Rebecca C Terry, Ph.D.
- Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow
Biology
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences (Paleobiology), University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)B.A., Geology (Biology Minor), Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
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Past Advisors:
Susan M. Kidwell (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)Raymond R. Rogers (as Undergraduate Student)
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Research:
I study the spatiotemporal responses of small mammal communities to changes in climate and anthropogenic land-use over the last 10,000 years.
For my postdoctoral research I am combining data from modern trapping surveys, museum collections, and a series of spatially nested Holocene fossil records to analyze the response of small mammal communities to climate warming in two regions of great importance to biodiversity conservation - the northeastern Sierra Nevada and the northern Great Basin. By establishing pre 19th-20th century dynamic baseline conditions for terrestrial communities and assessing the role of abiotic and biotic drivers in shaping community response to environmental change over the Holocene, results from this project will help us better predict the future fates of species and their ecosystems in this rapidly changing world.
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Other Experience:
2001-2002 High School Biology Teacher - The Northwest School, Seattle
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Honors:
2008-present NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow
2007 Romer Prize Recipient (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
2005-2007 EPA STAR Fellow
2003-2008 NSF Predoctoral Fellow
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