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
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.
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