Chrissy Howell People Profile - Research USDA Forest Service

Chrissy Howell

Program Manager
800 Buchanan Street
Albany, CA 94710-0011
510-883-8839
christine.howell@usda.gov

Research
Education & Experience
Publications & Products

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 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Phd 1999
University of California, Berkeley Integrative Biology Ba 1991

Professional Experience

USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
Program Manager, Ecosystem Function and Health
2016 - Current
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Regional Office
Regional Wildlife Ecologist
2013 - 2015
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Regional Office
Regional Wildlife Program Leader
2011 - 2013

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

R&D Affiliations

Ecosystem Function and Health Program (PSW)