Rachel Brunner
Department of Botany
University of Wisconsin
430 Lincoln Drive, Birge Hall
Madison, WI 53706-1381
Office: 347 Birge
Email: rlbrunner@wisc.edu
Educational Background
BS Environmental Science, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Research Interests
Plant community ecology, climate change, remote sensing.
Current Projects
Identifying shifts and/or stability in plant communities and canopy health over the past 40 years near forestline on windward Haleakalā, Maui, through resurveying historic vegetation plots and analyzing remotely sensed imagery for comparison to documented increases in aridity, drought, warming, and decreases in ungulate disturbance since 1973.
