MITCHELL J POWER
Professor
School of Environment, Society & Sustainability
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- ProfessorSchool of Environment, Society & Sustainability
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am a historical biogeographer with interests in modern and past plant communities and how they respond to natural disturbance. My research is aimed at understanding how climate influences ecosystem dynamics through time. I currently have projects in Ethiopia, Bolivia, the Caribbean and in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. The long-term impacts of climate-driven and human-caused landscape dynamics, including large-scale disturbances, produce a landscape with inherited ecological legacies.
GRANTS
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTCollaborative Research:A Continuous 60,000-Year Sediment Record Documenting Abrupt to Precession-Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response at Fish Lake UT, Upper CO River BasinNational Science Foundation1 Jun 2021 - 1 Jun 2026
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTUINTA FIRE HISTORYASHLEY NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTUinta Mountains vegetation disturbance and climate historyUSDA Ashley National Forest8 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2013
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTBIOGEOGRAPHY OF UINTA MTNSUSDA FOREST SERVICE7 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2014
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTJonah Paleoecology Project - Wind River Mountains WyomingSubcontract for diatom analysis1 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2012
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTFrench Guiana Fire HistoryNERC funding to Jose Iriarte University of Exeter UK5 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2011
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTGreat Basin Vegetation and Fire HistoryDOI BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2011