B.A., Biology, University of California–Santa Cruz, 1995 Ph.D., Botany, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2005

My teaching and research interests revolve around the ecology, dynamics, conservation, and restoration of plant communities and landscapes in the southern Rocky Mountains. I teach introductory and advanced courses in biology and environmental studies and lead many field trips to wild places near and far. I work with undergraduates in Biology and ENVS, and graduate students in the Master of Environmental Management Program, to explore how disturbance regimes, climate, and spatially-structured abiotic gradients interact to shape diversity, community composition, and landscape dynamics; human influences on ecological systems; and management for a future of certain change but of a less than certain direction and magnitude.

Coop, J. D., Parks, S. A., McClernan S. R., & Holsinger, L. M. 2016. Influences of prior wildfires on vegetation response to subsequent fire in a reburned southwestern landscape. Ecological Applications 26:346-354 Whitman E., Batllori, E., Parisien, M.A., Miller, C., Coop, J.D., Krawchuk, M.A., Chong, G.W. and Haire, S.L., 2015. The climate space of fire regimes in north-western North America. Journal of Biogeography 42:1736-1749. Coop, J.D., Barker, K.J., Knight, A.D., and J.S. Pecharich. 2014. Aspen (Populus tremuloides) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 318: 1-12.