Graduate Student
E-Mail: [email protected]

Presentations:
View poster from Student Scholars Day (GVSU 2023)
View poster from ITEX conference (Vancouver 2024)

Taylor is exploring the relationship between NDVI and plant cover and plant biomass throughout the growing season.  He is testing to see if you can accurately predict the composition of plants by growth from (specifically the ratios of mosses, shrubs and graminoids) using the seasonal changes in NDVI.

Taylor joined the Arctic Ecology Program in spring of 2021 and went to Utqiaġvik to assist with data collection, data entry, and plant collection.  In 2022 and 2023 he spent the bulk of his time in Atqasuk.  Taylor assumed a leadership position for the project over the summer of 2022 as an undergraduate.  In the fall of 2023 he was jointly enrolled as an undergraduate and graduate student, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Management in December of 2023. 

Taylor is interested in both terrestrial and aquatic ecology. His favorite tundra plant is Salix rotundifolia, and in his free time he enjoys hunting and fishing (especially for brook trout).