Lucy Rea

Lucy is an ORISE Fellow with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is working with the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) network on research projects that integrate data across sites within the network. Some of her research interests include carbon tradeoffs and adaptation planting. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where she studied adaptation to climate in bur oak. Prior to that, she work in Carlsbad, NM as a locally adapted seed collector after completing her B.S. in Plant Biology at Michigan State University. When she’s not working, Lucy can be found reading, cooking up new recipes in the kitchen, and spending time outside.