CV

Education

• B.A, Biology (with Department Honors), Bryn Mawr College, Cum Laude, 2016
• Ph.D in Earth and Environment, Boston University, 2021 (expected)

Publications

Identifying foundation species in North American forests using longterm data on ant assemblage structure

Record, S., T. McCabe, B. Baiser, and A. M. Ellison. 2018. Identifying foundation species in North American forests using longterm data on ant assemblage structure. Ecosphere 9(3):e02139. 10.1002/ecs2.2139

Scaling contagious disturbance: a spatially-implicit dynamic model

McCabe, T. D., & Dietze, M. C. (2019). Scaling Contagious Disturbance: A Spatially-Implicit Dynamic Model. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7(March), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00064

Talks

Community Level Response to Soil Warming and Nitrogen Addition in Temperate Forests

August 05, 2015

Poster at Ecological Society of America Conference, Baltimore, MD

Validating the Ecosystem Demography 2 Model for Southern Pine Forests

February 05, 2016

Poster at North American Carbon Program and Ameriflux meeting, Bethesda, MD

Integrating invasive grasses into carbon cycle projections: Cogongrass spread in southern pine forests

August 05, 2016

Poster at Ecological Society of America Conference, Portland, OR

Validating the Ecosystem Demography 2 Model for Southern Pine Forests

November 05, 2016

Poster at American Association of Geographers Conference, Boston, MA

Integrating invasive grasses into carbon cycle projections: Cogongrass spread in southern pine forests

December 05, 2017

Talk at Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, Louisiana

Scaling contagious disturbance: a spatially-implicit dynamic model

December 05, 2018

Poster at Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC

Service and leadership

• Earth and Environment Graduate Student Association Chair, 2019 - Present
• Earth and Environment Graduate Student Association Vice Chair, 2018 - 2019
• Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE) Officer, 2016 - 2019

Research experience

• Research Assistant, 2016 - Present
  • Dr. Michael Dietze’ lab
  • Develop methods for modeling and predicting disturbances
• Student Researcher, Summer 2015
  • Aaron Ellison & Synde Record’s project, Harvard Forest
  • Collect and identify samples from a Long Term Ecological research site and contribute to 12 year running experiment.
• Student Researcher, 2014 - 2016
  • Dr. Sydne Record’s lab, Bryn Mawr College
  • Collect, process and identify arthropod samples
  • Mentor newer lab members in writing, lab technique, and ant identification

Mentorship

• Google Summer of Code Mentor, Summer 2017
• Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering (uWise) Mentor, 2017-2018

Workshops

• Flux Course, Summer 2016

Skills

• Programming in R
  • Collaborative software development (EX: PEcAn, ED2)
• Bayesian statistics & modeling
• Dynamic Vegetation models
• Flux Measurements
  • Ecosystem & Leaf-level photosynthesis
  • plant component respiration measurements