Department
Biology/ Env. Sci. & Eng
Organization
The University of Texas at El Paso
Email
ctweedie@utep.edu
Phone
915-747-8448
Address
500 West University Avenue
El Paso , Texas 79968United StatesBioDr. Craig Tweedie is a Professor with the Department of Biology and Directs the Environmental Science and Engineering Program at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Tweedie earned his PhD in subantarctic climate change biology and switched to Arctic terrestrial ecology when he began his postdoc at Michigan State University in 2000. With many active collaborations both in the US and internationally, Tweedie maintains an active research program that is focused on land cover change and the impact this has on terrestrial and coastal ecosystem structure and function in the north Alaskan and Beringian Arctic and in the Chihuahuan Desert. Tweedie also has strong interests in education and outreach and the use of cyberinfrastructure to advance environmental science.

Interests

Sea Ice

Science Specialties

climate change, plant ecology, cyberinfrastructure, land-ocean-atmospheric connections, climate change adaptation, biogeochemical cycling, coastal erosion

Current Research

landscape ecology International Tundra Experiment, the Arctic Observing Network, biocomplexity, Beringia land cover change, data and site rescue, cyberinfrastructure. More information at: www.sel.utep.edu