Outreach

Academic Presentations

Presenter underlined.

    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-Present. Data science workshop series. Ecology Center, Utah State University.
      The purpose of these workshops is to teach quantitative and computational skills, primarily to graduate students pursuing degrees in tha natural sciences or social science disciplines within natural resources. The series of hands-on intensive sessions takes place every semester.
    • Intro to Data Visualization with ggplot. --- Fall 2021-Present.
    • Intro to Data Wrangling with the tidyverse. --- Spring 2022-Present.
    • Working with SQL Databases. --- Spring 2025-Present.
    • Visualizing Spatial Data in R. --- Spring 2022.
  • Mentor. 2021-Present. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship writing workshop series. Science Writing Center, Utah State University.
      This long-running workshop series develops grant writing skills for undergraduate and graduate students across a wide range of scientific fields. 35% of the applicants under my mentorship have been awarded compared to the national average of ~15%.
    • 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.

    Other Outreach Activities

    • Coordinator. 2024-2025. 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.
    Soren Struckman