- PhD in Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
- MS in Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
- BA in Environmental Studies, Hamilton College
BIO
Lucas is a biogeographer and forest ecologist interested in forest change and recovery from disturbance at landscape to regional scales. His work typically combines field data, remote sensing, and statistical modeling to gain insight on disturbance extent and severity, tree regeneration, carbon dynamics, and changes in forest structure and composition over time.
Before starting at UVM, Lucas completed his PhD in Geography and then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University. His work at Penn State was largely focused on wildfire severity and vegetation dynamics in forests of California. After eight years of working mostly in the West, he is excited to apply his research skillset to the forests of his native Northeast. At UVM, his research focuses on forest adaptation and restoration across the Northern Forest in the context of disturbance and climate change.
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Bio
Lucas is a biogeographer and forest ecologist interested in forest change and recovery from disturbance at landscape to regional scales. His work typically combines field data, remote sensing, and statistical modeling to gain insight on disturbance extent and severity, tree regeneration, carbon dynamics, and changes in forest structure and composition over time.
Before starting at UVM, Lucas completed his PhD in Geography and then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University. His work at Penn State was largely focused on wildfire severity and vegetation dynamics in forests of California. After eight years of working mostly in the West, he is excited to apply his research skillset to the forests of his native Northeast. At UVM, his research focuses on forest adaptation and restoration across the Northern Forest in the context of disturbance and climate change.