Education: BA in Sound Recording from Columbia College, Chicago 2003

Work Experience: Graduate Student Adviser, McNair/EIP, Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity; Research Assistant, PWFSL; Teaching Assistant, School of Forest Resources

Research: Determining the fire history and historical range of variation of high-elevation pine-oak forest in the Sierra de Manatlán Biosphere Reserve, México. Brooke is creating a master chronology of tree rings for various pine-oak plots within core and buffer zones of the biosphere reserve and is reconstructing the fire history of these areas in order to examine a hypothesized change in the fire regime following governmental protection from anthropogenic influences. Her research interests also include restoration ecology and the effect of climate change on fire regimes.

Academic and Professional Affiliations:

• Society for Ecological Restoration, UW Student Guild (President)
• Xi Sigma Pi, National Forestry Honor Society, Alpha Chapter (Continuity Officer)
• Association for Fire Ecology
• International Association of Wildland Fire

Scholarships/Awards:

• International Association of Wildland Fire Scholarship 2010
• Marvin Klemme Endowed Scholarship, 2010, 2011
• School of Forest Resources Outstanding Community Participation Award
  Recipient, Spring 2011

CV: Cassell_CV

Contact: bcassell@uw.edu