Daniel J. Weiss and Stephen J. Walsh

Short Biography

Daniel Weiss is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He has taught classes in GIS, quantitative analysis, and field methods in physical geography. His research interests include linkages between landscape patterns, processes, and vegetation dynamics within mountainous environments. He is presently completing his dissertation entitled Alpine treeline ecotones in the Western United States: a multi-scale comparative assessment of environmental factors influencing pattern, process, and position. This research applies bio-geographical and landscape ecological frameworks to the assessment of climatic and topographic variables hypothesized to control the alpine treeline ecotone across a geographically diverse set of sample sites in the western USA.