Christine's work ranges from local-scale trophic dynamics to global-scale patterns in landscape limnology. She is interested in the mechanisms that govern lake food web structure and function across complex landscapes and in understanding patterns in community dynamics occurring across scales. Her early research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab sparked her interest in mountain freshwater systems, and she has since been increasingly focused on freshwater ecosystems (including reservoirs) more broadly as a potential model for testing deeper ecological questions.

Currently, Christine is exploring the abundance, distribution, and vulnerability of lake ecosystems across the United States, as well as examining drivers of community and food web ecology across space and time. She is also studying the food web ecology of lake ecosystems in California's Sierra Nevada and is investigating the effects of mega-wildfire on these lake communities and their food webs.

Christine is Managing Editor for the California WaterBlog and Co-Chair of the Center's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) committee. 
Learn more: https://caparisek.github.io.