University of New Mexico
Biology and the UNM Sustainable Water Resources Grand Challenge
Interests:
Changing ecological function, resilience, and transformative capacity across diverse social-ecological systemsBio:
Alex J. Webster is an ecosystem ecologist interested in the resilience of ecosystems and social-ecological systems to increasing water scarcity and changing hydrologic regimes. Water drives life across diverse settings. Alex works in freshwater ecosystems, watersheds, and water infrastructure networks in a variety of land use settings and biomes. This has taken her from desert cities to subarctic forests to agricultural ditches to try to understand and improve interactions between humans and the environment. She is particularly interested in using large temporally- and spatially-rich datasets to address hypotheses about system resilience, connectivity, and sustainability in the face of climate and land use change.
