Department of Biology

Julie Korb

Dr. Korb received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994 from the University of Colorado, a M. B. S. degree in 1997 from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in 2001 from Northern Arizona University.   She has worked for Fort Lewis College since 2002.  Dr. Korb’s research interests include: (1) fire ecology and plant responses to disturbance, (2) forest restoration ecology with particular emphasis on pure ponderosa pine, mixed-conifer forests, and pinyon-juniper, (3) arbuscular mycorrhizae and ectomycorrhizal responses to disturbance, (4) plant community dynamics (successional trajectories), and (5) adaptive ecosystem management.  Current research projects include: (1) warm-dry mixed conifer restoration study in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado quantifying the effects of thinning and prescribed burning on plant community dynamics, (2) vegetation responses to different burn intensities and restoration treatments in the Missionary Ridge Burn Area, San Juan Mountains, and (3) assisting San Juan National Forest in their Terrestrial Ecosystem Assessment.

Website: http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/KORB_J/