Bio
Tara Ursell is an ecologist focused on post-wildfire forest recovery — particularly on how ecological dynamics and land management practices influence long-term recovery trajectories. She completed a PhD in Ecology in 2022 and an MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics in 2020. Her dissertation focused on tree-shrub interactions in reforested Forest Service lands as well as snag dynamics in recently burned areas. Tara is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada-Reno, where she continues this line of research and also works on fire science outreach as the Sierra Nevada Coordinator for the California Fire Science Consortium.