NRESS PHD Program Dissertation Proposal Defense
PRESENTER: DYLAN KELLY
TITLE: Reconstructing Early Colonization and Colonial-Era Forest Management Impacts in the Great Bay Estuary
ADVISOR: Professor Meghan Howey
Contact Dylan for Zoom link: dylan.kelly@unh.edu
More about Dylan’s research:
The Indigenous territory of N’dakinna, known today as the New
England region, underwent rapid and violent socioecological change with the
onset of European colonization. Changes in land-use and the extraction of
natural resources transformed the landscape, radically altering the forests and
waterways, and shaping the landscape we see today. My research uses a
transdisciplinary set of tools and perspectives to model colonial expansion and
the accompanying land-use changes in the landscape of the Great Bay Estuary to
examine the resulting impacts on surface climate conditions through time.