Title: Assistant Professor,
Institution: Montana State University
Address: 334 Leon Johnson Hall, Bozeman, Montana 59717
Email: anna.schweiger@montana.edu
Phone: (406) 994-5409
Research Interests: spectroscopy, biodiversity, ecosystem function, movement ecology
Biographical Sketch:
Anna K. Schweiger, Assistant Professor, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, USA. Formally trained as an ecologist and remote sensing scientist, Dr. Schweiger’s research focuses on spectroscopy of plants and the development of scalable theory and methods for remote sensing of biodiversity and ecosystem function. Her expertise includes modeling and mapping of chemical and structural characteristics of vegetation, soil, and rocks; of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic plant community composition and their resource use; as well as of early signs of plant stress and disease responses. She has conducted extensive field work in natural and experimental grasslands (alpine and prairie ecosystems), in tree diversity experiments and tree savannas, and managed forests. At Montana State University, Dr. Schweiger teaches remote sensing and applied remote sensing.
Education:
2015 PhD Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2010 MSc Wildlife Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
2007 BSc Biodiversity and Ecology, University of Graz, Austria
Other Research:
- NSF-IOS Investigating drought recovery mechanisms using plant carbon dynamics and foliar spectroscopy
- USDA-AMS Early prediction of maple syrup quality using carbon dynamics spectroscopy
- USDA-AMS Early prediction of maple syrup quality using carbon dynamics spectroscopy
- NASA-ROSES Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) Science and Applications Team: Remote sensing of biodiversity across trophic levels