Emily Fairfax

Wetland environments provide numerous ecosystem services, as well as critical habitat, along lakes and rivers throughout North America. They’re also increasingly threatened by climate-change-intensified disturbances, including flood, drought, and wildfire. Emily Fairfax’s research integrates satellite remote sensing, geospatial modeling, and field studies to quantitatively understand how beaver ecosystem engineering behaviors (e.g., dam building, tree chewing, canal digging) create disturbance-resistant wetlands, as well as how our various beaver management practices alter their distribution and function.