Libby Ellwood, PhD

My current position is with iDigBio as Global Collaborations Manager.

 

Previous to this, I worked at La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, as part of the "A mouse's eye view" project to reconstruct paleo food webs. My role in the project was developing community science resources centered on sorting microfossils and learning about the key, yet small, players in ancient ecosystems. Before that, I was a postdoc with Austin Mast at Florida State University and iDigBio. With a host of national and international colleagues, we worked to engage community scientists in digitizing natural history specimens and associated data.

 

In recent years, my research has focused on untangling the effects of climate change on plant and animal phenology in the temperate ecosystems of the northeasten United States and east Asia. This work was conducted while I was a graduate and postdoctoral researcher at Boston University with Prof. Richard Primack , and as a postdoctoral fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science with Prof. Hiromi Kobori. 

 

When not illuminated by the glow of my laptop, you can find me seeking silence in greater Los Angeles, daydreaming about adventures far and wide, knitting, and befriending stray and wild animals. And, to maintain optimism, I tweet conservation success stories, @Conservation Works.