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Natalie Cleavitt is a Senior Research Associate in the Natural Resources Environment Section at Cornell University. She currently serves as a vegetation scientist at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), where her work focuses on the quantification of plant community responses to chronic perturbations such as climate change and air pollution, as well as responses to catastrophic disturbances like ice storms and floods. Cleavitt has been involved in the HBEF Long-term Ecosystem project since 2003 and plays a crucial role in supervising vegetation measurements that contribute to biomass estimates necessary for understanding the ecological trajectory of the Northern Forest. During the summers, she collaborates with undergraduates from Cornell and Wellesley Colleges on research projects and leads public engagement initiatives in partnership with local organizations. Her recent research contributions include studies on the competitive balance of foundational tree species, population dynamics of regionally threatened orchid species, and the long-term decline of sugar maple forests in the Northern hardwood ecosystem.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Conducting research and supervising field studies at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, focusing on plant community responses to various environmental stressors.
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