Studying the impacts of climate change from species to ecosystems using a trait-based approach
Lab News
- 2025
–December: Fern Bromley wins the 2026 Altar Valley Science Fellowship. Congrats Fern!!
–November: Maddie Wallace wins best Graduate Student Poster and Doan Goolsby wins best undergraduate poster at the 2025 RISE conference!
–September: FunEco presents four talks at the Society for Ecological Restoration Conference in Denver, CO!
–August: It has been a busy summer! FunEco welcomes new PhD student Fern Bromley and congratulates the lab on over a half-dozen manuscript submissions! Way to go team!
–May: Maddie Wallace publishes a piece in the Green Valley News about her work at the Santa Rita Experimental Range. Check it out here!
–April: Doan Goolsby wins “Outstanding Scholarly Achievement by a Student” from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. Well deserved, Doan!
–April: Rachel Mitchell receives “Outstanding Faculty” from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment
–April: Cameron Crowder and Doan Goolsby each receive Invasive Species Science Scholarships from Saguaro National Park. Way to go team!
–April: Rachel Mitchell receives an “Outstanding Research Mentor Award” from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at UA
–March: Maddie Wallace receives Carson Scholar Fellowship! Congrats, Maddie!
– January: Missed a big paper from NUTNET work that came out late in 2024. Check out this paper on Widening global variability in grassland since the 80s in Nature Ecology and Evolution!



