Caitlin White is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC). She specializes in community and invasion ecology, native plant restoration, and the effects of climate variability and natural disturbances on plant communities.

Through her academic research and professional history, Caitlin is experienced working with federal, state, and local resource agencies, as well as environmental non-profits, across a variety of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. A statistics and programming enthusiast, she especially enjoys leveraging observational data to address applied science questions and inform natural resource management.

At the NC CASC, Caitlin is partnering with the USGS and National Park Service Inventory & Monitoring program to enhance the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model—a decision support tool for managing invasive species in national parks within the Northern Great Plains region.

Caitlin earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado Boulder. She also holds a Master of Public Affairs and a M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University Bloomington, and a B.A. in International Studies from the University of California San Diego.

 

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