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Tania Schoennagel

Tania Schoennagel is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tania Schoennagel rather than just read about it. In short: Tania Schoennagel is an ecologist who specializes in wildfires and insect outbreaks. She is a research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder and has been involved with INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) since 2011.

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Reference excerpt

Tania Schoennagel is an ecologist who specializes in wildfires and insect outbreaks. She is a research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder and has been involved with INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) since 2011.

Early life and education Schoennagel was raised in New Jersey. She earned a degree in history from Dartmouth College in 1990. In 1995 she earned a master's degree in geography, a second master's degree in conservation biology in 1997, and a Ph.D. in ecology in 2002, all from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the direction of Monica Turner.

Career In 2003, just after earning her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Schoennagel was given a fellowship through the National Science Foundation. In 2006, she received the David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship through the Society for Conservation Biology and the Cedar Tree Foundation. Schoennagel now works as a research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she has been since 2003. In 2011, Schoennagel began her position as research scientist of INSTAAR, where she continues to work. Schoennagel's research is focussed primarily on wildfires and insect outbreaks. While she conducts her studies around answering fundamental ecological questions, her research correlates to forest management, land-use policy, and climate change.

Publications Tania Schoennagel, Thomas T. Veblen, William H. Romme, “The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests," Bioscience 2004 Jul 1;54(7):661-76. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 896 times Moritz MA, Batllori E, Bradstock RA, Gill AM, Handmer J, Hessburg PF, Leonard J, McCaffrey S, Odion DC, Schoennagel T, Syphard AD. Learning to coexist with wildfire. Nature. 2014 Nov;515(7525):58-66. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 519 times Tania Schoennagel, Jennifer K. Balch, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Philip E. Dennison, Brian J. Harvey, Meg A. Krawchuk, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Penelope Morgan, Max A. Moritz, Ray Rasker, Monica G. Turner, Cathy Whitlock, (2017) “Adapt to More Wildlife in Western North American Forests as Climate Changes,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2;114(18):4582-90. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 287 times Tania Schoennagel, Thomas T. Veblen, W. H. Romme, J. S. Sibold, E. R. Cook, "ENSO and PDO Variability Affect Drought- Induced Fire Occurrence in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests," Ecological Applications 2005 Dec;15(6):2000-14. National Fire Plan Treatments Near the Wildland-Urban Interface in the Western United States, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 Jun 30;106(26):10706-11. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 146 times

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tania Schoennagel

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tania Schoennagel claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tania Schoennagel before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tania Schoennagel ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tania Schoennagel

In research: Tania Schoennagel appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tania Schoennagel in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tania Schoennagel is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century American women scientists, American ecologists, Dartmouth College alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tania Schoennagel outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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