Diane Debinski

Current Research Projects

Prairie Restoration

Patch-burn grazing approaches to prairie restoration. See the Leopold Center video summarizing the patch-burn grazing project
Restoring prairie habitats that have incurred biodiversity loss. For a book describing my research on this topics see "The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands" by Sneed Collard

Montane Meadows and Climate Change

Testing the use of GIS and remote sensing data in predicting species distributions in montane meadows under present day and global climate change scenarios.

Synthesizing long-term species distribution data - for example see a web site for Butterflies of Grand Teton National Park.
Global climate change and the ISU Climate Science Program
Experimentally Simulating Climate Change Effects on Trophic Interactions in Montane Meadow Systems

ADVANCE

I am a Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE grant for Institutional Transformation. This project focuses on improving the recruitment and retention of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at Iowa State University.
ISU ADVANCE Program