Principle Investigator
DIRAC TWIDWELL
Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Dirac is an assistant professor leading the Applied Complex Adaptive Systems Lab in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska. He earned his Ph.D. in Ecosystem Science and Management from Texas A&M in 2012 following an M.S. in Rangeland Ecology and Management from Oklahoma State University in 2006 and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2003.
Dirac’s research interests include: 1) Social-ecological resilience to extreme disturbance and climatic events, 2) Resilience, hysteresis, and thresholds in alternative states and their applications in ecosystem management, 3) Trade-offs of changing land use and disturbance regimes in couple human-natural systems, 4) Forecasting threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services, 5) Disaster avoidance and wildfire management at the rangeland-urban interface, and 6) The integration of science in natural resource policy and management. Dirac’s interdisciplinary work across the Great Plains involves the application of modern ecological theory in practice and developing integrative solutions to woody plant encroachment and wildfire in grassy ecosystems. For more information on Dirac’s research program, visit his lab website at https://agronomy.unl.edu/twidwellresearchteam.
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