, a study abroad course in Costa Rica, in Winter 2025. This class explores Costa Rican tropical ecology, research, and culture through preparatory classes, readings, and a two-week trip to southern Costa Rica March 14-27. Students will be introduced to organisms and ecological processes of lowland, pre-montane and cloud forest tropical forests through a series of forest walks, lectures, and independent field studies. Each student will develop, implement, and report on an independent field study exploring concepts from class, lectures, and reading.

2024

I taught Data Analysis & Visualization in R again during Summer Session A and will be publishing the computer labs in the near future.

2023

A teaching case study, "Can Birds ‘Keep Up’ with Earlier Springs?" I co-authored with Casey Youngflesh was published in the NCCSTS Collection. The case study is based on research into phenological shifts due to climate change, with exploration of the results from Youngflesh et al. (2021).

2022
As part of the Pheno-Mismatch project, I have a new co-authored paper out, "A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up," see Neupane et al. (2022).

Find me on Google Scholar - ResearchGate - LinkedIn 

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.

Graduate Opportunities

The Master of Environmental Studies (MES) degree at Evergreen is an interdisciplinary degree designed to prepare you for the complex nature of professional environmental work. Visit our home page for more information. Applications for Fall 2025 are now being accepted, the first round deadline is December 29, 2024 and the second round deadline is March 9, 2024.

Favorite R blog and R graph gallery

ProfHacker (teaching blog through 2018)

Two good Climate science sites:
Real Climate
Skeptical Science


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