
Position Title
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
WaterBlog Managing Editor
CWS Communications Facilitator
DEI Committee Co-Chair
Christine's work ranges from local-scale trophic dynamics to global-scale patterns in lake distributions. She is interested in the mechanisms that govern lake food web structure and function across mountain landscapes and reservoirs, and in understanding limnology patterns 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 o freshwater ecosystems more broadly as a potential model for testing deeper ecological questions.
Currently, Christine is exploring the abundance, distribution, and vulnerability of mountain lake ecosystems across the United States. She is also examining the food web ecology of California mountain lake ecosystems in the 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.
- Ph.D. in Ecology
- Landscape Limnology
- Freshwater Science
- Alpine Ecosystems
- Ecology