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tamzen stringham

Tamzen Stringham

Professor

Summary

I’m a rangeland and riparian ecologist. I’ve worked, studied, performed research, and played in the cold desert ecosystems of the western United States and the temperate rangelands of the Pacific Northwest and Canada since 1984. The Great Basin is a place exemplified by extremes in elevation, climate, soils, and vegetation with long distances between gas stations and towns. Like the landscape, the people are hardy and interesting and have deep history of caring for the land. I am fascinated by the magnitude and diversity of this desert ecosystem and the challenges faced by both private and public land managers. I want to understand the ecology of this amazing place well enough to assist land managers by providing useful, science-based knowledge and tools for adaptive management.

  • Developing state and transition models for upland and riparian systems
  • Quantifying water availability and vegetation change in response to land management actions
  • Understanding and improving sustainable grazing management
  • Developing tools and conducting applied research for land managers

Education

B.S. California State University, Chico 1981
M.S. Oregon State University, 1984
Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1996

Publications

Abstracts

Expediting state-and-transition models through sorting of ecological sites into disturbance response groups.

2011

N/A

Stringham, T., Novak-Echenique, P., Freese, E., Wiseley, L., Shaver, P.

Journals

2023

Ecosystems 26, 1428–1440

Morra, B., Richardson, W., Stringham, T. & Sullivan, B. W.

2023

J Environ Manage. 2023 Jul 1;337:117724

Morra B, Brisbin H, Stringham T, Sullivan BW.

2021

Remote Sensing, (13, 4028), 1 – 19.

Richardson, W., Stringham, T., Lieurance, W., & Snyder, K. A.

2021

Hydrological Processes, 1 –14.

Snyder, D. K., Stringham, T., & Snyder, K. A.

2019

Sensors 2019, 19(5)

Snyder, K. A., Huntington, J., Wehan, B., Morton, C., Stringham, T.

2018

Rangeland Ecology & Management

Stringham, T., Snyder, K. A., Snyder, D. K., Lossing, S. S., Carr, C. A., Stringham, B. J.

2017

Rangeland Ecology & Management 70(6):774-780.

Noelle, S. M., Carr, C. A., Stringham, T. K., Weltz, M. A.

2016

Rangelands, 38(6), 371-378.

Stringham, T., Novak-Echenique, P., Snyder, D. K., Peterson, S., Snyder, K. A.

Evaluating mountain meadow groundwater response to Pinyon-Juniper and temperature in a great basin watershed.

2016

Ecohydrology, 1-18

Carroll, R. W.H., Huntington, J. L., Snyder, K. A., Niswonger, R. G., Morton, C., Stringham, T.

Extracting Plant Phenology Metrics in a Great Basin Watershed: Methods and Consierations for Quantifying Phenophases in a Cold Desert.

2016

Sensors, 1-20.

Snyder, K. A., Wehan, B. L., Filippa, G., Huntington, J. L., Stringham, T., Snyder, D. K.

2014

J. of Arid Environments, 102, 117-126.

Mollnau, C., Newton, M., Stringham, T.

2013

Rangelands 35 (4):13-17.

Freese, E. A., T.K. Stringham, G. Simonds, E. Sant.

More than half the total acres (381,727 acres) burned in Â鶹ӳ»­ during 2012 occurred in sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Preliminary Priority Habitat (M. Boomer, personal Communication, 2013),...

2010

Ecology and Society, 15(3), 10.

David D. Briske, Robert A. Washington-Allen, Craig R. Johnson, Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Dale R. Lockwood , Tamzen K. Stringham, Herman H. Shugart,

Ecological Site Descriptions: Considerations for Riparian Systems.

2010

Rangelands, 32(6), 6.

Stringham, T., Repp, J. P.

A process-based application of state-and-transition models: A case study of Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) encroachment..

2009

Rangeland Ecology and Management, 62, 186-193.

Petersen, S. L., Stringham, T.

Intercanopy community structure across a heterogeneous landscape in a western juniper encroached ecosystem.

2009

Journal of Vegetation Science, 20, 1163-1175.

Petersen, S. L., Stringham, T.

Lay or Popular Publications

Evaluation of the Winnemucca District Drought Response Plan

2015

The Progressive Rancher

Perryman, B. L., Stringham, T., Schultz, B. W.

Professional Papers

2024

Journal of Rangeland Ecology and Management

Phipps, Lucas; Stringham, Tamzen

This manuscript details a novel method for mapping plant communities across Major Land Resource Area boundaries utilizing machine learning and leveraging the Disturbance Response Group concept into...

Research Reports

2021

Experiment Station, Â鶹ӳ»­, RR-2021-01

T. K. Stringham, D. K. Snyder, P. Novak-Echenique, K. O’Neill, A. Lyons, M. Johns

The team examined local knowledge, soil mapping data, and published literature relating to soils, plant ecology, plant response to various disturbances, disturbance history of the area, and many other...

2019

Experiment Station | Â鶹ӳ»­, SP-2019-01

Tamzen K. Stringham, D.K. Snyder, P. Novak-Echenique, A.a Wartgow, A. Badertscher, K. O’Neill

This report contains state-and-transition models for 99 ecological sites within the Bureau of Land Management's Major Land Resource Area 23 in the states of Â鶹ӳ»­ and California....

Ecological potential of sagebrush dominated rangeland: Â鶹ӳ»­ and NE California. A case study utilizing BLM Â鶹ӳ»­ AIM and NRCS Â鶹ӳ»­ NRI Monitoring Data Major Land Resource Area 25 Â鶹ӳ»­.

2017

Experiment Station, Â鶹ӳ»­, RR-2017-02

Stringham, T. K. and D. K. Snyder

USDA Ecological Site Description State-and-Transition Models Major Land Resource Area 24

2017

Experiment Station, Â鶹ӳ»­, RR-2017-03

T.K. Stringham, P. Novak-Echenique, A. Wartgow, D. Snyder

2015

Â鶹ӳ»­ Agricultural Experiment Station, Â鶹ӳ»­, RR-2015-02.

Stringham, T., Novak-Echenique, P., Blackburn, P., Snyder, D., Wartgow, A.

Final Report for USDA Ecological Site Description State-and-Transition Models, Major Land Resource Area 28A and 28B Â鶹ӳ»­. (01st ed., vol. 2015, pp. 1524).

2015

Â鶹ӳ»­ Agricultural Experiment Station, Â鶹ӳ»­, RR-2015-01.

Stringham, T., Novak-Echenique, P., Blackburn, P., Coombs, C., Snyder, D., Wartgow, A.

State-and-transition models for Major Land Resource Area 24, Â鶹ӳ»­: Final Report

2011

USDA, NRCS

Stringham, T.