People : Faculty : Adjunct
Dr. Alexandra D. Syphard
Adjunct Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4493
Office: Off Campus
e-mail: asyphard@consbio.org
Research scientist at Conservation Biology Institute (http://consbio.org/)
Education
Ph.D., San Diego State University and UC Santa Barbara, Geography, 2005
Master Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1998
Master Public Health, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 1994
BA, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, English, 1992
Courses Taught
No current teaching assignment
Research Interests
- Interactions among human and natural disturbances
- Fire ecology and pyrogeography
- Mediterranean ecosystems
- Modeling multiple threats to native vegetation
- Species distribution modeling and climate change
- Land use / land cover change
Current Projects
- Decision support for climate change adaptation and fire management strategies for at-risk species in southern CA (CA LCC)
- Collaborative Research: Do microenvironments govern macroecology? (NSF)
- Understanding and improving fire management for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (DoD)
- Urban growth and fire risk modeling in southern CA (USGS)
- Effect of fuel manipulation on fire behavior and urban loss (USGS)