Almost everything Nina Wurzburger does — at least in terms of research — relates to forests.
Almost everything Nina Wurzburger does — at least in terms of research — relates to forests.
She grew up on the central coast of California, where the Monterey pine forest dominates the landscape. While traveling with her family, she remembers being intrigued by the trees, forests and landscapes that looked so different than those at home.
“I was always inspired by nature,” she said. “All ecologists probably say that.”
Now a professor at the Odum School of Ecology, Wurzburger is still exploring why forests look different. But her current research investigates how individual forests change over time in response to human disturbance.
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