Current Projects

Herbarium Phenology

What can herbarium specimens teach us about continental-scale patterns of flowering?

BloomFinder

Measuring continental-scale phenology using social media photos and deep learning.

Landscapes of Flowering

How is climate change altering landscapes of floral resources for pollinators?

Mapping Microclimates

How does microclimate variability affect ecological processes?

Phenological Reassembly

How does climate alter co-flowering relationships in plant communities?

Ranges and Disturbance

How are climate-driven range shifts altered by disturbance?

Social-ecological Mismatch

How does a warmer climate impact the behavor of outdoor recreationists?

Recent Posts

Drone Workshop 2018

Materials from my June 2018 workshop ‘Accelerating Field Research Using UAVs’

Jun 1, 2018 3 min read New Projects

Ecology by Drone

Expanding phenological observations to the landscape-scale using drone photography

Dec 12, 2017 2 min read Admin

Launching the BloomFinder Project

Tracking wildflower blooms on social media using deep learning.

Ian Breckheimer

Last updated on Jan 13, 2018 1 min read

Ian has moved to Harvard OEB

New postdoctoral position.

Last updated on Jul 1, 2017 4 min read

2017 MORA Snow Melt Forecasts

Seasonal forecasts of snow disappearance for Mt. Rainier National Park

Ian Breckheimer

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University Herbaria

About Ian

Ian Breckheimer is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, based out of Harvard University Herbaria in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Originally from Saluda, North Carolina, Ian’s current research focuses on how landscapes (and the plants and people that live there) are adapting to global change.

Interests

Landscape Dynamics
Community Phenology
Remote Sensing
Social-ecological Systems

Education

PhD in Biology, 2017

University of Washington
MSc in Ecology, 2011

UNC Chapel Hill
BSc in Biology, 2006

Guilford College

Recent Publications

I Breckheimer, EJ Theobald, J HilleRisLambers. Climate drives phenological reassembly of a mountain wildflower meadow community. In Ecology, 2017.

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NC Cristea, I Breckheimer, MS Raleigh, J HilleRisLambers, JD Lundquist. An evaluation of terrain‐based downscaling of fractional snow covered area data sets based on LiDAR‐derived snow data and orthoimagery. In Water Resources Research, 2017.

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AD Leaché, JA Grummer, RB Harris, I Breckheimer. Evidence for concerted movement of nuclear and mitochondrial clines in a lizard hybrid zone. In Molecular Ecology, 2017.

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Beyond phenological mismatch: community and landscape dynamics of flowering in a warming world

Nov 15, 2018 11:00 AM

Harvard Forest Fall 2018 Seminar Series

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The spatial scaling of flowering phenology: How much could landscape heterogeneity buffer mountain meadow plants and pollinators from phenological mismatch?

Sep 19, 2018 9:00 AM

MtnClim 2018

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Teaching

Here are links to materials for some of my recent courses and workshops:

A half-day workshop Accelerating Field Ecology Research with UAVs held at Rocky Mountain Biological Lab on June 17th 2018.
A graduate-level course Computational Problem-solving for Biologists (BIOL530C) held the University of Washington in Fall 2015.

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Contact

ian_breckheimer@fas.harvard.edu
ian.breckheimer
22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge MA 02138
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