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Faculty

Miriam Johnston

Assistant Professor
Faculty
Miriam Johnston
Assistant Professor
Appalachian Laboratory

Bio

Dr. Johnston is a global change ecologist who studies how disturbance and climatic stress affect plant demography and ecosystem fluxes of carbon, water, and energy. She applies methods such as mechanistic and statistical modeling to discover patterns in “big data,” with the ultimate goal of supporting ecosystem conservation and management. She has particular interest in the effects of drought and heat and in applications of thermal remote sensing.

Areas of Expertise

  • Global change ecology
  • Ecosystem fluxes of carbon, water, and energy
  • Ecological modeling
  • Thermal remote sensing

Education

  • Harvard University, 2021, Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • University of Maryland College Park, 2014, M.S., Ecology
  • Middlebury College, 2010, B.A., Conservation Biology

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