Ecosystem Studies and Conservation Biology

The ESCB research group focuses on ecosystem processes of high latitude terrestrial, aquatic and marine systems including: sea bird ecology, climate change effects on vegetation and ecosystem biogeochemistry; physiological ecology of ground squirrels, voles and marine mammals; the physiology of large ungulates and ungulate controls on vegetation processes; the population ecology of freshwater fish; processes controlling tree-line and the ecology of fresh water invertebrates, as well as precipitation,lake and stream isotope geochemistry

Long-term experimental and observational studies in Alaska, Antarctica and Greenland along with our participation in Pan Arctic Networks, provides the basis of many of our research activities. Our access to steep environmental gradients, changing landscapes, ecosystems dominated by winter and habitats that are in natural states offer a world-class complex of field and laboratory research opportunities.

Ecosystems Studies Research Projects

Biocomplexity in the High Arctic

Natural herbivory and simulated warming in Arctic landscape




Ecosystems Studies Programs

Aquatic Ecology

Ecosystems Studies Laboratories

Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology Laboratory (ASET)

Stable Isotope Lab