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Timothy Assal

Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
Wharton State Forest coastline

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An aspen woodland/sagebrush shrubland ecotone. Photo by Tim Assal

Timothy Assal, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Geography, was awarded a grant as a co-principal investigator on a multi-institutional project, 鈥淰ulnerability of lower-ecotone aspen forests to altered fire regimes and climate dynamics in the northern Great Basin鈥 (a three-year $299,842 total award with $89,600 going to Kent State), which is funded by the . This collaboration includes the United States Geological Survey in Boise, Idaho, Utah State University, and the United States Bureau of Land Management.