Tempest McCabe
Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Title Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Email tmccabe@bu.edu
- Education Bryn Mawr College, B.A.
Boston University, Ph.D.
Tempest (Tess) McCabe, Ph.D., graduated from the Department of Earth & Environment in 2022 and serves a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Bio as a student: Tess completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biology at Bryn Mawr College, where she received honors for her thesis comparing ant community structures in oak and hemlock forests. In her graduate work, Tess models how disturbances such as invasive grasses, management, land use & fire affect pine forest stands in the southeastern United States. Broadly, she wants to understand what modeling ecosystems can tell us about ecological theory, and how improving ecological theory can help make ecosystem behavior easier to predict. Tess finds many things to be interesting, including, bayesian statistics, biogeochemical fluxes, modeling for decision making, Shakespeare, people who like Shakespeare, and people who like Shakespeare and also want to talk about Shakespeare with her.