Pete Clark

NE CASC Graduate Fellow

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Vermont

Research Interests

My research interests broadly center on forest ecology, global change, and adaptive forest management. Much of my current work evaluates the effectiveness of silvicultural strategies (traditional and adaptive) at meeting a diverse range of management objectives. Specific research areas include: examining the challenges and efficacy of forest transition strategies (example: assisted migration); the use of manipulative experiments to identify factors affecting natural regeneration dynamics; and understanding the developmental dynamics of natural and managed forest systems within the context of changing global conditions.

Project

Effects of climate, disturbance, and management on the growth and dynamics of temperate and sub-boreal forest ecosystems within the Lake States and New England AND Climate Adaptive Population Supplementation

Education

M.A.: Geography – Biogeography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 2012

B.A.: Forest Ecology, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 2007

Affiliations

Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology Lab

Experience

Research and Teaching Assistant, School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, 2016 to Present

Research Assistant, Harvard Forest, 2016 to 2017

Visiting Faculty, Hampshire College, 2014 to 2015

Founder and Owner, CliffEcology.com, 2012 to present

Research Assistant, Montane Forest Dynamics Lab, West Virginia University, 2009 to 2012

Selected Publications

Büntgen, U., L. Wacker, D. Galván, S. [and 63 others, including P. Clark). 2018. Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE. Nature Communications. 9(3605): DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0

Clark, P., J.H. Speer, and L.J Winship. 2017. Extracting Climate and Pandora Moth Outbreaks from a 1,500-Year Long Ponderosa Pine Chronology from Central Oregon. Tree-Ring Research. 73(2):113-125.