Ellery Stanzel

Ellery is a graduate student in Ecology at the University of California, Davis, and a Graduate Student Researcher in the Safford Vegetation and Fire Ecology Lab. Their interests lie in fire and landscape ecology, vegetation dynamics, and modeling. They
graduated from Smith College in 2026 with a B.A. in mathematics and biology, while collaborating with Dr. Jesse Bellemare on quantitative forest ecology and modeling. They have worked previously at the California Academy of Science on species distribution modeling, in the wet tropics of Australia during field work on forest structure and bryophytes, and in New England forests utilizing dendrochronology and historic climate data to track species’ responses.