Chrissy Howell

Program Manager
Ecosystem Function and Health Program
800 Buchanan Street
Albany, CA 94710-0011
United States
Albany, CA 94710-0011
United States
Phone
510-883-8839
Current Research
My work involves coordinating natural resource management issues on Forest Service lands in California. I have expertise in natural resource management, wildlife management, and climate change issues.
Education
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Phd, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1999
- University of California, Berkeley, Ba, Integrative Biology, 1991
Professional Experience
- Program Manager, Ecosystem Function and Health, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2016 - Current
- Regional Wildlife Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Regional Office, 2013 - 2015
- Regional Wildlife Program Leader, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Regional Office, 2011 - 2013
Other Publications
- Ray, Chris ; Cluck, Daniel R.; Wilkerson, Robert L.; Siegel, Rodney B.; White, Angela M.; Tarbill, Gina L.; Sawyer, Sarah C.; Howell, Christine A.. 2020. Chapter 9 - Woodboring beetle colonization of conifers killed by fire and bark beetles: implications for forest restoration and black-backed woodpecker conservation
- Stillman, Andrew ; Siegel, Rodney ; Wilkerson, Robert ; Johnson, Matthew ; Howell, Christine ; Tingley, Morgan W.. 2019. Nest site selection and nest survival of Black-backed Woodpeckers after wildfire
- Tingley, Morgan W.; Stillman, Andrew N.; Wilkerson, Robert L.; Howell, Christine A.; Sawyer, Sarah C.; Siegel, Rodney B.. 2018. Cross-scale occupancy dynamics of a postfire specialist in response to variation across a fire regime
- Tingley, Morgan W.; Ruiz-Gutiérrez, Viviana; Wilkerson, Robert L.; Howell, Christine A.; Siegel, Rodney B.. 2016. Pyrodiversity promotes avian diversity over the decade following forest fire