Plant community ecology, soil science, landscape ecology, field botany, riparian and wetland ecology, vegetation classification systems, multivariate statistics using R, roil and plant community relationships, classification and mapping of ecological types (a combination of vegetation, soils, geomorphology, and climate)
Aaron has a strong background as a field ecologist, including 10+ years experience studying vegetation and soils in the western United States, including Alaska. His primary research interests include (1) relating the distribution of plant communities on the landscape to environmental factors, including climate, soils, and landform, using multivariate statistics; (2) mapping soils and vegetation in the field using an ecological-type approach; (3) developing spatially explicit, multivariate statistical models that predict soils from vegetation and vice versa. Using a combination of cluster analysis, ordination, and generalized additive models, he has the ability to analyze any complex ecological community dataset. Aaron received his Ph.D. from Utah State University in Logan, and completed a post-doc with the Ecology Department at Montana State University in Bozeman.
