Peter Weisberg

Dr. Weisberg’s research interests include the causes and consequences of landscape change, including natural disturbances, effects of anthropogenic land use, ungulate-landscape interactions, and invasive species. His research often considers past landscape change as a guide to understanding present and future condition, and integrates field studies, GIS, remote sensing and simulation modeling. Ongoing research projects within his lab group address disturbance ecology, woodland expansion, post-fire succession, and ecological restoration in Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodlands; fire history and ecology of mountain big sagebrush communities; fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada (Lake Tahoe Basin); and the ecology of tamarisk invasions along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Dr. Weisberg took his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in Forest Ecology (1998), earning his M.S. in Biogeography at the University of Wyoming (1994), and a B.S. in Forest Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (1992). Peter has served as an mentor for GBI’s National Science Foundation REU program and provides guidance for student engagement in the biological sciences.