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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:33:38.925637'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kathryn-mceachern
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - California Native Plant Society
   - International Association for Vegetation Science
   - Society for Conservation Biology
   - The Ecological Society of America
   education:
   - Ph.D., Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 1992
   - B.S., Botany, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 1979
   email: kathryn_mceachern@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms: []
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Kathryn McEachern began her career in the open pit coal mines of Pacific
     Power and Light in Wyoming and Montana.
   name: Kathryn  McEachern
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0003-2631-8247
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc
   organization_name: Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
   personal_statement: "There she designed long-term vegetation monitoring programs,\
     \ directed topsoil salvage operations, and designed and tested native plant\
     \ seed mixes for habitat reclamation. Her interest in ecosystem restoration\
     \ led her to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she participated in\
     \ the restoration ecology group, and helped design a new Conservation Biology\
     \ Master\u2019s program. In 1988, she began working with the National Park Service\
     \ in the Great Lakes region on conservation of coastal ecosystems. She began\
     \ long-term studies of a threatened dune thistle in one of the habitats she\
     \ loves best: coastal dunes. Her research interests led her to the California\
     \ south coast, where she continues to study rare plants and vegetation. Her\
     \ particular interests are in the study of how the vegetation forms the context\
     \ for rare plant persistence, as seen through long-term demographic patterns\
     \ in the rare plants of the California Channel Islands. To look at this question,\
     \ she is tracking the native and alien plant communities of the islands along\
     \ with a suite of rare native plants that inhabit these communities. She guides\
     \ the Prototype Vegetation Monitoring Program at Channel Islands National Park,\
     \ and assists other agencies with plant community and rare plant monitoring\
     \ program design.RESEARCH INTERESTSChaparral EcologyCoastal Sage EcologyCommunity\
     \ ecologyConservation biologyEcological monitoringGeographic Information SystemsInvasive\
     \ species ecologyLandscape ecologyLandscape patternsPlant ecologyPop. viab.\
     \ modelsPopulation biologyRestoration ecologySpecies/Population managementWeed\
     \ management"
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Ecologist