John "Nez" Nesbitt   
MSc  2010                             
Tree Ring Lab at UBC
Department of Geography 
University of British Columbia

CONTACT INFORMATION
905 New Gulph Rd.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

USA 
Phone (lab): 604.827.5754

 
Email: jnesbitt[at]brynmawr.edu

EDUCATION 
MSc, Geography, University of British Columbia, 2010

BA, Middlebury College, 2001

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

• Expand the understanding of fire as an ecological process that drives vegetation dynamics, affects wildlife habitats, and                  impacts the conservation of biodiversity.
• Unravel the historic effects of fire exclusion, climatic variability, and topography on fire-vegetation dynamics in mountain               ecosystems. 

PRESENTATIONS

Nesbitt, J. and Daniels, L. “Drivers of Mixed Severity Fires: Quantifying Forest Fire Variability in Nelson, British Columbia 1700-Present” (oral), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 14-18 April 2010, Washington, DC.

Mustaphi, C., Nesbitt J., Daniels, L, and Pisaric, M. “Late Holocene climate-fire-vegetation interactions in the West Kootenay District, British Columbia, Canada, inferred from lake sediments” (oral), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 14-18 April 2010, Washington, DC.

Nesbitt, J., Arford, M., Carilli, J., Chappell, B., Carter, G., Gonçalves, G., Hupy, C., Leland, C., Luszczynski, B., McDonald, S., Mather, V., O’Brien M., Sakulich, J., Speer, J., Spond, M., Stewart, T., Stott, K., Thomas, B., Van De Veer, R., and Wixom, J. “Pith to Bark: An Introduction to Collaborative Learning at the North American Dendroecological Fieldweek” (oral), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 22-27 March 2009, Las Vegas, NV.

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