RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Cibele Amaral holds a D.Sc. degree in Geosciences from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

My research investigates the interactions among fire, climate, vegetation, and people. My specialty is in dendrochronology, the science of using tree rings to reconstruct past environmental processes. As a dendroecologist, I tend to focus on the drivers of changing forest dynamics, including climate change, human land-use, and altered disturbance processes.

Emily Geraghty Ward is an Associate Scientist in the Education and Outreach Program at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. A geoscientist by training and a former geology professor, Emily is interested in the design and assessment of geoscience college curricula and discipline-based education research and evaluation.