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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/laura-shriver
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T16:53:53.131961'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Laura Shriver
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - RAMPS Coordinator
   organizations:
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     - Southwest Biological Science Center
     - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/southwest-biological-science-center
   email: lshriver@usgs.gov
   orcid: null
   intro_statements:
   - Laura Shriver is an ecologist at the Southwest Biological Science Center in
     Flagstaff, Arizona. Laura coordinates the Restoration Assessment and Monitoring
     Program for the Southwest (RAMPS), which seeks to assist land managers in developing
     successful techniques for improving land condition in dryland ecosystems of
     the southwestern United States.
   expertise_terms:
   - Desert ecosystems
   - Ecological restoration
   - Ecological processes
   - Conservation genetics
   - Native plant materials
   - Invasive species
   professional_experience:
   - 2019-2020, Plant Conservation and Restoration Program Specialist, Institute
     for Applied Ecology and New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, NM
   - 2016-2019, Various seasonal botany positions in New York, New England, Wyoming,
     and New Mexico.
   - 2016-2021, Fact Checker, TED Talks, remote
   education:
   - M.S. Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, Reno,
     NV, December 2022
   - B.A. Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, OH, May 2016
   affiliations: []
   honors:
   - Robert E Dickerson Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno
   - Diana Hadley-Lynch Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno
   - Oren Pollak Memorial Research Grant, The Nature Conservancy
   - Margaret Williams Research Grant, Nevada Native Plant Society
   - Field Research Grant, Native Plant Society of Oregon
   - Honors in Biology, Oberlin College
   abstracts:
   - Non-target effects of imazapic and indaziflam on Great Basin native annual forbs
     and seeded squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), 2023, Society for Ecological Restoration
     Great Basin Chapter
   - Assessing rapid evolutionary response to fire through a resurrection study,
     2022, Botany and North American Congress of Conservation Biology
   - Leveraging resources for native plant materials development, 2019, Society for
     Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter
   - Surveying for a rare gypsum endemic at Ball Ranch ACEC, 2019, New Mexico Native
     Plant Society
   - The New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Plant Conservation and Restoration
     Program, 2019, Society for Ecological Restoration Rocky Mountain Chapter
   - Widespread ash death at Chance Creek Reservation, 2016, Ecological Society of
     America
   personal_statement: null