Ali Paulson is a forest ecologist and botanist interested in how changing disturbance regimes impact forest ecosystems. Her current research focuses on how forest management and previous wildfire activity impact fire severity and behavior, and on developing tools that managers can use to implement more prescribed fire. Ali is also the coordinator for the Sierra Nevada Region of the California Fire Science Consortium. Ali’s past research focused on post-fire regeneration and understory plant community composition in Siberian larch forests (with Mississippi State University), and long-term drivers of change in diversity and composition of plant communities in the Great Lakes Region of the United States (with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Park Service). Ali is excited to continue working in translational ecology by conducting research at the nexus of science and management