Meagan Oldfather is a  Biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, and a staff member of the DOI North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC). She holds a PhD in Integrative Biology from University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science from University of California Santa Cruz. Meagan has worked on vegetation responses to changing climate in mountains across California, the Great Basin, and the Rockies for the last decade. Through this research, she has worked with a range of groups including the Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Collaborative, GLORIA Great Basin, White Mountain Research Center, and the Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research Program.