Sam Flake

Sam is an ecologist with broad research interests in vegetation dynamics, disturbances, and landscape ecology. He has studied drought mortality in the western USA (during his MS studies at the University of Nevada - Reno) and fire in Brazilian savannas (during his PhD at North Carolina State University), and used simulation modeling to assess vegetation responses to climate change, management, drought, and fire across the USA (during a postdoc also at NCSU). As a postdoc in the Forest Futures Lab at Cary Institute, Sam is modeling forest responses to management and fire in the Colorado Rockies, in order to better understand how forest dynamics are connected to the hydrology of the headwaters of the Colorado River.