Kathryn I. Wheeler

Kathryn I. Wheeler

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching leaf phenology and carbon ecology (kwheelerecology@gmail.com)

Presented at ESA

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I presented some of my dissertation work at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Montreal, Canada. The title of my presentation was “A trigger may not be necessary to cause leaf senescence in deciduous broadleaf forests”

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New Position at Industrial Economics Incorporated

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I am excited to announce that I started a new position as Associate at the environmental consulting company Industrial Economics, Inc, where I will be assisting on Natural Resource Damagement Assessments of sites that have been contaminated by hazardous waste. I look forward to using what I learned in academia to have meaningful, applied impact and to gain more skills.

New Paper on Spring Phenology Forecast Challenge

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Our paper from the Ecological Forecasting Initiative spring phenology forecast challenge was recently published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. It is available open access at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192323005002. Paper highlights include: (1) We held a community forecast challenge to predict daily plant greenness through which we submitted forecasts from 18 models. (2) Forecast skill was highest when forecasting earlier in the greenup period compared to the end. (3) Forecasts were worst when submitted right before budburst. (4) Historical means of greenness on each day of year were difficult to outperform.

New Preprint for phenology forecast challenge

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A new preprint is available for a spring phenology forecast challenge I lead as part of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative. You can access it at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4357147.

New Paper in Ecosphere

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A paper that I am a co-author on just came out in Ecosphere (https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4342). This work came from a workshop through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).