Dr. Aquila Flower is a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University and the director of the Spatial Institute. They teach geography, climate science, biogeography, and GIS classes. Their research focuses on analyzing the roles of climatic variability, human land use patterns, and natural disturbances in shaping forest, alpine, and coastal ecosystem dynamics using a multidisciplinary suite of dendrochronological, ecological, statistical, and geospatial methods. Dr. Flower is the author of the open-access, digital Salish Sea Atlas.
Affiliation: https://cenv.wwu.edu/people/aquila-flower
