Jenn Rudgers visits from UNM

In early October, Jenn Rudgers, Regents’ and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico and Director, Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program, visited NAU and presented in the Ecoinformatics Seminar. Her seminar title was “Environmental variability at dryland ecotones: Research from the Sevilleta LTER.” Jenn’s presentation focused on the potential impacts of changing climate variance, rather than just changes in the mean climate. She talked about some of the underlying theory, gave several examples of recent studies from Sevilleta that help understand the ecological impacts of changing climate variance, and described the new Sevilleta Mean x Variance Experiment, which is being conducted in five different ecosystem types at the LTER. Thanks for your visit, Jenn!