Outreach

Academic Presentations

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    Invited

  1. S Struckman. 2022. How fire is changing the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot. Smithsonian ForestGEO Seminar Series. 17 August 2022, Live Broadcast.

    2. Contributed

  2. S Struckman. 2024. Competition and climate effects on tree growth in spruce-fir-aspen forests. USU Graduate Research Symposium. 19 April 2024, Logan, Utah.

  3. S Struckman. 2022. California black oak demographic responses to reintroduced fire. USU Graduate Research Symposium. 15 April 2022, Logan, Utah.

  4. Dalgleish, HJ, S Struckman, MD LaMar, and JJ Couture. 2018. Linking individual variation in plant functional traits to demography using a trait-based integral projection model. 2nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. 19-22 August 2018, Montpellier, France.

  5. Struckman, S, MD LaMar, JJ Couture, and HJ Dalgleish. 2018. Linking individual variation in plant functional traits to demography using a trait-based integral projection model. 103rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. 5-10 August 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.

  6. Dalgleish, HJ, SS Yair, S Struckman, AR Kula, and MD LaMar. 2018 Herbivory as a continuous state variable in an IPM: Herbivory and clonal reproduction drive population growth rate in Asclepias syriaca. 103rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. 5-10 August 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.

  7. Struckman, S, JJ Couture, MD LaMar, and HJ Dalgleish. Effects of growth-defense trade-offs on population growth rate in Asclepias syriaca: a trait-based Integral Projection Model. Ecological Society of America, Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting. 7 April 2018, Newark, NJ.

  8. Dalgleish, HJ, SS Yair, S Struckman, AR Kula, and MD LaMar. Herbivory as a continuous state variable in an IPM: increasing variance in damage among plants increases population growth rate. Ecological Society of America, Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting. 7 April 2018, Newark, NJ.

  9. Struckman, S. Modeling Herbivory and Leaf Trait Effects on Milkweed Population Dynamics. College of William & Mary Summer Research Symposium. 14 September 2017, Williamsburg, VA.

Professional Workshops

  • Instructor. 2021-2024. Data science workshop series. Ecology Center, Utah State University.
      • Intro to Data Visualization with ggplot. --- Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
      • Intro to Data Wrangling with the tidyverse. --- Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
      • Visualizing Spatial Data in R. --- Spring 2022.
  • Mentor. 2021-2024. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship writing workshop series. Science Writing Center, Utah State University.
    • Participant. 2023. Analyzing tree-ring data in non-traditional ways to answer ecological questions. Tree-Ring Laboratory, University of Arizona.
    • Participant. 2019. Longleaf Academy: Longleaf 101. The Longleaf Alliance.
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    Outreach Activities

    • Coordinator. 2024. Coding Resources Center. Ecology Center, Utah State University.
    • Coordinator. 2022-2023. Code Mentoring Committee. QCNR Graduate Student Council, Utah State University.
    • Coordinator. 2021. EcoLunch discussion series. Ecology Center, Utah State University.
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