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I am a PhD Candidate in Jonathan A. Greenberg's Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing Laboratory (GEARS) studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (PEEC). My work focuses on understanding plant-climate interactions to learn potential responses vegetation may have to past, present, and future climate change. 

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Bailey D. Morrison

PhD Candidate

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Room 1038 Natural History Building, MC-150

1301 W Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

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email: bdmorri2@illinois.edu

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ABOUT ME
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PUBLICATIONS

Manuscripts In Review and In Preparation

 

  1. Morrison, Bailey D., Katy Heath, Bo Li, Feng-Sheng Hu, Jonathan A. Greenberg. 2017g “The effect of scale on the distribution of novel and disappeared climates in Alaska.” In preparation.

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Non-reviewed Publications, Posters, Presentations, and Reports

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  1. Morrison, Bailey D., Joseph Napier, Ryan Kelly, Katy Heath, Bo Li, Barbara Hug, Feng-Sheng Hu, and Jonathan A. Greenberg. “The post-glacial species velocity of Picea glauca following the Last Glacial Maximum in Alaska.” Poster session presented at: 2015 AGU Fall Meeting; 2015 Dec 14-18; San Francisco, CA.

  2. Morrison, Bailey D., et al. Hybridizing white spruce distribution prediction with agent based modeling, Academia. July 10, 2016. 

  3. Morrison, Bailey D., Joseph Napier, Ryan Kelly, Katy Heath, Bo Li, Barbara Hug, Feng-Sheng Hu, and Jonathan A. Greenberg. “How spatial scale influences novel and disappeared climate predictions in Alaska.” Oral Session presented at: 2016 AGU Fall Meeting; 2016 Dec 15; San Francisco, CA.

  4. Greenberg, Jonathan A., Qing Xu, Bailey D. Morrison, Zewei Xu, Albert Man, Mark M. Fredrickson, Carlos Ramirez, Bo Li. “Towards a portable, scalable open source model of tree cover derived from Landsat spectra.” Oral Session Presented at: 2016 AGU Fall Meeting; 2016 Dec 14; San Francisco, CA.

RESEARCH
Dissertation Focus Areas
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  • Statistically downscaling LGM and present day GCM climate data to microtopographic scales using "Big Data" parallel processing and super-computing techniques to understand how the distribution of novel and disappeared climates is affected by choice in climate grid resolution.
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  • Determining the locations of micro-cryptic refugia of white spruce and alder populations in Alaska form the LGM to today by computing the "species velocity" (i.e. the rate and direction a species needs to move to remain within a favorable climate envelope) of each species and combining my findings with phylogeographic analyses.
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  • Estimate the distribution and total forest drought mortality that occurred across California during the recent 2012-2015 drought. Additionally, I will expose regions and species that are most vulnerable to droughts in the state, and provide a "drought signature" that can be used to predict when mass tree mortality will occur with future droughts in the state. 
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